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Virtually everyone now knows that the reasons President Bush gave for invading Iraq
were invalid and even deceptive. Therefore, whatever the real reasons for the
invasion were, they were known only to Bush and a few selected insiders.

The sadd truth in the U.S. is that a great deal of us STILL THINK there was
a connection between 9-11 and Iraq, or that there were WMD's, but some how
Saddam managed to hide them. (we are incapable of thinking that maybe, just
maybe.. Bin Laden didn't like the relatively secular nature of Iraq, the implications
of that are more than our little minds can comprehend.)

I'd say 90% of us believed the U.S. intelligence actually suggested an attack.
it didn't, our own CIA recommended against it, the only reason I know this is
because I listened to the hearings where they gave Bush the "blank check",
yep.. we can thank our president AND congress (including Sen. Kerry) for the
Iraq mess. The congress just didn't want to appear "unpatriotic", as far as I'm
concerned, congress sent those men and women to their death because they didn't
want to "look bad". Mostly we can thank the president, still don't know why
he did it, but I know it wasn't the intelligence reports.

Furthermore, not only is there no resolution in sight for America's military
involvement in Iraq, it now seems that the Bush administration is making plans to
extend the war into Syria and Iran and even to North Korea.

And as soon as he does, 90% of us will agree, we'll think it's a good idea.
We're dumb enough to believe whatever excuse given.

First, there will be talk of more war.

Most americans will oppose it.

The politicians will tell us it's a good idea because (insert
emotional cause here, BS reason there, etc... something with
an emotional "punch")

Most americans will be in favor of it, we won't bother to actually
think about it.

This is the way it went in the persian gulf, this is the way it went
in the latest "liberate Iraq" war.

If history proves itself, until we're actually slaughtered, beaten and our
brothers,fathers and husbands killed, wives and sisters raped.. until someone
actually invades U.S. soil and affects all of us... Americans (that's us) will
have grand visions of war.

I wish we WOULD ask why nations outside the U.S. might develop atomic
weapons. We'd rather not think about that. We'd rather hang chinese made
american flags on poles and talk about how proud we oughta be.

It is as though the white house has played the jedi mind trick on us, where
the jedi would convince you to say & think something by repeating it to you.

Our greatest enemy is our ignorance.

I believe it is time that the American people (especially conservatives) begin
asking themselves some serious questions. Does George W. Bush intend that the United
States be in a state of perpetual war? Is he seeking "monsters" to destroy? Does he
envision a global empire headed by all powerful rulers? These questions deserve
studious attention, especially when one recalls that shortly after being elected
President Bush once quipped, "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot
easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." Looking back, we might need to consider
that he was not joking!

Ha! you're dreaming. We're kept in perpetual distraction via issues like gay
marriage. (a concept I find highly amusing.. it is as though the religious
folks believe the government some how has more power than God to decide who can
and cannot get married, very interesting..)

A good thing to (try anyhow) read is mein kempf by another famous dictator,
you can tell it was written before they invented word processors, but the bit
about "war propaganda" and the capacity for the populus to forget is quite
amusing. It's also very sadd because there is absolutely nothing we can
do to stop it. I've always wondered how the citizens who weren't in agreement
might have felt. Guess we get to find out. :-(

President Bush is making it very difficult for conservatives such as myself to
articulate to people the difference between the need of an independent republic
(what America used to be) for a strong, ready defense and the need of a global
empire (what America is becoming) for an omnipotent, omnipresent global police
force. Put another way, do Lucas' fictional character Darth Vader and President G.W.
Bush share a common vision of empire? And would the American people even be able to
recognize it if they did?

Nope. Americans don't notice it. Most of us seem to promote it. Far as I'm concerned,
becomming an empire as you point out isn't a goal. It's already _here_.

We'll never be omnipotent though, actually I believe we're in for a fall as our
economic conditions seem to indicate. Aside from the lives, we simply cannot
sustain ourselves much less a military in a country where nearly everything is
imported.

There is literally nothing we can do about it. All we can do is watch it happen.

Jamie
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