[Vision2020] La, la, la, la, la, I Can't See Those Coffins!

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Joan et. al.

I was astonished when I read the comments of Barrett Schroeder, Chairman of 
the Latah County Republicans, concerning the Bush inauguration protest in 
Moscow.  Of course we expect disagreement over the issues, but his apparent 
obliviousness to the arguments and motivations of the protesters is frightening.  I 
say this because his response reveals a such a shocking lack of understanding 
of the critical issues involved in the political divide between Bush supporters 
and detractors, it renders communication between lovers and haters of Bush's 
policies impossible: I mean "La, la, la, la la, I can't hear you!" oblivious 
to the point of pathological denial.  

But I should not be surprised.  Public opinion surveys show this same sort of 
pathological denial of truth coming from Bush supporters on many critical 
issues: Saddam's links to 9/11; the existence of WMDs in Iraq; the perception of 
the US in world opinion; the extent to which the Bush administration heeded 
(or ignored) the loud and clear warnings that a major attack was coming to US 
soil before 9/11; the troubling fact that as Bin Laden remains at large, we are 
told the US and Pakistan have him "cornered" and marginalized, when simple 
logic dictates that if the most powerful military and intelligence forces in the 
world have a criminal who killed 3000 on US soil "cornered," why do they not 
go all out to capture him?  Either they do not really know where he is, or they 
are not applying full force to capture him.  It is clear that full force 
applied to capture Bin Laden was not and is not being utilized.  This raises some 
very serious questions, questions it seems the American people are not asking.

We hear continued assertions that the Bush administration has protected us 
from terrorism when 9/11 happened on Bush's watch, when his administration 
ignored the advice coming from terrorism expert and advisor Richard Clark, who 
worked in both the Clinton and Bush administrations, even warnings coming from the 
intelligence operations of numerous other nations, the FBI and the CIA, that 
a coming attack on US soil was pending.  Bush went on an extended vacation 
before 9/11 when there were serious warning flags raised from numerous credible 
sources that a terrorist attack was coming.  

Instead we hear from Republican's that 9/11 was in part due to Clinton's 
failures, not Bush's, after the Bush administration chose to ignore the warnings 
given by the Clinton administration!

How can we achieve reconciliation (if that's the correct word) with Bush 
supporters if they do not even understand or acknowledge what the disagreements 
are, and continue to deny well established facts? 

To pick just one example of his astonishing lack of understanding of what 
motivates protesters against Bush's policies, US citizen/soldiers are dying 
almost daily in Iraq, and Schroeder thinks the use as a coffin as a protest symbol 
is "uncalled for?"  

I suppose he also supports the Bush administration's ban on showing the flag 
draped coffins of US soldiers who died in Iraq when they come home?

"La, la, la, la la, I can't see those coffins!"

Ted Moffett
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