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To: Scripts who wrote (21749)	10/16/2004 4:27:38 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81101

Did you even bother to read Karen Kwiatkowski's strong indictment of the OSP? Or are you in the business of just simplemindedly spouting off without ever engaging in any thoughtful prior analysis? *** Re: Blair and Bush would have to be crazy to ignore the lack of WMD's and face the certainty that they would be shown to be wrong. You don't understand political power at all. They didn't have to be "crazy" to lie about WMDs, they had to be brazen. This is Hitler's "Big Lie" technique come to life, yet again, in all its ugly excesses. There isn't a dime's (or a farthings) worth of difference between Hitler's abominable invasion and occupation of Poland and what Bush and Blair did to Iraq. It's the same crime. And did it matter to Hitler that he was shown to be wrong about invading Poland in the world media? Of course not. By 1940, Hitler had total control of the media in Germany, just as the militarist Bushites has largely achieved control over the U.S. corporate media, and so Bush doesn't have to give a damn whether or not he is a liar. He just has to "stay on message", a message that is constantly regurgitated by "the Mighty Wurlizer" of corporate media, acting in its capacity as the Propaganda Ministry for the War Machine. *** Perhaps it has remained unobserved by you, but Tony Blair continues to weather every tempest tossed his way by the Left Wing of the Labor Party, the Tories or the Lib-Dems because there is no force in British politics that can best the Blair government juggernaut today. Blair controls far too much of the government apparatus for his opponents to get any traction. And unfortunately, in the U.S., a really remarkably stupid American electorate has allowed the very thing that the Founding Fathers of this nation were so loathe to allow to be created, i.e. one party rule. The elaborate system of complex check-and-balances envisioned by the Framers has been tossed aside by a cuckolded public which insanely voted in Republican majorities in both the House and Senate in 2002 when clearly the only intelligent choice was to vote the Republicans out and put the brakes on George Bush's Christian Fascism. The public are their own worst enemy, when it comes to preserving any semblance of democracy in America.