Make no mistake about it , with the obvious failure of their illegal neocon war and occupation of Iraq ~ the GOP will attempt to freighten Americans into 'staying the course' not only with their failed Iraq policy but also with their thoroughly discredited and morally corrupt party in November. As such, it is time for all Americans to be skeptical, be very skeptical : Allen L Roland
The only way to combat the Mob at the Gates scare tactics by the Cheney/Bush administration, which will accelerate right up to election day ~ is for Democrats to concentrate on the Rot at the Top of the most corrupt administration in America's history.
And that means being highly skeptical of any fear-based information coming out of the Cheney/Bush administration and concentrating instead on the obvious abuses of power or the rot at the top.
Bob Herbert, New York Times, did just that last week in his column and it's worth a review .
Allen L Roland
AMERICA THE FEARFUL
"There Are Not Enough Pretty Words In All The World To Cover Up The Damage George W. Bush Has Done To His Country."
Bob Herbert, New York Times
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In the dark days of the Depression, Franklin Roosevelt counseled Americans to avoid fear. George W. Bush is his polar opposite. The public’s fear is this president’s most potent political asset. Perhaps his only asset.
Mr. Bush wants ordinary Americans to remain in a perpetual state of fear ~ so terrified, in fact, that they will not object to the steady erosion of their rights and liberties, and will not notice the many ways in which their fear is being manipulated to feed an unconscionable expansion of presidential power.
If voters can be kept frightened enough of terrorism, they might even overlook the monumental incompetence of one of the worst administrations the nation has ever known.
The Constitution and the elaborate system of checks and balances were meant to protect us against the possibility of a clownish gang of small men and women amassing excessive power and behaving like tyrants or kings. But the normal safeguards have not been working since the Bush crowd came to power, starting with the hijacked presidential election in 2000.
If you listen to the Bush version of reality, the president is all powerful. In that version, we are fighting a war against terrorism, which is a war that will never end. And as long as we are at war (forever), there is no limit to the war-fighting powers the president can claim as commander in chief.
Well, I give you fair warning. This is a road map to totalitarianism. Hallmarks of totalitarian regimes have always included an excessive reliance on secrecy, the deliberate stoking of fear in the general population, a preference for military rather than diplomatic solutions in foreign policy, the promotion of blind patriotism, the denial of human rights, the curtailment of the rule of law, hostility to a free press and the systematic invasion of the privacy of ordinary people.
There are not enough pretty words in all the world to cover up the damage that George W. Bush has done to his country. If the United States could look at itself in a mirror, it would be both alarmed and ashamed at what it saw.
