Gore Vidal on Bush, the failure of the media and memory

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http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3372&IssueNum=143

~ By SCOTT GANDELL ~ LAcitybeat

CityBeat: Do you think that it's possible the Bush Administration went into Iraq really believing that it was spreading democracy to the Middle East?

Gore Vidal: Of course not. Why should they do anything like that? They go in out of greed. There's been very little altruism in all of our history. We go into things for profit, and now that we've ceased to be any form of democracy, the people are not consulted about what their rulers want them to do. No war has been declared by that part of the legislative branch which is most democratic, that is most responsive to the people.

So, it was just about oil and war profiteering?

Yes. Meanwhile we do not have a media that enlightens anybody about anything, and our public school systems for the average person is pretty bad. We are quite uninformed about things. Therefore we are not in any position to make up our minds if they're making good policy or a bad policy. First of all, no one will ask us what we think. And then if they say, go to the polls, we go to the polls and the election is stolen as in Florida 2000, 2004 in Ohio.

Q.Corporate influence in politics seems more raw and apparent now than ever before?

Of course it is. And it was all due to the “good luck” – those two words I have just used ironically – of 9/11. “I’m a wartime president! I’m a wartime president!” Well, he fucking well isn’t. He’s an accidental president. He happens to be put in by the oil and gas people to cut their taxes and then go in for preemptive wars against countries that are weak and that have done us no harm, like Afghanistan and Iraq. This was a godsend for those who would like to get rid of Congress and the courts and the Constitution. And they’re doing very well at it – very, very well. “Mission accomplished,” I believe, is what he said on the aircraft carrier.

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http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3372&IssueNum=143

[wisteria]

1. He actually says 2004 Ohio was stolen, wow! n/t

[stellanoir]

2. Yup

he was a friend of Andy Stephenson's RIP

Just love Vidal's intellect. Thanks for posting.

[WePurrsevere]

3. Great! TY! Here's another & different Gore Vidal DU thread (w/media clip)

where "GORE VIDAL - Nails It in a Nutshell..." http://tinyurl.com/ppveh

It's well worth the time to watch this. It's very good. :)

[neweurope]

4. kick - read the whole interview, it's worth it.

Recommended.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[neweurope]

5. And *kick* again

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

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6. add this great video to this thread

http://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/gore_vidal

a must see for any patriot