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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (52084)	7/10/2005 11:11:12 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

"...The documentary asserts that Al Qaeda is largely a phantom of the imagination of the US national security apparatus. Indeed, The Power of Nightmares seeks nothing less than to reframe the past several decades of American foreign policy, from the Soviet menace of the 1970s to the Al Qaeda threat of today, to argue that neoconservatives in the American foreign policy establishment have vastly exaggerated those threats in their quest to remake the world in the image of the United States.... Curtis says that this illusion was set in motion by two seemingly very different groups, American neoconservatives and radical Islamists, whose war with each other conceals a history of tacit alliance, and even some ideological resemblances. As Curtis reminds us, the neoconservatives and the Islamists came together in the 1980s in Afghanistan to expel the Soviets, and they share a hostility to the Middle East's authoritarian dynastic regimes (although they seek to replace them with altogether different kinds of government). What is more, both groups view Western liberalism with distrust, fearing that it will erode traditional and especially martial values, thus weakening their societies from within... Team B made an assumption that the Soviets had developed systems that were so sophisticated they were undetectable. For example, they could find no evidence that the Soviet submarine fleet had an acoustic defense system. What this meant, Team B said, was that the Soviets had actually invented a new non-acoustic system, which was impossible to detect. And this meant that the whole of the American submarine fleet was at risk from an invisible threat that was there, even though there was no evidence for it. This was an early formulation of the Rumsfeldian doctrine that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence...." thenation.com ========= If true, the USA has plenty of hysterical, paranoid, xenophobic, aggressively ignorant rightwingers ready to take on any piece of rightwing propaganda and...BELIEVE IT!

To: American Spirit who wrote (52084)	7/11/2005 12:35:01 AM
From: SGJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Apologize? That dude? I picture that when the neocon party is over, he's going to run screaming through some suburban mall with a machine gun blazing, shooting all the "liberals".

To: American Spirit who wrote (52084)	7/11/2005 10:34:05 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

So you slimy anti-American scandal fabricators go ahead and TRY to charge Rove and Delay. ROFLMAO!!!...