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Thursday, November 1st, 2007...8:35 pm


Why I Rant

Pete Seeger wrote in 1963:

Knee deep in the Big Muddy
And the fools keep yelling, Push on
Waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the damn fools keep yelling, Push on
Waist deep, neck deep
We’ll be drowning before too long
We’re neck deep in the Big Muddy
And the damn fools keep yelling to push on

A recent Zogby International survey indicates that 52% of the USA public supports bombing Iran and another 20% don’t know.

So just five years after buying into the Bush administration’s and profit driven media’s bamboozlement routine which convinced the USA public of non-existent Iraqi WMDs and nukes, a majority of the public is ready to again “push on” into the “Big Muddy”. The same bamboozlement playbook, I might note, was used to convince the public to support raining terror upon Vietnam (the phony Gulf of Tonkin incident) and to support the seizure of Spanish colonies for USA profits through the Spanish American War (”Remember the Maine”).

Iran poses no threat to the USA nor to Israel, none-the-less, as Ray McGovern documents, the psychopathic, Cheneyite neo-fascists are pushing for an attack on Iran, not to serve USA interests but rather those of Israel.

A number of readers have commented that they appreciate the photos and stories about living in Mexico but skip my political rants. A number have told me that they don’t read the rants as they already are informed on the subject of my rant, a sentiment I completely understand. One reader told me that she thinks politics is boring (which I think is really just an excuse.)

Public boredom, or disinterest at least, with USA politics enables the war profiteers (and that what war is really about - profit for a relative few) and and their media enablers and the “chosen people”, manifest destiny crowd to sell the latest war to the disinterested, thus uninformed, public.

Thus, I rant.

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  • Theresa
    November 2nd, 2007 at 7:53 am

    I don’t always agree with your rants, but I usually read them. I might find something to change my mind. I’m not political, I’m too lazy, and that’s a flaw. Yeah, I like the Mexico stuff better, but I like dessert better than brocolli but I still like broccolli if it’s prepared right, and I don’t like dessert if it’s too sweet. I have no idea what my point was.

    Theresa

  • Gringo Loco
    November 2nd, 2007 at 8:11 am

    Theresa,

    I understand your point. I certainly don’t expect folks to agree with me and that my views lie outside of the mainstream of USA political thought.

    Sometimes I just have to rant.

  • Lindsay
    November 3rd, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    Please keep ranting. It is sometimes lonely out here in the wilderness, and heartening to read a kindred point of view.

  • Gringo Loco
    November 3rd, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    Hi Lindsay,

    Thanks for the reinforcement. There will be more ranting, I promise, as I often just can’t help myself.

  • Theresa
    November 9th, 2007 at 9:09 pm

    When I saw this article on Slate, I immediately thought of you!

    http://www.slate.com/id/2176968/

    regards,
    Theresa

  • Gringo Loco
    November 9th, 2007 at 9:25 pm

    Thanks for the link Theresa. I found the article amusing.

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