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Sep 12, 2006 6:50 AM

[cacklinggrackle] most visible liberal blogger on MSNBC fired

cacklinggrackle

 

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870

 

perhaps this kind of truth got him canned:

 

It would be impossible to do justice here to the legacy of 9/11 at

year five and I'm not going to try. This nation was doubly cursed on

this day five years ago; first by the attack itself, and second by the

reaction of our dishonest, incompetent and corrupt leadership's

exploitation of it for their own naked political and ideological

purposes. As every single global poll during the past four years

indicates, we are a less admirable nation than we were five years ago.

We are more warlike, more arrogant, more ignorant, less compassionate,

less generous, less free, and thanks to the Bush administration's

catastrophic invasion of Iraq, far less safe.

 

I look back on that moment when so many of us wanted to trust our

president and I wonder: Who would have imagined in their worst

nightmares that these political usurpers would employ the human

catastrophe of 9/11 to continue the terrorists work for them? Who

would have imagined that they would embark on a course that would

eventually kill more Americans than died on 9/11 in wars that do

nothing to ensure the nation's security but much to inspire more Arabs

to hate us and wish to attack us? Who would have imagined they would

dissipate the global solidarity and support the world had offered us?

Who would have imagined that, having ignored all of the signs of a

certain attack, they would continue to ignore the most obvious steps

to protect us against future catastrophe, leaving our ports, our

nuclear facilities, our chemical facilities invitingly unguarded? Who

would have imagined that they would willingly allow bin-Laden to

escape? Who would have imagined they would lie to the rescue workers

about the health effects of the air they were breathing. Who would

have imagined that they would put the fate of the nation in the hands

of a group of lying, conniving, rats like " curveball, " Ahmad Chalabi

and the INC? Who would have imagined a political campaign in which a

man like Max Cleland, a man who lost three limbs in Vietnam, would be

branded as insufficiently patriotic by right-wing politicians and

pundits who never sacrificed so much as a chicken dinner for their

country? Who would have imagined they would use homeland security as

pure pork money, doling out millions for Red State fire houses while

leaving tens of millions who live near obvious targets—and were

attacked last time—unprotected? Who would have imagined they would

emulate our enemies, employing methods of torture and massacre? Who

would imagine they would force our brave soldiers to die fighting

phantoms, without even proper body armor? Who would have imagined they

would outlaw photographs of military funerals, or that the president

could not find time to attend a single one of them? Who would have

imagined they would use the attacks to create a domestic spying

regime, a series of secret prisons and tribunals, and the declare the

right to abrogate any and all American civil liberties whenever it

struck their fancy? Who would have imagined, in other words, that they

would exploit these tragic deaths to seek to undermine our

Constitution, our Bill of Rights, indeed the very foundations of the

same " freedom " that allegedly inspired the terrorists in the first

place? And finally, who would have imagined that our vaunted " liberal

media " and nonpartisan political establishment would cheer them along

the way, failing to ask the difficult questions and attacking the

patriotism and even sanity of those with the courage and foresight to

do so? 9/11 could have been a rebirth of our nation's civic and

political culture, together with a recommitment to use our power to

ensure the security and prosperity of a world community that looked to

us with sympathy and admiration. " We are All Americans, " said Le

Monde. Today most of the world is anti-American and understandably so.

We have failed the Afghans. We have failed the Iraqis. We have failed

our long-time allies, indeed, virtually everyone who trusted us. We

will survive, of course, and someday, a more enlightened leadership

will be able to undo some of the damage these two curses have

inflicted upon us and return us to the values that helped build this

great nation. But the opportunity offered by a world united in

solidarity with America and its values is almost certainly dead for

good. Let the coroner's certificate read: " Cause of Death: Lies,

Extremism, Incompetence, Corruption, Murder, Torture, and Hypocrisy,

Stupidity, and Even More Lies. "