Well, many Americans--who argued against the attack and subduing of the country of Iraq back in 2002 and 2003--were jeered by FOX NEWS and scorned by the Bush-Cheney Administration as "Sadam's Cool-Aid Drinkers". The reference to "cool-aid" naturally referred to the Jim Jone's self-suicide cool-aid of the 1970s cult. The implication was that we were brainwashed.
Who has actually been brainwashed, America?
NEOCON BRAINWASHING
http://joejolly.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/the-neocons-and-the-brain-washing-of-america/
NEOLIBERAL BRAINWASHING
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Neoliberalism
LAISSEZ-FAIRE BRAINWASHING
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire
Now, after EIGHT HORRIBLE YEARS of the illegal-Bush-Cheney-Administration long behind us, the effects of the Bush-Cheney Kool-Aid is continuing to destroy BOTH America and Iraq. Before I go over some details about the status-quo in Iraq and the USA, let me point out that educational problems, health-care underdevelopment, loss of American home ownership, and the insane foreign policies of America are due partially to 40 or more years of FREE MARKET Kool-aid and massive MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Kool-Aid Drinking. In other words, this horrific Kool-aid drinking binge has brainwashed nearly 3 entire generations of American policy leaders.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/19/cindy_sheehan_sets_up_camp_out
Now, however, real change and cool-collective analysis must come to dominate. This is the only way to mark the 7th Anniversary of our suicidal war and suicidal economics lived through by millions and millions of Americans and Iraqis daily. In short, this is a nightmare, we need to wake-up from.
TODAY in Iraq --What is Your future?
In Baghdad, Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, stated that the Green Zone has left a world-of-out of control--with"[p]rivatization, no security for the working class, much investment for multinational companies."
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/19/seven_years_of_war_on_anniversary
This is happening in a country that already has 4 million homeless refugees. Anyone can see that whole-scale privatization of government-built structures and institutions in the midst of a civil war or in the midst of an ongoing major refugee crises is insane! Mrs. Mohammed is on the mark when she criticizes the go-ahead green-zone model of Laissez-Faire political economics being produced in Iraq over the last few years. Meanwhile, instead of integrating women into both the political and economic process, women's rights have been constitutionally undermined over the last two years, according to the head of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq.
