--- Julia, tha article at > http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/06/01/int06002.html is obviously partisan, so we have to separate the polemical paragraphs from the gems of unalloyedly irrefutable fact.
For example, the fact that these monsters have no shame, appointing extreme partisan hatchet men onto the Federal Election Commission, is one that has no parallel in my memory, short of the takeover of the Weimar Republic by Adolf Hitler. How can anyone pretzel-twist enough to excuse this? Their sole excuse is that we are "at war"... a war that they themselves announced, propelled and that has zero justification in fact. It is a complete fiction. No, the issue is <i>Are we being led by people who deserve our further trust?</i> The answer to that question is a resounding (and non-bitching) no! Having done nothing but lie for six years (and vastly longer than that, in the case of Cheney-Rumsfeld), and having demolished our military readiness, having betrayed the reserves and <i>having put us into a quagmire almost identical to Vietnam,</i> these people are the very <i>last</i> ones we should be trusting to be smart enough to get us out of it. I mean, what <i>is</i> this monstrous concept of <i>loyalty to politicians?</i> It is positively loony! It is Karl Roves insane notion that we all are on blue or red sides and that your side has a natural set of leaders you MUST be loyal to. Dig it, Mark. Politicians, by their very nature, even good ones, are intrinsically untrustworthy schemers. In a European-Parliamentary system, a guy with a track record like Rumsfelds would have been forced simply to <i>resign</i> by now. Even if he were replaced by an honest Republican, wed all be far better off! Better yet. How about replacing him with the people who ran our VASTLY more successful operations in the Balkans and Afghanistan? Why is that so hard to conceive? In fact, there are dozens of alternative approaches to what we are doing in Iraq. But I -- at least -- have the strength of character to admit that I am not an expert. I can Monday-quarterback and armchair-general with the best of them, but <i>I am not asking to be put in charge.</i> What I am asking is for my fellow citizens to <i>recognize when incompetent liar-scoundrels are in charge!</i> Or, are you honestly trying to tell me that, among 300 million Americans, we cannot do better than these morons? Bozos who have demolished our nations readiness, betrayed the reserves, pitted us against each other in culture war, sent us into a quagmire, spied on us, tortured in our name (without accomplishing a single thing), and brought our international esteem to the lowest level since we kept<i> slaves?</i> Your own reflex to defend these guys is the issue here. So stop trying to force me to design military strategy and start defending your own absurd position. The position of devoting political LOYALTY to bozos. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
