Mission Accomplished

If you've read The Shock Doctrine about disaster capitalism (hint: it isn't a coincidence) you be compelled to agree with the above. It fits the plan.

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Now reading: "Tree of Smoke"

LOL! And right on cue this morning is an interview at Alternate.org with Naomi Kline author of aforementioned The Shock Doctrine. Here's a quote from the interview

Kline: "There really is a kind of a tsunami of shocks facing not just the economy but people's lives, people's real lives. They're all intersecting. They're making each other worse. And I think we really are seeing some very live examples of what a write about in the book, which is how there is a strategy. And this is what I mean by "the shock doctrine." There is a clear political strategy, and has been for several decades, to exploit these moments when people are desperate for quick-fix solutions and more inclined to believe in a kind of a magical cure, to push through very, very unpopular policies that don't actually solve the crisis at hand, that don't actually help people, but are incredibly profitable for multinational corporations.

And I think we are seeing a very vivid example of this with this speech from George Bush yesterday, where he is taking a very real crisis, which is demanding complex and profound changes in the way we live, in the way we organize our economy, but particularly in the need to diversify our energy sources. And I think there's a tremendous actual amount of support for this idea from the public. And he comes in -- and I call him in my recent column the "extortionist-in-chief." Basically what he's saying is he's holding the country ransom. He's not taking any of these long-term policy routes to dealing with climate change, to dealing with high oil prices. It's just let us drill, or, you know, nobody can go on summer vacation. And he's selling a myth, which is that by allowing drilling, the price at the pump is going to go down, which is really interesting, because just yesterday, in response to Bush's announcement, oil went up, and oil futures went up. And so, the price of oil is going to keep going up."

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This was a great day ... when the USS Lincoln got to show that thier mission had, indeed, been accomplished.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/....accomplished/

White House spokesman Scott McClellan told CNN that in preparing for the speech, Navy officials on the carrier told Bush aides they wanted a "Mission Accomplished" banner, and the White House agreed to create it.

"We took care of the production of it," McClellan said. "We have people to do those things. But the Navy actually put it up."

"The banner was a Navy idea, the ship's idea," Chun said.

"The banner signified the successful completion of the ship's deployment," he said, noting the Abraham Lincoln was deployed 290 days, longer than any other nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in history."


Keep Spinning, Liberals.

No one said the plan was executed well.

You believe McClellan? BS.

W said:

But this one's better

Surrender:
to yield to the power, control, or possession of another upon compulsion or demand

When withdrawral is based on ANYTHING but military assessments in the country, on the ground,this definition fits nicely.

The US military has the control now-to give it away at the behest of public opinion or the need to attain political office is surrender.

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