I’ve read several “apologies” from Bush voters and their sympathizers and I have to admit I still don’t understand how anyone could vote for him or even abstain. In four years we’ve seen our economy wrecked, our international credibility reduced to zero, two nations destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people killed or wounded for life. Our own media has been forbidden from showing us the casualties of war. How do you win reelection on that record? How do those facts give you a moment’s pause in the voting booth? What’s to weigh? We know what Bush stands for, death and corruption, oil profiteering and the erosion of your civil liberties.

There is no greater source of recruitment for future terrorists than what we have done to Iraq. We’ve created the perfect seedbed for an unending war, which means an unending demand to sacrifice your civil liberties in the name of safety. Has anyone read 1984? It’s the playbook.

Rumsfeld, Cheney, and many others in the current administration were all on staff in the Nixon White House. Perhaps the tacit corruption of that administration is lost to the fog of history, otherwise why would we have it again? It’s not just similar; it’s literally the same people. Nixon hired John O'Neill in 1971 to discredit Kerry and he went before congress to deny all of the facts about atrocities in Vietnam, atrocities that are now well documented and considered historical fact. The swift boat people are an instant replay of that 1971 drama. This doesn’t matter if you can assume a uniformed populace, not ignorant, just uninformed.

The obvious Cheney Haliburton no bid contracts are insane. The case for war in Iraq was never satisfactorily made. Powell’s presentation to the U.N. was embarrassing at the time, not in retrospect. He was embarrassed to give it, and can’t wait to get as far from these people as possible. Clinton and the U.N.’s sanctions had worked. There was not a link between Osama and 9-11.

Moderates are telling me that they bought the notion that Kerry was a flip flopper – so you change your mind when new evidence appears – great that means you’re intelligent. Even still, if Kerry were a drooling monkey he’d be a better alternative to the current simian. Anything different would be an improvement. The best bumper sticker I saw over the last few months was, “If you’re not outraged then you’re not paying attention.” So that’s what I’ve learned. We need to find a moderate way to help moderates pay attention. It’s not a question of intelligence, it’s a question of awareness.