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phantom power

(25,966 posts)
Tue May 19, 2015, 12:13 PM May 2015

"Brooks has helped engineer an entirely fraudulent ... cartoon version of our nation's recent past"

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-new-party-line.html

...as I have documented on this blog almost every day for the last 10 years, when it all went tits up and it turned out that, yes, the dirty hippies were right all along -- yes, the Bush Administration really did piss away the Clinton Surplus and plunge us right back into deficits as far as the eye can see and, yes, the Bush Administration really did lie us into the wrong war and botch that war and, yes, they the Bush Administration really did set up torture camps around the world which were directed from inside the White House and, yes ... and yes ... and yes ... --- for a moment the whole country was suspended in midair.

As the Bush Administration's Jenga tower of lies collapsed and the Very Serious People who had grown rich penning fawning reviews of that tower began running in terrified circles at the thought of being held accountable for all the Very Public treachery and calumny and spite they had so recently been slinging...for a moment there was a vacuum. A moment of genuine crisis when it looked as though the dirty hippies might actually crash the gates and begin insisting that the people who conspired to create the worst economic and foreign policy disasters in modern history start answering some blunt questions about the smoking ruins all around them.

And then, in the pit of their despair, America's Wingnuts and Beltway Elite both heard the clarion call of a New Party Line. A new Big Lie which would save them all from the brutal judgement of history and let them get back the business of running the world.

And the New Party Line was...Deny. Deny. Deny and anyway, Both Sides Do It.


The past never happened. And on those embarrassing occasions when it proves to be impossible to get away with simple denial, just remember that everyone is equally to blame for their honest mistakes and partisans on Both Sides are Equally Bad, so why single out any one person or party for special spanking?

Oh if only there were some kinda Third Way! One with No Labels! One which the Very Reasonable People on Both Sides could get behind!

....

And were I a betting man, based on all the reading and writing I have done on this subject over the last 10 years, I would bet every cent of the $1.97 I have in my checking account that Mr. Brooks and his co-conspirators will, hunker down, close ranks and continue to get rich lying about the Iraq war and every other damned thing.

Because when have they not?

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"Brooks has helped engineer an entirely fraudulent ... cartoon version of our nation's recent past" (Original Post) phantom power May 2015 OP
President Scott Walker will use the "well intentioned" invasion of Iraq as an excuse to invade randys1 May 2015 #1

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. President Scott Walker will use the "well intentioned" invasion of Iraq as an excuse to invade
Tue May 19, 2015, 12:21 PM
May 2015

Iran.

Since Scotty or any of his family will never be within 3000 miles of the actual fighting, he will go big time like W did, "Shock and Awe"

BTW, shock and awe should cost the american govt about 60 billion dollars, in civil lawsuits, but that is another convo

An invasion of Iran will start a world war of sorts, some of it will be techie only and some of it will be bloody.

What, you dont think Walker can be Prez?

All it takes is apathy

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