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Tag(s): Bush Admin; Craig-Larry; Gonzales; Iraq War; Propaganda; War
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September 1, 2007 at 11:46:45

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Weapons of Total Distraction

by Carrie & Elisia Ross-Stone Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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Lots of juicy headlines in the news these days:

Idaho Senator Larry Craig caught with his pants down cruising for gay sex in an airport men's room;
Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzales -- both resigning under the cloud of multiple Congressional and other Federal investigations;
White House press secretary Tony Snow and Senator John Warner, both announcing their imminent retirements yesterday;
The 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana;
The 2nd anniversary of hurricane Katrina;
Big Democratic donor, Norman Hsu, on the lam;
The 2008 presidential election and whatever any of the 20 or so candidates said, ate or did;
Will Fred Thompson announce his candidacy or not;
War in Iraq;
War in Afghanistan;
Sub prime mortgages, the roller-coaster stock market, and the ever-widening wage-gap

Even if we ignore the melodrama of today's news, in our own lives there are many distractions in these last days of summer -- Labor Day weekend, starting school, and so on.

In the meantime, while we've been focusing on all these other things, George Bush and Dick Cheney have ramped up their war rhetoric against Iran:

US Battleships and Bombers are at the ready.
No new Congressional resolution necessary since Bush declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard are a terrorist organization.
Bush and Cheney believe they must "take out" Iran's nuclear program before leaving office.

And after we bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, what will happen?

Iran is a Shia Nation and the Iraqi population are 60% Shia. Thus the majority of Iraqis -- who we are supposedly trying to bomb into submission -- will naturally identify with Shia victims in Iran and will no doubt despise us even more than they do now. From Lebanon to Oman and beyond, the Shia will be understandably united in their sense of victimization.

And even if we were to crush their mortal enemy, the Shias, don't expect Iraq’s Sunni population to react any better. Whatever their feelings about Iran, they have been very clear about their hatred of a Western presence and expansion of U.S. operations in the Muslim world.

Don't believe us? Ask bin Laden.

The entire world will respond with revulsion. From Europe to Japan there will be much discussion about how to best distance oneself and protect oneself from a USA gone nuts.

Its almost as if Bush and Cheney want to create the perfect climate to foment perpetual war...

Now why would they want to do that?

Who gains from such a thing?

We know who will lose... the rest of us.

After all of the propaganda oozing from this Administration, how are we expected to believe that such distracting headlines are not intended to keep us from noticing under which shell the truth hides?

http://www.rainbowlaw.com

Rainbow Law is Elisia and Carrie Ross-Stone, lesbian civil rights activists, life partners and grandmothers. We own and operate Rainbow Law, an online service offering legal information and free and affordable legal documents for gay and lesbian families.

We also publish RainbowZine (http://www.rainbowzine.com), a progressive LGBTQ newsletter and we Blog at http://RAINBOWbLAWg/.blogspot.com.

In 2003 and 2004, we rode our bicycles across the country to advocate for marriage equality. Lesbian Grandmothers from Mars, a documentary about the ride, premiered at the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in San Francisco in 2005.

And if all of that is not enoiugh to keep us busy, we are building our own house with our own hands out of recycled materials. The building project is online at http://www.BuiltfromTrash.com.