Today, I listened to a program, a panel of people who are from other countries. Some were of Middle Eastern descent. They discussed the war against terror. What struck me as odd was how those against the war only see it from one perspective.
One argued against the war in Afghanistan, stating the Taliban have no desires to attack the U.S. and have not taken part in attacks against the U.S. or its interests. Even though another panelist reminded him that they did provide training camps, food, and protection to those that did have such designs. Again, the panelist reminded the Taliban supporter that Bush even offered to leave the Taliban alone if they would arrest and handover the terrorists and their leaders.
We see things from different perspectives. Our perspectives are our realities. When the media began citing the casualty rate in Iraq on a daily basis, and when they began to criticize Bush’s plan, only then did the support for the war begin to wavier. One could say then, that the media controls our reality by controlling our perspective, and if this is true, than many are nothing more than mindless robots doing the bidding of the media. What they want, they merely convince you of it, and you speak out in favor of their opinions, and so it is written, so it is done.
Trying to fight people being mindless robots is the whole reason for this blog. Don’t be one. I am not saying you need to agree with me, but rather, go and look for yourself. I beg you not to just believe Dan Rather, Charles Gibson, Katy Currick, to name a few. All of whom make millions a year. Yet, they tell you what is right and wrong, and what you should believe and not believe. There is an infinite amount of resources on the Internet. When the democrats say they are for the working class, and the republicans are for the rich, go and find out if this is true and if so, why?
Go, and find out who really supported free voting blacks, and who supported the Ku Klux Klan. Find out where labor unions came from. Go and do the research, did Welfare help or hurt millions of people? Go and research what healthcare is like in Great Britain France and other socialist countries.
I leave you with this thought extraordinary .rendition, or the act of rendering which is the act of turning over a terror suspect to another country has been used in the U.S. for a very long time. However, President Bill Clinton signed the presidential directive in 1995 authorizing the CIA to use Extraordinary Rendition to transfer terror suspect to countries that utilizes torture. Do you remember Richard Clarke a former chief counter terrorist advisor to the Clinton Administration? The following is his quote,
‘extraordinary renditions’, were operations to apprehend terrorists abroad, usually without the knowledge of and almost always without public acknowledgment of the host government…. The first time I proposed a snatch, in 1993, the White House Counsel, Lloyd Cutler, demanded a meeting with the President to explain how it violated international law. Clinton had seemed to be siding with Cutler until Al Gore belatedly joined the meeting, having just flown overnight from South Africa. Clinton recapped the arguments on both sides for Gore: “Lloyd says this. Dick says that. Gore laughed and said, ‘That’s a no-brainer. Of course it’s a violation of international law, that’s why it’s a covert action. The guy is a terrorist. Go grab his ass.’”
I want you to think of this and then reflect back over the last 6 years or so and how the Democrat and media outcry, along with the Hollywood movie entitled Rendition, painting George Bush out as the arbiter of this practice.
