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...profiteering corporate news monopolies, but I have to say this: FIFTY-SIX PERCENT of the American people OPPOSED Bush's war way back before the invasion, in Feb. '03. Except for the first weeks of the invasion, with US troops at max risk, opposition has steadily risen since that time, and is now in the 65% to 70% range (combined demand for immediate withdrawal or phased withdrawal). And, a whopping EIGHTY-FOUR PERCENT oppose any US participation in a widened Mideast war (recent poll posted here at DU).
And this, DESPITE the fact that 50% or so of Americans still have bits of disinformation rattling around in their heads--that Saddam had WMDS, and that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. Obviously, Americans--the most propagandized people on earth, outside of North Korea--have tried SUCCESSFULLY to discriminate between presidential facts and presidential action--that is, they may believe some of Bush's factoids, but they think that Bush's response to both things was wrong--that the threat Saddam of WMDs was not great enough to merit a war, and that the Saddam-9/11 connection was minimal, and neither did that justify a war. Interestingly, of that initial pre-war 56% opposition, about half opposed the war altogether, and the other half would only agree if it was a UN peacekeeping mission (international consensus). In other words, they didn't trust Bush--even then. (The 56% poll was taken AFTER Powell's 100% pack of lies to the UN, which convinced neither the UN nor the majority of Americans that war was necessary.)
So, something else is going on here. It's not a simple case of a once-popular war now is disrepute. The war was NEVER popular, and NEVER agreed to by the American people.
Back up to 2002. The Anthrax Congress has decided to do something about the 2000 stolen election (Al Gore won, and everybody knows it). Led by its biggest crooks, Tom Delay and Bob Ney (now indicted or resigned in bribery scandals), and abetted by Bilderberg 'Democrats' like Christopher Dodd, they set about "helping America vote" with the (yes, you got it!) the "Help America Vote Act" of 2002. The bill encouraged paperless electronic voting, run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, with two big Bush-Cheney corporate supporters--Diebold and ES&S--intensely lobbying Congress to put no auditing controls on this voting system, not even a meager paper trail requirement, and waiting with open maws to swallow up the nearly $4 billion in boondoggle electronic voting money about to be lavished on the states.
These billions of dollars--and fancy junkets for local election officials and legislators--succeeded in fast-tracking these extremely insecure and insider hackable electronic voting systems all over the country, so that, by 2004, 80% of the vote was "counted" heavy Bush-Cheney donors under a veil of corporate secrecy; one third of the country conducted vote "counts" that were completely unauditable and unrecountable (on the paperless touchscreen voting systems), and, given the wholly inadequate auditing in other places (and difficulty, expense and rarity of recounts), even the systems with some kind of paper trail were unreliable, since ALL "votes" (bunches of electrons) were "counted" by central electronic tabulators, ALSO run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY code.
In one fell swoop, the United States was converted from a democracy into a fascist dictatorship. This WAS the coup.
And its purpose was to MANUFACTURE approval of a war that most Americans disapproved of, in the 2004 (s)election.
And, when the war profiteering corporate news monopolies found that their exit polls DIFFERED from the results of Diebold/ES&S's secret formulae, they CHANGED the exit polls--in absurd and blatantly obvious ways--to FORCE the exit polls (Kerry won) to MATCH the non-transparent electronic totals from Bush's buds (Bush won). (See www.TruthIsAll.net. Remember on election night, when you thought Kerry had won--and then, weirdly, it all changed, and he'd lost. This is how they did it--by DOCTORING the exit polls, late on election day, to force them to fit Diebold/ES&S's "results.")
And the Democratic Party leadership did what? Absolutely nothing. They let this one float on down the river, right to the 90 degree angle drop over the thousand foot waterfall that destroyed American democracy that day--Nov. 2, 2004.
We are today looking at that wreckage.
All this "rallying" of a "war-weary nation" is for the post-election narrative for '06--being written now--of how that "brilliant" Karl Rove and Bush's "pod people" in Congress managed their miraculous, comeback victory in 2006--against odds that even Hitler couldn't manage. (He, at least, convinced a lot of people.) Nobody's buying it. And yet, somehow, we're going to have to swallow that the majority American "voters"--90% of which are seriously concerned about Bush's $10 trillion deficit, 65% to 70% of whom loathe Bush and his Junta, and hate his war, 63% of whom (in May '04) opposed torture "under any circumstances," 80% or so of whom don't trust the Bushites about Social Security, etc., etc., etc.,--"voted" to keep these sons-of-bitches in power.
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Please DO bring skepticism, and translation skills (critical reading) to WHATEVER these jokers say about Bush, Iraq, the Middle East and the "war on terror"--and the coming (s)elections--but do beware of their memes--for instance, this one, that the American people at one time supported the heinous war on Iraq. We never did. It was shoved down our throats. And even in the very brief period of SLIGHTLY BETTER numbers for the war, it was clearly a matter of concern for the troops, and not a matter of approval of that policy.
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