Shagged
It is an ominous sign indeed when the liberals defend the CIA. The left rushed to quote and pen praise for James Marcinkowski's testimony of this past week. The democrats using "national security" as justification to ream Rove is so rightwingish. The liberals in bed with the same CIA that has brought death to millions with its dirty little wars.
The same CIA that overthrows democratically elected governments who do not rule in corporate America's best interests. The same CIA that mined Nicaragua's harbor. The same CIA that placed a bomb at Eden Pastora's press conference, as he was no longer useful, but instead killed and injured journalists, including an American. The same CIA boys who ran around Central America encouraging the oligarchies to torture, amass graves, massacre, and incinerate their own people.
It's a sorry day when "progressives" pretend the CIA works for our best interest. The same CIA who employed traitors such as Aldrich Ames, Edward Howard, Larry Chin, Harold Nicholson, and took decades to discover them. The same CIA with license to assassinate? The same agency involved in Abu Ghraib abuse? The same CIA who support and train thugs like Somoza, Montt, Noriega? The same agency involved in drug running around the world for decades? The same CIA backing massacres in Haiti today? The same CIA who didn't have a clue 9/11 was coming?
I too watched part of the "testimony." Former agent Marcinkowski played typical spin the spook. I noticed a few times at the end of his eloquent spiel Marcinkowski tacked on the term "analytical speculation." That's all it is, speculation. He comments that Wilson/Plame was an "unprecedented act will have far-reaching consequences." You really think any agent in the field is going to quit or not do his job because of Wilsongate? You really think a nation raised on James Bond and Tom Cruise will no longer have applicants for covert work or CIA?
Marcinkowski and others testispied to nothing more than opinions, speculation, possibilities, prepared in a convincing dialogue of could have, would have, should have. I no longer hesitate to say the democrats are as conniving and predatory as the republicans, although "liberals" may do it with slightly less blood.
Marcinkowski says to the spinners engaged in "partisan obfuscation ... a true patriot would shut up." Is that to silence critics by using the patriotic ploy, be careful what you say? So rightwing. Mr. M. speaks like a spook, but one who spins for the left cheek of the corporate ass.
4 comments:
Hi,
I think what needs to be said the most is that the Democrats are not liberal. The Democrats were for the most part never liberal.
They have had some socialistic tendencies over the years but that is different.
They found a new identity after the civil war as the rural party and their defense of agriculture and small unions was more an outgrowth of their constituancy than anything else.
The Democrats today are what i would call conservative, liberalist (which
is not liberal).
The Republicans are reactionary not conservative. They are actually more socialist than the Democrats but only towards the rich.
There is no established American Liberal group.
There are a couple established Socialist groups such as the Green Party and the American Socialists.
Michael
Michael
I agree with your definitions. I use the terms liberals and progressives, usually in quotes, as that is how my dem acquaintances mistakenly refer to themselves.
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Hi Kate-A
In reference to the Democrats, they don't strike me as being liberal. I don't know if anyone has suggested that they are conservative. Neither do I know if they have socialistic tendencies. What comes to mind when I think of Democrats these days is that they have become irrelevant, ineffective and tongue-tied. Although Representatives John Conyers and Barbara Boxer appear to be trying to exercise their oars in the middle of a sea of others (their colleagues) who seem like intimidated dead weight in the present political arena. It looks as if our system no longer has the "check and balance" it used to have. I hope this is not a permanent thing.
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