Robert Parry: America's Point of No Return

[Mass]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/110206.html

Robert Parry: America's Point of No Return
Monday, 6 November 2006, 2:24 pm
Opinion: Robert Parry
America's Point of No Return

By Robert Parry
Consortium News & Truthout.org
Thursday 02 November 2006

Now that George W. Bush has reframed Election 2006 around John Kerry's "botched joke" and the notion that a Democratic victory means "the terrorists win," Americans must begin looking seriously at what the continuation of Republican majorities in Congress would mean for the country.

In many ways, Election 2006 not only marks the last chance to exact some accountability from those responsible for the disastrous Iraq War and other failures, but it also represents a point of no return for a nation hurtling toward a future of endless warfare abroad and a new-age totalitarianism at home.

Indeed, one could argue that the trivialization of this important U.S. election - with major U.S. news outlets devoting two days of breathless coverage to Senator Kerry's clunky joke - is confirmation of America's rapid descent into a dark fantasy world incapable of separating meaningful fact from silly irrelevancies.

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All that's left now is for the Washington pundits - many of the same people who climbed aboard the Iraq War bandwagon in 2002-03 - to explain to the nation on Election Night how Bush and his political team brilliantly engineered a dramatic come-from-behind win or how the Kerry gaffe and the overconfident Democrats blew it.

But the recent goofiness aside, the stakes for the Nov. 7 congressional elections remain extremely high and are likely to get even higher.

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Granted, these are difficult and complex issues for the U.S. press corps to explain. It's a lot easier to frame a story around John Kerry's joke.

But no American should go to the polls on Nov. 7 - whether voting Republican or Democratic - without recognizing what that vote will mean. The United States is at a dangerous crossroads. Indeed, it may be at a point of no return.

[emulatorloo]

1. Send this around to anyone who does not take this election seriously

"If Bush follows the pattern of 2002 and 2004, he will interpret a Republican victory on Nov. 7 as a mandate for pursuing and expanding his policies."

Kick and Nom

[Inuca]

2. Excellent! n/t

[TomClash]

3. In a way this is true

We are voting for the Republic and not a Fascist Empire.

[bobthedrummer]

4. "Bush Will Say Anything" by Robert Parry (thanks so much!)

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/110306.html

[necso]

5. This election is a referendum

on the direction of the country.

If you wish to change it, vote Democratic.

If you don't wish to change it, vote anything else.

It's really as simple as that.

[cassiepriam]

9. Also a referendum on the American people

Have they learned any lessons?
Do they have a moral compass?
And a basic intelligence?

We shall see.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. Excellent article... have re-posted in 2 other forums

on other sites. TY for posting this Mass
:kick: :thumbsup:

Yippee! 100 posts and counting...:toast:

[blm]

7. ANOTHER slam against the media on this - BushInc couldn't do what they do

and get away with it without the full complicity of many in the broadcast media.

[FernBell]

8. k&r

[bobthedrummer]

10. kick