I wrote this as an E-Mail in response to something smart guy Mark Evanier said on his blog, and decided to post it here (with links and a tweak or two), as well. Mark had written:
A lot of people have come to believe that this is what the Iraq War has all been about...helping Big Oil make bigger profits. I don't believe that's the only thing it's been about but America oughta be angrier than it is that it's even been about that at all.
I replied:
For what it's worth, I'd argue that America is very angry about the war being about oil, and other things beside what we were told it was about. Personally I believe it was about re-electing Bush, at least more so than anything else.
The trouble is we can't seem to get our politicians to "do our bidding." Some of us thought the '06 election would light a fire under their (the house and senate) asses, to make them see that our government had gone too far and we wanted Bush stopped before he fed any more of the Bill of Rights into a shredder.
It hasn't worked out that way.
Some of us thought there was hope in Obama--and today he helped give Mr. Low-Approval a win on the spy-powers legislation.
Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office, wrote:
It’s Christmas morning at the White House thanks to this vote. The House just wrapped up some expensive gifts for the administration and their buddies at the phone companies.
I believe it's not that we're not angry enough. Metaphorically speaking, millions of us have been screaming ourselves hoarse for years.
But the Democrats, so it appears, are only listening insomuch as it can return them to power.
(Oh, for a Jedi Knight Ghostbusting Time Lord.)
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