OT: Bush Supporters Erode Values Of The Right
Jez
Values Of The Right
By Shane Cory
The Washington Dispatch
7-10-4
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/opinion/article_9508.shtml
From my experience these days, an individual blindly backing the
current president, George W. Bush, bases their arguments for support of
this man on heavy rhetoric yet little fact. Many choose to attack Bush's
detractors rather than defend the merits of Bush's actions. For the most
part, they are either intellectually dishonest or so horribly
misinformed that they cannot see error in their thoughts.
During the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, Bush's base spouted off the
threat of weapons of mass destruction yet failed to address the issues
of delivery of such weapons. The truth remains that even if Saddam's
regime had still possessed WMD, they had no delivery capabilities that
could strike far from their own borders, much less the United States.
Additionally, the Bush administration was so desperate to scare the
American public that they recycled a British report about Iraq's 45
minute attack window capability and unmanned Iraqi drones spraying
bio-warfare agents over US cities, all of which turned out to be
completely false.
As their arguments on WMD fell apart, Bush-bots (as I lovingly call
them), jumped on the U.N. resolution bandwagon led by Bush's boy, Sean
Hannity. This argument has always been laughable to me. The premise of
this defensive stance is that Saddam violated the resolutions of the
United Nations so George Bush had to defy the will of the U.N. in order
to protect the integrity of their own resolutions. Huh? Yes, it has
always been a silly argument yet at least it is factually correct at its
core. It should also be considered that Israel has nuclear and chemical
weapons. They bulldoze the homes of Palestinians and have built their
own version of the Berlin Wall around new ghettoes. They routinely
flaunt UN resolutions. Why are they not "liberated?"
The "we did it to liberate the Iraqi people" talking point did not work
as Bush conveniently ignores the genocide currently being committed in
Africa. If any group of people in this world needs to be "liberated"
it's the men, women and children being hacked to death by machetes as
men like Robert Mugabe smile and approve.
As the occupation of Iraq violently continued long after Bush declared
"Mission Accomplished," the Bush-bots were running out of valid
arguments to defend their president. Thankfully for them, we caught that
evil little man hiding in a hole. For many months, Bush and his flock
could cut down any debate with the line, "Is the world better off
without Saddam Hussein?" Any honest person at the time had to concede.
However today, as it was pointed out by, Carol Coleman, an Irish
reporter in her recent interview of Bush, the world is not a better
place these days. It is much more violent with acts of terrorism
occurring each and every day.
As November nears, Bush-bots have dropped all logical defense of their
president. Any negative comments are now only quipped by wishful
rhetoric: "Bush protects us from terrorism," "George W. Bush has done
more to secure the safety of this country than anyone," "He's a good
Christian man," "History will show that Bush is own of our greatest
leaders." Convincing, huh?
Instead of engaging in factual debate regarding the Bush administration,
Bushies have taken the field to attack John Kerry and his new running
mate John Edwards. Most of their arguments are solid yet they only take
this position in order to avoid a debate regarding their fearless leader.
Throughout my statements above, you may have noticed that I did not
refer to Bush supporters as conservatives, or even of being truly on
what we consider as the political right. Those poor, misled individuals
who choose to stand unquestioningly by Bush are not conservatives. They
are men and women who are loyal to one mere politician instead of their
country. Although the Bush flock quickly rebukes dissenters as
un-American, unpatriotic or traitors, they should take the time out to
analyze their own loyalties.
True conservatives, value integrity above all other personal traits.
Without integrity, the sincerity of other positions can easily be
questioned. Although many conservative leaders have shown a great lack
of honesty in the past through hypocrisy or simply bold-faced lies, the
men and women who make up this movement are as a whole, good, truthful
people. By supporting the administration of George Bush, those who in
the past may have considered themselves "conservative" are in fact
ideologues hell-bent on defending the notion of morality by backing a
man of disjointed moral character.
By blindly offering their unwavering support just as a lemming runs
enthusiastically towards a cliff, the supporters of George Bush erode
the integrity of the Republican Party (which may never recover) and by
calling themselves conservatives, undermined the true intent of this
movement.
--
Jez
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious,
of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society
highly values its normal man.It educates children to lose themselves
and to become absurd,and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed
perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
R.D. Laing