William Blum: Neocons, theocons, Demcons, excons, and future cons

Neocons, theocons, Demcons, excons, and future cons

By William Blum

07/10/07 "ICH" --- - Who do you think said this on June 20? a)Rudy Giuliani; b)Hillary Clinton; c)George Bush; d)Mitt Romney;
or e)Barack Obama?

"The American military has done its job. Look what they accomplished. They got rid of Saddam Hussein. They gave the Iraqis a chance for free and fair elections. They gave the Iraqi government the chance to begin to demonstrate that it understood its responsibilities to make the hard political decisions necessary to give the people of Iraq a better future. So the American military has succeeded. It is the Iraqi government which has failed to make the tough decisions which are important for their own people."<1>

Right, it was the woman who wants to be president because ... because she wants to be president ... because she thinks it would be nice to be president ... no other reason, no burning cause, no heartfelt desire for basic change in American society or to make a better world ... she just thinks it would be nice, even great, to be president. And keep the American Empire in business, its routine generating of horror and misery being no problem; she wouldn't want to be known as the president that hastened the decline of the empire.

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Do those in love with the idea of a woman president care about such things? Have they never heard of Margaret Thatcher, who tried her best to cripple the UK's marvelous National Health Service, amongst a hundred other reactionary policies? Most of Clinton's supporters would love to see the end of the Iraqi daily horror and so they presumably will also ignore Ted Koppel, the newsman of impeccable establishment credentials, who reported recently that he was told by someone who had held a senior position at the Pentagon and occasionally briefs Hillary Clinton on Gulf area matters, that she expects US troops to still be in Iraq at the end of her first term and even at the end of her second term.<5>

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Do I enjoy 'bashing'? No.

But what do you do about the truth when you hear it?

That's going to be a question on many minds in the next year & a half or so. A reef upon which many ships will flounder.

I guess there's always the 'horse race' view of politics & popcorn; & 'sick' humor.

Blum woke me up with Killing Hope: US Military & CIA Interventions since World War II - a link to the book's site is in my sig line.

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

He's right about Hillary and just the other day Nader said that Obama wants to increase the size and modernize the military. Rome should've done that and empire wouldn't have fallen - right? :sarcasm:

And that's why so many voted for Bush in the first place. Like Reagan before him, W promised to create his own reality. And he did. Unfortunately, we all have to live in it.

But where's the grassroots movement to remove W and the GOP? Still reality-based?