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To: SiouxPal who wrote (80593)	9/28/2006 6:37:55 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 362361

Copy of email...just who "Cut and Ran" anyway?? Date: Sep 27, 2006 6:27 PM I caught a few minutes of Rush trashing the Demos over the economy. He started out saying today is a bad day for the Democrats because housing stats are up, the Dow is near its all time highs, unemployment is low and gas in one area of the country is $1.80 a gallon. His point is that the Democrats suffer when the economy does well under Bush. But lets look at the real facts. The Dow is just now getting back to the levels it was under Clinton. Gas is still 80% more than it was under Clinton and the unemployment is just getting back to levels set by Clinton. Rush failed to mention national debt is now double, the dollar is near its lows against the Euro and there is some concern about the rating on some US paper. Then outrageously Rush goes on to attack the Democrats on wanting to ?pull out? of Iraq saying they never had the guts to fight a war. Well Clinton was the last president to win a war for the US. Wes Clark executed the war flawlessly in cooperation with NATO; accomplished all of its goals and ended with Milosevic in The Hague. Since the war the area has lived in peace, some of the countries are now in the EU or will be joining soon and the economy of the area has boomed. Not a single US service person lost their lives in six months of fighting. When a stealth plane was shot down the pilot was rescued in a very short time. But then we have to look some more at history. The last big war the US won ? the one that changed the world - was also run by Democrats. Roosevelt was opposed by the conservatives in Congress over helping Britain economically. These same conservatives wanted to back Hitler and Germany. Remember it was the conservatives who trained bin Laden too. If you want to get technical it was the Republicans that cut and ran ? first in Korea, then Berlin and finally in Vietnam. After bin Laden attacked the US, Bush cut and ran in Saudi closing our bases there necessitating the transfer to a more dangerous theater in Iraq. Reagan when attacked in Libya closed the base ? cut and ran. I am not interested in an ideological fight with Rush and the network of conservative propagandists who split hairs and torture the truth. That is not my job. If in listening for just a few minutes I can pick up such gross inaccuracies...it is amazing the guy still has a job. This week?s push back on the conservatives by Clinton and the almost simultaneous breaking news of the combined intelligence report on Iraq is a tipping point. Suddenly the grip the propaganda right has on the news is breaking. The conspiracy of silence following 9/11 is now giving way to a more rational and pragmatic view. Agreement is a powerful thing. Its been said there is no virtue being sane in an insane world. This is true. Agreement defines beliefs. We believe in God because there is strong agreement. We do not believe in the Easter Bunny because the agreement is one of fantasy. It is only the state of agreement that makes one real over the other. There is no validity in facts ? no difference in the fantasy. What we have to judge society by and how we determine popular trends is to understand the level of agreement and when it is about to shift. Mass reactions come at points of excess. The Dot Com boom ran to excess. The fantasy of valuations on AOL, Cisco and others broke when the agreement of the buyers struck reality. Yet there was realty in the Dot Com boom. Left behind is a massive worldwide infrastructure of technology and communications. A technology that is first making obsolete the previous way we do business and now also bringing into question many agreements on what society is. The entire right wing movement from Reagan on was based on fantasy. A broadcasting of a belief supported the fantasy of smaller more efficient government, stronger defense and a balanced budget. Instead we have seen the dollar decline, debt increase, government add new agencies and the world made less safe. The tipping point comes when the gap between the perceived fantasy and realty is challenged. The tipping point comes when the queen says ? ?let them eat cake?. When this happens, the old is washed away rapidly and often violently. We have history as our guide. We have the signposts of Murdock giving support to Hillary and then opening his network to Bill Clinton to challenge. Murdock is not stupid. He has a nose for change. He also knows the price of opposing a changing trend. When the press begins to openly question the spin produced by the administration then agreement changes. As this happens the soft underbelly of lies and corruption comes to light and with it comes dramatic political change. Eric