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Lyrics and more Lyrics

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Mike over at Red Letter Day shares the Lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Neighborhood Bully.” This is an excellent song. Mike might also want to check out some other Bob Dylan Material, for instance, from the 1963 Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, “Masters of War” seems particularly relevant to to current times. It begins:

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Go here for the rest.

A Happy Bush

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W must be very happy! First David Sanger reports the following in yesterday’s NY Times:

Shortly after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld issued a stark warning to Iran and Syria last week, declaring that any “hostile acts” they committed on behalf of Iraq might prompt severe consequences, one of President Bush’s closest aides stepped into the Oval Office to warn him that his unpredictable defense secretary had just raised the specter of a broader confrontation.
Mr. Bush smiled a moment at the latest example of Mr. Rumsfeld’s brazenness, recalled the aide. Then he said one word – “Good” – and went back to work.

Since this seemed like a good thing to him then this, from today’s UK Observer must be like icing on the cake:

War in North Korea is now almost inevitable because of the country’s diplomatic stalemate with America, a senior UN official claims.

Thanks to Barry Briggs for the latter reference.

Bush League

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Sean points us to this article where you can find out why Michael Hoyt says:

“Fox tries to position itself as ‘the real American network,'” said Michael Hoyt, executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. “But real Americans believe in democracy and freedom of speech. I think what they did was cynical and bush league.”

And, there can be no question that the FNC is BUSH league.
In the same post Sean provides a lengthy analysis of what he calls

a new form of peace protest . It involves the citizens of relatively wealthy democracies taking full advantage of their civil rights to protest the Allied effort to bring these rights to others.

and provides a point by point rebuttal. You must choose whether you agree with Sean’s arguments.
At one point Sean says

Let us accept that there IS an economic motivation. This doesnt change the fact that Saddam Hussein is a monster and that the Iraqi people are his slaves. I think playing political football with war is dispicable. Hoping to harm the US economy as a way of “getting back” at Bush is a disgusting abuse of the people who are impacted by both sides of the issue.

One point at a time:

first:, yes, there probably is some economic motivation but I think a lot of folks suspect the administration has a much deeper motivation; second: yep, SH is a pretty sick person; third, what does being his slave mean? That some part of their income goes into his coffers? How much? Somewhat over 30% of mine goes to local, state and federal gov, and yes, technically this is probably a form of slavery; and fourth, yea, ‘..playing political football with war is dispicable.” See first point above and review the history of the Bush administration.