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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4273)	2/10/2004 6:58:41 PM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

We are the innocent victims of Bush's propaganda, the strong Iraq war supporters from Fox news and other conservatives now say. It was all Bush's fault, OK?! ------------------------------------ Some Conservatives Chafe Against Bush Policies Tue February 10, 2004 03:39 PM ET (Page 1 of 2) By Alan Elsner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of George W. Bush's conservative political supporters are increasingly restive and anxious about the president's economic policies as well as his attempts to justify the war against Iraq. Fox television news anchor Bill O'Reilly, usually an outspoken Bush supporter, said on Tuesday he was now skeptical about the Bush administration and apologized to viewers for supporting prewar claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. "I was wrong. I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans should be concerned about this," O'Reilly said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America. Pollster John Zogby said Bush was on the defensive with some polls showing him slightly behind Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, his probable Democratic opponent in the Nov. 2 presidential election. A CNN/USA Today Gallup poll conducted last weekend had Bush and Kerry tied on 48 per cent. Bush won trial matchups against other Democratic presidential candidates but each of them scored at least 42 percent -- a sign that there is a solid base of opposition to the president. "The president is on the ropes right now. The question is, how will he adjust? Right now, the issues are not in his favor. Many Americans still think the economy is poor and his rationale for the Iraq war seems a little thin," Zogby said. Bush's White House interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday was designed to calm some of these doubts. But while some pundits gave Bush good marks for his performance, some prominent conservatives were not impressed. 'TIRED AND UNSURE' Peggy Noonan, a speechwriter for former President Ronald Reagan and for Bush's father and an outspoken conservative commentator, said in a commentary on the Wall Street Journal's Internet service: "The president seemed tired, unsure and often bumbling. His answers were repetitive, and when he tried to clarify them he tended to make them worse. He seemed in some way disconnected from the event." Conservative columnists George Will and Robert Novak and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough, now a cable TV commentator, have also recently criticized Bush's fiscal programs and his attempts to explain them. Continued ... 1\| 2 reuters.com

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4273)	2/11/2004 11:33:54 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Twentieth-century fascism was built on "mass movements" that provided electoral muscle for the political parties that advanced the ideology. The Nazis had their Brownshirts, the Italians the Blackshirts, the Spanish the Falange, and the Soviets the Red Guards. For American [Judeo]fascism, the mass movement role has fallen to the Christian fundamentalists, who may be counted on to turn out loyally in elections, infiltrate local governments, undermine public education, and persecute the chosen scapegoats. In a perverse twist of history, the fundamentalist American Judeofascist base has inoculated itself against charges of anti-semitism by unqualified support for Israel's hard-line policy towards Palestinians. Thus, organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, which served for over 50 years as watchdogs against fascism in our country, are suddenly taking sides with the fundamentalists. A final, somewhat depressing observation about fascism: to fascist leaders, the masses of people they lead are disposable assets. That offers a possible explanation why the Bush administration does not show much concern for the jobless or those whose retirements are threatened by collapsed 401Ks. It also explains Donald Rumsfeld's blithely calling Vietnam veterans "what was left" after the best and brightest found a way to dodge military service. Of course, under fascism some people do matter. In Nazi Germany, Party Leaders and Industrialists were nicknamed "the Golden Pheasants" for their lavish uniforms and lifestyles. Likewise, right-wing American corporate leaders are doing just fine, and will conceivably do even better, given Bush tax policy. Meanwhile, those who perform the corporations' labor will receive less and less as their income stagnates. So this is what lies before us--those of us who grew up in a country that fought and defeated foreign fascism. Democracy triumphed over a dark age. Many of us thought fascism was gone forever. Now it is alive again, and in our own land. Again, we must turn to the words of Churchill: "We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival." Liberals must wage war against American Judeofascism on the airwaves, in the print media, on the campuses, in the legislatures, the courts, the Congress, and on the streets. The war is one of ideas, not of guns and bombs. The truth is our weapon, but the greatest weapon of mass destruction is our silence. From: democraticunderground.com