--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> knowknot:
>
> Kinsley's column, and the cynical and impotent
> attitude it represents, suggests
> that such an investigation, if it occurred, might
> still not be adequate to make a
> publicly acceptable fact out of what everyone now
> knows and accepts. The column
> bears the perfect headline "No Smoking Gun," which
> suggests that failing the
> discovery of a tape recording in which President
> Bush is quoted explicitly
> ordering then Director of Central Intelligence
> George Tenet that he should "fix
> the intelligence and facts around the policy," many
> will never regard the case as
> proved — though all the while accepting, of course,
> and admitting that they
> accept, that this is indeed what happened.
>
> =====================
>
>
>
>
> Very true.
>
>
> I find myself wondering about a few things these
> days, after finishing perhaps
> the millionth argument with a war supporter which,
> of late, moves predictably
> down the following path:
>
>
> * war supporter: there were weapons, we had to act
>
> * me: no. no there weren't.
>
> * war supporter: yeah, that's true...but anyway, we
> freed a people and that was
> the right thing to do.
>
> * me: large scale aerial bombings, the destruction
> of an entire city, deaths of
> civilians by 'errant bombs', mass detentions, random
> shootings by frightened US
> troopers and Iraqi National Guard, terrorist
> bombings, massive unemployment,
> sporadic power, overwhelmed health-care workers,
> barely functioning schools and
> never before seen levels of Jihadi action are not
> the ingredients of a good
> thing.
>
> * war supporter: yeah. well, to tell you the truth,
> i don't really think about
> this too much now...i'm just focusing on my family.
>
>
> Pro-war arguments retain their original shape --
> WMDs, al Q connections,
> pre-emptive duty now for the potential threats of
> the future..., etc -- but, in
> all but the stupidest people (and in '05 we must be
> honest and declare that
> anyone who still believes these fantasies is not
> merely ideologically blinded,
> but simply dumb, regardless of their educational
> background, clean teeth, and
> language abilities) the constant hammering of
> revelations, scandals really, but
> without the expected consequential ooomph, has
> reduced that once raging fire.
>
> So I'm wondering if maybe, just maybe, the reason
> these things that should be
> scandals aren't is because millions are nervous
> about seeing how far down the
> rabbit hole goes.
>
> If, for example, you accept that the war was
> illegal, you must also accept that
> those deaths directly attributable to coalition
> action are not, as most politely
> say, 'accidents' but actually murders...since they
> needn't have happened at all.
>
> Better to just let things slide away, let 'them' get
> away with it and take care
> of your personal concerns -- your
> so-complex-you-need Jordan, Loan Master,
> Hayes to-fill-out-the-forms-mortgage, your ailing
> parents, your quieter than a
> Pharaoh's tomb marriage, the dog's bad habits....
>
>
>
> .d.
>
>
>
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