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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BWAC who wrote (7439)	2/11/2003 11:44:00 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 25898

Meanwhile the best posture is to analyze priorities, and "watch out for the big chunks" as a friend of mine used to say. For example - plagiarism was used instead of careful crafting of the U.N. presentation. That priority clearly says very little resources are going into such presentations. Why? The only conclusion is that the priorities are not to bother fooling the public with U.N. speeches. Even Rumsfeld pre-UN comment, "whaddya think, everything's going to be cleared up? Don't be silly", to the reporters, indicates a lack of respect or concern. The powers running the show feel that public opinion can be manipulated like a lightswitch - just blow some anthrax, sniper, or dirty nuke, declare martial law, and you're done. Once you're in power at the political level, just do what Bush Sr. did when DCI and search for and erase all evidence, let people be suspicious, they can't prove it, etc. Sr's acronym for the easily-manipulated masses is "BUDs", "broke, uninformed and depressed". That's why it's an important priority to keep the economy on a downward spiral, to keep the control of gov't high, and keep people feeling insecure and less likely to protest. The other priority is between bombing and diplomacy. Extreme violence internationally "works" better, according to this priority, along with bribes and oil deals, since US power is unassailable, at least in theory. Finally, media control is awsome - John King, CNN's chief WH correspondent says the corps is amazed at how the media and public lap up the fiction that Junior is in charge, how the fact there are no news conferences, and certainly no "unanswered questions" being asked, is suppressed. The priority since inauguration has been to keep Dummy in front, plied with the message of the day (which has been kept verrrry simple for Junior's sake) by Tenet's daily briefing, and spin all opinion around that message. If all that is true, the weakness will be inevitable highly public mistakes made in extreme hubris that will cause even Powell to jump ship before it sinks. One can hope ...

To: BWAC who wrote (7439)	2/12/2003 3:33:15 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Ditto! I think when this Bush Administration has finished we'll all be treated to researchers and historians accounting for more lies and distortions from this administration than from any previous administration. Aside from pursuing a policy that'll clearly increase the want for terror, a rise in hatred, of Muslims against Americans, Bush's foreign policy also risks the grave danger of destablizing alliances that have been long, dear and welcome. As I understand the European Union formation, Britain was always somewhat cantankerous in its joining. Could Blair's strong poodle push behind The Bush War end up isolating England some, especially if Russia joins with France and Germany in stronger allying ways with other EU members? And could many nations the US has traditionally always counted upon, in so many extraordinary ways, simply adopt a new policy of: Screw you America! Is it possible that Russia and China could ally in order to begin a New Cold War, this in the thinking the American Imperial Bully need be taken down a notch or few? So many questions, so many sad ones'