One wonders how much of the U.S. job recovery is based on replacing the military hardware expended in carrying out the shock and awe illegal war on Iraq? Iran is yet to come? Whatever, Rove has won the re-election of Bush by appealing to 'moral' issues: racism and the standard right wing biases against women, gays, new migrants, Muslims, people struggling against poverty, the wider world out there:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200411/green The next step for the new term is, obviously, to kill off as many of these 'enemies' as possible. And this is what we will be watching quite literally. Presumably we will not see the returning body bags, but a few glimpses may show through of the women and children about to be blown away in Falluja: As Falluja Waits in Despair, Rebels Attack in Samarra November 7, 2004 By JAMES GLANZ and ROBERT F. WORTH Desperation settled over the citizens who remained on Saturday in Falluja, the rebel-held city on the brink of being invaded by tens of thousands of American soldiers and marines. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/international/middleeast/07iraq.html?ex=1100827843&ei=1&en=688bcc49929e2110 And down the line we will hear some fragments on the lives of poor people lost in this country through lack of adequate medical care and other omitted support systems, an occasional gay or minority police murder here or there, another execution of a juvenile. Certainly fear and depression will increase as our unholy crusade against the rest of the globe is expanded and America is isolated as the brutal rogue state that it has become: Bush Prepares for Changes in Programs and Cabinet By RICHARD W. STEVENSON President Bush's aides are preparing to move ahead with his plans to overhaul the tax code and Social Security. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/politics/07term.html?th -- "A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy) -- Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CollegeConversation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeaceEfforts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/440neighborhood http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StudentConcerns ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No More BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
