This movie is truly excellent. If you read this blog, much of what is discussed in it will not be new to you. Still, I encourage you to rent/buy it. What is best about it is the way in which it speaks so effectively to the audience that needs to hear the message the most- Bush voters. It is impossible to view this film and not come away with the sense that working class white Christians and patriots are little more than cannon fodder and slave labor for the elite warmongers and profiteers. If you have moderate or right leaning friends and neighbors, buy them a copy. For however much you may feel you've been unable to convince them to hold your liberal views on the war, this movie will speak to them in their own language and leave them with undeniable rage and disgust. Bottom line: the war is about making money of a reactionary clique of wealthy people, and no amount of sacrificed American blood or treasure will stay their greed. What made me the most angry: how cheaply our politicians are bought. War profiteers make billions, and buy the politicians who keep the war going for literally pennies on the dollar. Truly, the evil in Washington is merely banal. It almost makes me wish for evildoers of more mythic form, for the generation we have now will hardly register more than dismissive contempt in the minds of future students of history.
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Yep
You can buy a committee chair for $2,000. What a joke this country must seem to a CEO making 20 million a year.
But I still believe
And I will rise up with fists!!
But I still believe
And I will rise up with fists!!
Going rate
What is the going rate now. When I worked for the State of Ohio, years ago, I was told it was 10%. At that rate, the kickbacks from the disaster in Iraq must be enormous, even by Bush standards.
It's not just politicians
As Dave Johnson keeps reminding us, the right wing has a whole infrastructure to control the debate. In some ways the politicians are the least of it.
Consider that after lying his country into a disasterous war, Douglas Feith was hired by Georgetown U to train the next generation of war mongers.
Consider who is asked to appear on TV. Consider that Juan Cole was turned down by Yale because of right wing pressure.
Consider that Howard Ahmanson is going after the Episcopal Church and Richard Scaife is going after the Methodists, and you understand just how complete the right wing takeoever has been.
We need to dismantle the whole thing to get our country back.
Gore Portal
Revolving doors
More evil, Curt Weldon lands plush new job.
http://tinyurl.com/365wce via Laura.
& I thought he was headed for jail.