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Originally posted by Ideal08
The imminent war was planned years before bin Laden struck, but it was he who made it possible. Without bin Laden, the Bush junta would still be trying to explain such tricky matters as how it came to be elected in the first place; Enron; its shameless favouring of the already-too-rich; its reckless disregard for the
world's poor, the ecology and a raft of unilaterally abrogated international treaties.
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Man, this is so true. My daddy always told me that in order to predict the outcome of a situation, look at the way it began. In other words, if you begin something in deceit, it is inevitable that it will end in deceit.
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Originally posted by Ideal08
How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. But they swung it. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre. But the American public is not merely being misled. It is being browbeaten and kept in a state of ignorance and fear. The carefully orchestrated neurosis should carry Bush and his fellow conspirators nicely into the next election.
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*sigh* The old bait and switch routine. Is anyone even pissed at bin Laden anymore? It amazes me how apathetic the American public is when it comes to its political views. If Bush says that Saddam is evil, then dammit, he must be evil and if you're not willing to risk your life to go get said evil man, then you're unpatriotic
. I'm with Muhammed Ali on this one.... no Arab ever called me a n*gger.
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Originally posted by Ideal08
Care for a few pointers? George W. Bush, 1978-84: senior executive, Arbusto Energy/Bush Exploration, an oil company; 1986-90: senior executive of the Harken oil company. Dick Cheney, 1995-2000: chief executive of the Halliburton oil company. Condoleezza Rice, 1991-2000: senior executive with the Chevron oil company, which named an oil tanker after her. And so on. But none of these trifling associations affects the integrity of God's work.
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Dang, I didn't know Condoleezza's hands were covered in oil, too!
Very interesting facts.
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Originally posted by Ideal08
In 1993, while ex-President George Bush was visiting the ever-democratic Kingdom of Kuwait to receive thanks for liberating them, somebody tried to kill him. The CIA believes at "somebody" was Saddam. Hence Bush Jr's cry: "That man tried to kill my Daddy."
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LOL!
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Originally posted by Ideal08
The most charitable interpretation of Tony Blair's part in all this is that he believed that, by riding the tiger, he could steer it. He can't. Instead, he gave it a phoney legitimacy, and a smooth voice. Now I fear, the same tiger has him penned into a corner, and he can't get out.
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I do believe that Blair is in over his head on this one. If he was never a praying man before, I bet he is now.