The idea that sectarian war in Iraq was the doing of hordes of invaders from al Qaeda (or sometimes Iran as befits the story of the day) and not from Islamic history itself with the help of the European people who decided Iraq should be one country and George Bush who just wanted to blow something up, still stocks the neocon shelves. It's still on sale and McConnells' reassurance advertises that.
"So that is another sign for us that the billion Muslims that practice their faith as good citizens are not for Al-Qaeda and that it's the extremist branch"I have a feeling that was more so back when the Bush mafia was still sitting in a circle in some basement room playing with their privates and plotting war. I have a feeling that the "Billion Muslims" never supported any slaughter of the innocents in the first place, either the three thousand in New York or the better part of a million in Iraq, not to speak of the 4 million destitute and homeless. I have a feeling that all the support it ever had before Baghdad was shocked and awed came from Bush's oil buddies.
I just hope that come November the wholesale repudiation of Bush and his Napoleonic greed will show the world that the bulk of our 300 million people are good citizens who do not support the extremist branch still represented so forcefully and well by the Republican Party.
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There are facts. There is propaganda. Sometimes we confuse the two. This administration never spouted facts but merely reams and reams of self-serving, jingoist propaganda. Lets put this into proper context.
Never forget that there are a whole bunch of diehard Wingnuts who's identity is tightly linked with being a Republican. They will do anything, believe anything, that helps defend their public personna. I have very close friends, who I try all the time to talk reason to. I share countless facts, and they basically stick their fingers in their ears, and go "la la la la". They refuse to acknowledge what is happening today. They would rather just hold on to the mantra's "tax and spend" Dem's or any other talking points published than really looks at the actions of the Republicans in power.
It's easier to hold on to the Fantasy, and I don't know how to break that link.
mrsleep, keep talking to them ... politely and leaving their dignity intact. Sooner or later, there will be a crack in the foundation.
There is a weird kind of tribal identity and I guess it's no wonder that it appeals to religious tribalism.
I'm afraid I'm beyond being able to be polite so I just don't talk politics with most people.
History is written by the writers.
It certainly is and that's why we, being writers, should write our own.
Did you know that Mike Huckabee used to be Michelle before the operation?
I just hope that come November the wholesale repudiation of Bush and his Napoleonic greed
I see you mentioned Huckabee. I'd like to see him as the Republican standard bearer--wholesale repudiation of his followers being what I'd like to see.
Just a dream I have.
I suppose he would be easier to defeat, but yes, I would love to see his party turn its back on that raving idiot.
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