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2008-12-21 Home Front Economy

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Posted by tipper 2008-12-21 01:29|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Interesting discussion on the purely economic/financial side, but sadly and predictably silly on geopolitics and its use of now-standard myths (the "neoconservatives" - whatever those might be - got their "comeuppance" in Iraq? Hardly - looks like the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, Al Qaeda, the IGRC, Syria, most of Europe, the Democratic Party, and most of the pathetically mediocre and cowardly Beltway establishment, instead, got THEIR comeuppance). And there really oughta be fines and other penalties for anyone putting in print the bizarre myth that the Coalition was not greeted as liberators in Iraq. For the most part, they were. Uh, we've got videotape. It was, as they used to say, in all the papers.

Posted by Verlaine 2008-12-21 04:35|| 2008-12-21 04:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Verlaine,

As a merchant captain of my acquaintance once said when confronted with reliable information disproving one of his long-held beliefs, "Don't confuse me with facts!"

We WERE greeted as liberators in lots of Iraq, there WERE WMDs, the war there WAS justified. The only problem is that the MSM, following and again proving the truth of Goebbels' dictum, lied long enough and strongly enough that we lost the propaganda war. Like Tet, it will take another thirty years for the real truth to finally start to be accepted, and only then by those who make it a point to inform themselves.

The U.S. military is perfectly justified in despising the MSM. It couldn't be more clear that they hate and loathe our soldiers, sailors and Marines. It is a real tribute to the character of our fighting men and women that more MSM traitors didn't "accidentally" catch bullets during combat ops. Most of them certainly deserved a few.

Maybe that's why the vast majority of them did their investigative reporting in the bar of the Palestine Hotel.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-12-21 06:29|| 2008-12-21 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 A whole lot of schadenfreude with the disappointing, to the authors, conclusion that China probably won't become the world's sole superpower. When even our enemies can't construct a scenario that leads to our downfall, I easily remain confident that things aren't nearly as bad as they wish us to believe.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-12-21 06:31|| 2008-12-21 06:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Things are bad, and well get worse compared to what we are used to. Compared to Zimbabwe, we are living in a fucking paradise. I guess it all depends on where you are coming from.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-12-21 09:33|| 2008-12-21 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Jolutch Mussolini7800, you are right but a lot of that could have been changed if Bush had used the Bully Pulpit instead of letting his enemies capture news cycle after news cycle for 7 years.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-12-21 17:06|| 2008-12-21 17:06|| Front Page Top

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