Capt_Nemo
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Mon Mar-15-04 06:47 AM
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March 14th 2004: The neo-cons' Stalingrad |
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Edited on Mon Mar-15-04 07:05 AM by Capt_Nemo
The neo-cons have suffered their biggest defeat to date, at the hands of the spanish people.
I am absolutely amazed at the show of political maturity my brothers and sisters across the border dispalayed, particularly when in my own country people only care about soccer and reality shows, while force-fed the neo-con talking points by pseudo-pundits that parrot the soundbites they read in the Anglo-Saxon press.
The spanish people refused to be blackmailed by their fear-mongering goverment into the support of bankrupt anti-terrorist policies whose predictable blow-back plunged their nation into mourning last Thursday.
The message from Spain is simple: the politics of fear no longer work.
The spanish people know, and have shown the whole world that the choice between the neo-cons and the islamic terrorists is a false one. Indeed they are the two faces of the same coin, both have blood of innocents on their hands (by now the neo-cons have far more than their foes). To fight the terrorists the neo-cons have also to be fought. Bush said "you're either with us or with the terrorists", spaniards told him the only reply he deserved "F*** YOU!"
The spanish people know that the aggression against Iraq has only played into the hands of islamic terrorists by handing them the best recruting tool since the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. The spanish people want islamic terrorists to be fought but know that victory can only be achieved by political means in the shape of a just peace in the Middle East, and that is anathema to the neo-cons.
27 year old spanish democracy has now put the 200 year old faltering american experiment to shame. What are americans going to do about it?
On Edit: Some of the same people that were praising the spanish people maturity during the Friday demonstrations, because they thought it would benefit the neo-con stooges, are now insulting them as appeasers. But the spanish people know that the real appeasers are the aggression apologists, and they don't care what they think!
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Mon Mar-15-04 07:49 AM
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1. they know what fascism is |
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I think this is a key point. Spain lived under fascism for decades, so they know what's at stake.
All too many Americans, fed lies by the mass media, are ready to support our very own fascists out of fear.
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Mon Mar-15-04 03:05 PM
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3. And those willing to give up their freedom for a little supposed security |
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soon will deservedly have neither. Thanks, Benjamin, wish I could have thought up that one.
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Mon Mar-15-04 09:02 AM
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2. A most meritourus bump |
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Soon, Powell will be out excoriating the Spanish voters, and his nastier cohorts in crime will not be far behind, trumpeting their "A Vote for the Terrorists" message. This will be the message of our campaign--a vote for Kerry is a vote for bin Laden--and they will mis no opportunity to use it.
I don't think our response can be too nuanced. It needs to be direct as the above: the neo-cons and the terrorists both seek to remake the world through violence and the resulting fear. They are truly two sides of the same coin.
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