21.7.03

Following on from Phil’s link “bring it on” below;

‘"It was the end of the world," said one officer Thursday. "It went all the way up to President Bush and back down again on top of us. At least six of us here will lose our careers."
First lesson for the troops, it seemed: Don't ever talk to the media "on the record" -- that is, with your name attached -- unless you're giving the sort of chin-forward, everything's-great message the Pentagon loves to hear. ‘

And on the same theme, the courage the administration shows in spiteful back stabbing that its ringleaders never showed themselves in the field against an enemy - “No job to dirty. No depth to low”;

“Some folks in the White House were apparently hopping mad when ABC News correspondent Jeffrey Kofman did a story on Tuesday's "World News Tonight" about the plummeting morale of U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq.
So angry, in fact, that the next day, a White House operative alerted cyber-gossip Matt Drudge to the fact that Kofman is not only openly gay, he's Canadian.”

From the same article as Phil’s quote – some encouraging news;

“This has hurt Bush's standing. A Washington Post/ABC News poll last week showed that support for Bush had dipped 9 percentage points in about two weeks, to 59 percent, mirroring a decline in support for his handling of the Iraq situation. A small majority for the first time found the level of casualties in Iraq unacceptable, while half thought the administration intentionally exaggerated evidence of Iraq's weapons programs. Another poll released last week by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that 23 percent of Americans thought the military effort in Iraq was going very well, down from 61 percent in mid-April.”

23 percent think its going well? The same percentage who believe in elvis/creationism/that bush is anti-washington… in fact who will agree with any statement you put in front of them because they’ve been patronised and ignored for so long they feel incapable of thinking for themselves and have been programmed to be passive objects – consumers who select from a menu of options provided to them by thieves.

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