[Peace-discuss] On Afghanistan, Michael Steele Speaks for Me

[E.Wayne Johnson]

Carlin sums it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIC0eZYEtI

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From: "E.Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag>
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> Sooner or later one has to realize and integrate the fact that things are
> controlled by a well-entrenched oligarchy and all of that b.s. about
> left-right liberal-conservative r/d have very little to do with what it 
> going on.
>
> Keebler cookies are made by elves in hollow trees and all those factories
> out the 'burbs are just smokescreen.  People expect to see factories and 
> they
> don't believe in elves or hobbitses, so Keebler has to keep some factories 
> around just
> to maintain order and prevent consternation.
>
> George Carlin says it well about the oligarchy. "Its a Small Club,
> and you ain't in it.  And it's the same club that they use to hit you
> over the head with...They don't give a fuck about you.  They don't
> give a Fuck about You.  THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT  YOU."
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Naiman" <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 2:07 AM
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] On Afghanistan, Michael Steele Speaks for Me
>
>
>> When Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse accused
>> Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele of "betting against
>> our troops and rooting for failure in Afghanistan" after Steele
>> criticized the Afghanistan war, Woodhouse wasn't just attacking
>> Michael Steele; Woodhouse was attacking me and every American who is
>> against the war.
>>
>> As people who care about *issues*, it's not in our interest for the
>> DNC to police the boundaries of the other side. If a third of the
>> Republicans in the House had voted for the McGovern-Obey-Jones
>> amendment, reflecting the 35% of the Republicans in the country who
>> think the war is not worth its costs, the amendment would have passed.
>> Instead, 5% of the Republicans in the House did so. With his attack on
>> Steele, Woodhouse pushed House Republicans further away from the
>> three-fifths of House Democrats - including Speaker Pelosi, and
>> Representatives Honda and Wasserman Schultz, the two DNC Vice Chairs
>> who are Members of Congress - who support a timetable for withdrawal.
>>
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/on-afghanistan-michael-st_b_640976.html
>>
>> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/09-10
>>
>> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/9/124650/3660
>>
>> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/641
>>
>> --
>> Robert Naiman
>> Policy Director
>> Just Foreign Policy
>> www.justforeignpolicy.org
>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>>
>> Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from 
>> Afghanistan
>> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern
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