[lbo-talk] Bush Post '04: A Nightmare Scenario

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Actually, I think the Iraq debacle means tht we're not
going to invade anything tougher than Greneda or
Panama for a long time. It's expensive, unpopular, and
embarassing, and even if the Bushies get away with the
harm they have done themselves in Iraq, it's now clear
that the war in Iraq was not a plus for their
campaign. jks

--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mike Larkin posted:
> 
> http://counterpunch.org/stanton12032003.html
> 
> from which...
> 
> 
> Bush's Operation Clean Sweep
> A Nightmare Scenario
> 
> By JOHN STANTON
> 
> 
> Even though Bush II will lose the popular vote in
> the
> US presidential election of 2004, his electoral
> college victory seems assured.
> 
> <snip>
> ========================
> 
> 
> Stanton's scenario is so white-hot with the dark
> light
> of impending disaster that I'm tempted to dismiss it
> as the storyline of Tom Clancy's next novel or a
> SquareSoft vid game.  
> 
> Temptation, in this case,  may need to be resisted
> however.
> 
> 
> Mr. Stanton projects the following after a Bush
> *re-election* in '04:
> 
> 
> 
> 1.) A return to the draft
> 
> 2.) An attack on Syria
> 
> 3.) The relocation of the Palestinians to a portion
> of
> defeated Syria
> 
> 4.) A simultaneous attack upon Iran
> 
> 5.) An attack (also simultaneous) upon N. Korea
> 
> 6.) Chinese seizure of Taiwan in return for
> non-intervention in the U.S. assault on N. korea
> 
> 7.) In Columbia, full-scale war upon the FARC and
> indigenous movements.
> 
> 8.) The toppling of Hugo Chavez in Venezula.
> 
> 9.) The (*likely*) toppling of the governments of
> Cuba
> and Libya.
> 
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> No one can know if these things will or will not
> happen.  
> 
> What we do know is that the Bush administration has
> a
> program in motion as we speak which, if they retain
> power in '04, will continue to roll noisily and
> violently downhill in some form.
> 
> Of course, if this is the shape of the immediate
> future we can look forward to a sort of high-tech
> dark
> ages.  At least until the petroleum *peaks* and
> tupperware costs 100 dollars a bowl.  Or so some
> say.
> 
> 
> I wonder though, as we plan and work, in various
> ways,
> to de-fang these dire wolves has anyone given
> thought
> to likely second term scenarios should they retain -
> by fair means or foul - the seat of empire?
> 
> 
> DRM
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