-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 3, 2007 8:17 PM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bullying Iran - New York Times
>
>You ask if I believed she wrote the article from FAIR. No. I did
>though think it was relevant to your evasive claims, first that the
>NYT was 'beating the drums...etc.,' and then that you had evidence
>that this was so. I thought it was relevant because you wrote
>
>> A.A. I have backed it up. See the articles from FAIR. Did you
>> read them? The entire one on Tonkin as well as what's going on now
>> dated yesterday?
>
>I thought that the first sentence in the paragraph above was related
>by more than the standard use of spaces, etc., to the one that
>followed it, i.e., that the article was somehow your 'evidence.' If
>this is a misreading, then...ah, hell, forget it.
>
>Clearly, you have no evidence, and your responses appear to be no more
>than attempts to change the subject.
>
I said the zebra doesn't change its stripes, etc. etc. Cute games have to
suffice in the absence of conversation, convoluted explanations that even
Robert can't articulate, Brian needis to hear OBL's name instead of al Qaeda or
it just doesn't count, not knowing apparently that prior to Iraq OBL and al
Qaeda were synonymous, etc. etc. I stand by my contention that people don't
read and they're proud of it (just like Bush himself, it has to have
contributed to his popularity, just one of the boys; like rednecks fondly
quoting Goldwater: if I needs a PhD, I hires a PhD). Instead of substance
people recite memes and play games, because they have no substance.
Only Andreas cited substance. I agree with him except I do think Cheney will
cause an excuse to start a war, just like Johnson with Tonkin. Iraq is just
too far gone with no solution. The administration, which essentially now is
just Bush and Cheney, have no choice but to cause a distraction away from their
mess, as amazing as that sounds. Cheney said in so many words that Congress
won't stop them. They're oblivious to what the military can, mostly can't, do
(Cheney said we're having all kinds of success, remember?), and the military
has to do what they're told or we're in some South American style coup.
Bush/Cheney are oblivious to everything. All Congress can do is cut funding,
which is unlikely. If they do start a war, terrorism on our soil will become
part of the war and nobody will have seen our own complicity in bringing it
here, because the NYT, et al. will say it's all Iran's fault. Most people
haven't even heard of FAIR let alone read it.
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