Friday, October 06, 2006

POLITICS - Excerpts For Thinking Americans

The following are excerpts from two articles I ran into on the UseNet. They should provoke thoughts for Americans that have not been brainwashed by either political party.

1) "The Tipping Point" by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

Congressman Henry Waxman, minority chair for the House Government Reform Committee, released a massive batch of emails from Abramoff to various Washington DC power players. In one, dated March 18, 2002, Abramoff wrote, "I was sitting yesterday with Karl Rove, Bush's top advisor, at the NCAA basketball game, discussing Israel when this email came in. I showed it to him. It seems that the President was very sad to have to come out negatively regarding Israel, but that they needed to mollify the Arabs for the upcoming war on Iraq."

"The upcoming war in Iraq," wrote Abramoff casually, one year and two days before the invasion was undertaken. It seems those "few staff-level meetings" availed Abramoff of some significant information. How this criminal came to know war in Iraq was coming before the rest of the world did is something that deserves a great deal of intense scrutiny.

"Intense scrutiny" like hell! It is just more evidence that Bush intended to invade Iraq in the first place and 9/11 was only a convenient excuse.

2) "Clinton shows Democrats how to fight back" by Bill Press, Progresso Weekly

Most of the time, Democrats are too nice. They want to be friends. If somebody slaps them on the cheek, they remember their Gospel -- and offer them the other cheek.

Well, I'm sorry, but this isn't religion, this is politics. And there's a big difference.

In politics, if somebody slaps you on the cheek, you don't turn the other cheek. You punch him in the nose. Then you punch him in the gut. Then you kick him in the groin. Then you crack a chair over his head. Then, just to make sure, you jump up and down on top of him with both feet.

In other words, when Republicans get mean and nasty and accuse you of being soft on terror, don't cave in. The only way to win is to fight back.

If Democrats follow that advice, they'll win every time. If not, they don't deserve to win.

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