January 11, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

WAR ON TERROR IS A TROJAN HORSE

As this writer points out, once upon a time we had a real cause for fear. We had nuclear weapons pointed at our cities that could literally vaporize us and end civilization. But during the Cold War we never had the assault on civil liberties we've seen since George W. Bush got into the White House. We had McCarthy in the 1950's, and McCarthy did a lot of damage, but Bush makes Joseph McCarthy look tame. The attacks on 9/11 gave Bush and his neocons the excuse they needed to push their onerous agenda of destroying the middle class, devoting our resources to the military and military expansionism, and enriching war profiteers. This commentary by A. Alexander is at www.progressivedailybeacon.com:

Before moving forward in this discussion, we all need to understand one very important reality: The so-called War on Terror is nothing more than an excuse for corporate-sponsored fascism, bolstered by theocracy-dreaming foot soldiers, to advance its cause. Don't think any such thing exists or is possible? Then you must not be aware that conservative businessmen, fearful of 'socialisms influence', were the people that supported Hitler's rise to power.

During the cold war there were literally hundreds -- if not thousands -- of nuclear warheads pointed at America's cities. These weren't the useless "dirty bomb" variety that Bush and his people want you to be afraid of today, and that scientists say are generally pretty harmless. For all the fear-mongering surrounding dirty bombs, the fact is that such a weapon can't hurt people unless they stand stock-still in the blast area...for an entire year. That's no joke...that is, according to physicists, the truth about dirty bombs. On the other hand, during the cold war, the danger came from Soviet-built nuclear warheads that made Hiroshima and Nagasaki-type nukes look like firecrackers. These warheads were the serious "bend over and kiss your caboose goodbye," variety of nukes. No standing around required - instant vaporization.

REPUBLICANS: LEARN YOUR CLICHES

There's a great scene in the movie Bull Durham where Crash Davis tells a rookie phenom under his tutelage that he needs to "learn his cliches." The same could be said of Republican writers to The Fresno Bee. We get the same cliches regurgitated over and over. Today's missive was from a conservative aggrieved over a column by Maureen Dowd. Our writer actually thinks Maureen is a liberal. It's true she has gotten off some good bon mots against the Bush-Cheney cabal, but she was forever attacking Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore. How short the memories are!

Our letter writer like to characterize us as baby killers, marriage destroyers (for favoring gay rights), and so on. All are vast distortions of the truth, but conservatives are challenged when it comes to subtleties.