It still hurts.
I began this article but could not get past the first page: Vanity Fair's article about Going after Gore, the media's savaging of Gore during the 2000 presidential campaign.
If Gore had become president.... we'd have had a president who would have paid attention to the historical paper on Osama bin Laden. If 9/11 had still occurred, President Gore would have rallied the world to assist in hunting Osama down. If invading Afghanistan was necessary, President Gore would have finished the job, making sure the Taliban had no foothold and working with all involved to make a functional government. We would not have attacked Iraq.
We would not have attacked Iraq. We wouldn't be in this mess. We wouldn't have so many American soldiers, so many innocent Iraqis dead and mangled, so many more terrorists now committed to hurting the United States.
So many other things, no ignoring the Constitution, no removal of the wall between church and state, no indifference to the rule of law, no ruin of the environment, no warrantless spying, no torture, no Gitmo, no Abu Ghraib, no depleted uranium poisoning, no trashing of treaties, mocking the Geneva Convention, breaking of the military...
After all these years.
It still hurts to think of what might have been if the media had not sold its soul to the Bush cabal and delivered us into hell.
5 comments:
What an absolute disaster for America (and the World), yes? We could have been such a great nation in the 21st Century but we've lost sight of everything that matters.
History will not be kind to us, I'm afraid.
This makes my heart and my head hurt. No matter where we would be, we would not be in the midst of the clusterf**k that we are now.
Every day things seem like they can't get worse.
Then.
They.
Do.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention; you have a great blog here.
Ripley, I'm sure the Bush administration will be the beginning of the end to the great American superpower. We will eat dust like every other mighty nation filled with hubris and greed.
FranIAm, we were not prepared for how low the Bush administration was prepared to go. Every outrage left us gasping, but they just ran on uprooting laws and destroying liberties.
They did tell us what they planned to do in their Mein Kampf PNAC treatise, but we couldn't imagine they'd actually do them.
Surprise....
Every empire has to die sometime - this is our time. With luck (and no Republicans for the next 10 or so years) we can emulate Britain and shrink back to the size of a normal nation and prosper. I'm afraid we'll more likely go the way of Rome, and disintegrate, all the while chanting "USA! USA!"
The Neocons gambled everything on Iraq being candy and flowers, and destroyed our country.
You are right, we may never again achieve greatness as a superpower, but let us been what we were before the Bush adminstration came into office. Proud to be Americans.
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