Chaos or Intelligent Design?

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Chaos or Intelligent Design?
by Bob Patterson | May 2 2007


Many of the Christian Country Club Republicans think that the world got to the present state via a minutely detailed plan that was devised by the Supreme Being. However, other times they seem to be more comfortable with believing that random chaos explains the status quo.

As the conservatives see it, when it came time to question detainees in Iraq, the low level members of the military in the Abu Ghraib prison went a tad overboard and, on their own initiative, started using interrogation methods that were neither authorized nor recommended by their superiors. There doesn’t seem to have been any guidelines in place. The troops were on their own and did the best they could to improvise methods for dealing with the need to gather information. The liberals maintain that the top brass had sanctioned the harsh interrogation methods and that their recommendations were passse down the line without leaving an incriminating paper trail behind.

The folks who staff the intelligence gathering agencies in the U. S., all meant to tell George W. Bush several important items: that there was no solid link between Saddam and al Qaeda, the case for WMD’s was weak, and that mixing Sunnis with Shi-ites in one governing group for Iraq might be a bit like selling refrigerators to the Eskimos. The folks, who think that the President had some kind of evil plan to bring a regime change to Iraq, even before he was inaugurated, are obviously Conspiracy Theorists (CT’s) who will twist and manipulate the facts to fit their wild speculation.

President Bush rested assured that Brownie & Co. were doing a heck of a job. He was completely unaware that the local politicians of the Democratic party were making a complete fiasco of the task of implementing the Federal assistance which Bush had so graciously offered to them. To hear the Democrats tell it, Bush deliberately used bureaucratic inertia to stymie any sincere effort to help the locals cope with the disaster.

Some CT’s see some dark evil plan when they note that: Phil Donahue was against the Iraq war and he was knocked off the air. Dan Rather questioned Dubya’s military record and then lost his anchor job at CBS. Don Imus was removed from the air. Rosie O’Donnell called for impeachment and is now a short timer. Alec Baldwin has drawn the ire of conservatives and now it seems that Baldwin may not stay with his role on a TV sitcom.

Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter say outrageous things and the conservatives assert that the Democrats don’t know quality humor when they are exposed to it. Are liberals just not as entertaining and able to avoid the pink slip as are the conservative humorists, or is it a well thought out plot to stifle voices of dissension? Could it be that the list of the voices that vanished is just a collection of some random nuggets of showbiz bad luck?

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