Silence is Consent

If you don't speak up you accept what is happening. This site was born out of the mainstream media's inability to cover the news. I am just an American cititzen trying to spread the word in the era of FCC consolidation, post 9/11 Patriot Act hysteria, hackable voting machines and war without end. I rant and post news items I perceive to be relevant to our current situation.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson

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Tuesday, September 09, 2003
 
Our President talked on Sunday night about sacrifice. Whose I'm not quite sure. From where I sit I cannot see very much that he is sacrificing. I believe most Americans will be sacrificing quite a bit. I think it is pretty ludicrous the way things have changed since the war started and nobody is being held accountable. We were told things about Saddam and Iraq that were untrue! We were told of an imminent threat. We were told of WMD's. We were told of an Al Quaeda connection. We were definitely led to believe Saddam was responsible for 9/11. We were also told that our troops would be welcomed as liberators, that the cost would be minimal (in money and lives) and that we would be out quickly. How many of those assertions have come to be true. If you made that many wrong calculations in your line of work would you still have a job? Why hasn't anyone been fired over this? Remember the adults are back in charge.

Now we are told it is the central front in the war on terror. A central front we created. Some call it the "flypaper thesis" as referred to in this article, Terrorism and Iraq: The Link Is Real Now. Here is an excerpt:
The theory is the "flypaper" thesis. It is presented perhaps most blatantly by Ralph Peters in the New York Post. The fact that Iraq has become a "magnet" for terrorists is not a problem, Peters avers. "On the contrary. We've taken the War Against Terror to our enemies. It's far better to draw the terrorists out of their holes in the Middle East, where we don't have to read them their rights, than to wait for them to show up in Manhattan again. "In Iraq, we can just kill the bastards. And we're doing it with gusto."
I don't remember anything about this or any other pest control products being mentioned before the war. Let me see, it would have gone something like this: Saddam Hussein is a brutal tyrant and he must be removed not because he is a threat but so we can use Iraq as the central front in the war on terror. That makes sense to me.


Paul Krugman, Other People's Sacrifice.

Will Press Roll Over Again on New WMD Report? A link to the AP story mentioned in this article, Point by Point, a Look Back at a 'thick' File, a Fateful Six Months Later The Most Detailed U.S. Case for Invading Iraq Was Laid.

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