Islam once enjoyed world leadership in society, culture, arts, science, education, commerce, all things civilized. Allah created it all, they were told by the religious leaders who claimed that only they could communicate with Allah and understand his wishes and plans. When Islam was tops in the world, that premise was easy to accept. Now that Islamic nations are near the bottom of the barrel, fanatics must find others to blame and the others are us. Blaming the West saves them from thinking that maybe Allah didn't create what they have been told to believe, and to reject the belief they were taught is to reject Allah.
Bush claims to be a good Christian man and espouses a love of Christ in a nation that is considered the most religious in the western world. Therefore, Bush backers think to abandon Bush is to abandon Christianity, to deny Christ, to hate God and to abhor an America they falsely think was created as a "Christian nation." In this manner, Bush backers are no different from Islamic fanatics. The fact that Bush's actions prove he has nothing in common with Christianity or the real Christ, and neither do his supporters, seems not to deter them.
We have spent the past six decades maligning "Good Germans"; the millions who looked the other way while the Third Reich conducted some of the most-grotesque evils in the history of the world. Now we have millions of "Good Americans" not only looking the other way but actively defending the actions of our Fourth Reich as it commits some of the worst crimes since WW II. The approval ratings previously cited puts "Good Americans" support for Bush at between 50 million and 75 million, if we consider only adults.
The same station reports that Saddam Hussein was solely responsible for the war by refusing to obey United Nation requirements that even the United Nations refused to take action against. Hussein's failure to turn over weapons that didn't exist was possibly the main refusal. Then, when ex-CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame Wilson was called to testify before Congress, a KING5 reporter/anchor said that the Democrats requested her testimony to "slam the Bush administration." After Bush had vetoed a funding bill for Iraq in May, the same "journalist" reported that the Democratic Congress had "failed" to supply funding for the troops.
Such reporting should be expected from this bunch of Dumb Belles and Miller Redfield clones who can't present Iraq war reports in straight, unbiased fashion without using propaganda phrasing on all matters. They also constantly report that all crimes were committed by the "suspect," thereby libeling anyone under suspicion in a crime, but who is innocent. Like Miller, (the clueless reporter on the Murphy Brown TV sitcom) they haven't got a clue.
A while back, the author of this article contacted a former colleague at The Denver Post who had been elevated to the editorial page on which he wrote that the "Do Not Call List" of the federal government was unconstitutional because it infringed on freedom of speech. When told that the issue involved regulation of commerce, not freedom of speech, the confessed Republican replied he knew better because he had "read the Constitution" and he knew a judge. All courts hearing challenges to "Do Not Call" have ruled it a proper use of power to regulate commerce and not an infringement on speech. Such it is with a Bush supporter; refuse to listen to others while pretending to be a master on a subject never studied. And so it is for readers of that newspaper ever getting factual material on the issues of the day from an outfit that quit caring about knowledgeable presentation years ago and which wholeheartedly endorsed Bush, even though it has long been clear that he is a buffoon.
With such stalwarts of the mainstream media ~ which mirror most of the media ~ joining Fox News to misinform America, it becomes clearer why Bush has not been totally abandoned.
Many on the political right, including members of the Bush administration, have howled long and loud about prosecuting for treason news organizations or journalists for printing information that was already known in one manner or other but have never uttered a word about prosecuting for the Plame outing, which destroyed an important intelligence operation of the Central Intelligence Agency. An example was the call to prosecute the New York Times for a report about the United States monitoring financial transactions of alQaeda; never mind that Bush had already claimed repeatedly that tracking alQaeda money by his administration had disrupted the terrorist organization's financial status.
It is also strange that people can't grasp the concept that an indigenous people would take up arms to defend their nation from a foreign power. They couldn't see that Vietnamese would resist America's intrusion into South Vietnam. They can't grasp the concept that Iraqis, non-Iraqi Arabs and non-Arab Muslims would resist US invasion and occupation of a Muslim Arab nation. That from many of the same people who claim that they need their weapons to resist a tyrannical US government and who would resist to death a foreign nation invading the US, arresting or killing the president and his administration and installing a puppet regime. They imagine themselves as heroes if called on to resist foreign invasion, but those who resisted in South Vietnam or Iraq are considered criminals, dead-enders, terrorists, insurgents, who are deserving of only death.
Such are they who are Bush supporters.
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