Let’s say a relative of yours got hold of your secret password, bankrolled all your family’s assets and left you homeless, your children malnourished.
When you finally caught up with him, he told you that he did it because he needed surgery for an imminent and life-threatening disease. Later you learned, from your shopping cart of rags, that he had used the money to invest in Halliburton and had made a huge profit.
This is what George Bush has done to the American people. In his pre-emptive vendetta in Iraq, he lied to the American people about links to al-Qaida and weapons of mass destruction.
Then he stole the money to be used for social programs and used $240 billion of it on a supposed war on terror. He is telling us now we must stay in Iraq because of terrorism, even though he is the reason terrorists moved into Iraq in the first place.
Meanwhile, his sidekick, Vice President Dick Cheney, has given Halliburton unbridled contracts in Iraq while still collecting his chief executive officer’s loot from them.
Wake up, America. Benedict Arnold has been reincarnated. He lives in the White House. And every lie he has told will lead to another, and every speech he makes will be another act of treason. The costs incurred will be more lives lost to families across America.
In the words of Cindy Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq, “This is a war in which we should have never begun. The only way to honor my son and our troops is to bring them home now.”
— Grant Marcus, Ventura
A good part of how we were conned is the corporate mass media that suppresses information unfavorable to those in power. Example: the Star did a puff piece on Karl Rove at the Reagan library recently. But there is nary a mention of Rove being named as the informant who revealed that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent.
Why was Plame outed? Because her husband Joseph Wilson told the truth about part of the faked evidence justifying the war.
Looking at the ownership of American mass media and what gets suppressed and what gets aired, the notion of a Liberal media becomes more and more absurd.