The Shifting Tides
Yesterday I ran across this from the Boston Globe:
Change of heartland - The Boston Globe
Change of heartland
On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, many Indianians are no longer strongly behind the war
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff March 19, 2006
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The third anniversary of the Iraq invasion unleashed a surge of pessimism at a local farmers' market here, where stalwart Republicans, standing amid aisles of produce and miracle cures, said President Bush has messed up a war that looks more like Vietnam every day.
Madaras, the owner of a plumbing company, said he believed Bush when the president declared major combat to be over in May 2003, and is ''disgusted" that Bush's rhetoric was hollow. And he is far from alone. Support for Bush and his handling of Iraq is sharply eroding across the American heartland, where the overcast skies and the muddy fields ... [click the link to read the entire article - well worth it!]
It looks to me like all of the President's BS is starting to catch up with him. For many of us the BS was fairly obvious from the beginning but for the true believers they ignored it, ridiculed it, and so on. Now the evidence is slowly starting to sink in and even the much vaunted Rightwing Echo Chamber won't be able to surpress the truth.
As a high school student I watched this happen during the Nixon days. No one wanted to believe it then either but then more and more dribbled out until finally no one could deny that we as a nation had been conned and lied to. It'll be same this time. Tragically though, this time it'll have a body count.
Change of heartland - The Boston Globe
Change of heartland
On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, many Indianians are no longer strongly behind the war
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff March 19, 2006
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The third anniversary of the Iraq invasion unleashed a surge of pessimism at a local farmers' market here, where stalwart Republicans, standing amid aisles of produce and miracle cures, said President Bush has messed up a war that looks more like Vietnam every day.
Madaras, the owner of a plumbing company, said he believed Bush when the president declared major combat to be over in May 2003, and is ''disgusted" that Bush's rhetoric was hollow. And he is far from alone. Support for Bush and his handling of Iraq is sharply eroding across the American heartland, where the overcast skies and the muddy fields ... [click the link to read the entire article - well worth it!]
It looks to me like all of the President's BS is starting to catch up with him. For many of us the BS was fairly obvious from the beginning but for the true believers they ignored it, ridiculed it, and so on. Now the evidence is slowly starting to sink in and even the much vaunted Rightwing Echo Chamber won't be able to surpress the truth.
As a high school student I watched this happen during the Nixon days. No one wanted to believe it then either but then more and more dribbled out until finally no one could deny that we as a nation had been conned and lied to. It'll be same this time. Tragically though, this time it'll have a body count.
posted by Steve Mule at 7:43 PM
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