I love the smell of exploding wing-nut heads in the morning…

sorry, nothing of the kind meant by me. i’m really thinking about how Ahmadinejad and Bush/”Got Milk?”Bolton go about their little word skirmish. it’s not the same as the leadup to the Iraq War but the technique is so much as Henry Ford described it.
But for that matter, Bush is certainly no Jeffersonian democrat either! That’s what we’re here for, to keep needling the Bush Administration, lest they drown Jeffersonian democracy in the bathtub.

I found the quote, attributed to Henry Ford, in the Hunter S. Thompson book
“Kingdom of Fear”

If you think I am advocating war with Iran, you are mistaken. If you think the Iranians are Jeffersonian democrats, you are even more mistaken.

we are not amused with your choice of personas. please go to your room and come up with a new identity. otherwise somebody might break your kneecaps when you least expect it.

have a nice day……..

do you know who wrote this?:

“My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. We ought not forget that wars are a purely manufactured evil and are made according to a definite technique. A campaign for war is made upon as definite lines as a campaign for any other purpose:

First, the people are worked upon. By clever tales the people’s suspicions are aroused toward the nation against whom war is desired. Make the nation suspicious.

Second, make the other nation suspicious.

All you need for this are:
1.) a few agents with some cleverness and no conscience and

2.)a press whose interest is locked up with the interests that will be benefitted by the war.

Then the “overt act” will soon appear. It is no trick at all to get an “overt act” once you work the hatred of two nations up to the proper pitch.”

How familiar it sounds! It was written many years ago. Any guesses? I’ll post the answer in a few minutes…..

After the truth commission’s final report to a humbled U.S. ready to rejoin the world community as a member in good standing;

After we’ve begun making war reparations to the hundreds of thousand of impoverished and tortured victims of our military industrial complex; and

After we have a government led by patriots who learn from our past and serve our future rather than today’s crop of criminals who deny our past and steal our future, then;

We can retire the old colonial drinking song of a National Anthem and replace it with Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,†which is the most beautifully stated organic expression of a unifying anthem.

sláinte,
cl

New thRedd.

Why can’t I find it on my computer?