Am-Bushed - Turns out peaceniks were the real patriots all along

[acmavm]

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/CalgarySun/News/2004/06/22/509164.html

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It should anger all of us, this Fahrenheit 9/11 film. In fact, Michael Moore's award-winning, irritatingly incisive expose of Bush Junior and his strike-first-and-ask-questions-never bully boys, should leave Calgarians particularly peeved, since it is a celluloid confirmation of betrayal by a president much loved in these parts. How hard it will be for some of us to finally confront the truth. Those who have been made fools.

After all, think back.

When Dubya decided to embark on his misadventure in Iraq, sentiment in this country from coast to coast to coast swung solidly against signing up with the coalition for the killing, cautious about a common cause that was righteous in rhetoric but murky in motives. At the time, precious little skepticism surfaced in Calgary, however.

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It is patriotic to question the government.

Who didn't question? Who are the real traitors now?

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[struggle4progress]

1. Again: It is patriotic to question the government. eom

[ixion]

2. yep... and not so to be an ideological cheerleader for a pack of thugs

But that's what the mainstream US media was, and that's what the GOP was, and now where are we because of their foolishness? In a mess, with thousands dead and more dying every day.

But yet they still claim things are going swimmingly.

The mind boggles.

[struggle4progress]

3. Corporate media naturally reflects corporate interests.

With some real competition, competing interests let some news through. It'll get worse as media concentration continues.