THE MORON MAJORITY

Wed Mar 19,10:13 PM ET

By Ted Rall

An American Warlord Races to Waterloo



NEW YORK--Now it's official: most Americans are idiots.



Decades of budget cuts in education are finally yielding results, a fact confirmed by CNN's poll of March 16, which shows that an astonishing 51 percent of the public believe that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.



There is no reason to think that. None. True, George W. Bush has asserted the existence of indirect links between low-level Al Qaeda operatives and Iraqi intelligence officials--a lame lie repeatedly denied by the CIA (news - web sites)--but even our professional prevaricator has never gone so far as to accuse Saddam of direct involvement in 9-11. Despite their increasingly tenuous grasp on reality, not even the Bush Administration's most fervent hawks deny that the secular dictator of Iraq (news - web sites) is a mortal enemy of the Islamist extremists of Al Qaeda. No mainstream media outlet has ever reported otherwise.



So why do these pinheads think such a thing?



Simple: the official Bushie pretexts given for launching a unilateral invasion of Iraq don't stick. If Saddam was going to launch nukes or anthrax missiles in our direction, he would have done so during the last dozen years, while American warplanes were pulverizing his military installations with weekly bombing raids. He'd certainly let us have it this week, now that Bush is revving up the war he wanted all along--but he won't, because he can't.



Furthermore, no one really believes that the GOP is interested in liberating the oppressed people of Iraq. America's role in the world, after all, typically involves funding dictators--as Bush is currently doing in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan---not democrats.



Like a befuddled chemistry lab student who works backwards from the answer in order to ensure the correct results, the Moron Majority have talked themselves into an excuse they can live with for a war they can't otherwise morally justify. Denial, after all, isn't just a river in Egypt.



By a two-to-one margin, Americans think that their country should adhere to its tradition of attacking other countries in self-defense only, never preemptively. Thirty-seven percent say that they support an invasion of Iraq only with UN approval. This war against Iraq fulfills neither of these conditions, so Americans have managed to morph Bush's insinuations about a Saddam-Al Qaeda link into full-on blame.



Sure, we're about to begin killing innocent men, women and children over in Iraq. It's not self-defense, so let's just call it "vengeance for 9-11." Does that work for you? Great. Osama's gotta be laughing like a hyena now that the heat's off.



There is some good news in all this. I know, "good" is a relative term if you're reading this in a bomb shelter under Baghdad or trapped at your work station under the rubble of an office building some Islamist wired and brought down on your head. But the war on Iraq is likely to lead to the political demise of the man whose evil and illegitimate rule currently represents the greatest threat to stability and peace in the world: George W. Bush.



Win or lose, Iraq will probably be Bush's Waterloo. Victory over Saddam's armed forces is a given; just as a company's announcement of previously-anticipated profits fails to deliver an uptick in stock price, military success is already assumed by the market of public opinion. That's why, even after it became evident that he'd be fighting this war alone (plus Tony Blair (news - web sites), minus the British public), Bush had to go ahead. His right-wing base, the part of the electorate that craves a belligerent president to protect it from future 9-11s, would have otherwise deserted him.



Even if Bush delivers a best-case scenario--quick defeat, minimal U.S. military and Iraqi civilian casualties--it won't do him any good. His supporters already expect that.



Things are most likely to go wrong when Bush can least afford it, during next year's campaign. Don't believe Kurdish promises to rejoin a federalized Iraq--they've had de facto independence for 12 years and they're not coming back. Turkey is already threatening to invade Iraqi Kurdistan, and they're leaning on their own Kurds. Hoping to neutralize its unruly neighbor, Iran is arming the Shiite majority. Civil war is more than likely, possibly leading to the disintegration of Turkey and an American excuse for an attack on Iran.



It's impossible to predict the effects of prolonged American occupation of an Arab country; increased terrorism, regional instability and even greater Muslim hostility to the U.S. and its allies seem likely. But a failure to establish a long-term U.S. military presence throughout the country could prove even more damaging than a quick pull-out. If Iraq follows Afghanistan (news - web sites) into neglect, political disintegration and anarchy, we'll be able to count our resentful new enemies by the tens of millions.



American alliances and relations with the UN and NATO (news - web sites) have been stretched to the breaking point. By launching an illegal, unsanctioned invasion of a sovereign nation, the U.S. has abandoned its moral standing. We are, by definition, a rogue state. More frightening than that, foreign leaders from Paris to Berlin to Beijing to Moscow are starting to count more on one another than on us. This means trouble for us, sure, but also for Bush as we notice our nation's loss of prestige.



As always, however, the fools will save us from themselves. The 51 percent who currently believe what is patently false will ultimately conclude that they were duped by Bush (though it's not really true). Like stupid Americans before them (those who bought into the Domino Theory, Joe McCarthy and the necessity of interning Japanese-Americans in concentration camps), they'll wonder what the hell they were thinking. And they'll have lots of time to think about it, what with not having a job and all.





Then they'll vote for an Unnamed Democrat, currently leading Bush 48 to 44 percent in the Quinnipiac poll released March 6.

(Ted Rall is the author of "Gas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan," an analysis of the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline and the motivations behind the war on terrorism. Ordering information is available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.)

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FUCKING DUMBASS AMERICANS

DUMBASSES

AMERICANS = DUMB = DUMBASSESS

DUMBASSES = AMERICANS = DUMB

AMERICANS = IDIOTS = MORONS

MORONS = DUMB = DUMBASSES = FUCKING DUMB AMERICANS

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I am just a middle school history and langusge arts teacher but I have enough sense to know who the idiots are. I just read dome of the most idiotic statements that I have ever seen or heard in my life. I have a question for all of you anti-war people out there: how do you think America got its freedom? Another question: how do you think France along with the rest of Europe was liberated from Hitler and Nazi Germany? If you think this country is so bad or you can stand the population that you call idiots then pack up your "duds" and find a coutry to live in that meets your standards, which I am quite positive you can't do. I know that there are some people that have to complain no matter what, just don't do it out loud because it is embarasing to those of us who knows it means to be an American. We cna't come close to fathom how many lives it has taken to make America free nor can we imagine how many lives it will take to keep it that way. All I know is that without a strong and well trained military we would have every country in the world taking "pot-shots"at us because they are jealous of our way of life. I, for one, am glad I can wake up every morning knowing I live in a country where I am free to make my own choices. Just for the record, I don't personally know everyone bashing President Bush but I do know that in most countries around the worl,especially in the middle east, you would probably be killed or at the very least imprisoned for publickly bashing the countries leaders. Isn't America great, YES, so stop "brow-beating" the way of life in which you so gladly live. I personly wish the government of the U.S. would do just what you are asking. Get out of every country in the world and just focus on protecting the U.S. It would take about one mila-second before everyone in the world would be crying that the U.S. is selfish because they won't pretect other countries from the communist tyrants of the world. Get a life. We threatenrd to pull out of the DMZ in Korea and South Korea almost had a stroke. However, I don't care what the rest of the world thinks, it just makes me mad when Americans live in this country and then complain about their way of life or the methods that has gave them their way of life since Americas birth in 1776. What we need now is for Americans to ban together to give a show of support to our men and women who proudly protect Americas freedom. Those who believe that it is possible to have world peace are fools, the only time there will be total peace is when Jesus Christ returns to this world. I am glad that I have been saved through the blood of my Lord and Savior and by the Holy and Divine will of God Almight will live for eternity worshiping his greatness. Now some of you will say that you don't believe there is a God. Well, wether you believe in God or not makes no differece, if you haven't been save by the blood of Jesus Christ you well spend eternity burning in Hell. I said earlier that I teach history and history tells me that an empire usually falls after it has been in power somewhere between 200 and 400 years (the U.S.A. fall in that catagory) and my belif in religious history tells me that every empire that has ever fell did so after turning away from God (the U.S.A. is slowly but surely falling into this catagory). Think about it,

; no prayer in school, no public hanging of the Ten Commandments, no singing of the Pledge in school, homosexuallity, abortions, premarital sex, the divorce rate, the growing rate of un-wed mothers, same sex marriages etc..... you name it and the American society accepts it. The only thing Americans don't want to accept are things that are Godly. When God sends his son Jesus Christ back for his children (those who believe and have been save by the blood) there will be the ultimate "shock and awe. Everyone who is not saved will remember a time when someone told them about my Savior and they will remember that someone told them that they better seek out Jesus as their personal savior too. Shock and awe will be an understatement to the reality of an eternity of suffering that the mind can't come close to imagining. I was reminde tonight that God is a jealous God and he hates sin so much that he can't look upon it; so, for all of you out there who are living a worldly life (ran by satan himself) don't be fooled. So you can here it one more time, go to a Bible believing church (which means: a church that believes and teaches only the King James version of Gods word) and give yourself totaly to Gods mercy and prey that you will be reborn through the blood of Jesus Christ by the Holliness of God Almighty. Our money has In God We Trust on it and that is what this great country was founded on and we need to get back to trusting in God if we want to stay a great country. In closing I want to say one last time for every red blooded American to stop complaining/protesting and stand up in support of our young men and women who are protecting the blanket of freedom we all cherish. To all of my brother Marines (and the rest of the armed forces) Semper-Fi "Hoo-Yah". GOD BLESS AMERICA!

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Must save chidren

Remove from your class

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There's nothing like going right to the source. With this venom-spewing imbecile teaching our children, it's no wonder we're grooming a nation of morons to rule the world.

You're a TEACHER? And a history teacher too... Holy christ almighty do I feel sorry for your students. Do you beat them up if they don't agree with you? Or has your little pissant position of authority gotten you so used to the idea of evoking administrative revenge on anyone that doesn't swallow your crap hook line and sinker that you feel outraged when you encounter such people? I got news for you bub, we're basically everyone but you and your little gaggle of troglodyte imperial oppressors. I can't believe you would teach history of all things and not see the HUGE GLARING PARALLELS BETWEEN BUSH AND HITLER. They're really that big and noticable. Some would say certain ones are even blinking (and yodelling).

So. You must see these things. You simply must. So do you accept these tactics? Do you encourage pre-emptive US aggression? Do you approve of the systems total disregard for the lives of it's "common" people? Do you approve of our government telling the entire world to piss off? Are you maybe a closet white-power asshole? A Klansman maybe? Have you ever considered how similar 9/11 is to Pearl Harbor in end effect? If not, please read 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' available at www.newamericancentury.org - search for 'pearl' for the best part of the whole thing.

Oh but this time we're against a near-mythical enemy that has been defined as basically 'anyone that disagrees with US policy'? It's like we figured the war on drugs was working so well we'd take that sonofabitch out on tour for the whole damn world. And this is done for our peace and security? Who's? OURS? Please you must be kidding me.

The people picking these fights live so far outside urbania they run a statisticly much MUCH lower chance of actually having a building fall on them, or a bus they're riding exploding, or any number of other fun times the bush administration is now inviting.

Hell the whitepower assholes that keep drumming this crap along probably want the cities to burn down anyways for the sake of watching so many not-white people dieing off. That's probably their 'pot of gold' in this.

And while i do support the people that make our military, i must object to your statement that anyone other than our national guard has ever provided for our 'blank of security'. Defensive wars are the only just wars and the only wars that have ever provided any security for the people. Anything else was just international legbreaking, which hasn't provided jackshit for me. It's just made some defense industry assholes some extra loot to kickback to the politicians who started the shit for other material reasons anyways. So god damned bloody, these assholes are.

And no matter how you stack our latest crusades, they always boil down to the oil. The central asia oil is like the pot of gold for these pukestains and the worst part is its the end of their story. Get to the Gold -> End of Story. The world will beg to differ when that time comes I am certain, and all our fancy toys mean nothing without gas (a fact i'm sure our supply-line severed forward troops are none too accutely aware of right now. don't blame me guys, i've fought this damn thing kicking and screaming the whole ways). If you sincerly don't know what i'm talking about, go read www.newamericancentury.org - if you already know of this and would only pretend surprise for the benefit of the audience, spare us all we know the score and fuck you anyways its not going down like this at all.

I can't believe you're getting paid to ram this crap down our youth's throats in institutionalized settings. Wow, do you drug them too? YES?!? Wow, you'd think that would be illegal or unconstitutional or at least a damn sin... wow.

We should disband our military at times of peace. We should regulate the piss out of anything our country exports in the way of businessmen, politicians, government agencies, hell even travellers and vacationers.... Americans need to realize that we aren't so special that we can just run around pimpslapping the whole damn world. If we retrofit our already bloated ineffecient federal government into an international american-people-policing agency we could foster much good will in no time. Many people of the world realize its the leaders of America who bring this endless shame upon our country, but the people of the land who redeem their name over and over. We must legislate the rights we percieve in all people in all lands. We do not have an exclusive right to freedom.

Hell for a small fraction of what this war has cost us we could feed everyone starving in the world for a year. Not to mention maybe we could actually stop paying our farmers *not* to farm.

We must do this now. We must live up to all the crap we have ever talked about being good strong Americans. We must not lose another civil liberty, we must retake the ones we have already lost, we must revoke bush's unjustly acquired wartime powers, we must unseal the documents he has sealed, we must impeach him for obstructing justice at the very least, we must find out WHAT HAPPENED ON 9/11?!?!?, we must take back our media from whatever foul murderous creature has taken over our airwaves and we must end this war.

And we must do all this right now.

To the insufferable Mr. Payne:

“All I know is that without a strong and well trained military we would have every country in the world taking "pot-shots"at us because they are jealous of our way of life.”

Upon what evidence do you base that conclusion? Bush Junta PR? The reasons people in other countries are upset with the United States has very little to do with our freedom and prosperity per se. People in other countries used to look up to the United States as THE Beacon of Freedom. However, we have propped up every murdering butcher who would suck up to American wishes in the 20 th Century and have squandered and lost that good will. The incompetence of the Bush Junta has now further alienated millions more people. You are rather ignorant of the behavior of our government for a “History Teacher”.

“Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man me be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.” - Samuel Johnson

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."

-- Thomas Paine

Given that you are a Marine read what another Marine had to say:

TWO TIME Congressional Medal of Honor recipient (1 of only 19 Americans to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor TWICE) Marine Corps Commandant Major General Smedley Butler:

approached by representatives of the Morgan Bank who offered to finance him to establish a dictatorship of the United States to replace the Roosevelt government in 1932. He refused and went to the press. A Congressional investigation was eventually suppressed. See Jules Archer, The Plot to Seize the White House for a recent, documented version of this well-publicised (in 1932) event.

"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. ONLY A SMALL INSIDE GROUP KNOWS WHAT IT IS ABOUT. [emphasis added; the Carlyle Group?] It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a NATION [emphasis added] comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps.

I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

Fucking dumb americans

"we are defending ourselves from future attack"

hahahahah

fucking dumb americans

take communism

divide it by terrorism

and you get uneducated middle class fucking dumbass americans and their paranoia led by old fools who have dry constipated shit that stinks like a motherfucker.

they didnt fuckin learn from vietnam. vietnam was just a civil conflict. they mistook it for a worldwide communist conspiracy. domino theory? what bullshit. communist vietnam later invaded its neighbour to put down a communist uprising.

for god's sake America

the world is not out to get you

they hate your guts for obvious and justifiable reasons

but they have better things to do than bomb you: like enjoying their lives for example. also, they like to make fun of you a lot because americans are so stereotypical and predictable. heheh i always laugh when i see someone driving down the street with an american flag taped to their car holding up dumbass american signs saying "support our troops". such typical meaningless idiotic behaviour. i believe americans refer to it as "patriotism"? well in other countries, patriotism means standing up for the principles that the country is based on. also the world feels sorry for you because to be so blunt... the average jimbob american isn't very bright at all. also, even though its the 21st century, americans still live in houses made of wood.

so let me break it down for you

all you have to worry about at this point is a certain organization called al-qaeda

they actually dont have better things to do than bomb you

so leave saddam alone

and go for osama and his cronies

once you get osama, if you get osama, it would probably be wise to stop funding brutal dictatorships and opposition groups (i.e. mujahideen during soviet invasion of aghanistan) all around the world. so that then people like Osama and (ok let's just say) Saddam won't, in the future, come around and bite you in your ass. then withdraw ur troops from saudi arabia.

like 7up, its "always a better choice"

oh yeah and one more thing

please, give up 60" TVs. instead, buy 52" TVs and put the money you save into your education system because really, you americans are quite fucking dumb. i haven't yet figured out if its ur mental capacity, considering most of you descended from third class peasants, or if its just your poor education system.

either way

i wish you only the best america

in theory, your country is based on some good ideas. why don;t u try to actually make ur country a "land of justice and beacon light of hope and peace". if you are interested in taking that path, let me know, i will be more than willing to help you morally and financially.

lastly, peace

p.s. even tho i make fun of you. i still love you guys. americans are very friendly people. just that they are not very bright. hell... theyre fucking dumbasses.



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Fucking dumb americans

"we are defending ourselves from future attack"

hahahahah

fucking dumb americans

take communism

divide it by terrorism

and you get uneducated middle class fucking dumbass americans and their paranoia led by old fools who have dry constipated shit that stinks like a motherfucker.

they didnt fuckin learn from vietnam. vietnam was just a civil conflict. they mistook it for a worldwide communist conspiracy. domino theory? what bullshit. communist vietnam later invaded its neighbour to put down a communist uprising.

for god's sake America

the world is not out to get you

they hate your guts for obvious and justifiable reasons

but they have better things to do than bomb you: like enjoying their lives for example. also, they like to make fun of you a lot because americans are so stereotypical and predictable. heheh i always laugh when i see someone driving down the street with an american flag taped to their car holding up dumbass american signs saying "support our troops". such typical meaningless idiotic behaviour. i believe americans refer to it as "patriotism"? well in other countries, patriotism means standing up for the principles that the country is based on. also the world feels sorry for you because to be so blunt... the average jimbob american isn't very bright at all. also, even though its the 21st century, americans still live in houses made of wood.

so let me break it down for you

all you have to worry about at this point is a certain organization called al-qaeda

they actually dont have better things to do than bomb you

so leave saddam alone

and go for osama and his cronies

once you get osama, if you get osama, it would probably be wise to stop funding brutal dictatorships and opposition groups (i.e. mujahideen during soviet invasion of aghanistan) all around the world. so that then people like Osama and (ok let's just say) Saddam won't, in the future, come around and bite you in your ass. then withdraw ur troops from saudi arabia.

like 7up, its "always a better choice"

oh yeah and one more thing

please, give up 60" TVs. instead, buy 52" TVs and put the money you save into your education system because really, you americans are quite fucking dumb. i haven't yet figured out if its ur mental capacity, considering most of you descended from third class peasants, or if its just your poor education system.

either way

i wish you only the best america

in theory, your country is based on some good ideas. why don;t u try to actually make ur country a "land of justice and beacon light of hope and peace". if you are interested in taking that path, let me know, i will be more than willing to help you morally and financially.

lastly, peace

p.s. even tho i make fun of you. i still love you guys. americans are very friendly people. just that they are not very bright. hell... theyre fucking dumbasses.

HAHAHAHA

no wonder that guy is just a middle school teacher

and not a college professor!