Reply #47: More like Iran-Contra [View All]

[troublemaker]

Reagan got off scotts free and most people still "liked" Reagan but we had all seen him lie on TV--a lame sort of folksy bullshit lie in the lovable Reagan style, but still a clear-cut lie about matters of national security. To many of his supporters Reagan was never the same after that. He was just another bum politician. After he'd been gone a while he was mythologized by the right to the point where few folks remember that he just wasn't very popular at the end of his reign.

Bush's whole gig, like Reagan's, is based on intangible perceptions of likability and trustworthiness. Intangibles can evaporate overnight.

There's little in the news so far about the most damaging aspect of this whole thing. Watergate fans repeat after me... IT'S NOT THE CRIME, IT'S THE COVER-UP.

As Bob Kerry said, the administration is damn lucky the old anti-alQaeda plan is classified.

Everyone was rooting for Bush after 9/11 and he could have come out and said, "well, this has taken us all by surprise. No one can view this event as anything other than a failure. I share the blame, blah, blah." Instead the administration, due to their fascist-lite instincts, created a cult of infallibility and built a mythology wherein they had been only moments away from destroying AQ... "the plan to eliminate AQ reached the president September 10th."

Everyone in the admin has made such claims publicly. It may take months for people to realize the admin was simply lying... that its fool-proof plan was to commence another humiliating round of begging the Taliban to turn Bin Laden over to us, followed perhaps by assisting the Northern Alliance.

Those are the facts and it's all on paper.