{"article":{"id":192393,"heading":"Failed Logic and Rhetoric in the USA","author":"barra","created":"2007-01-30 12:19:38","modified":"2013-11-11 00:46:59","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:46:59","article":"<p>My personal favourite is the crapulous line of &ldquo;supporting our troops&rdquo;, REGARDLESS of the politics in Washington! Well, don&rsquo;t that beat all, Jethro? The absolutely astounding logic of elevating cannon fodder to the &lsquo;sacred&rsquo;, while oil and money dynasties grow fat on the misfortune of others beggars belief! How anyone could fall for such crap is beyond me &ndash; but I suppose &ldquo;only in America&rdquo;, applies. Fools willing to die for the profit of others do not cut a holy or envious picture around here, Jethro! Perhaps a demographic analysis of American troops who have died fighting in Iraq would place emphasis where it belongs. <br><br> Last but not least is the disaster theory or (transparent) scare tactic. Both the neo-cons and Dems support the notion that withdrawing from Iraq would lead to a &lsquo;disaster too horrible to imagine&rsquo;; a world-ending apocalyptic scenario in which &lsquo;Satan&rsquo; would feast on our first born and America would be reduced to a quivering mess! The no-talents and bereft consultants who advise American politicians have forgotten we&rsquo;ve heard it all before during the VIETNAM WAR, with the slight variation that the whole of South East Asia would fall to the Communist Devil! <br><br> Americans seem to scare very easily &ndash; home of the brave, my arse! The fact is that Iraq is already the most horrendous disaster of the 21st century &ndash; America and its allies cannot avoid taking full responsibility and making full reparation for their criminal acts of vandalism. Paying compensation to the Iraqi people would indicate a step in the right direction. Withdrawing from Iraq and allowing the international community to stabilise the region is the only sane solution &ndash; but that would involve losing the oil, wouldn&rsquo;t it you lying, murdering, scum. If it quacks like a murdering thief it just might be a murdering thief! <br><br> Let&rsquo;s call a spade a spade, America &ndash; your pathetic attempts at deception no longer &lsquo;cut it&rsquo; anywhere. <br><br> God does not bless lying, murdering, thieves, America!<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/cleaves.zapto.org\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Hillary Clinton and the neo-cons have much in common, their policies in relation to a continued presence in Iraq (oil theft) are similar as are their inept, amateurish and transparent attempts at rhetoric. Hillary\u2019s latest offering was a statement to the effect that the Bush regime has dug a \u201cdeep hole\u201d in Iraq that would take some time for \u201cus\u201d to emerge from! Notice the tactic of blame laying [political capital] while at the same time ensuring continued presence in Iraq on the basis that \u201cwe\u201d would be rectifying all of Bush\u2019s mistakes \u2013 very good Hillary, continued neo-colonial occupation and oil appropriation has nothing to do with it! Are Americans so stupid that they no longer recognise horseshit when they see or smell it?","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2007\/01\/192393.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}