In Czechoslovakia people were so convinced Americans would not make the same mistake twice, they were selling nested dolls of the American presidents which included Kerry as President number 44.
And how did a "twit" become the candidate of the Republican Party, let alone the President? According to the Houston Chronicle in 1989 Bush himself said
"You know, I could run for governor, but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business ..."
Thank you very much Main Stream Media for magnifying image -- Bush, the likeable cowboy you made out to be a "regular guy"-- and ridiculing and belittling men of greater substance.
And, thank you very much both Republican and Democratic leaders for deciding that our candidates need not be accomplished or qualified, nor the ones people admire (Paul Hackett, for one, Dennis Kucinich for another.) The only qualification that matters, apparently, is that they have the right connections to raise a lot of money!!
Thank you also Main Stream Media and Right Wing Chicken Hawk Media for ridiculing and painting as "wimps" and as being unpatriotic those who seek peaceful solutions to problems. Even though it is those who actually have known war who are most adamant that nations must seek to solve problems through peaceful means.
"Eisenhower, McArthur and Einstein" all emphasized that war because of its destructiveness on both friend and foe is no longer a workable solution to solving the problems of the world. They also decried the waste of money that could be better spent on building schools and hospitals than on building weapons of war.
As General Anthony Zinni - someone else the media ignored before the war - said in 2002,
"It's pretty interesting that all the generals see it the same way, and all the others who have never fired a shot, and are hot to go to war, see it another"We are about to do something that will ignite a fuse in this region that we will rue the day we ever started--
Eisenhower and others also had something to say about sacrificing our rights for the illusion of greater security. Ike said:
"There is no way in which a country can satisfy the craving for absolute security, but it can bankrupt itself morally and economically in attempting to reach that illusory goal through arms alone."
An American soldier, an interpreter who served two tours in Iraq and clearly had his eyes opened while there "had this to say" about false patriotism and willingly surrendering our rights for the false promise of greater security:
"they can call it any number of patriotic names, but let them pry your rights from your All American hands only when you are dead. To trample and walk so blatantly on American rights is not the action of a patriot, and let no one tell you otherwise."
And now Bush's belligerence is accomplishing something all the great generals wanted to end, which is a return to a world-wide arms build up.
Eisenhower said "Total, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time."
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