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"Harry Hope" |
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12 Mar 2006 01:54:38 PM |
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Republican Lying and Deception as Government Policy |
http://www.counterpunch.org/baroud03112006.html
March 11 / 12, 2006
Lying and Deception as Government Policy
By RAMZY BAROUD
Immediately after its seizure of power by a court negotiated ruling,
the Bush administration seemed determined to marginalize the American
public.
The terrorist attacks of September 11 were the needed element that
transformed that determination into policy: anything goes--from
unleashing unwarranted wars abroad to monitoring people's reading
habits at public libraries and tapping into their telephone
conversations--as long as the goal is to safeguard 'national
security'.
While many Americans seemed willing to concede part of their freedoms
to preserve the rest--or so the cliché goes--Bush's detrimental
policies, at home and abroad, remained heedless and self-serving.
The relatively small gap between the government and the public turned
into a bottomless abyss.
Not as if past US governments were known for their integrity and
painful honesty with the American people regarding their backroom
dealings and undemocratic tendencies from Latin American, to Indochina
to the Middle East.
But the Bush administration has undeniably pushed the conventional and
sometimes acceptable margin of a government's deceit to the point that
lying becomes the primary, if not the sole form of public policy.
Despite the ruthless marketing of pretenses and policy shams, the US
public has grown weary and skeptical.
The blanket public approval enjoyed by the president after September
11--seen then as a green light to take on Afghanistan, perhaps the
poorest country in the world--is steadily diminishing as the Bush
administration stumbles at every corner.
According to a February 28 CBS News poll, President Bush's approval
ratings have hit an all-time low of 34 per cent.
The same poll indicates that Vice-President Cheney's numbers are even
lower, at 18 per cent.
On one hand, one has to wonder when and if such low ratings will ever
inspire serious debate in Congress regarding impeachment
possibilities--after all, dragging America into a bloody, senseless
and destructive war that merely benefits the profit seeking few at the
expense of uncounted lives, is as one would assume, an impeachable
offence.
On the other hand, it is somewhat exhilarating that most Americans
have managed to see through the clever propaganda, the smokescreens
and fear tactics to realize that they were purposely duped into
consent.
Unfortunately for the Bush administration, cant and deceit are the
only lifelines still available to win back the discontented public.
Numerous opportunities have been lost, including that of providing a
tangible timeline as to when the US will withdraw from Iraq, signaling
the end of the nightmare.
The confounded public is even denied the mere courtesy of being
informed with a realistic assessment of the US 'war on terror' and the
Iraq quagmire.
In the meantime, America--its economic prospects, its people's
welfare, its reputation, its internal struggles, and more--all are
being held hostage to a 'war on terror' that even the administration's
own pundits are finding it difficult to define.
The botched war is a disaster save for a few neo-conservative think
tanks, their followers and a dwindling number of rightwing dreamers,
who haven't a clue what this war is really like.
Iraqis are of course suffering the consequences of the
administration's imprudence as well.
In fact, the price they have paid is most unmatched.
They were promised freedom and were delivered a torturous war and
civil strife that can only worsen.
They too were victims of double talk and rosy promises that are yet to
actualize.
Not that deceit doesn't have its generous rewards for some.
By checking on the growing profits of Lockheed Martin, Halliburton,
CACI and Titan, BKSH & Associates, Bechtel, ExxonMobil and
ChevronTexaco, one will understand that the war in some strange way is
not as 'senseless' as one might think.
The Bush administration is likely to carry on fighting dissent at home
and elusive terrorists abroad so that the status quo is maintained.
More Americans are opposing the direction in which the country is
headed, but no tangible policy is yet in place to translate such
resentment into effective tools to put an end to this violent
nightmare.
The looming civil war in Iraq is just another outcome of sectarian
division, brimming for many years, but cemented by the US policy of
divide and conquer.
The calamity shall carry on as long as our dissent is merely
transmitted through opinion polls that might sound vindicating, but
are negligible in the eyes of our government's determined militancy.
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Tired of the lying and deceit? Get rid of 'em in November.
Harry
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| User: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?YankFan_=AE?=" |
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| Title: Re: Republican Lying and Deception as Government Policy |
12 Mar 2006 02:28:27 PM |
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Tired of the lying and deceit? Get rid of 'em in November.
Harry
You should be very well acquainted with lying and playing the waffling
game. Your party has been doing in it for years now. Your boy "Bubba"
did it for eight years and that's why you're not in power anymore. Don't
worry the American people can tell who is phony and is only concerned
with power instead of keeping this country safe from another attack.
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| User: "Dan Kimmel" |
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| Title: Re: Republican Lying and Deception as Government Policy |
12 Mar 2006 03:21:52 PM |
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"YankFan ®" <yankfan@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:Lv%Qf.24140$992.9419@tornado.socal.rr.com...
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Tired of the lying and deceit? Get rid of 'em in November.
Harry
You should be very well acquainted with lying and playing the waffling
game. Your party has been doing in it for years now. Your boy "Bubba"
did it for eight years and that's why you're not in power anymore. Don't
worry the American people can tell who is phony and is only concerned
with power instead of keeping this country safe from another attack.
They sure can. The polls show it every day as Bush drops lower and lower,
and the Democrats surge ahead in the Congressional polls. Just this week
two Republican Congressmen announced they were retiring. The handwriting is
on the wall. It's the beginning of the end for the lawless Bush regime and
the tremendous *damage* they've done to America and our interests around the
world.
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| User: "Rich Travsky" |
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| Title: Re: Republican Lying and Deception as Government Policy |
13 Mar 2006 11:21:26 AM |
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YankFan ® wrote:
_____________________________________________________________
Tired of the lying and deceit? Get rid of 'em in November.
Harry
You should be very well acquainted with lying and playing the waffling
game. Your party has been doing in it for years now. Your boy "Bubba"
did it for eight years and that's why you're not in power anymore. Don't
worry the American people can tell who is phony and is only concerned
with power instead of keeping this country safe from another attack.
Did Clinton lie us into war? No?
RT
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