Who Are 'These People'?

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Who Are 'These People'?

By Rick Perlstein

President Bush : "These people attacked us before we were even in Iraq!"

05/25/07 "Tom Paine" -- - Can we have a little frankness, please?

The President of the United States is a racist. Or at the very least, an anti-Muslim bigot.

In Iraq, Shi'ites and Sunni are fighting each other to the death. Under what possible logic can they be joined by a common identity?

There is no "these people" except in their common Middle East-ness.

Iran and Iraq fought a decade-long war - Shia against Sunni. They are, to our president, "these people." "They" attacked us. "They" continue to attack us. Iran, Iraq: all the same.

The people who attacked us on September 11 were from a group called "al Qaeda." According to U.S. intelligence, Iraq was one of the few countries in the Middle East where Al Qaeda did not have a beachhead.

In the 1960s, to much of the public, China and Russia were equally "these people." Even as those countries were on the verge of nuclear war with one another. Bad people stoked the equivilance of the two even after they knew better. They did it to keep a monstrous war going, as the American people began to know better.

It's much worse now. Who are "these people," Mr. President? Why are you worse than McCarthy?

[pinkpops]

1. These people are those dark-skinned moosulums -

much like the dark-skinned mex-i-kans who want to vote in our elections and convert us all to mexikan moosilamists.

[glitch]

2. I thought "these people" were members of the bush cult.

At least that's how I use it.

[azurnoir]

3. No the BFEE

is dark mysterious "THEY" or "THEM"

[CJCRANE]

4. It has different meanings.

For the Republican base "these people" means "arabs/muslims" which gives * an excuse to attack the ME countries which won't do business with him (basically the shi'itie or socialist or secular countries - Iraq, Iran, Syria). Of course the Bushbot base don't know the difference, to them it's all one big Terrorstan.

And even worse they don't realise that "these people" who attacked on 9/11 were connected to the absolute monarchies who are Bushco allies. In effect the war on terror is a joint-venture between Bushco and the Sunni dictatorships to knock down the potential Shi'ite superpowers. (Of course Israel also has a stake in the game but I think it's played up and the influence of the other sunni muslim countries is played down).

(On edit: of course the thing that connects Bushco and their allies is Big Oil and MIC profits).