Brent Budowsky:CIA Skeletons, The Mortal Sins of Dick Cheney, The Nobility Of Al Gore

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/8259

CIA Skeletons, The Mortal Sins of Dick Cheney, The Nobility Of Al Gore
by Brent Budowsky | Jun 22 2007


Soon, CIA Director Michael Hayden will release documents that describe major misdeeds of the CIA in darker days, after General Antonio Taguba went public in The New Yorker with charges of an Abu Ghraib cover-up.

A great and noble debate will begin in America. Revelations about past and current misdeeds will bring into focus what went wrong in the Iraq war, and why opponents of these policies are voices of American patriotism.

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Gore is brilliantly challenging not only policies that violate American principles. He challenges the institutional power structures that corrupt our national debate, have led America into a catastrophic war, and account for collapsing credibility of both political and media elites.

Gore is not the voice of rage; he is the voice of hope, and the leading conviction politician in America whose playing field far transcends conventional politics. Gore leads the fight against global warming and institutions of power, led by big oil, and the corruptions that perpetuate that power.

Gore brilliantly communicates through motion picture documentary, Academy Awards, a global concert reaching 2 million people, and a possible Nobel Peace Prize, while he moves the market with venture capital.

Far more than any national Democrat, Gore is directly challenging the political elites of the status quo that led to the Iraq war, the media elites that became complicit in it, the political elites that defend it, and the character attacks of demeaning and insulting those who oppose it.

more, more, more...

[IndyOp]

1. Budowsky is batting 1000 with me these days!

Al Gore, Live Earth Concert, and the Coming Surge of American Optimism

On July 7, 2007, Al Gore and a galaxy of entertainment superstars, a worldwide army of idealists, and 2 billion concerned citizens from seven continents will take a stand on global warming that will advance a new political era of optimism and hope.

Sooner than people realize, Americans are going to be astonished and amazed at the rekindling of American optimism and the can-do attitude that good people who care passionately can make a difference.

In recent years American politics, culture and media have been so drenched in negativity, pessimism and civic poison that our institutions of political and media power have lost sight of the classic American spirit of can-do optimism.

On July 7 the Live Earth concert will fire a cannon of hope that will be heard around the world. It will be a moment for generations, a shared communion based on the ancient idea that every generation leaves a better world for the next.

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We live in an age where 70 percent of Americans refuse to offer approval to the president or Congress, to Democrats or Republicans.

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Al Gore deserves profound credit for taking a stand that makes him the champion of a Conviction-politics in America, and even more than Al Gore, the credit belongs to the young people like Bobby, a 10-year-old fifth-grader I met at the Sheryl Crow global warming concert recently in Washington.... I interviewed young Bobby and asked him what he planned to do about global warming. This young man has a plan. He is saving his allowance to buy energy-saving light bulbs to give to his friends, and collecting e-mail addresses from his classmates to add them to the Virtual Global Warming March.

[babylonsister]

2. Agreed! He's a good writer to begin with; his recent stuff I've enjoyed. nt

[IndyOp]

3. Kick! C'mon DU - one more rec... Anyone? Buler? Buler? Buler? (n/t)

[Canuckistanian]

4. Brent was just on AAR

Brilliant rebuke on Cheney's misdeeds.

[Doc Martin]

5. Institutional Power Structures

That is where the work is needed. Thanks!

[Tigress DEM]

6. Kick Shakalaka!

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked, too late to recommend.

Thanks for the thread babylonsister.