when doves cry

* parently the head of blackwatch wasnt happy about being sent there

* democracynow is saying that there actually was a muslim sweep - 700 arrested pre-election to avert an electionbombing - none with ties to terror groups

* and im sure u heard about the fighter pilot who strafed a school. in newjersey. can we leave yet?

* vioxx parently caused 30,000 heartattacks after they knew it was broken. no wonder they put a mclelland at the head of the fda. stoopidfukking bananarepublicans - on any reasonable analysis, america would be the laughing stock of the world. somehow, the idea of voters in the freeworld standing on line for hours and hours is presumed to be a foible. or a quirk. or a snafu. or something.

* heres an old fave thought of mine - how do yuo reconcile the radmins stunning ability to manage the media and the somnolent masses and their ability to ahem manage elections - vis a vis their planning wrt iraq. its getting near impossible to ignore the difference. how do u have 15 ways to steal an election (am), yet dont do any contigency planning that maybe when u invade a country, the 'welcome us with flowers' story might be something to consider - at least as a contingency. or even if u believed that it would be 'flowers' - that maybe thered be just a handful of people who might not approve - and therefore we should do things like protect the largest arms depot (eg) - just in case. and if its not negligence, then what is it? they have hardly dared blaming it on groupthink again. and lets not forget - nobody still has a clue why the fuck we invaded iraq in the first place. the neocons pretend that they are actually an intellectual movement and that they really believe in democracy dominoes. the straussians actually believe in the noble lie - its part of their doctrine - hence, arguably, the wmd nonsense - but the idea that they went to so much trouble to spread democracy is almost inconceivable. and i still dont buy the 'oil' story - the idea that these selfish people (60+ year olds) would go to so much trouble to secure some resource for future generations of americans is ridiculous. and the (partially predictable) reality is that in the meantime the price has jumped from $10 to $50 - and destroyed points of global gdp in the interim. it seems to me, the logic seems to point to a simple wealth tranfer from normal people to blechtel/halliburton et al - and damn the human cost. which is sad. and dangerous. that would be kinda easy to understand tho - i struggle to understand that there is actually something that pretends to be an intellectual movement at the same time - even tho fukuyama and other apparently human people still try to defend these people - even though he acknowledges that 'we got it wrong' - maybe the fukuyama/krauthammer 'fight' is just more of the noble lie. u hear the same about wolfowitz - parently he is 'a real intellectual' - but its really difficult to accept that the neocon argument has any intellectual merit at all. there might be a logic which fits their position if contorted sufficiently - but to call it an ideology seems to me to be totally bankrupt. even sy hersh calls them ideologues, or utopians or whatever - but to me, thats very generous. i follow this stuff pretty closely - and the extent of the intellectual position seems to be 'people want to be free' - which doesnt really sound like a genius' platform to me. blah blah. if they lied about wmd as a pretext for killing 100k people, they can prolly lie about whether their original idea was a legitimate noble goal. so we still dont have any clue why we invaded this country and killed lots of people.

* i dont think i made my point properly



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