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

To: BubbaFred who wrote (21153)	3/15/2003 12:09:05 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Many people do not confront the information available on the internet. One only has to look at our RWE friends from SI.......................what are they reading????LOL THe last few sentences resonated with me about the current intellectual divide that exists: "Americans at large, I fear, are about to lose their sense of injured innocence. " Just this morning I got an email from a friend in a conservative area of upstate NY. The email was describing an earthquake in France that was occurring due to the rumbling of the bodies of our soldiers in their graves in Normandy. My friend didn't stop to think about how those men died to stop a Hitler that had invaded and occupied most of the continent of Europe. THe soldiers today will be giving up their lives for what??????????? A hearty contract that will further pad the wallet of Cheney and his friends at Halliburton..............not to speak of Pearle and the Bush family's Carlyle Group connections. And that doesn't even begin to describe that oil control that will ensue in the area and in it's neighbors. Fighting for democracy????? That's a pipedream !! You have to be naive or desperate for a justification for this war if you believe that reason for invading Iraq. Many Americans think that the US has no ulterior or selfish despotic intentions in so far as our foreign policy is concerned. We like to think we are the "liberator of men" and the call to war is some glorious and altruistic path that is rewarded with reverence. TO the soldier who is brainwashed into thinking he has enlisted to save and preserve democracy, it is important that he not think his life in in peril in order to pad someone else's wallet. Parents and relatives of soldiers can't afford to address the truth of am America that is off course and steering toward imperialism. To do that would be to realize that their loved ones lost their lives in vain. Perhaps the Europeans can see it more clearly cause they are much more seasoned in terms of left and right wing aggression. Many living there today have had first hand experience with Stalin and Hitler................the worst of the left and the right.

To: BubbaFred who wrote (21153)	3/16/2003 7:59:48 AM
From: Mao II	Respond to of 25898

The Washington press corps has always been unwilling to upset its relations with power. Consider Watergate. The Post jumped out on that story because they had two street reporters from the burbs covering it. The NYT, by contrast, never really caught up because their Washington Bureau people were all focused on their traditional beats and sources and were ultimately unwilling to disrupt those relationships. Woodward and Bernstein were used to covering the streets. In Washington, as in Waterbury, the rule of thumb is follow the money. W&B did just that. Woodward, by the way, lost his edge long ago. The only money he follows is the trail of checks from his publisher to his bank account.