Lets Be Clear

Aug.5 2005 Dan Froomkin writes in WaPo: "When a nation is attacked, its people tend to rally around their leader. President Bush's job approval ratings, for instance, shot up more than 30 percent in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But the seemingly incessant litany of deadly attacks on American troops in Iraq appears to be increasingly turning the public against the president and the war he launched. The signs of such a turnaround remain faint in the mainstream media coverage of public discourse about Iraq. Something -- maybe the administration's insistence that questioning its policies undermines American troops -- has somehow cowed many of the predictable voices of dissent into silence."

Ahem...Lets be clear what's really going on. People rallied around Bush, ready to kill whoever, whatever, wherever BushCo pointed after 9/11. They did so on very little evidence of who the perps were behind the WTC attacks. The crime scene was razed and shipped to China ASAP. After bin LadenCo initially denied the attacks the public is given tapes of Laden proudly claiming responsibility. A sham commission issued a backup report to government propaganda, case closed.

The American public wanted to hunt 'em down, smoke 'em out, dead or alive, bring 'em on, liberate Iraqi and fight 'em over there so we don't have to here. Gulping the warmonger kool-aid.

The public strormtrooped into Iraq, with little to no evidence for a just cause. The public was more than willing to accept whatever excuse of the day BushCo gave them, WMD, liberation, evil Hitlerhussein, on and on. All because the US public in general has no moral decency. The public thought we'd kick ass and come home in a few weeks. Many of those now turning against Bush and the war he launched were the first to support his war. Therein lies the cowardly immorality of the US public. A public nonchalant about war because dead is okay, when it's "them" dying.

Who are the "predictable voices of dissent" that are "cowed" into silence? Who is Mr. Froomkin referring to? Democrats? Lefty celebrities? Don't worry, they'll get on the soapbox when it's politically correct to do so, and after they've rearranged their portfolios.

As I said in June, it's Carrying Water. "The time is upon us for hearings, bipartisan congressional bills, homeboy Acts named to induce a warm fuzzy and insinuate the end is near. We're at the political stage of not questioning the justification for our engagement in the War or hold anyone accountable, but the years of debating military withdrawal strategy, aka carrying water for the warmongers."

BushCo needs another "trifecta."