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bipolarber -> RE: Bush and Bees (5/25/2008 9:00:33 AM)
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JW,
Exactly the point I keep trying to make. The attacks on 9/11 were terrible, but they were nothing compared to the havoc our own fear and panic caused. We've allowed imbiciles and the power hungry to gut our Constitution. We're become (or are in the process of becoming) a state that allows illegal search and seizure, torture, and holding people without charge for indeterminate periods of time.
The terrorists won: we've become terrorized. And now we've allowed ourselves to walk away from every principle that actually makes us Americans. The principles that make us 10 times better than them, even on our worst day.
You know, if we actually were "in the fight of our lives" against terrorisim, then shouldn't Bush have acted differently? Shouldn't he have stopped being such a bean counter and actually supplied the troop levels at the beginning that Adm. Innoway had strongly suggested? Shouldn't he have actually begun manufaturing the armor and vests that our troops really needed (We've been there longer than WWII... shouldn't some of this stuff been delivered by now?) Shouldn't he have immediately reinstated the draft, and supplied this theatre of war with such an overwhelming number of troops that Iraq would have been overwhelmed?
Of course he didn't. Because we aren't. Because he's politically craven. Because 9/11 was a good excuse to start a war, a war to distract the American people from the naked power grabs, the packing of the Supreme Court, and the rape of our most valued ideals.
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