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| Hatred of Bush Exposes Westport, Conn. Lefists’ Contradicitons | |
| 2004-05-03 | |
| EFL When I was in Leftport in March, the party theme was that Mr. Bush had ruined the economy. They wouldn’t hear of the fact that the economy went into a recession during the late Clinton months, or that the attack on America threw us off course, or that the tax cuts had spurred the economy into the best leap in 20 years. Unemployment, they yelled, was horrible. But employment figures jumped in March, so in April the tune changed back to the war. "We had no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Bush did this for the oil, or because Saddam was his father’s nemesis. This is pay-back." My wife looks at me, knowing some salvos are forthcoming. I’ve held my tongue long enough, and suffered through lousy hors d’oeuvres and cheap white wine till I’m beyond myself. I ask: Alan knows it really wasn’t the booze that sucked, it was the company... "Didn’t Saddam use weapons of mass destruction against the Kurds in northern Iraq, against the ’marsh people’ in southern Iraq, against the Iranians? Didn’t he send poison-tipped missiles into Israel? Didn’t Israel destroy his nuclear facilities in the 1980s? Didn’t he kill, over 35 years, 1.5 million people or so, or more than 3,000 per month, every month? As offspring of the Holocaust, did you prefer we wait until he has more capabilities for killing? Is it your hope, like our dead brethren in Germany, that if we try to acquiesce, we will be overlooked? Have you learned nothing?" And, I continued, "If we wanted the oil, why didn’t we take over the oil fields, either during Bush I, or Bush II? And by the way, is there anyone here who has a vision of ending terrorism, or bringing a more egalitarian way of life to the Middle East." Yells of "Nazi" and "right winger" hit my ears. Not one substantive reply, only personal attacks on my character or intelligence. I kinda synpathize. I try to show the nexus between defeatist comments and possible effects on troops oin the field, and how they can affect real people back home, I get called mentally ill. Sorry... Just comparing scars I guess. ;o)
Amen to that, baby! Another glass of wine, s’il plait, another nightly toast to our military, and the knowledge I have a lot of beers to buy when we win this war. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 I could post this comment against half the articles today. But these are interesting times indeed. We are watching the death throws of the mass media culture and its manufacture of a 'right' way of looking at things. Now anyone can be their own media channel on the internet and people can choose the spin they want. Excellent! |
| Posted by: Phil B 2004-05-03 8:07:34 AM |