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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (56004)	11/3/2004 1:08:39 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Right-o. Think, though, how different Iraq would have been if the major media had pounded on these points: - no connection between Saddam and 911. Some 62% of Americans STILL THINK there is a connection and some part of that percentage STILL THINK Saddam was involved in the planning of it! - Saddam has never threatened any harm to the USA AND 12 years of sanctions has devastated the country so that it could not harm us. - Iraq has the largest known reserves of easy-to-get oil which is the major reason we are there. - We could be looking at peak oil production worldwide next year. Iraq is a war over the control of oil. If the major media had pounded these points into the public's head, we wouldn't be in Iraq. It's the media with their garbage reporting of the same story over and over again (this passes for news) from the exact same source (they share bureaus now) that makes people stupid. It's sad to see that investigative reporting is all but nonexistent. Why is Hirsch the one to break both My lai and Abu Ghraib? The media has become so lazy and has forgotten its role. We need a new media. Then we'll get a new country. Until then, I vote for India and China to lap us soon.

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (56004)	11/3/2004 1:30:28 AM
From: techguerrilla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I was stunned with the lead-up to the war ..... .......... I thought it was a tragic mistake and that it would go badly. It has gone much worse than anyone influential stated it would go. I am not surprised how badly the war there has gone. I couldn't understand for a second the reason for the war. It seemed to me that its only reason was to whip up patriotic frenzy and help the GOP take over the Senate. After having done that and gotten the Senators to back him with the "war authorization" vote, Bush simply went too far in his game of chicken with Saddam. How foolish. In many ways I view his attack on Iraq as a basically a macho move after having gone too far. Bush makes me ill. He is a warmonger. This offensive approach to the "war on terror" is hideous. But now the United States' citizens have decided to stick with a freak who runs the pathetic governmental operations in Washington. It's surreal. I am amazed this country can be hoodwinked by a zealot who represents little more than empty machismo masquerading as decisiveness. We don't have the economic base to run such a foolish military-industrial complex. The right wing is making the United States a worthless country. I guess that is befitting since it is run by a worthless punk. /john