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Pious Perverts See other Pious Perverts Articles Title: Corrupt Leadership Class: The Political Establishment Corrupt Leadership Class: The Political Establishment John LeBoutillier It is time we all face a few facts: The political establishment in Washington DC -- both Republicans and Democrats -- has grown into a lazy, lying, manipulative and dirty machine which is surely destroying our country. The so-called mainstream media (MSM) is an adjunct to this corrupt machine. Instead of asking questions in behalf of the American people, the MSM has become the propaganda arm of the politicians of both parties who lie constantly. Let’s take Iraq: last week’s column, WAR BASED ON LIES, has prompted numerous emails from good readers (so many, in fact, that they can’t all be answered individually). That column opined that, in order to start the war in Iraq, the Political Establishment in DC harnessed the anger and fear from a still-fresh-in-our-hearts 9/11 attack to ‘pivot’ and aim - not at Osama Bin Laden - but at Saddam Hussein (even though he and Iraq had nothing at all to do with the 9/11 attacks). So the Political Establishment - with the complicity of the so-called MSM - ran a concerted campaign using leaked intelligence to scare the bejesus out of the American people until almost everyone believed Saddam was just minutes away from attacking us with WMD and pilotless drones that could fly from Iraq to the United States mainland. Almost every elected politician in DC - Republican and Democrat - fell in line and parroted the accepted line that Saddam had these weapons and therefore we had to pre-emptively invade before he attacked us. John Kerry - ever the political prostitute - just loved the opportunity to expunge his pacifistic past and appear to be a war hawk; so, too, Hillary Clinton looked like General George Patton calling for even more troops than Don Rumsfeld wanted. One thing you all need to know: Members of the House and Senate are the single most pathetic group of people you will ever meet. They are weak, mealy-mouthed ‘followers,’ who haven’t had an original idea in their lifetimes. No wonder a Senator hasn’t been elected president since JFK in 1960; Capitol Hill is the worst place to learn about America and the American people. So when this so-called ‘intelligence’ of WMD began to miraculously surface almost daily in the MSM in the summer and fall of 2002, the Congress was more than happy to hide behind it in a pathetic display of ‘one-upmanship,’ whereby every member of the House and Senate fell over themselves to warn Iraq that they better turn over their WMD or else. OK. Now it is years later and no WMD have been found. None. Many readers have been claiming that in fact we did find WMD in Iraq - some claim 500 tons of uranium and several tons of enriched uranium. Let us be clear about something: GW Bush is in severe political trouble - in great part because the American public has soured on Iraq. If our troops had found any WMD - especially enriched uranium or anything else of this nature - the White House would have the President over there standing next to it in the greatest PR offensive in history to vindicate him for going to war!!! It is a myth that we have found anything. And it is a myth that assuages many people’s guilt over supporting an invasion based on false claims. This Administration does not even claim to have found WMD. They have abandoned that line when it proved to be too embarrassing. Nor do they perpetuate this other myth that the WMD was moved at the last minute to Syria or the Bekaa Valley. Again, if that were true the White House would be more than happy to go get it, dig it up and expose it to the world. Mr. Bush would then be a hero. And the Iraq war would be seen as necessary and thus the entire political landscape would be different today. (Plus, let us remember we have today almost every top Iraqi leader and scientist from the now-infamous deck of cards in custody including Dr. Germ. We have clearly ‘sweated’ these scientists and leaders. If we had come up with anything to vindicate the pre-war WMD claims, don’t you think we would have made it public? Of course we would!!!) No, sadly there were no WMD in Iraq since the end of the Gulf War in 1991 and the imposition of sanctions. Saddam from that point on bluffed his enemies - internal and elsewhere - into thinking he had them because in the past he had used them on his Kurdish enemies. And in the Middle East fear and bluffing are instrumental in maintaining a hold on power. Today in Washington, the very same politicians who got us into this mess in Iraq - a mess which can only result in an Iraq in alliance with Tehran (our worst nightmare) - are running scared trying to place blame elsewhere. Bush is in a total meltdown - in great part because Iraq has sapped his credibility - and the Congress is held in almost the same level of disdain. Iraq, gas price rip-offs, illegals swarming unabated into our nation and Katrina have soured the American people. The American people are waking up to the perfidy of their Leadership Class. From the Enron Era in business, to the Catholic Church scandals and the mess in DC, people are disgusted with our leaders. And they should be. Look for a looming political revolution in this country - maybe even a powerful Independent Third Candidate for president in 2008. Things have to change. And the American people will make that change happen. "Published originally at http://EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact http://www.etherzone.com ." ________ John LeBoutillier is a former U.S. Congressman and a nationally recognized political commentator. He has been a frequent guest on many national talk show programs and is author of the book Harvard Hates America. He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone. John LeBoutillier can be reached at: johnlebout@johnlebout.com He keeps an archive of his articles at: http://www.JohnLeBout.com Copyright 2005 The Sierra Times
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This Administration does not even claim to have found WMD. They have abandoned that line when it proved to be too embarrassing. Nor do they perpetuate this other myth that the WMD was moved at the last minute to Syria or the Bekaa Valley. Again, if that were true the White House would be more than happy to go get it, dig it up and expose it to the world. Mr. Bush would then be a hero. And the Iraq war would be seen as necessary and thus the entire political landscape would be different today. (Plus, let us remember we have today almost every top Iraqi leader and scientist from the now-infamous deck of cards in custody including Dr. Germ. We have clearly ‘sweated’ these scientists and leaders. If we had come up with anything to vindicate the pre-war WMD claims, don’t The terrible truth is that the Wepons of Mass Destruction are mainly in Washington and Tel Aviv. And the actions they invoke provoke other entities to procure WMD.
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