Bush and the Media: Playing Us for Fools

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/22450

Bush and the Media: Playing Us for Fools
Submitted by dlindorff on Sun, 2007-05-13

The idiot American media are giving Bush another free pass, running stories now that the U.S. is “willing” to talk with Iran, but only about how to calm down the Iraq conflict.

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Bush and Cheney, indeed, have been pushing ahead with their goal of attacking Iran, which is basically their ace in the hole for defending a collapsing presidency from imploding entirely before the scheduled end of Bush’s second term of office. That’s why they’ve moved three powerful aircraft carrier battle groups into position in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea—an armada big enough to launch a massive air assault on Iran on a moment’s notice.

The last thing the Bush gang want to do is end the conflict in Iraq, which would mean surrendering to the insurgency. Better, from their perspective, to let American troops continue killing and dying until the January, 2009, when a new president will be left with the thankless job of cleaning up the mess.

Endless war has become the modus operandi of this administration.

But obvious as it all is, the complicit U.S. media won’t admit this. They play along instead with the fantasy that the administration is trying its best to bring it all to an end. They report on administration claims to be interested in narrow negotiations with Iran on Iraq, as though they are making serious efforts towards peace, when in fact it is all are nothing but propaganda meant for American consumption.

Nobody in the rest of the world takes this nonsense seriously.

Nobody in America should either.

It doesn't get any more blatant than that.

If the U.S. is ultimately leaving Iraq, why is the military building 'permanent' bases?
http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/bases.htm

'As Iraqis Stand Up, We Will Stand Down,' Bush Tells Nation June 28, 2005
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=16277

So at least we know why the Quakers were being spied upon by the NSA. And how much of the Iraq budget is going toward those base-building operations ?

Greenwald and Scahill would say, war profiteers. I've seen a few clips of what transpired at the hearing last week, and I'm still seeing red.:grr: :grr:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=877011&mesg_id=877633

Then, read Kevin Phillip's excellent book Wealth and Democracy. This kind of 'demise of empire' has happened before; the key to fixing the mess is a redistribution of wealth a la FDR. When the wealthiest Americans see that it is in the country's and their best interests in keeping the goose that lays the golden eggs a laying, then we can start to see some daylight. I'm encouraged that Warren Buffett has seen that daylight,

Warren Buffett Urges Higher Corporate Taxes
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0306-01.htm