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I’d seen this posted all over, so here it is here. The Story of Stuff… Here’s the trailer, and go watch the whole thing… it’s an eye opener.

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At this juncture, pretty much everything that comes out of BushCo. is a lie. They just don’t have anything else it would appear.

Film director Milos Forman, who lived through the occupation of the Nazi’s and the Soviet Communists in Czechoslovakia said of propaganda that the obvious stuff never worked. It was the sub textual stuff that worked. This is the obvious stuff. Excerpts from Bush’s speech today with responses:

Because we acted, Saddam Hussein no longer fills fields with the remains of innocent men, women and children.

Saddam is believed to be responsible for the death of an estimated 200,000 Iraqi’s during his three decades long regime. (Not including pinning all the deaths from the Iran / Iraq war on him, since he received tacit support for this war from a number of countries, including the US.) The US led war in Iraq has been responsible for the death of nearly 90,000 Iraqi’s in a short five years, so far documented. Does genocide beget genocide?

Because we acted, Saddam’s torture chambers and rape rooms and children’s prisons have been closed for good.

Saddam’s torture chambers may be gone, but in spirit replaced by Abu Ghraib, and rendition in Syria and Egypt. Orphanages in Iraq proliferate, estimates by Iraqi authorities of millions of orphans abound, and barbaric treatment of children during the US occupation has been in the news.

Because we acted, Saddam’s regime is no longer invading its neighbors or attacking them with chemical weapons and ballistic missiles.

Which doesn’t preclude the USA threatening to invade or attack Iraq’s neighbors.

Because we acted, Saddam’s regime is no longer paying the families of suicide bombers in the Holy Land.

Meanwhile, it’s okay for the US to bribe jihadist groups not to fight, groups which had previously killed Iraqi civilians and US troops. And, it’s still under investigation whether some portions of the Iraqi insurgency and possibly AQI was actually funded by billions of US dollars gone missing.

Because we acted, Saddam’s regime is no longer shooting at American and British aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones and defying the will of the United Nations.

IED’s and suicide bombers both continue to kill both American soldiers and Iraqi civilians nearly every day.

Because we acted, the world is better and United States of America is safer.

The US border is unsecured, so who knows who is coming and going and for what reasons, the Iraqi border is unsecured, the dollar is falling, the economy is in trouble, banks are failing, oil is up and down, the Chinese invest a trillion dollars yearly in US Treasury bills while the US economy continues to accumulate debt while not producing enough to balance it out, a major US city is devastated and the country lacks the resources to fix the problem, nuclear proliferation is still rampant around the world, anti-American sentiment is at a high world wide, an innocent man can be killed by mistake on a plane and people say it is okay, but we are safer because a thug turned despot with delusions of grandeur, who we were told was close to building a nuke but was not, is now gone.

And, if you are a member of the club, you are making billions.

Don’t ya feel dirty?

Starre was on Fox a few weeks ago offering some good eco information. Check it out. Really cool.

From a man who could have served his nation in his youth my enlisting in the war in Vietnam, yet chose instead to serve in the National Guard (a sure way of avoiding war duty at the time) comes this gem:

I must say, I’m a little envious… If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed. It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You’re really making history, and thanks…

This is the kind of doe eyed, fantastical, uber patriotic pablum that wing nuts eat up like starved dogs. But here in the land of truth, it comes off like it is: a joke with no punchline. And, let there be no doubt that in his little pea of a brain, the president of the most powerful nation on Earth believes what he has said is the G-d honest truth. He would grab a gun and fight for freedom, if her were younger, and didn’t have a job, you know, that was really important. He would fight. Honest. Really. He would. Cause, it’s so romantic, fighting war, with Dutch and Billy and all the others. Fight! Fight! Fight!

Been really enjoying Springsteen’s new album Magic. Here’s Girls in Their Summer Clothes… which is being performed as an encore on the current tour.