The American media enables Bush constantly

[GUS]

...Much was made by the Bush administration about Iran's covert nuclear program, recently there was acknowledgment that many of those fears may have been over-exaggerated or even misplaced. Yet no one from the administration was taken to task for spreading such sinister misinformation. More disturbingly, there was no substantive criticism from the American media either.

To the contrary, US media has increasingly become a mouthpiece of the Bush administration, perpetuating and ventilating the fears which prevent a population from thinking rationally about important issues.

......The New Yorker magazine...cover a demeaning representation of President Ahmedinijad sitting on the toilet, pants down, playing footsie with the man in the next stall. Surely, for the American audience, it was a take on the Republican Senator from Idaho who had recently been caught doing just that with an undercover cop at an airport bathroom and a jibe simultaneously at Ahmedinijad, who had denied in his speech at Columbia University that homosexuality existed in Iran.

Iran was being demeaned through its President only so the attack could soon be justified. It reminded Muslims of the early nineties when Saddam toilet paper had taken America by storm, only to be followed by operation Desert Storm. That is how the propaganda machine works. First you degrade and then you attack......... Mr. Bollinger, Columbia's President, made every effort to insult his guest, which may have been satisfying to some Americans, but left the rest of the world baffled. One would invite a speaker, presumably, so one could hear his point of view with an open mind. Argue with him, debate him, disagree with him, certainly, but insult him before he even opens his mouth?
http://www.counterpunch.org/khan01162008.html

[GUS]

The Associated Press reports the study, published on the website of the Centre for Public Integrity, concluded the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanised public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretences”.

According to the study, 935 false statements were issued by the White House in the two years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
In speeches, briefings and interviews, President Bush and other officials stated “unequivocally” on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had links to al-Qaeda, or had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to get them.

“In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003.”

The study found that President Bush alone made 259 false statements – 231 about weapons of mass destruction and 28 about Iraq’s links to al-Qaeda. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23097132-1702,00.html

[McGyver]

You would have to be deaf, dumb blind and Stupid....OR a Totally Blind Partisan Wacko to just NOW begin to realize that these Morons Lied The American People into a War in Iraq!

These Republican Morons are NOT to be trusted with anything. I wouldn't believe a freaking thing that comes out of their mouths! They are all a bunch of greedy lying bastards! And THAT includes the Right Wing Neocon Media as well! :mad:

[gooddoggy]

All upper echelons of American politics, academia, and media are controlled by the same money power.

This is why there exists, in the words of Michael Savage, a government/media complex.

This complex can hardly be called conservative, though. It is much more accurately characterized as advancing liberalism.

George Bush is a liberal. His spending policies, his attitude toward illegal immigration and guns, his internationalist stance; all of these positions make him a liberal, not a conservative or a neo-conservative. He advocates and creates Big Government. He supports socialist programs.

By the way, the Iranian government is pure evil, and I didn't need to be brainwashed into believing that.

[Drivesme]

Aaaaaaallllllll rightie then.;):o:eek:

[gooddoggy]

Conservatism has traditionally meant a belief in limited size and spending of the federal government, aside from social issues. Bush has radically expanded the size of the government and it's spending. So he cannot be truthfully called conservative. One can say he ran as such and appealed to conservatives for votes but one cannot say he turned out to be one in any way.

The capital "R" Republicans and truly republican people parted ways decades ago. The former moved more closely into alignment with the Left in China and UN policy, in taxation, in restrictive legislation towards guns, private ownership, and small business, police state powers, etc. Republicanism negates a strong central government, and suposed reforms that try to establish such are called by republicans "liberalism".

I am a republican but I am not a Republican.

A Republican of today is what a Democrat of the forties and fifties was then.

This victory of liberalism over republicanism and constitutionality has been disguised by the fabrication of a mythical two-party conflict that in reality does not exist. The media re-enforces this illusion by playing upon the popular angst of the various factions, ethnic divisions and party sects of the U.S. This at times degenerates into soap opera and vulgar theater which, sadly, is taken to be real by a media-fed public.

Its fake, though.

Case in point--Nuclear Shadow's North American/V-Chip thread. This platform has been successively strengthened by the last four American Presidents. Each continued to build upon the initial framework and trade agreements brought in by their predecessor. Why is it so hard for people to believe that they are all about the same thing?

[Erika]

Gorge W Bush and his enablers have crippled this country in every way. Respect, economy, and decency. He's robbed our coffers of $ to rebuild our infrastructure or help our needy.

He and his administration should be impeached and face the same end as Saddam.

[gooddoggy]

Actually, Erika, I agree with you. They should all get the Mussolini treatment--you remember that famous photograph of Benito and his mistress' ending?

I'm simply trying to show that Bush's program is not conservative. I would also submit that he is no different in his policies or substantial platform than the Clintons, who in fact work hand in glove with the Bush family in politics except for the area of rhetoric, which seems to be enough to hoodwink most people. I don't care what bills they each occasionally strike down--the fact is that the country continues to move steadfastly in a single direction. That implies cooperation.

If by conservative we mean the isolationist, Goldwater type stance prevalent among the right in the 1960's, then if George Bush were one, he would not enter foreign entanglements. The man is no conservative and it's widely known that conservatives who know the Constitution and American history do not claim the man as one of our own.

Oligarchy was the order of the day throughout most of human history, but one can at least say for the oligarchs of the past that they donned weapons and armor and fought in the battles they created. The oligarchs of today are spineless jellyfish.

By the way, Clinton also lied about Kosovo and Serbia.

[Erika]

Now that is funny, (Not really)

Bush invaded, do you get that, invaded another country and is occupying it. A country that was never a threat to us.

Now what did Clinton do to equal that? This right wing spiel is over the line.

[gooddoggy]

I'm actually pretty over the line. In fact, I erased the line years ago.

I realize the duration and casualties in the illegal war against Yugolslavia were far less than Iraqi Freedom, but there were still several thousand innocent peasants killed in Serbia from the Clinton ordered NATO airstrikes. It was an act of evil which had ramifications for the people of Serbia that are every bit as lasting and complex as what the people of Iraq have experienced.

And Yugolslavaia (a counry that no longer exists thanks to Clinton) was no threat to the US.

So we see that these type of actions are not limited to one party or administration.

[Erika]

Paid for by our U.S. military. With profits going to Bush's corporatists buds.

I just hope the day will come when Bush and Rummy are held as war criminals.
They attacked a nation who never threatened us and destroyed the infrastructure of that country along with thousands of innocent Iraqi deaths.

They do qualilfy as war criminals along with those who backed them.

[NuclearShadows]

I was watching past programs from Meet the Press (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/) of the presidential candidates and noticed who was sponsoring the videos. Guess Who.. (http://www.zmag.org/Zmag/Articles/nov01boeing.htm)