[Mb-civic] Re: Intelligence... Dean's reply

[Michael Butler]

Dean,
Just keep pushing. Every bit helps. Send your feelings around. I do it all
the time and if I can bring some light to just one person I am hitting on
100%. Make it two and we are at 200%.
Peace and Love,
Michael
-- Never doubt that a group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only
thing that ever has.   Margaret Mead





> Hey Michael;
>   Thanks for the article by Mr. Pillar, who I fully expect to get tarred,
> feathered and smeared by the bush regime. I had just read the N. Y. Times
> article on him and his expose. This article was much deeper, and it only more
> thouroughly reconfirmed my suspicions that go back to pre-war conniving by
> dick c., wolfie, and the rest of the gang that can't shoot straight. I feel
> slightly vindicated but certainly not proud or smug. I'm still pissed. This
> article proposes some possible solutions, but I honestly think that none of us
> should expect anything even remotely close to honesty from the administration
> or congress. I wouldn't bet a wooden nickel that any substantial changes will
> occur. With all of the election fixing experience that the republicans have
> accumulated and with the open-ended style of karl rove, (anything goes), (ie.
> I would not be surprised if it's shown that they made up the false info of
> yellow cake, planted it, waited to see that the British noted it, then used
> that sorce for validation of b. s.), typical modus rovus. They simply think
> that they'll be the ones writing the history books, and they'll be sitting
> fat. Beyond the law, they own it all the way up to and through the Supreme
> Court. 
>    I'm continually amazed that there is no concerted effort to try to rectify
> the situation. I guess people are so busy, working long hours, trying to raise
> families, that they just don't want to hear about it. When I bring it up, I
> get the replies such as "It's always been this way", "That's the way it is",
> "Why don't you do something about it, Dean", etc. I feel so sorry for the next
> generation. Unless we can really make some absolutely monumental changes,
> there is little positive in our future. I look back over the years to where
> the conservatives said that we couldn't afford a couple of billion to fix the
> levee system in the Mississippi, now it's like $100 billion. What a savings.
> Same thing with energy. When Jimmy Carter proposed it, the idea of spending
> 100 billion was preposterous. Now to make the change over, they're quoting
> more than a trillion. Well, that's what it's going to take, we all need to
> make that sacrifice. The damn energy consortium needs to pay for it. They have
> the money. They've been milking America for the past 50 years, holding the
> country and the science back, only until that they can maintain full control
> of the infrastructure. I just watched a History Channel show on George
> Washinton Carver. He figured it all out  before WW II, with soy beans. Now we
> have the better science of 85% alcohol, which needs 60% energy from petrol to
> make itself. Not to mention the pesticides, fertilizers etc. It's a scam. We
> should have sunk a half a trillion into solar, then we'd be energy
> independent, oil would be cheeper, there would be less stress in the middle
> east, and ..... no need to go on, you know it already.
>  the neo-cons are nothing but criminal pimps and pushers. Whether it's heroin
> from Viet Nam, irangate, illegal immigration, they're all making a fortune on
> it. They've killed the golden goose, now their bleeding it dry. And the rest
> of the world watches in wonder, and bush gets a bust to honor his sacrifice in
> the Texas National Guard, what a dishonor to the rest of the members of the
> National Guard. What a crock, it makes him look like a Caesar.
> I gotta barf.
>   Sorry for the crude imagery.
>       Honest!
>            Dean H.
>