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2006-01-30 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve White 2006-01-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Time to earn their pay and remind their fellow Americans what their Agencies exist for - ala 9-11, Americans weirdly and mysteriously don't feel "right" placing our individual, familial, societal, national and geopol security in the hands of those whom let 9-11 happen, includ but not limited to anti-American Americans. AMERICA, NOT AMERIKA OR USSA/USR, TEACHES THAT NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW, NOT EVEN GOVERNMENT.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-01-30 02:47|| 2006-01-30 02:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Well said, Mr. Mendiola. And well done, Secretary Rice. I wonder how the diplomatic types will will respond when they are mugged by the reality of their new posts? The ones that don't retire in a huff, I mean. Either way, the State Department, and the country they represent, will benefit from the new outlook of the remaining cookie pushers (gotta love it!).

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-30 06:44|| 2006-01-30 06:44|| Front Page Top

#3 A house cleaning very long overdue. When President Reagan ordered polygraph tests for Cabinet officials in 1985 to discourage leaks, Secretary of State George Shultz threatened to resign rather than undergo testing, in a famous outburst. "Management through fear and intimidation," he said, "is not the way to promote honesty and protect security." Reagan should have fired his arsss on the spot. That place is disgusting, a den of Pentagon hating, pink bowtie wearing Ivey League perverts, and scam artists. Use the big broom Condi.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-30 08:39|| 2006-01-30 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Listening to what the common people are saying is good, as long as you don't listen to their advice.

That is, we have an idea. One, really big and powerful idea. That is, that truly democratic and free nations are our friends--nobody else can truly be trusted.

If a nation is truly democratic and free, we can listen to their leaders, because what their leaders say accurately mirrors what they people think, in a republican-democracy sort of way.

That is, for all his ridiculous faults, Bill Clinton was what the American people were saying at the time. He was their truth, repulsive as it was. The world should have listened to him then, as the voice of America.

So this is how we should greet other countries as seen through their leaders. Chirac, as the representative of France, for example.

However, there is still much of the world where the leaders do not speak for their people. And here is where we must speak to their people instead. The local el dictator presents us with nothing more than an obstacle, at the best of times, with his bodyguard of lies. Perhaps a useful tool to achieve eventual true democracy and freedom, but nothing to be relied upon.

So once again, what of the advice of the common people? It means nothing, unless they are telling us what we already know: that they want true democracy and freedom.

If they do not say that, and mean it, then it doesn't matter what they say. They deserve the regime of their el dictator by default; being unwilling to strive for the higher goal.

If they do want true democracy and freedom, then they should have our sympathetic ear, though we already know what they are saying.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-01-30 11:21|| 2006-01-30 11:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Polygraph tests, eh? I still find it incomprehensible that I can't get a job at a McDonald's without a drug test and warrant check, and yet you can be a Congressman without ever going through either of those.

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