Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Can You IMAGINE?
Everyone else probably already understood this, but it wasn't until we saw Medea Benjamin, founding director of Global Exchange, mopping the floor with the smarmy and uncomically dishonest Richard Perle on the Newshour last night that we realized just how screwed the Iraqis are.
Can you imagine what kind of government the likes of Perle, Cheney, Bremer, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and oh yeah, George W. Bush, must be in the process of setting up there? In the absence of any troublesome Constitution to protect the Iraqis? Can you imagine?
We're imagining a bunch of suits jetting around, protected by body guards, devising plans for privatizing every natural resource in Iraq. With no legal restraints on them whatsoever.
Consider what this crowd has done in our own country, despite our Constitution -- not to mention OSHA, the SEC, the FEC, the FCC, etc.
Can you imagine what the US would be like if Dick Cheney and Richard Perle got to build it all over again from scratch?
Advocating a five-day work week would be considered an act of terrorism. Pulling your money out of the market because of broker fraud would be considered a threat to national security.
Iraq is their opportunity to build the world's largest company town.
When they're done, Iraqis will be lucky to own their own genitalia.
Can you imagine what kind of government the likes of Perle, Cheney, Bremer, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and oh yeah, George W. Bush, must be in the process of setting up there? In the absence of any troublesome Constitution to protect the Iraqis? Can you imagine?
We're imagining a bunch of suits jetting around, protected by body guards, devising plans for privatizing every natural resource in Iraq. With no legal restraints on them whatsoever.
Consider what this crowd has done in our own country, despite our Constitution -- not to mention OSHA, the SEC, the FEC, the FCC, etc.
Can you imagine what the US would be like if Dick Cheney and Richard Perle got to build it all over again from scratch?
Advocating a five-day work week would be considered an act of terrorism. Pulling your money out of the market because of broker fraud would be considered a threat to national security.
Iraq is their opportunity to build the world's largest company town.
When they're done, Iraqis will be lucky to own their own genitalia.
