Moveon.org is patriotic!!
The right wing spin machine is at it again. I don't know why they hate Moveon.org so much when all they have ever done is try to keep politicians honest. Well duh...that must be why. How dare anybody in this country call a liar a liar! Moveon.org ran that add in the New York Times because General Petraeus's report to congress stinks of politics. Why are we not to believe the president is cherry picking his information when he choose to ignore the recommendations of the 911 commission report? Every news report has said that the last three months in Iraq have been the bloodiest of any summer months since the war began. According to the New York Times, the Pentagon has adopted a bizarre way of keeping tabs on violence. They no longer count car bombings and assassinations don't count if your shot in the front of the head, only the back. What's going on?
Every independent report has shown that the surge strategy has not worked. The proponets of the surge will talk about an area coming under our control because of the surge but ignore the fact that we lost another or violence surged in another area because we moved the troops around. Everything about this war has been cherry picked from the reasons that were used to go to war, to the information that is used to report how the war is going, and now, even the way we sum up the violence. So why should we believe the good general? Are we really supposed to follow our leaders like blind sheep and believe every word even when they are caught time and time again lying and manipulating the truth? We didn't let Clinton get away with it and we should not let this administration get away with it. Why are we so easily caught up in patriotic fervor just because they keep throwing manipulative words and phrases at us? Support the troops, terrorists, 911.... my God, are we really that easy to control?
I hope that liberals are wrong about this war. I hope this war really is necessary because I'd hate to think these thousands of kids died and billions were spent for no good reason other than corporate profits. But when you have a party in control that listens to religious dogma over science, and puts corporate welfare ahead of the people they were elected to serve, then why should we believe anything they say? And when anybody dares to question them, they are labeled as unpatriotic or not supporting the troops. Moveon.org is more American and patriotic then any conservative that has been blindly going along with the lies and manipulations of this administration and it's spin machine. I am a patriot and yet I say George Bush is a liar. I support the troops and yet I say they are fighting for corporate greed....and I sincerely hope that history proves me completely wrong.