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According to a Harris poll reported in the Wall Street Journal, 22% of Americas still believe that Sadam Hussein helped plan 9/11. Twenty six percent still believe there were WMD's at the time we attacked Iraq. Twenty four percent believe that at least some of the hijackers were Iraqis. Actually, this is a great improvement from a few months ago when these percentages would have been much higher. But doesn't it make you wonder where these people have been all these months? They not only don't connect to the web, they apparently don't connect to anything anywhere. What I find even more disturbing, however, is the fact that some 40 to 41% of the public still supports Bush/Cheney. These supporters must be the hardcore "base" of the Republican party. Now, most of these people must know better. They must know what the charges against Bush/Cheney are, they must know there are increasing calls for impeachment, they must know that many of us believe Bush/Cheney have blatantly acted illegally, and so on. But still they support them. The only thing I can conclude from this dismal situation is that Republicans are proud of their war criminals and are willing to support them no matter what the facts. For them loyalty to country is irrelevant, loyalty to party, no matter what, is important. Such is the siren song of power and greed.

As I said previously, I hate this time of year. One of the things I hate the most is that virtually all television programs think they have to review the past year. Weren't the disasters of the past year bad enough the first time? Why do we have to relive them all? Who wants to wallow around further in the disaster of Katrina, the obscenity of Falluja, the sickness of Schiavo, the tsunami? It's not that I think these events were unimportant, it's because they were so terribly important that I don't need further reminders of how terrible they were. I remember them. And I won't forget them. And what about the things that are not reviewed, that have seemingly completely disappeared from our collective memories? What, for example, happened to Sibel Edmonds? Gannon/Guckert? Posada? All of the things that were simply stonewalled until they have been pretty much forgotten. This is one of the major strategies of the Bush/Cheney administration - just stonewall, stonewall, refuse to turn over anything, obfuscate, delay, lie, invoke national security, etc., etc. until everyone just gives up and forgets. Will this ever catch up with them? Apparently not if the Democrats have anything to do with it. They let them pull off this dishonest business time after time. Probably because they know they might be complicit in it.

Is it not interesting that Chalabi who received less than one percent of the vote in the recent Iraqi elections has been put in charge of the Iraqi oil fields? I guess the Iraqis must have done that because they felt sorry for him?

Justin Raimondo thinks that 2006 is going to be the year of revelations, because, of course, there are finally going to be trials where evidence will be presented and the full extent of Republican criminality will be exposed. I sincerely hope he is right but I'm not going to believe it until I see it. Just remember, Republicans control virtually everything. I wouldn't be surprised to see them run Ken Lay for president (after he wins his "Dumb CEO" defense). After all, he couldn't possibly be any dumber than what we have now.

"Capitalism turns men into economic cannibals, and having done so, mistakes economic cannibalism for human nature."
Edward Hyam