Re: Please, Tell Me Why

To the bushcultie, Hitler used 'legit' military practices  ...

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/flash/bushnonazi1.swf

Of course, if you're merely a bushcultie moron, you won't be
able to make basic computer programs run properly.

Bush takes advantage of a person who can't become informed.

"Gandalf Grey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20031201/index.php
>
>Fearmongers
>
>The Republican National Committee has shown what President George W. Bush's
>re-election campaign will be about: fearmongering. Well, he's pretty good at
>warmongering, so why not play the fear card?
>
>The essence of the RNC's first commercial was that if you don't re-elect
>Bush, the big, bad boogeyman will get you. You should remember that it was
>on Mr. Bush's watch that the big, bad boogeyman got us on Sept. 11, 2001. So
>far as we know, Mr. Bush didn't have a clue.
>
>You should also remember that two years later, the Bush administration has:
>(1) failed to identify and capture the anthrax killer; (2) failed to capture
>or kill Osama bin Laden, the actual boogeyman who got us; (3) failed to
>capture or kill Saddam Hussein; and (4) failed to capture or kill Mullah
>Omar of Taliban fame.
>
>Worse, rather than going after the terrorists who actually attacked us, Mr.
>Bush has invited all of the world's terrorists to attack us by declaring war
>on them and has gotten us bogged down in two guerrilla wars. Whatever
>happened to the peace dividends? You certainly can't find them in our $400
>billion military budget.
>
>The president's war on terror is a flop. Terror is merely a tactic, not an
>entity, and those who employ the tactic of terror do so because of American
>policies that they find highly offensive. Bush, of course, has made no
>effort whatsoever to change any policies and in fact has aggravated the
>situation by writing a blank check to the Israeli government to kill and
>brutalize as many Palestinians as it wishes.
>
>Our hypocritical support of Israel is one of the Middle East's main beefs
>about the country. Whatever the Israelis do is OK; whatever the Palestinians
>do is wrong.
>
>The secret of the game afoot is that Mr. Bush has no desire to win the war
>on terrorism. What he wants is perpetual war, because that means perpetually
>enhancing the power of government.
>
>Some years ago, a book circulated that purported to be an exposé of a
>meeting held by the nation's elite. They were alarmed at the fall of
>communism and needed to find a new enemy to maintain the war state that has
>been America since 1941. They chose Islam.
>
>While I expect the book was apocryphal and no such formal meeting took
>place, it is nevertheless necessary to always have an enemy at the gate if
>you want to maintain a powerful central government and equally powerful
>military-industrial complex. That's a trick as old as the Roman Empire.
>
>First it was fascism, then communism and now Islam. In the meantime, our own
>country grows less and less free and more and more in debt while those who
>profit from the war state rake in their billions of dollars.
>
>You as a citizen ought not to fall for this fearmongering. All we have to do
>is cut the apron strings from Israel and pull our troops out of the Middle
>East, where they have no business being anyway, and Middle East terrorism
>directed toward us would evaporate overnight. We have no natural conflict
>with the Arab world or it with us, and most assuredly Islam is not our
>enemy.
>
>People seem to forget that Islam has been around since the 8th century A.D.
>The original Arab empire filled the vacuum caused by the fall of Rome. The
>Ottoman Empire had nothing to do with spreading Islam per se. Islam opposes
>coerced conversions, despite what some American ignoramuses might have told
>you.
>
>The truth is, the only enemies we have are those our own government is
>manufacturing to justify a powerful central government that is sucking the
>wealth and liberty out of this country like some monstrous leech.
>
>There is no need to be $6 trillion in debt, there is no need to maintain a
>$400 billion defense budget, and there is darn sure no need to give up our
>liberty in the name of security.
>
>
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A stupid person is frightened into being fooled.  Normal people aren't.