We've Always Been at War with Eastasia - by Alan Grayson

We've Always Been at War with Eastasia
by Alan Grayson
Sun May 30, 2010 at 05:51:31 AM PDT

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Remember 9/11, the day that changed everything? That was almost a decade ago. Bush's response was to mire us in two bloody wars, wars in which we are still stuck today. Why?

I can't answer that question. But I do have an alternative vision of how the last 10 years could have played out.

Imagine if we had decided after 9/11 to wean ourselves off oil and other carbon-based fuels. We'd be almost ten years into that project by now.

Imagine if George W. Bush had somehow been able to summon the moral strength of Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller, or Martin Luther King Jr, and committed the American people to the pursuit of a common goal of a transformed society, a society which meets our own human needs rather than declaring "war" on an emotion, or, as John Quincy Adams put it, going "abroad, in search of monsters to destroy".

Imagine.

Imagine that we chose not to enslave ourselves to a massive military state whose stated goal is "stability" in countries that never have been "stable", and never will be.

Imagine.

"Imagine all the people, living life in peace."

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/30/871329/-Weve-Always-Been-at-War-with-Eastasia

rather than giving it credibility.

Imagine.

And we're not in two 'wars' we are currently engaged in a multi-national turkey shoot.

and the real winner of the 2000 election, Al Gore, had become President.

I certainly do not see most of the problems and nightmares we are living today happening had Gore been allowed to serve his Presidency... instead of mealy mouthed Georgie whining to his daddy's friends on the SCOTUS to install him.

Just think, had justice been done for the American voters in 2000, instead of the atrocity that was Bush/Cheney, we probably even would not have had this nightmare of an oil spill today.

as foolishly naive, yet he seems to be precisely what is needed. But even if he is comparatively inexperienced and would cause turmoil in the Congress and Senate, would the ultimate outcome be any worse than what we have now with the Trojan Horse we put in Office?

Win or lose, we need someone who is willing to fix his political bayonet and attack the neo-royalty who have corrupted our government and pre-empted our National treasure -- and if he fails a quick end is better than the slow and agonizing decline we are facing now. But, considering the casual dismissal of Dennis Kucinich, I realize this is wishful thinking. Grayson will be relegated to the eventual status of a disenfranchised oddball in the House and will become so ineffective in his largely Republican district he'll be replaced by another machine politician.

if Americans weren't so arrogant & selfish & had actually been receptive to Jimmy Carter's message back in the late 70s.