Posted on 04/19/2004 5:00:32 PM PDT by quidnunc
"This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper." I'm saving the end of the world for my final column, but T S Eliot's words seem at least as pertinent to the present war – or "war", according to taste. It will be decided not by the bangs – whether in Fallujah or Bali or elsewhere – but by the whimpers. And, although the bangs have got a little louder in recent weeks, it's the whimpers that have become deafening.
Whimpers, whimpers everywhere. On American TV, the network sob-sisters tut sympathetically with the "Jersey Girls", four media-savvy 9/11 widows who've decided that metaphorically speaking George W Bush was at the controls of the planes that slammed into the World Trade Centre. Beltway reporters are a-twitter about the biennial doorstopper from The Washington Post's Bob Woodward, this time a huge book sourced up the wazoo portraying the President as a simpleton Christian avenger whose obsession with Iraq is a dark pathology as ingrained as paedophilia.
For some reason, this is being portrayed as some kind of dramatic revelation rather than media conventional wisdom for the past three years – or, come to that, the President's openly stated position: judging from the Campaign 2000 press coverage, he more or less campaigned as a religious halfwit bent on toppling Saddam. Does anyone actually read Woodward's books? I know I've never finished one. But every cable news channel is pretending to be riveted by the change to some alleged "Gotcha!" moment on page 743.
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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Thanks for posting the entire text.
CAsey was Reagans CIA director and supposedly allowed Woodward to interview him on his death bed. Woodward said Casey admitted that the Reagan administration did very bad things with Reagans approval in Iran Contra.
There was just one little problem. On the date that Woodward said he interviewed Casey, Casey was in a coma in the hospital intensive care room with no visitors allowed.
That little fact was not persued by the press. But generally people in a death comas in intensive care with no visitors allowed, don't talk much with reporters or anyone else for that matter.
Talking while in a death coma is something that not even William Casey could do.
In return, whenever we are in office we will leave you alone and let you rule your part of the world, murder whoever you like (just not us, at those times), etc. They consider is a fine offer and can't see why anyone wouldn't take it. They think they had the same deal with Marxist rebels during the cold war, and national liberation movements during de-colonization. And they don't see any reason not to make the same offer to Islamic terrorists, or any good reason why those terrorists won't take them up on it.
All you have to understand is that their own power means more to them than murder does. Their enemies are republicans, not foreign terrorists. The one great crime in the world is depriving them of office, not murdering innocent people.
They have puppy dog followers who aren't this cynical, who can't think in consecutive sentences. Who think it is judgmental to be against anyone, who think nothing ever justifies use of force and especially not by us, who think it is all about oil and therefore wrong, and other kindergarten level propositions. They are dupes to the above cynics, political footsoldiers, votes. But not the source or drivers of the attitude and policy.
Have they ever looked at the history of appeasement?
You make the mistake of applying logic to the whiners on the left. They are basically insane: they are more interested in the RATs' attainment of political power than they are in the long-term survival of the Constitutional Republic known as the United States. The morons really think that they can "negotiate" with the likes of the rag-head terrorists; that somehow its the fault of the US that we were attacked and that if only we could change our foreign policy to accomodate these "victims" then everything would come out right. That way, we could gin up some more tax dollars to try and "pay off" the poor, misunderstood victims of centuries of Colonialism.
The left has been educated into imbecility by institutions that are themselves completely out of touch with any reality other than the one they have created for their little academic world. It is they who will ultimately pay the price if a jerk-off like John 'effin' Kerry is elected pres: the price of another major attack on the US and possibly an expanded and far more expensive global war. It is the "Way of The Rat".
FMCDH
John F'n Kerry sees himself in Paris negotiating peace with the NVK. Err I mean Al Quaeda. These 60's hippies have flashbacks all the time.
Isn't this the guy who had an extensive "tell all" interview with a comatose man???
William Casey, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Reagan
Oh,, I don't know...
This is the official transcript supplied by "Big Ear" a source that refuses to reveal her identity. Our editor certifies that we have pinky sworn that this is a real imperson... er, person.
(Begin Transcript)Woodward: Mr. Casey? (Sound of slap) Mr. Casey? I'm Bob Woodward with the Washington Post... you know, the guy who made up "Deep Throat" and brought down a president. (another slap) Mr. Casey, could we have some focus here?
Casey: ""
Woodward: Well, OK! Tell you what, I'll whisper a statement to you and if you disagree with the statement, tell me. If not, just stay silent. OK? If you agree, just don't say anything.
Casey: ""
Woodward: Remember, this is 'ON THE RECORD'... oh, I say that metaphorically... I don't really have a tape recorder. OK?
Casey: ""
Woodward: OK, First statement: Oliver North stole money from the government when he had a $200,000 renovation done to his house. Right?
Casey: ""
Woodward: AH! you agree. Second Question. Ronald Reagan was fully aware of the illegal nature of the Iran-Contra affair.
Casey: ""
Woodward: (to himself) Casey agrees. (Louder) Next Question: This administration deliberately chose to ignore the law and thumb its nose at Congress.
Casey: ""
Woodward: We're on a roll here... Next statement: You personally think Ronald Reagan has the brains of a rabbit and the attention span of a chipmunk.
Casey: ""
Woodward: lessee, what to say... Oh, I know! Nancy is a shrew and a tarot reading wierdo that told the president what to say.
Casey: ""
Woodward: Whow! this is great! Next... and you think that the fact that Ronald Wilson Reagan has six letters in each of his names means that he is the anti-christ.
Casey: ""
Woodward: Ok, I think I hear the nurse coming... We'll have to finish this up fast. AHHH? lessee... OK! You agree that anything else I think of for my book was something you would say and DID say in our interview.
Casey: "" bleeeeee__________________________________________p
Nurses voice: Cardiac Arrest in fifteen... flatline.... Mr. Casey, hold on....
(end of transcript)
CIA. Former director--William, I think. Woodward claimed a hospital interview when Casey was long out of it. Woodward fabricates and lies and, because he's serving the Rats' agenda, gets away with it--save for the 'net and talk radio...
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