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there will be a certain percentage in the U.S. that believes and supports it. The same diehard core who still steadfastly/automatically support Bush --- which (scarily) is approximately 1/3 of the population, give or take a few percentage points. Also, the ones who blindly/mechanically/robotically utter the phrase, "support our troops" with the not even hidden coded message/accusation that if you're not 100% for Bush and the War you're a goddamn, commie traitor. Also the non-thinking ones who believe that the generic office of President demands blind respect regardless of who currently occupies it --- that any sitting President can do no wrong and should receive our unequivocal, 100% support/obedience. If there's an "incident" in the Gulf/MidEast, a domestic terror attack here (real or manufactured), or Bush starts nuking Iran, you KNOW the whorish FOXCNNMSNBC conglomerate will go into complete, manic overdrive and be in their rabble-rousing, BushCo-supporting, propagandistic glory, wreaking terrible moral destruction/devestation on our Republic and Democracy with their 24/7 rabid coverage. Just think how many times you saw the repetitive loop footage of those planes crashing into the Twin Towers. Part of the media's propaganda/psychological strategy is saturation and endless repetition. Can't you already hear O'Reilly, Malkin, Hannity, Blitzer, Beck, Limbaugh, Coulter, Matthews, etal? Katie will just keep grinning and be terminally perky over at CBS. One of my major concerns is that a percentage of people who are already against, or those Repubs who are gradually turning against BushCo will succumb (as we Americans usually do) to the "rally around the President & the flag" syndrome in an emergency. Even if the root cause is totally manufactured, some (perhaps too many) will go back to supporting Bush as our "War President" if they believe the country is in crisis. An even worse concern is that an "incident" will be the springboard for Bush to declare a national emergency, institute martial law, suspend elections, officially suspend the Constitution (as opposed to his just spitting on it as he does now), etc. I don't think we can count on Congress to have learned their lesson from meekly standing by while Bush usurped their war-making powers, and then tacitly rubber-stamping his "preemptive" war on Iraq, or their cluster-fuck fellation of Bush by passing his hideous "Patriot Act" the first time around (in 2001) with most of them admitting they never even read it!
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