← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Jack Cassidy
Thread ID: 15348 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2004-10-18
2004-10-18 02:45 | User Profile
[url="http://antiwar.com/casualties/"]http://antiwar.com/casualties/[/url]
Man, given how short it took to go from 1000 to 1100, I think we are looking at an escalation of the resistance, or an resistance that is getting better. One story on the MSNBC wire reports 10 US soldiers killed in 24 hrs. This kind of story 18 months ago would the whole news, but now you gotta dig for it. A complacency is definitely sitting among Americans. If this war goes on for ten years we'll have KIA numbers in the five digits, even w/o projecting an escalation in the resistance.
2004-10-18 21:44 | User Profile
I truly wish the "Freedom Isn't Free", "Support The Troops", "Pray For Our Troops" and "G-d Bless America" people would wake the hell up.
2004-10-18 22:50 | User Profile
Now I hear that the US is trying to recruit British soldiers to share in the dying. So much for a coalition that Bush touted so much in the past few weeks.
Truly, this war is one of the saddest spectacles I've ever seen in my life. I cannot fathom how it is possible that Americans are still supporting Bush regardless of his stance against abortion or his apparent Christian beliefs.
Meanwhile, the US bombs Falloujah daily to show the Americans that we're "winning" the "war" and Bush should be re elected.
It's all too much to bear sometimes.
2004-10-18 23:25 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]Now I hear that the US is trying to recruit British soldiers to share in the dying. So much for a coalition that Bush touted so much in the past few weeks.
Truly, this war is one of the saddest spectacles I've ever seen in my life. I cannot fathom how it is possible that Americans are still supporting Bush regardless of his stance against abortion or his apparent Christian beliefs.
Meanwhile, the US bombs Falloujah daily to show the Americans that we're "winning" the "war" and Bush should be re elected.
It's all too much to bear sometimes.[/QUOTE] It is so bad I can only listen to NPR nowadays. I actually get pissed when they do health or arts pieces, thinking they could have on Seymour Hersh or James Fallows to talk about the incompetency of Bush and the disaster he is creating around the world and here at home. They did have a piece on today about the religious radicalizing in Syria as a result of Bush's war [for Israel]. I came away from the story thinking, "Man, we and our children and their children will be reaping the fruits of the policies and actions of this coke-snorting, non-book-reading, alcohol-brain-rotted Bush."
2004-10-18 23:54 | User Profile
Jack,
If you can tolerate Al Franken's crap try his show on Air America. I have heard some interesting people on there such as Fallows and Hersh despite this being the "liberal" version of such neocon shows like Limbaugh's.
2004-10-19 00:02 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Jack,
If you can tolerate Al Franken's crap try his show on Air America. I have heard some interesting people on there such as Fallows and Hersh despite this being the "liberal" version of such neocon shows like Limbaugh's.[/QUOTE] I'm in the Washington, DC metro area so I can't hear it. I'd love to listen to any neo-con bashing and Bush-bashing to get me through to the next arrival at my mailbox of The American Conservative.
2004-10-19 13:01 | User Profile
Jack,
I see. The closest one I found was this one. Philadelphia, PA - WHAT 1340 AM. I tell you what. I have just about reached the opinion that when it comes to talk radio and understanding that both "sides" are leftists that whichever party is in office that you can listen to the clowns opposing them and find out something that is reasonably accurate as long as a person is well informed to begin with and what they are reporting hurts their target. Still, when they have the truth they will sometimes exaggerate if not outright lie to make something sound worse than it really is. Neocon radio got really bad about this after Clinton's aquittal and the presidential race got into gear.
2004-10-19 23:23 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Jack,
I see. The closest one I found was this one. Philadelphia, PA - WHAT 1340 AM. I tell you what. I have just about reached the opinion that when it comes to talk radio and understanding that both "sides" are leftists that whichever party is in office that you can listen to the clowns opposing them and find out something that is reasonably accurate as long as a person is well informed to begin with and what they are reporting hurts their target. Still, when they have the truth they will sometimes exaggerate if not outright lie to make something sound worse than it really is. Neocon radio got really bad about this after Clinton's aquittal and the presidential race got into gear.[/QUOTE]I am sure I'd find Kerry's Democrat neo-cons offensive soon enough, but I'm not sure I'd be as pissed at them as I am of Bush.
I detest Bush and the neo-cons exponentially more than I ever did Clinton and the liberals. And I know this is not because I have become more liberal over the past few years, just the opposite.
2004-10-20 00:21 | User Profile
Not only do I agree, but I will elaborate. I hate the neocons for these reasons:
In the case of the last one I can understand how this came about. After all, these jerks are [U]former Democrats.[/U]
To paraphrase Reagan; "I didn't leave the Republicans. They left me.
2004-10-20 19:37 | User Profile
I recently saw an article on CNN reporting that Pat Robertson was told by Bush that there would be no casualties in the war against Iraq.
Bush knew this wasn't true. But, maybe in his mind he's not a total liar, he's just supporting our troops. And, it wouldn't be "Christian" to send troops to war after acknowledging that some will be killed.
When has Bush ever told the truth, when the truth was not convenient?