I don't know precisely what fictional world George W. Bush lives in, but it's clearly not the same as the rest of the world.
While I am unsurprised by it, the level of artificial paranoia in the State of the Union address is disappointing. It signalled two key things in my mind:
1. The Republicans are going to continue their campaign of fear at home.
2. If you think things are protectionist now, it's going to get a whole lot worse.
In light of this little gem of paranoid plotting from the Pentagon, and the scandalous behaviour of many people closely associated with the Bush White House - be it Jack Abramhoff, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby or others - we have to recognize that the United States is turning towards some of the very tactics and policies that they claim to abhor. (Consider illegal wiretaps, a "no-fly" list of somewhere near 80,000 names, prisoners held without due process, Abu Ghraib among others)
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It should be interesting to see how mid-term elections turn out. If the American public has had enough of being bamboozled by Bush and Co. there will be a shift in congress. Assuming free and fair elections of course.
JN
www.nishiyama.tzo.com
Interesting is such a versatile word, isn't it?
Given some of the rumblings coming out of the Republicans lately, I'm seriously beginning to wonder about just how "free-and-fair" those elections might be.
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