(Thanks to mi compadre and fellow traveller, Christopher Schroen)
For the next year, leading up to the 2004 election, all you are going to hear from Bush is how there is a war going on, a war on terror, a war to liberate and rebuild Iraq, a war against Iranian clerics, a war against North Korean nuclear madmen, a war against Colombian drug lords, a war against extremism, a war against Communism in Cuba, a war against Hamas, a war against....
And to maintain the endless war, they need endless fear, a fear that can only be extended indefinitely by taking away our basic civil rights.
The right wing needs to keep this war, that war, going for as long as possible because it keeps everyone distracted. Everyone- except those who die in it- loves a good war, especially one you can win quickly. We, good. Them, bad. Them, dead. We win! Cue the cameras, the victorious POTUS is landing on the aircarrier!
- Michael Moore, "Dude, Where's My Country?"
