Hi all,
An email was forwarded to me, blaming all Americans for being complacent and allowing Bush to get away with so much. So I had to respond and have included my email below (ending with a musing on the Israeli Massacre in Gaza):
"Perhaps for most Americans who never had experienced so totally a corrupt President,they didn't know how to respond. Anyone in their 30s has only really known four presidents - Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton. Not one of them did anything as contemptible that Bush Jr. has done that we know of. Come on, Lewinsky? And unfortunately our elected officials in Washington, excluding the President, were so concerned about holding onto their posts, they couldn't even think of impeaching, let alone crossing, the president and his henchmen.
The biggest mistake, (and I said this as soon as the 2000 election was over), by Americans politically over the last 8 years was putting one party in charge of every branch of government. That was the real travesty. (Notice I didn't say Republicans specifically.) It took six years for the majority of Americans to finally get it back into there head to restore the balance of power.
And of course now we have the opposite effect and this worries me about the Obama presidency. Again, one party has been given all the power. But this is about Bush, so I won't digress.
How could people vote for Bush, reelect him, be complacent, or even support him.
Comments I've heard from three different people.
America can survive a president. How much damage can he do?
I voted to reelect him so he can clean up his mess.
He's against abortion so I have to vote for him.
And I still see Bush bumper stickers - fewer now, but they are still out there. And that's in California. I can only imagine the Midwest.
Since Bush's policies favored industry, the rich and those with influence, they didn't vocalize dissenting voices while promoting the White House message.
Remember the whole, "if you question the president, you're dividing our country in our time of need," and all that rhetoric that so many people believed. (And still do.) While there is some truth to the if you question it, you make us look weaker and indecisive in front of the enemy and encourage them. Look how easily it quashes dissent, alternative ideas or opposing voices..
Remember the Dixie Chicks being ostracized by the media and declared un-American because they spoke out against the war? Isn't that what being American is? Being able to question our leaders?
I really wonder if all of those people who vote for Bush and voted to reelect Bush and put those bumper stickers on their cars or gave him an insane 80%-90% approval rating when the Iraqi War started feel any remorse whatsoever.
I could go on and on.
Did you see the lame tiny story in the LA Times today that two rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel. Hezbollah denied they did it. Which says something considering they usually own up to it. Some analyst said it could be a small Palestinian group trying to pull Hezbollah into the conflict. The Israeli papers were quick to blame Hezbollah. I wouldn't put it past a group of Israelis on the border of Lebanon launching the mortars themselves at Israel to provoke a fight. If the US can do it with Iraq and Russia with Chechnya, why not Israel with Lebanon. My prediction. If Israel keeps getting pressured from the outside world about their unrestrained killing of civilians in Gaza - which violates the Geneva Convention and goes against the Security Council resolutions - they'll create a new threat to shift attention away from Gaza and show their "precarious situation" in the Middle East.
Watch and see."
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