You ever wonder how conventional wisdom is established? For instance, the Republican's become the "values" crowd, and all the right wingers think they are Godly and righteous people.
The truth is, that's not the truth. The truth is, I have more values and integrity in my pinky then the miles long list of Republican's who have either gone to jail, or are about to go to jail (like most of the Repubs in Ohio right now).
Which brings me to an obvious point...
Why is George Bush still in office? I'm not being glib, as I obviously despise Bush, but it's a very legitimate question.
I was obviously not politically aware during the Nixon years. In fact, I was 8 years old in 1974. So, I wonder how someone who was politically aware in the 70's would compare the climate to today's politics.
Compare and contrast:
Nixon resigned because he was going to be impeached for orchestrating the cover-up of the break in at the Watergate hotel. The Republican's were simply trying to spy on the Democrats.
Today - courtesy of that oft ignored Downing Street memo - we know that George Bush lied us into a war. We know that the Iraq war had nothing to do with WMD's. It had nothing to do with terrorism. It had nothing to do with 9/11. The "intelligence" was fixed around the goal of manipulating the public into buying Bush's lies.
That is beyond debate. Yet, Bush is still in office. How is that possible?
Is it that the American public is just confused? Nearly 50 million people voted for Bush, despite the fact that he lied us into a war that has killed many thousands of people. Do the people that voted for Bush not care that all these people are dead? Are they just unaware?
I'm still confused why the mainstream media does not have that on the front page of every newspaper every day. Why is that not being talked about in White House press briefings every single day?
Isn't the fact that the President of the United State lied us into a war a newsworthy topic?
After all, Nixon said "I am not a crook", when all he did was simply cover-up a break-in at a hotel in D.C. Am I not correct in assuming that lying us into a war might just be infinitely worse than that?
** update **
I'm thinking of creating a list of prominent conservative Republican's whose "integrity and values" do not even begin to compare to mine.
Here's a start
Rush Limabaugh - drug addict
Bill Bennett - gambling addict
Bill O'Reiley - falafel addict (sexual harrasment), habitual liar
Arnold Schwarzenegger - gropenator (sexual harrasment)
Newt Gingrich - cheated on wife, divorced while she was in hospital with cancer
Ed Schrock - Congressman (VA), anti-gay but gay
Tom DeLay - everything
More to come as I think of them...
4 comments:
I don't often agree with you; however, you are right on target that Bush lying us into a war was far worse than Nixon. I personally believe that Bush already had plans to go after Iraq to avenge their threat to his father - all this at the expense of our young men and women. Now if the people had known that this was his first planned objective, perhaps he would not have been put in office. So, I believe that he kept this hidden until he got in. Is that any different than Nixon hiding information he had? Hard question to answer.
Feel free to comment on things you don't agree with. The only people who post here agree with me pretty much all the time, so it's interesting when someone doesn't.
That said, you "personally believe" that Bush had war plans to get even with Saddam for threatening daddy.. I don't think it's nearly that simple.
I think he rushed to war for several reason. Oil prices; defense contracts (military industrial complex, Haliburton, etc.), beating on Muslims, and "spreading freedom" as a hopeful side effect.
If Bush lied us into a war, doesn't that make him a mass murderer?
Just curious...
And don't forget to sign your post.. first names are fine..
really enjoyed it. Thanks!
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