[From Rick Marken (2004.10.20.0900)]
In a wonderful Op Ed piece (attached below for those who understand the joys
of Bush bashing) John le Carr� wrote:
Is your president a great war leader because he allowed himself
to be manipulated by a handful of deluded ideologues?
Apparently le Carr� has noticed what any student of perceptual control could
see clearly in Bush's push to war in Iraq: that Bush was being
counter-controlled (manipulated) to a tee by the handful of deluded
ideologues led by Osama bin Laden. Knowing that Bush was controlling for
getting rid of Saddam Hussain with very high gain, the terrorists got
exactly what they wanted from the tragedy of 9/11: they got Bush to invade
Iraq, turning it into what one European diplomat called the perfect
recruiting poster for Al Queda. So now the handful of ideologues is a
bucketful and counting. Bush is like school teacher disruptive students with
counter-controlling ambitions dream of.
Best regards
Rick
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If Le Carr� Could Vote
COMMENTARY
By John le Carr�, John le Carr� is the author of "The Spy Who Came In From
the Cold," "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and many other novels.
Maybe there's one good reason � just one � for reelecting George W. Bush,
and that's to force him to live with the consequences of his appalling
actions and answer for his own lies, rather than wish the job on a Democrat
who would then get blamed for his predecessor's follies.
Probably no American president in history has been so universally hated
abroad as Bush: for his bullying unilateralism, his dismissal of
international treaties, his reckless indifference to the aspirations of
other nations and cultures, his contempt for institutions of world
government, and above all for misusing the cause of anti-terrorism in order
to unleash an illegal war � and now anarchy � upon a country that like too
many others around the world was suffering under a hideous dictatorship but
had no hand in the events of 9/11, no weapons of mass destruction and no
record of terrorism except as an ally of the United States in a dirty war
against Iran.
Is your president a great war leader because he allowed himself to be
manipulated by a handful of deluded ideologues? Is Tony Blair, my prime
minister, a great war leader because he committed Britain's troops, foreign
policy and domestic security to the same harebrained adventure?
You are voting in November. We will vote next year. Yet the outcome in both
countries will in large part depend on the same question: How long can the
lies last now that the truth has finally been told? The Iraq war was planned
long before 9/11. Osama bin Laden provided the excuse. Iraq paid the price.
American kids paid the price. British kids paid the price. Our politicians
lied to us.
While Bush was waging his father's war at your expense, he was also ruining
your country. He made your rich richer and your poor and unemployed more
numerous. He robbed your war veterans of their due and reduced your
children's access to education. And he deprived more Americans than ever
before of healthcare.
Now he's busy cooking the books, burying deficits and calling in contingency
funds to fight a war that his advisors promised him he could light and put
out like a candle.
Meanwhile, your Patriot Act has swept aside constitutional and civil
liberties that took brave Americans 200 years to secure and were once the
envy of a world that now looks on in horror, not just at Guantanamo and Abu
Ghraib but at what you are doing to yourselves.
But please don't feel isolated from the Europe you twice saved. Give us back
the America we loved, and your friends will be waiting for you. Here in
Britain, for as long as we have Tony Blair singing the same lies as George
W. Bush, your nightmares will be ours.
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Richard S. Marken
MindReadings.com
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