Ravings on TV and the Internet

Michael Eisenstadt michaele@ando.pair.com
Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:22:37 -0600


Jeff,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with a-g-l subscribers

My crystal ball says that Bush and crew want a regime change
in Iraq and are merely THREATENING war to make it happen. 
The forces positioned around Iraq are so overwhelming in
military terms that the SHOW of a full press on Baghdad 
should send Saddam and crew into exile perhaps in Russia

The oil in Iraq remains the property of the nation and
will doubtless be transported, refined and sold by the
7 sisters and purchased and consumed in cars by you and 
you and you as it has always been

My psychological take is that Rumsford and Cheney being
at the end of their life spans are immensely enjoying 
their administration of these activist policies 

Theoretically one ought to be able to divorce personal 
feelings about Bush and crew from sober reflection on 
whether a regime change in Baghdad would be a good thing
(the number of casualties should and will be part of the
calculus)

as far as the anti-War movement (Bewegung) conducted
on the Internet and in the streets who are against
suffering and death as who is not, they are not sober, 
they are ANGRY and FEARFUL

public opinion will not change a thing

Mike Nostradamus

Nightbyrd wrote:
> 
> The polls on the Iraq adventure seem to be moving against Bush.
> Very Interesting.
> I consume a lot of television. All but three of my 200 plus channels
> have worked as pathetic PR forums for the Administration. This morning
> all the Grand Cumbas of Bushdom were fielding softball questions and
> hitting their talking points and cliches with numbing regularity.
> Perhaps the most irritating was the light weight Ms. Rice.
> The good news - the demonstrations throughout the country and the
> fading poll numbers suggest the internet has become really powerful.
> Millions are talking in little groups like ours and searching out
> alternate information. I don't know where the populace is getting
> alternate ideas except the internet. It sure isn't talk radio.
> Am I right?
> Nightbyrd