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02 September 2004
More Soapboxing... because I can.  
Sometime soon, I'll have to sit and blog about my vacation. Until then, just these little bits of information that I like pointing out, because I believe in being informed. I know it's standing on the political soapbox, but this is my space on the web, and I live in a country where (supposedly) there is free speach, and it is my right. So, another article:

Imperial President - Opposing Bush becomes unpatriotic.

Quote from the article:

In a democracy, the commander in chief works for you. You hire him when you elect him. You watch him do the job. If he makes good decisions and serves your interests, you rehire him. If he doesn't, you fire him by voting for his opponent in the next election.

Not every country works this way. In some countries, the commander in chief builds a propaganda apparatus that equates him with the military and the nation. If you object that he's making bad decisions and disserving the national interest, you're accused of weakening the nation, undermining its security, sabotaging the commander in chief, and serving a foreign power


It's no secret where I stand on my feelings about this. I don't subscribe to saying something over and over and thus making it true. That makes me sick to my stomach. If you hit the same points over and over again, blatant lies, you'll convince people that it is true.

I'm sick of people who will go and not admit that they were wrong. I'm sick of people going through and framing things in black and white, when there is so much going on in Washington, so many unrelated things attached to bills in congress that you can support a piece of legislation, but not all the riders that are attached to it.

I'm sick of people who see things only in black and white, deliberately hiding the truth and misleading the public. I'm sorry, that is NOT Democracy. It is not democracy when people who question the policies of the president are branded unAmerican and unpatriotic.

And when it comes to analyzing the records of what happened in a war 30 years ago when did:

Decorated Veteran = bad military leadership
and
AWOL National-guardsman = good military leadership

Huh?

Anyone who disappeared from the air national guard for a year has NO reason to blackball someone who actually saw combat.

"No president wants to go to war."

BULLSHIT.

Iraq was a target from day one. They were just waiting for an excuse.

I'm disgusted. And I'm a voter. And guess who is NOT getting my vote this year.

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 12:05