jayeff |
06-26-2004 02:43 PM |
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Originally posted by Nano
If this all was good and necessary there would be no need to justify it since the first day.
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You could go further and say that if it were good and necessary, we could be given the real reasons and the real objectives: it would not be necessary to feed us a load of emotive bullshit.
This is a democratic republic in which our politicians are our representatives and have no mandate to act without our approval. That approval is meaningless if it is gained only by feeding us with disinformation.
That they choose to do so suggests they know they would not get public approval if they told the full and unadorned truth. It is also an indication of the contempt US politicians (the current administration is not alone in this) feel for their electorate. Perhaps that contempt is deserved: most of us make little or no effort to be informed and many play no part whatever in the democratic process. But that does not give politicians a green light to abuse that process.
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