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August 23rd, 2007

Karl Rove’s Departure

Karl Rove a.k.a. “Turd Blossom” (they even managed to spin the meaning of turd) may have decided to leave, but his divisive tactics aren’t checking out any time soon. Mr. Turd (for brevity’s sake) devoted his entire tenure in Washington to ensuring that every American was benighted to his boss’s noisome policies. In order to pull off such massive deceit, Mr. Turd used fraud, trickery, manipulation, fear-mongering, voter disenfranchisement, intimidation, lawbreaking, influence-peddling, cover-ups and hypocrisy. And that’s just the first four years.

As Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfiwitz and Donald Rumsfeld were attacking our emotions with classic right-wing propaganda Mr. Turd was devising a scheme of his own to maintain party rule at home. For example, Mr. Turd once audaciously accused the Democrats of offering therapy and understanding to our attackers as well as disingenuously warning them days before the election in 2004 that a vote for John Kerry would increase the likelihood of a terror attack, thus hoodwinking Americans into believing that their safety would be at risk if they pulled the lever for a democrat. Now this was obviously patent balderdash to politically astute voters; however, to the many miserably uninformed voters it was a rallying cry. The results of the 2004 election spawned a map of color-coded representations of states’ partisanship in the form or blue or red, with red symbolizing warmongering and homophobia and blue symbolizing diplomacy and reason. Mr. Turd was therefore successful at dividing the country.

In summation, celebrating the departure of Mr. Turd, although understandable, does not ensure a sweeping democratic victory. The foundation has been layed out, and it’s surely to be used by the many Karl Roves of the Republican party.

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August 16th, 2007

Strange Bedfellows: Iran and Afghanistan

Iran’s fiery and messianic president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, showed his disregard for America’s global expansionism yesterday by meeting with Afghanistan’s embattled president, Hamid Karzai, showing once again that his country is increasingly stronger. Mr Ahmadinejad’s visit came on the same day Washington labeled a wing of the Iranian military as a terror organization.

The visit–the first ever to the country where America, Britain and other western nations are involved in a heated battle with Taleban insurgents–is inevitably to exasperate Washington, which continues to accuse Tehran of meddling in the Afghan theater and arming the taleban with sophisticated weaponry. As a Shia dominated country, Iran vehemently denies assisting its loathsome Sunni rival. After all Iran was never happy with the Taleban regime. Notwithstanding, the Irananian president openly expressed friendly relations, and why shouldn’t he?

As the US misadventure in Iraq drags it further into morass, Iran is using its new found influence to win the hearts and minds of so many a frustrated middle easterners. Washington realizes this and is doing everything in its capacity to manipulate opinion in its favor, like, for example, stepping up it’s support of Iranian opposition groups. In full recognition of this fact, a commentary by Derek Sands, carried by the United Press International, says, “At a time when the United States is widely regarded in the Middle East as a military aggressor and faces plummeting popularity around the world, Iran is taking advantage of the situation to boost its own image and forge closer ties with its neighbors.” And what better country to put this to the test than in the war-torn country of Afghanistan.

Tehran has reportedly contributed over $560 million to the reconstruction of Afghanistan in health, agriculture, road and building projects.

If there’s any proof that Washington is losing the propaganda war, it’s in a poll recently conducted by the Pew Attitudes Research Project. According to the poll, a majority of people living across the world consider the US-led invasion of Iraq to be a greater threat to world peace than Iran. This news cannot be good for an administration dogged by domestic squabbles, a fruitless war, and a increasingly skeptical world. It’s incumbent upon our leaders to swallow their pride and admit utter defeat in Iraq and leave it to the Iranians who clearly seem to have the ball in their court. If we exit Iraq in an orderly, phased fashion, we send the world the message that we aren’t a military aggressor bent on world domination and, in the process, we make convince the world that Iran–nuclear-armed or not– is in fact everything we claim it to be.

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