Comments on: 5 Years Ago: When Media ‘Zombies’ Helped Bush Go To War

by: Robert M. Cerello

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:13:09 +0000

The phrase involving zombies used here I assertis not accurate. Zombies are bodies without a mind—this is the caricature of Democrats, of those who believe in the physical world but oppose the use of scientific concepts by which to deal with it. The phrase here instead perhaps should inolve ghosts—minds from another space-time without a body.
That is what Republicans are–those who do not accept the reality of the physical but claim their leader is an inerrab;le mystiically-inspired thinker. Having lived under many such, we of course know better; the press, who follow presidents around as if they were caesars, do not know anything–deliberately. The same disconcepted press who have watched the destruction of rights and regulations in the Constitution here watched an imperial presidential dirty-trick, slander and election-farud artist orchestrate over 930 false, misleading or worse statements into an excuse to rush the United States’ citizens into something.
That something was a needless, useless reinvasion of Iraq, whose dictator had had NOTHING to do with the 9/11 pseudo-religious mass murderers, no WMDs and no power to attack anyone. Equally, Iraq’s cobbled-together tribalist non country has no capability of becoming anything except another low-grade oil-producing Near Eastern tyranny viciously opposed to realism, individuals’ rights, females’ rights, responsible self-conduct, education in how to think and anything but Muslim postmodernist reality bashing and fundamentalist rant. The reason we can make no headway in the Near East should be obvious–we are in theory no better than they are philosophically, not under a pseudo-theocratic such as George W. Bush. Every idea he has ever espoused has been mislabeled, unrealistic, wrong or even more deadly. But the one question that should have been asked by the press after the reinvasion is not whether any political figure voted for the exectuive action as a possibility or not; the question should be “Did Mr. Bush and his administration do what he said he would do, do what they ought to have done and do what required to be done–let the inspectors complerte their job, check for real evidence, tell the truth to potential allies, weigh the suicidal cost of such an action,
find WMDs and consider the consequences of being wrong, being precipitate or being traitors?” They did not. Many of us did. So long as we have an extremist statist press acting as the running dogs of imperialirt Republican pretensions, so long as we have no regulations on supposedlly non-fictional utterance; just so long the former citizens of this betrayed republic will have no legal defense against
what happened here–no educatinal-system–no elections–and no press worthy the name of “free”
men.

by: Samuel Patino

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:27:28 +0000

This whole debacle is indeed a crying shame, after 9-11 the chorus was “everything is different now!, everything has changed!” this is the noise of fools as they shepherd the masses of overworked and under informed citizens on to the “new realities” of invasion, war, torture, and constant never-ending fear - amassing huge unfettered presidential powers that put the nation and the entire world in peril, and all of it while the cheerleading mainstream press cheers it on! Iran has barely escaped till now.. Where are we headed??

by: Cord;ey Coit

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:42:51 +0000

The same yes men and women are all present and accounted for: ready to kiss ass and throw soft very soft balls to the Great White Father.
Looking at the press you wonder what drugs they are taking and you realize these knuckle draggers might be humanoid.
The University of Mo. or Harvard produced these extras from Night of The Living Dead.Most of them when they do get to a war zone stay in the Green Zone and pay the locals to die for them.
If some one seems alive they are from the outside not yet fully Beltwayed into submission. Listen to their questions and you realize the American Press are fully qualified to ask their way to the rest room and the bar, anything more is too deep for them. “Why are at war?” is too hard a question for a NYT’s person to ask.

by: Ed

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:39:59 +0000

I was wondering why exclude Bush as not being a zombie? Afterall, he also pushed the Palestinian civil war between Fatah & Hamas and was shocked when it backfired as Hamas then took over Gaza. Additionally, he was the one that pushed and implemented by Rice & Idiot Abrams on an election that Abbas & Fatah weren’t ready for.
The recent resigning of Falleon should tell the world something. Makebe someone is growing weed in their own back yard for private consumption and believes by doing that, they are above the law!