Yes, it is very interesting, and I hope, to some people, an awakening.....
The trends of doom and gloom have clearly been brought upon us by the neo-cons, but one thing is clear to me, and it is this;
They could not have done it without being able to count on the APATHY of the 'average' American, and the gullibility of the 'average' American.....
" President George W. Bush justified the Iraq invasion by claiming that the regime of Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Later this claim proved to be a lie".
Gullibility- We believed a beady-eyed liar, and then.......
APATHY- It became clear that he lied, everyone switched the channel, plugged in the IPOD, downloaded some porn, drank a beer, etc, etc...
" Iran has clearly been strengthened by U.S. action to destroy Sunni power in Iraq and has been emboldened by the successes of Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon in standing up to the Israelis"....
NOW THIS IS RICH.
Bushs' daddy and Ronald Wilson Reagan (and yes, DICK Cheney) first began bulking up Saddam Hussein in response to the 'Iranian threat' in the early 80's, when the Ayatollah Khomeini was the local bad guy......their efforts have come full circle, and the 'chickens HAVE come home to roost'....
Thirty fucking years of killing, lying, swindling, stealing, and fraud, all to what avail?
Right back where we started.......
and lookie here;
"In Latin America, the Hugo Chavez regime in Venezuela has begun to forge an alliance with Russia, even to the point of announcing a plan for joint naval maneuvers in the Caribbean. Chavez is also acting as an inspiration to populist movements elsewhere in South America, including those in Bolivia and Ecuador".
We NEVER would have to contend with these things if the neo-cons weren't so heavy-handed and authoritarian. Contrary to what they would have us believe, people like Hugo Chavez arise IN RESPONSE to the actions of neo-con war-piggery and general ass-holishness.
I'm GLAD he's down there, making life hard for them, they deserve this mess they've created out of whole cloth.
and Russia....
Speaking of the U.S., Putin said:
“The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres—economic, political and humanitarian—and has imposed itself on other states.…Local and regional wars did not get fewer, the number of people who died did not get less but increased. We see no kind of restraint - a hyper-inflated use of force.…[The U.S.] has gone from one conflict to another without achieving a fully-fledged solution to any of them.
