Sunday, October 02, 2005

Source to Stephanopoulos: Bush, Cheney Directly Involved In Leak Scandal...The Huffington Post

One of the differences, in response to DeepThroat, is that in the Vietnam debacle, and I think because it was never declared a "war" by the Congress, and also even if at war, certain people associated with the United Nations are allowed within 25 miles of it to do its business, we had people from there able to protest here. I remember attending a smallish demonstration on Madison Avenue, in NYC, where a doctor and a nurse spoke about the "accidental" bombing of the hospital they worked in by our planes. At the time it was also considered by some to be "Madison Avenue's war" whatever that meant. I was just following a mimeograph piece of paper on the wall of the Student Union at Stony Brook University, eventually attended as a student and grad student, and observed different peoples concerns over the "war", i.e., the War Moratorium, the Mothers Against the War, Vietnam Veterans for Peace (Veterans For Peace, were building or rebuilding water supplies in Iraq before the invasion, according to their newsletter) and other groups, part of my anthropology "fieldwork" which helped me to understand the issues, i.e., a proposed "Westside Highway" in Buffalo, NY, never built, a subway there instead. The current Congress forgot to look right behind itself it seems and seems myopic when you consider all the prior people involved, generals, Secretaries of State, and other knowledgeable people, somehow appear to be placed outside the circle of leadership (no more 1000 points of light for you Georgie and Bess) as we go on without confirmation of any reasons, for starting this expeditionary "filabuster" (as we did in Iran in the 1930's?). Where's the alternative to opium the Taleban wanted? Well it was once the cash crop for a sunblocker, now found to be no good. In Iraq, where's the WMD, now turned into American "words of mass deception" reminding one of leaflets mistakenly dropped in Mogadishu, "We Are Here To Enslave You" screwed-up by "intelligence"?

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