Reply #4: You did the correct thing, and THEN you did the correct thing, AGAIN. [View All]

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First: You did precisely the best thing of all. You RESPONDED(although I would like to know how meeting with a couple of Vietnamese negotiators constitutes giving aid and comfort to the enemy). You did not let it hang in the air, unchallenged.

Second: You then produced a response that was clever, engaging, and thought-provoking. Perhaps that's why some people are saying "The Manchurian Candidate" may pack even more of a punch than "Fahrenheit 9/11." It's because of the scenario you've constructed.

APPLAUSE!!!!

Oh, uh - there were TWO points here so

APPLAUSE AGAIN!!!!

No, seriously, this is excellent work. I humbly submit that so many horrors have come to pass in this country, and so many horrible people are in power, because the limbaughs and limbaugh-wannabes have had an absolute monopoly for so long - unchallenged, unrefuted, unrebutted, and when somebody DOES try to speak up, they're interrupted, shouted down, scolded, disparaged, mocked, and insulted. Sometimes even threatened. Everybody on our side, I guess, was perhaps stunned that people would say this stuff to begin with, because it's NOT NICE, or perhaps it's because they felt it was too important to take the high road, or that they had misplaced confidence in the masses to be able to see through or doubt the lies or know enough, already, to recognize lies. There's also the "we don't want to lower ourselves to fighting on their level. That makes us become like them" argument. Perhaps the "we'll wait it out and they'll come to their senses, or people will get bored with it, or it's just a passing fad" theory was it. And then, of course, after 9/11, we were told that if we didn't support "Our President" blindly and mutely, or asked ANY questions, we were "unamerican," "unpatriotic," "appeasers," "Saddam-lovers," "terrorist sympathizers," "Neville Chamberlains," and worse. Result: there's only one "party line" being spoken of, quoted, written about, exhorted, or spun. If you never hear anything different, how could you possibly imagine that anything MIGHT be different? If you couldn't see outside, and only heard people talking about a yellow sky, and you NEVER heard anything other than this, what would you conclude about the color of the sky?

So this shit has been allowed to perpetuate, unchecked. And it's a shame. No. It's a SIN. That's why so many Americans still believe Saddam had something to do with 9/11. That's why a recent study showed that people who watched the Pox "news" network actually thought not only this, but that WMDs HAD in fact been found in Iraq. It's only since Howard Dean, and then Howard Stern, and then Michael Moore, with Dennis Kucinich in there for good measure, that people have had the courage to start speaking out and saying "Hey, WAIT JUST A MINUTE!" when some of this crap gets spewed. Was DU always more than 40-thousand members strong? No. It started WAY small. And it grew. It grew because more people got more uneasy and upset about it, and realized, miraculously, that they were not alone.

Come to think of it, they've basically kept us in a hostage hold for all this time. Silencing us. Demonizing and marginalizing us. Isolating us in conditions where all we hear is their non-stop propaganda, as though they were giving us the "smoke-out-Manuel-Noriega" treatment. It's only recently that we've found the strength and courage and American-ness in us to stand up, rip off the gags and blindfolds, and start fighting back.

YOU have done this. Sorry, Peter, but you're gonna have your eyes OPENED. Forcefully, if need be. But you're GONNA FACE THE TRUTH. It reminds me of Jeff Goldblum's great line in the first "Jurassic Park" movie - marveling at how "life finds a way." Well, so does the truth.

This was GREAT! Congratulations on a Job Well Done!