Thomas Frank: It's Clinton Who Wrecked the Democratic Party

[Carolina]

47. K&R

Especially about the damage done by Clinton's Telecommunications Bill. Six corporate conglomerates own the media and decide what is 'news' and most importantly, what or who is promoted. Reality TV (Roman bread and circuses) has replaced history, arts, and anything illuminating, enlightening and educational.

I started realizing this so clearly during the 2000 election when the media appeared universally against Gore. Then came the push to war AGAINST Iraq and it was all so shockingly clear. All the voices opposed to war were marginalized and silenced while the hawkish war promoters like Cheney, Condiliar, Rummy got free rein, and the news reader bloviators like Chucky, Timmy Russert (may he rest in H---), et. al. never questioned or challenged such pre-emptive action against an innocent nation totally unconnected to 9/11, despite such clear facts as:

Reason 1: Iraq did not attack the US; fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudi Arabian while the other four were from the UAE, Egypt, Yemen. They learned to fly here in the States (Florida, Arizona). Bin Laden was also Saudi!

Reason 2: Iraq had been under horrific UN sanctions since the first Bush war on Iraq in 1991; so how could it have morphed into an imminent threat to the US in 2002 when IWR was being peddled

Reason 3: W's administration introduced IWR and demanded a vote on it right before the 2002 midterm elections. Why... because PNAC/the Bush cabal and Carlyle group had their eyes on carving up Iraq's oil fields.

Reason 4: the Bush cabal STOLE the White House in 2000 because of those PNAC plans. Then, they ignored all the warnings/chatter leading up to 9/11 including the August 6th PDB. They alleged they were blindsided and could not have foreseen such an attack. But that flew in the face of the fact that the airspace had to be closed around the G-8 summit in Genoa, Italy in July 2001 precisely because of terrorists' threats to fly planes into buildings!

Reason 5: Anyone who knew history, knew that Reagan sold WMDs to Saddam/Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war (recall the photo of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand). So when Cheney took to the airwaves in 2002 talking about WMDs and said he knew where they were and how they'd been used against the Kurds, he was telling the truth... about 1988. He was using his dirty past to foment a new war for oil

Reason 6: the Bush cabal withdrew the weapons inspectors because they were not finding anything. Scott Ritter (who was smeared) and his fellow inspectors' findings would not/did not conform to the desired Bush narrative, so Colin Bowel sold his soul and did his 'tube' presentation to the UN