There have been plenty of negatives from George W. Bush’s presidency – a disastrous war, a damaged economy, exploding government debt and assaults on the U.S. Constitution – but, as my mom used to say, it’s always important to look for the positives.
And here is one: At no time in my three decades in Washington have I seen more common purpose between honest American journalists and patriotic U.S. intelligence analysts. By trampling on a principle that both groups hold dear – respect for the truth – Bush has pushed these historic adversaries together.
Traditionally, the two groups have viewed each other with suspicion, if not hostility. The best reporters see their job as getting the facts and sharing them with the greatest number of people, while intelligence officers view their task as getting the facts and funneling them to a few select individuals only.
But the Bush administration has changed this dynamic by following the neoconservative “perception management” strategy: you start with a certainty about what should happen – say, invade Iraq. You then cherry-pick the “evidence” and mold it into a scary case to stampede the public.
Some careerists at the CIA – and many careerists in Washington journalism – played along with this neocon game during the run-up to the Iraq War. But other intelligence professionals and journalists rebelled, recognizing that this neocon approach was anathema to both an informed government policy and an informed public.
We began to see intelligence veterans – like Ray McGovern, Mel Goodman and Larry Johnson – take the lead in objecting to the Bush administration’s disdain for reality. Meanwhile, honest journalists looked for new ways, outside the control of corporate and right-wing news outlets, to warn the people of the dangers ahead.
mccain will promote real change: destruction of the western world and the usa with global warming legislation which enrichs a tiny minority of the population and will charge every citizen 1000's of dollars of lost income. the predicted GDP change with global warming legislation is 40 percent less than where it would be in 50 years. with a .4 degree change in 100 years of co2. and this depite plummeting global temperatures and the current mean temperature according to the hadley center in england ( which is typically .4 degrees warmer than the usa) to be the same now as it was in 1880, the global warming having been totally wiped out
so as lxcimi says, better get packed
isnt that sufficient self hatred for most democrats to vote for him?
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