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September 27, 2004
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In case anyone is unclear on just how dishonest, underhanded and un-American the Bush administration really is, and it seems that millions of Americans are, I feel I should note this story, reported by Time magazine this week.

U.S. officials tell TIME that the Bush team ran into trouble with another plan involving those [Iraq's] elections -- a secret "finding" written several months ago proposing a covert CIA operation to aid candidates favored by Washington. A source says the idea was to help such candidates -- whose opponents might be receiving covert backing from other countries, like Iran -- but not necessarily to go so far as to rig the elections.

Read that again.

Yes, in order to spread freedom and democracy to the Middle East, we'll not only invade their countries unprovoked, killing thousands upon thousands of them in the name of their own freedom, but we will do them the kind service of secretly influencing their "democratic" elections. Oh, but "not necessarily:" go so far as to outright rig the election. Not necessarily.

The rationale being thrown around by the administration on this one, and yes, they are actually attempting to rationalize this, is that Iran and other evil countries are attempting to influence the Iraqi elections from the other side, so we must counter their efforts.

Okay, let's just assume that's true and Iran is buying media time and spreading propaganda in an effort to get anti-American candidates elected in January. Let's further assume that it's our job to counter such efforts. What would be the "democratic" and "freedom-loving" way to counter it? With secret CIA plans to undermine those very principles, or with some other method? Is there any other way?

Call me crazy, but I have an idea. It's pretty out there, so brace yourself.

How about we TELL THE TRUTH?

You know, uncover the secret Iranian schemes and expose them to the light of a FREE AND INDEPENDENT PRESS. Let the Iraqis see that the Iranians aren't playing fair and let them make up their own minds. What do you think they would think of us if we provided unbiased reporting on the Iranian activities without adding our own deceitful tactics to the mix?

This whole thing just makes me want to vomit. If you're planning to vote for George W. Bush, I'm sorry but you're either tragically uninformed or a complete idiot. He and his cronies are spreading what is quite possibly the most sinister and ANTI-DEMOCRATIC propaganda we've seen in generations from anywhere in the world. It's worse than Nazism and Stalinism, not in it's immediate ramifications, but in it's sophistication and ability to couch itself in the greatest ideals of mankind. Hitler never talked about Freedom and Democracy for anyone but Germans. Everyone knew he was against everyone else. George Bush and his ilk are against us all, but they've convinced us that they're our best friends.

Danger! Danger! Red Frickin' Alert!

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