Dear Mr Bartcop,
This is going to be way too long to get printed,
but what's a poor ignorant furrner gunna do ?
Dumb it down to a 5 second soundbite ? I'd rather
not get referenced at all, but maybe you'll
read this anyway, and the information can fester
for a while.
Perhaps some of your readers and "contributors"
are concerned about Hillary because of her
rather-more-than-obvious connection to Bill Clinton.
And how Bill was hardly reticent about
launching agressive war himself. It's going to
be hard to trust Bill's wife to do the right thing for
the people, especially when Bill is strutting
around with Poppa Bush supporting the illegal
chimpanzee-in-charge on TV spots for famine relief
and Koresh knows what else.
What's he doing hanging with Prez Bush v1.0?
http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/16/clinton.iraq.speech/
It's my guess he's trying to act presidential and "calming" to those
who think he's "too radical."
Also, he looks like a Royal Flush when compared to The Murder Monkey.
Let's not take this out of context, ok, just recognise
that Saddam didn't start this shit all by his little self,
and don't go raising the Kuwait invasion theory,
cause there's still less light about what REALLY happened
there than there is about that 9/11 event. Slant
oil drilling and waterway access not the least of the issues.
If you agree Bush started the 1991 Gulf War to rid himself of the "wimp"
label, we can proceed.
The democrats and republican ruling class have
been playing footsie under the table with all manner of like-minded
thugs for decades, principally for the kickbacks
and post-political-life consultant millions from their corporate "allies".
As secretary of state in the first Bush administration,
James Baker orchestrated a massive US effort to aid and
illegally arm Iraq. Baker issued the clearances
for Iraq to obtain military technology including materials for biological
and chemical weapons. He also initiated a program
under which the CIA organized arms deals between Baghdad
and US allies such as the Pinochet regime in
Chile and the apartheids in South Africa as well as various NATO countries.
The massacres, gassings and other atrocities that
the "BFEE" has invoked to portray Saddam Hussein as the worst tyrant
since Hitler and to justify the US invasion of
Iraq were, for the most part, carried out during this period. It was the
high-water
mark of the US-Iraqi alliance, and Washington
supplied the weapons used in these incidents.
"Washington" died 200 years ago - it was Poppy Bush and Rummy who sold WMDs to Saddam.
The corporations, international oil corporations
in particular, having been granted "personhood" in US case law,
had been itching to spread their empires over
mesopotamian resources for a long time, and the free pass that
April Glaspie gave to Saddam to lure him into
attacking Iran, was simply the opportunity to use US military forces
to advance the agendas and theivery of these
super-persons.
You seem a pretty reasonale dude for an okie with
an IQ of 64 :-),
but it puzzles many why you wish to support Hillary
at all.
That's my fault for not explaining it enough times...
Sure, she's the best opportunity for the "Democratic
Party" to win the presidential election.
But that's not YOU winning, Mr Bartcop, nor the
American people, nor the leftists, nor the liberals, nor the children of
the world.
I'll be OK either way.
I'm white, male, straight, not too old, not too sick...
You're seeing "twins" when there is no such thing.
There is no hope for anything positive coming
from the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party UNLESS Americans
demand that these corporations be stripped of
their protections from responsibility, and UNLESS the stock market is
revamped to make investors at least financially
liable for the malfeasance of their elected directors, and especially
UNLESS the American people demand some faint
semblance of true democracy by restricting campaign finance.
We'll need to be in control to effect such change.
There's no free ride, no easy solution (bar the
so-called "nuclear options", a rather unelightened approach to
conflict resolution), and only a populist uprising
is going to bring sanity back into the mainstream.
Oh, yes, I forgot about the FCC and media control
of propaganda. It's always been around, there were no
"golden days of true reporters", there are just
lots of uneducated morons about who are happy to believe
bullshit without question. That hasn't changed
much either, except maybe they're a little more visible now.
You got an audience, Mr Bartcop, and despite your
claims of being a political humour site, you might consider how
you're leading the American people away from
one dark path just to turn down another equally dark path.
Those are strong words - do you intend to back
them up?
It's easy to say, "your way is wrong" without
pointing out the right way to go.
There's no EASY alternative .. just more hard work and rebellion than Americans are prepared to stomach.
I disagree.
I think most BIG problems have easy solutions.
Don't get me wrong, please, I'm not attacking
you, just trying to share like you do, I think what you do is a
wonderful thing and you should keep doing it.
But as I learned many times already, when you think you've
found the perfect solution to a problem, you've
just simply not looked hard enough at the issues.
Disagree, and why are you not providing examples?
I'd send you a bottle of your favourite Tequila,
only I'm unemployed and broker than the American economy.
It'll have to wait a bit longer.
Sincerely,
Mark
