Village Idiot
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:00:00 GMT
From
this hilarious page of Bush posters: [birdman]
Kevin Tuma - Torch - cartoon commentary on the tenth anniversary of the seige of Waco. "The Clinton-Reno Memorial Flame." Not funny.
John Brady Kiesling at truthout - Letter of Resignation, to: Secretary of State Colin L. Powell - a diplomat for twenty years resigns over GW's Iraq policy. Contains Mr. Kiesling's letter and a New York Times column about it. [rrnd]
I am writing you to submit my resignation from the Foreign Service of the United States and from my position as Political Counselor in U.S. Embassy Athens, effective March 7. I do so with a heavy heart. The baggage of my upbringing included a felt obligation to give something back to my country. Service as a U.S. diplomat was a dream job. I was paid to understand foreign languages and cultures, to seek out diplomats, politicians, scholars and journalists, and to persuade them that U.S. interests and theirs fundamentally coincided. My faith in my country and its values was the most powerful weapon in my diplomatic arsenal.
It is inevitable that during twenty years with the State Department I would become more sophisticated and cynical about the narrow and selfish bureaucratic motives that sometimes shaped our policies. Human nature is what it is, and I was rewarded and promoted for understanding human nature. But until this Administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer.
The policies we are now asked to advance are incompatible not only with American values but also with American interests. Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has been America's most potent weapon of both offense and defense since the days of Woodrow Wilson. We have begun to dismantle the largest and most effective web of international relationships the world has ever known. Our current course will bring instability and danger, not security.
Jack W. Boone at The Creative Foot Dragger - Neither R nor D - why Mr. Boone will never again vote for a Democrat or a Republican. [survivalarts]
L. Neil Smith proposes that the two parties are identical, and should be known as one, the Boot on Your Neck (BOYN) party. I contend that they are still two, like two street gangs, for instance the Crips and the Bloods, but the effect is the same. To support either will have the same effect, control by street gangs with little care for our welfare. Neither have any ideology other than to oppose each other, fight their turf wars, and get votes by saying something different than the other gang does.
Adam Engel at Strike the Root - The Damned - entertaining exposition of what a real protest would look like. My only question, why should the 10 million people marching on Washington do so unarmed? [rrnd]
