I found much of the Loose Change video compelling. What I find most telling though,is the number of voices raised to object to such a theory on the basis of the extant nobility and high moral standards of this administration.
There's the big story.
"In three years, we've gone from a brutal, murderous dictatorship who had a demonstrated dislike of other people and other countries and a demonstrated weapons program, to a constitutionally governed free Iraq."
No offense, and I know good people think this is so, but even if it is true (which is highly debatable) at what cost have we bought a constitution for another country?
In three years, America has become more brutal, secretive, high-handed, duplicitous and immoral. The United States has demonstrated its disregard for any other point of view other than the government's specious pronouncements, handy with an un-American label. We have gone from a nation of laws to a nation of secret decrees, imperiling our most basic human rights.
Looks to me like the terrorists have at least one this stage of the battle--completely undermining rights and basic assumptions common to an entire nation's political history. I don't recognize my country sometimes, except through the outrage at the lack of traction any of the dozen or so current atrocities should have to pull down this smug, self-satisfied, amoral crumbutts.
I found much of the Loose Change video compelling. What I find most telling though,is the number of voices raised to object to such a theory on the basis of the extant nobility and high moral standards of this administration. There's the big story.
posted by Wordswinker 18 years ago
In "Third Warniversary"
"In three years, we've gone from a brutal, murderous dictatorship who had a demonstrated dislike of other people and other countries and a demonstrated weapons program, to a constitutionally governed free Iraq." No offense, and I know good people think this is so, but even if it is true (which is highly debatable) at what cost have we bought a constitution for another country? In three years, America has become more brutal, secretive, high-handed, duplicitous and immoral. The United States has demonstrated its disregard for any other point of view other than the government's specious pronouncements, handy with an un-American label. We have gone from a nation of laws to a nation of secret decrees, imperiling our most basic human rights. Looks to me like the terrorists have at least one this stage of the battle--completely undermining rights and basic assumptions common to an entire nation's political history. I don't recognize my country sometimes, except through the outrage at the lack of traction any of the dozen or so current atrocities should have to pull down this smug, self-satisfied, amoral crumbutts.
posted by Wordswinker 18 years ago
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