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Editorial: The Bush/Bush Dilemna in US Politics

Marc Haley, scifiprime.hollywood.com | 03.11.2001 01:21

jingoism:Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism. pl. jin·goes One who vociferously supports one's country, especially one who supports a belligerent foreign policy; a chauvinistic patriot. adj. Of or relating to a chauvinistic patriot. : By jingo, I'm leaving here in spite of the blizzard. ------------- [From the phrase by jingo, used in the refrain of a bellicose 19th-century English music-hall song, from alteration of Jesus1.] jingo·ish adj. (article 1)

Editorial: The Bush/Bush Dilemna in US Politics
Editorial: The Bush/Bush Dilemna in US Politics

Editorial: The Bush/Bush Dilemna in US Politics
Editorial: The Bush/Bush Dilemna in US Politics


What will it take to get an Impeach Bush movement rolling?

Now it is a year, almost, since the dubious election of George W. Bush. One may still ask the question, however: what REALLY happened last November? And where are our democratic leaders? This is a bad time for nonpartisanship. Where is Senator Clinton? where the heck is Al Gore? Are they all afraid of dubya? Future historians may look at an election that came down to a few thousand votes in one state. They may look and see the combination of factors; the winner's brother was the Governor of that state, the people who claimed weeks later that they were denied their rights to vote (Blacks) or people who claimed that their votes were improperly delegated (Jews, The elderly)...future historians may look at these factors and come to swift conclusions about what happened. Bush: is he a good American? I hesitate to 'get personal' but I still wonder if Bush is the great Patriot he presents himself as...or if he is just an oilman who wants to solidify commodity holdings in the Middle East

The last American president to make serious strides in the Mideast in the name of peace was a Democrat. Do you remember who?

And I have heard a chilling rumor that Osama bin Laden was a CIA operative between 1979 and 1989. Can such things be true? I was young when I heard about arms-for-hostages trades... The thing I remember most is Bush's stand on capital punishment. it is a rough thing to say, but he really seemed to take a righteous pleasure in putting people to death. Wasn't there a mentally challenged individual put to death shortly before he was elected?

What will it take to get an Impeach Bush movement rolling? We can't have four whole tears of open bloody war. I mean, Arabs are Semites, and despite all the rhetoric being served the US by the poularmedia, I can see the religions and racial battlelines, as clear as day.

So, soon, it seems that innocent women and children in Afghanistan, already reamed and left by the Soviet Union, are going to be killed like the Kossovan refugees who the US Military were allegedly 'liberating'...all paid for with tax dollars of people who did NOT vote for the current administration, and people who did not vote...suspisciously.

The people who were investigating 'unusual' goings on at the November ballot in Florida seem to have lost interest: maybe they are caught up in the racist blood fever of talk radio. Or something...


So: now it is left to prove: is this a constitutional republic, wherein the letter of the law and the agendas of the elected superced the will of the people? Or is this s democracy, where the opinions of people matter, between elections? if you are opposed to war and feeling at all dubious (no pun intended) about the abilities of the marchers and peace activist to stem the tide of Jingoist aggression, then it is time to act, and to act not with rage, but with creativity and determination. The Bush administration hyas decided on an economic blackade to deal with the 'terrorist' problem...well, fine and good, as long as we remember the thousands upon thousands of women and children MURDERED by economic blackade tactics in Iraq since the PREVIOUS Bush administartion made war for oil in the Middle East. And if Americans are not outraged that their tax dollars will be involved in this systematic targeting of civilians (who always get hit hard in a war, economic or conventional), well, more chickens will inevitably come home to roost, and they may choose in the future less obvious targets for roosting than the WTC and the Pentagon.

Marc Haley, scifiprime.hollywood.com
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  1. cowards — Brandon