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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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15 Jul 2005 02:38:48 PM |
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It's Bush's War, Not Ours |
http://www.jimhightower.com/air/read.asp?id=11713
BUSH'S WAR, NOT OURS
7/13/2005
BushCheneyRumsfeld & Gang are presently mounting a major PR offensive
to convince us rubes that they're winning the war in Iraq.
Sheesh -- if this is winning, I'd hate to see what losing looks like.
We might be rubes, but we're not stupid.
More than 1,700 of our own men and women have died there, the
insurgency is stronger than ever, the Bushites have no plan or even a
clue, the military has resorted to recruiting high school dropouts and
still can't meet its quota for new soldiers to throw into Iraq, some
60 percent of the public now opposes the war.
It's time to state a vitally-important truth about this war -- a truth
that the Powers That Be have been able to obscure with a combination
of lies, the flag, and constant references to the horror of
9/11...until now:
This is not our war.
Never was --it's Bush's war, manufactured by wrongheaded ideologues,
the White House PR Machine, and a hallelujah chorus of right-wing
puffheads.
How can you tell it's not our war?
If it was, we'd be in it.
But we're not.
Ninety-nine percent of Americans are at zero risk of going to Iraq and
are making no sacrifice for those who are there.
Notice that even those who cheer the loudest for Bush's war are not
exactly stampeding to enlist, instead saving their bravado for
rhetorical vollies they fire in barrooms and on talk-shows.
The Bushites hype their war as a noble venture, but increasing numbers
of young people--and their parents--see it for the political sham it
is.
Bush's latest rationale is that Iraq represents a historic American
stand for freedom, but if it's not worthy of his family being part of
the stand--and not worthy of any of his friends' loved ones being
sacrificed--then how can it truly be America's war?
This is Jim Hightower saying...If Bush & Gang really want to measure
public support for his war, they should have the integrity to call for
a universal draft.
That'll tell them pretty quickly how many Americans see Iraq as their
war.
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Mornin' coffee with Jim Hightower.
Harry
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| User: "SmirkS" |
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| Title: Re: It's Bush's War, Not Ours |
15 Jul 2005 02:50:40 PM |
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Harry Hope posted:
More than 1,700 of our own men and women have died there
CONSIDERABLY more than that. that figure is an embellishment.
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TheTruthHurts.
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| User: "Figaro" |
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| Title: Re: It's Bush's War, Not Ours |
15 Jul 2005 02:42:32 PM |
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:38:48 GMT, Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://www.jimhightower.com/air/read.asp?id=11713
BUSH'S WAR, NOT OURS
No? Then why are WE dying and not Bush?
Figaro
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