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Robert Steinback has written an excellent analysis of how far the American public has adapted to Bushism since the 9/11
attack in 2001. Although Bush's popularity has gone down to 35%, his control over the country is not seriously challenged.

He still gets what he wants with a few modest objections. More importantly he continues to wage an illegal war based on lies, and plans for a war on Iran, perhaps with nuclear weapons. Remarkably few object. Even the Democratic Party don't oppose him, and refused to tell the American people the truth about Bush's Iraq war lies. They actually support that illegal war based on a litany of lies They refuse to expose and fight Bush's electronic voting machine fraud in the 2004 election, that gave him another term in the Whitehouse. There is no longer a real opposition party in the USA.

Most importantly of all, and a point not mentioned by Steinbeck, is that the American people accept Bush's declared intention to possibly wage pre-emptive nuclear war. They also have voiced no serious objection to his plans to use nuclear weapons as a normal extension of conventional military operations.

Although they may deny it, they accept the possible consequences of this course of action on themselves and children. The great majority of Americans don't lift a finger to oppose it.

Any nuclear weapons use could quickly expand into a global holocaust. What that would mean is millions and millions, perhaps billions of deaths including their own, their children and grandchildren. Not necessarily a sudden death, but a lingering painful death of disease, starvation, radiation, burns, barbarism for themselves and children.

Bush plans, if implemented, could mean the end of humanity. Finish for the human race. Bush would make real, God's predicted Biblical Armageddon, except there will be no spaceship waiting to rapture Bush and his born-again fundamentalist cronies to heavenly bliss.

The big mystery is why more Americans don't do something about this horrific possibility. Most Americans will not lift a finger or support any cause that seeks to stop Bush and prevent a potentially horrific death for their own children. They will not adopt sensible alternative policies or give to any cause that works for alternatives, except maybe the Democratic Party that has turned out to be an utterly spineless dead duck.

Perhaps the American public has become paralytic because of the effectiveness of the Bush Administration's tactics, it's colossal and repeated lies and its psychological warfare against the American people. And more than anything, the astonishing co-operation and endlessly repeating Bush lies by the U.S. mass media and similar media in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
The U.S. media has become little more than a smug and happy prostitute that says "yes" to the boss, no matter what
the consequences might be.

Another mystery is: why do Americans believe they can inflict unimaginable suffering and death on the rest of the world, yet emerge unscathed?.
Why don't more Americans say "no" to George Bush, rather than treat him as if he is an unquestionable King.
The Democratic opposition seem to accept, and the media reflect on Bush's despotic rule, as being perfectly normal.. Thus, so far as Bush is concerned, there is nothing he cannot do, nor is there any crime committed in the name of America, that he cannot contemplate.

Bush crimes? Unfortunately, they may only be beginning. Wait for Bush's expected incident that he will use to justify his new war on Iran. The neoconservatives know how to make history. So far, the American people have let them get away with constructing phoney history, as they did and still do, with the Iraq war. Americans have refused to connect the dots.

It's just too traumatic and far out for most people to think that a totally unscrupulous criminal conspiracy is now the U.S. Government, in charge of all government departments of the most powerful destructive force in history. It is capable of destroying the world many times over. And they are bent on a 'global empire' course of actions, that could quickly result in an end for planet earth. There will be no second chances. Sudden awakening that maybe you should do something must happen beforehand - like now - while there may still be time to stop the madness.

The U.S. media has become little more than a smug and happy prostitute that says "yes" to the boss, no matter what
the consequences might be.

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Fear destroys what bin Laden could not

One wonders if Osama bin Laden didn't win after all. He ruined the America that existed on 9/11. But he had help.

By Robert Steinback, Miami Herald, December 27, 2005

If, back in 2001, anyone had told me that four years after bin Laden's attack our president would admit that he broke U.S. law against domestic spying and ignored the Constitution -- and then expect the American people to congratulate him for it -- I would have presumed the girders of our very Republic had crumbled.

Had anyone said our president would invade a country and kill 30,000 of its people claiming a threat that never, in fact, existed, then admit he would have invaded even if he had known there was no threat -- and expect America to be pleased by this -- I would have thought our nation's sensibilities and honor had been eviscerated.

If I had been informed that our nation's leaders would embrace torture as a legitimate tool of warfare, hold prisoners for years without charges and operate secret prisons overseas -- and call such procedures necessary for the nation's security -- I would have laughed at the folly of protecting human rights by destroying them.

If someone had predicted the president's staff would out a CIA agent as revenge against a critic, defy a law against domestic propaganda by bankrolling supposedly independent journalists and commentators, and ridicule a 37-year Marie Corps veteran for questioning U.S. military policy -- and that the populace would be more interested in whether Angelina is about to make Brad a daddy -- I would have called the prediction an absurd fantasy.

That's no America I know, I would have argued. We're too strong, and we've been through too much, to be led down such a twisted path.
What is there to say now?

All of these things have happened. And yet a large portion of this country appears more concerned that saying ''Happy Holidays'' could be a disguised attack on Christianity.

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