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complain jane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 03:34 PM
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Article on the Election Result, from AsiaTimes
http://www.pnacinfo.us/doc/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=86

Damn Politics, Let's Dance

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Forget Ohio. Forget the mathematics. Forget all the lawyers. By any measure, in terms of direct - not indirect, Electoral College democracy - George W Bush has won this referendum.....

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Total concentration of right-wing power - legitimized by the popular vote: this is the new neo-conservative dream turned reality. So the road ahead is to flatten the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah in Iraq, bomb Iran because of its supposed nuclear aspirations, depose President Hafez Assad in Syria, crush the Palestinian resistance, and remodel the Middle East by "precision strike" democracy.

There will be serious blowback. A new pan-Islamic nationalism, for example, featuring Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's Shi'ite masses allied with the Sunni triangle to kick out the Americans from Iraq, eventually supported by both Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iraq crisscrossed by guerrillas and Iran penetrated by US intelligence, both leading - plus Shi'ite eastern Saudi Arabia, where the oil is - to a new, catastrophic oil shock.

And then the neo-conservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC) - which virtually took over the US government - will create a major confrontation with China. Asia, beware.

The faith-based, apocalyptic evangelicals have won this battle against the "reality community". Bush won despite Tora Bora, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib. The crusade continues. In God we trust - and also in Osama bin Laden. He got exactly what he wanted.


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Kimber Scott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 03:56 PM
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1. Oh my God. I'm going to start crying again. How can this be happening?
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 03:59 PM
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2. Well we may all die together in a nuclear war brought on by PNAC
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 04:00 PM
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3. *siiiigh*
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Clean up the American government from the ground up!
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complain jane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 04:28 PM
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4. I was talking to a RW about PNAC and he said he thought
it all made sense.

So I said fine, you're entitled to that opinion however if the US is going to embark on this plan shouldn't it be as an informed democracy and not a nation misled?

His reply was that we're not a democracy and "our Commander in Chief"'s decisions should not be questioned. Period.
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