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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mph who wrote (487822)	11/5/2003 10:06:31 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

mph, Re: While you're apparently a conspiracy theorist and choose to ascribe heinous motives to decisions that were made both pre and post 9/11, I frankly haven't the time to research and verify, or refute, what you choose to believe. Thanks for saying that. I was curious as to how you were reaching the conclusions that you were posting. Now we know, you are simply not informed and apparently thereby not capable of making an informed decision about the direction that the so-called war on terror ought to take. While you seem to equate direct action, eg. invade Iraq, as a correct response to the perceived threat to the U.S. from a handful of "terrorists", I find that after abundant research into the subject, that the nexus of our problems in dealing with terror are two-fold. 1) The U.S. government has absolutely no interest in curtailing the sort of aggressive, intrusive, exploitative and obnoxious foreign policies that are causing so much consternation across the planet, and in particular in the Middle East. The government has this insane and arrogant perception that the way to paper over the real hurt that foreign peoples feel about their exploitation by U.S. foreign policy is to simply apply better public relations techniques to the problem. This is great news for firms like John Rendon and Associates, or Hill & Knowlton who are getting rich by creating elaborate lies on behalf of the government and paid for by you and me, but it has proven to be less than effective in the international arena. It seems that the blatant propaganda that the government employs is largely only working in the domestic media markets. 2) The U.S. government is engaged in a campaign of deceit, lies and Orwellian doublespeak wherein real intelligence and the truth is being discarded in favor of a quasi-religious ideology of world domination. Thus, we find that inconvenient truths, such as Amb. Joseph Wilson exposed about one of the phony justifications for war in Iraq are met with a campaign of intimidation and muzzling from the White House. When the intelligence provided by the C.I.A. and the FBI proved inconvenient for the ideologues and war mongers like Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, the solution wasn't to bring White House policy back into alignment with reality, but rather to create something called "The Office Of Special Plans" which created a mythical world surrounding the supposed imminent threats that Saddam Hussein posed in late 2002 and early 2003. Here's an article that you perhaps could read in order to acquaint yourself with the fact that the Bush team simply lied to the U.S. and the world in order to justify its naked aggression in Iraq: newyorker.com ******* I trust that once you become more fully informed about the actual malfeasance and illegal activities of the Bush team that you will gladly join the millions of us who oppose the Bushes, and hope that eventually they will be brought before the courts of the U.S. or the world in order to answer for their war crimes. Best, Ray