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Wednesday, May 28, 2003
      ( 1:22 PM )
 
Wars and Rumors of Wars

Thanks, mwowwww for the link to Democratic Underground's Newest "Top 10 Conservative Idiots." Not surprisingly, the entire Bush Administration made No.1, with the President following closely at No. 2 and No. 4. It was a reminder to me that when Bush made his zoom-boom landing on the aircraft carrier and did that speech, behind him waved a gigantic banner that read "Mission Accomplished." I recall that in that speech, he went on to bring up 9/11 again and talk about it and our war against those who perpetrated it (again pretending that Iraq had something to do with it). And yet, here we are, a few weeks later:

-- Al Qaeda is obviously well-organized and finananced and able to pull off large attacks
--Iraq is foundering in lawlessness, American troops continue to take casualties, there is still no electricity - and no WMD or traces of WMD have been found at all. The entire excuse for the war has been proven to be false.
--Afghanistan has almost completely reverted to its warring tribal factions, making way for an invigorated Taliban to gain increasing power and influence since our abandonment of that country following our invasion
--The same old script is now being played about Iran that we were hearing this time last year about Iraq. Does BushCo even care that they're being so obvious? My guess is no, since diplomacy and discretion...not to mention honesty... were never on the high list of priorities.

And just so we're all up to speed on the non-empire-building issues:
--the jobless rate continues to increase every week
--durable goods sales were down over 2% in the last report
--Alan Greenspan has discussed the issue of deflation
--the dollar is at its lowest point ever
--fewer people are covered by health insurance
--fewer schools are functioning well
--most states are going bankrupt

And so, with huge fanfare, the President signed today his tax cut package, reducing revenue by some $350 billion -- although yesterday, with no fanfare whatsoever, he signed a bill raising the debt limit to $7.3 trillion.

Sounds like time for another war.

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