Does anyone else remember raising an eyebrow at the new rhetoric after 9/11?

[WTF cubed]

Words like annihilation, evil doers, homeland security...

At first I made fun of W's new phrase of "evil doers." Then when we declared the only answer for Al Quaida was annihilation (Graham just used the phrase again today), I started really worrying.

And then we came up with Homeland Security. Der Fatherland? This scared the shit out of me.

Today, Osama came back on cue. Said that the Dems were his buddies. Looked as if they couldn't find the same actor.

What's with the grainy videos? You can get a good camera with a good size memory stick, card, disk and sneak it to Al Jazeera and they could rebroadcast it in all its digital glory. But no... they seem to use the same video tape that they have used since they first taped Darryl Hannah as a mermaid.

Shit. Just how stupid do they think we are?

[demnan]

1. Oh yes

but did it surprise me after the illegal election. No.

[liberal N proud]

2. Why doesn't the rest of America see through this bull shit?

[MissWaverly]

3. fuzzy pictures make it easier to fake

suddenly a banker from Florida can "pass" as Abe Lincoln, in real life he's 5 inches shorter, balding and has a different
shaped nose but the cut of the jaw and the eyebrows are the same, add a fake beard and voila, it's Abe.

[wtmusic]

4. When I heard the phrase "Axis of Evil", I knew the sell was on nt

[Richard Steele]

5. The first time I heard "homeland", a chill went down my spine. Literally.

That was just a sign to me that things might be
about to become unthinkably bad. And they have.

[eleny]

6. And beating the war drums before the 10/02 midterm elections

I didn't have enough forehead on which to raise my brows.

[pinto]

7. Yes. And, though I'm in a minority opinion here, I think they believe their rhetoric.

Lies, obfuscation, sleights of hand, smoke screens and all the other political ploys aside, I think they actually believe the rhetoric. And hence the ends justify their means.

imho, that's the most troubling aspect of the whole scenario.

[WTF cubed]

8. I don't think you are...

I have some RW friends and cannot fathom why they believe this BS. But they do with a fervor. Now THAT's scary.

[EFerrari]

9. Joan Didion wrote a pamphlet about it.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/510DFJN051L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg


http://www.amazon.com/Fixed-Ideas-America-Since-9-11/dp/1590170733/ref=sr_1_16/002-6007803-2849646?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189208854&sr=1-16

[mcscajun]

10. "Homeland" gave me chills. Literally. At "Patriot Act" I got scared.

I joined the ACLU in October 2001.

[aquart]

11. When they said "Act of War" I started screaming.

I knew it was the worst possible thing to say. The only MANLY response would be WAR. Which instantly elevated bin Ladin whosis to a head of state, and the previously unknown scruffy al qaeda to nationhood. It gave them status and respect. And publicity. Kinda funny from the bunch who wanted everything kept secret.

I kept muttering Reichstag. Guiliani was counseling calm, while Bush, when he was finally found, did his best to ramp up hysteria. If he was a paid enemy agent, he could not have done worse by us.

[Mandate My Ass]

12. Raised eyebrows? I was creepily freaked out 24/7 until I found DU. (eom)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. yes soon as it happened i told my step father that we were going to bomb iraq

no matter who actually perpetrated this

he thought i was crazy

[mitchum]

14. Yes, it's like living in a freakin' comic book

and I don't like comic books

[timtom]

15. From the Git Go!

Grainy videos, indeed! With 300 million, you think he could arrange to have a DVD made. I mean, he made 2 planes demolish the WTC. Remotely.

[Jade Fox]

16. As soon as I heard the rhetoric....

and saw the flags going up all over my neighborhood, I knew we were giving ourselves permission to kill people.

[WTF cubed]

17. Ka-Ching. Unfortunately. n/t

[EFerrari]

19. Both to kill others and to put a fig leaf on our own dead.

I thought the same thing.

[WTF cubed]

20. You are good people. n/t

[burrowowl]

18. Raising eyebrows!

I raised the roof!
Homeland is particularly disturbing. We are a Nation of Citizens not a homeland, fatherland, motherland.