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THE US NOVEMBER ELECTION Fear! Fear! Fear! - by Mick Youther
With two months to go before the Congressional elections, the Republican propaganda machine is turning up the volume and the message is clear: Be afraid. Be very afraid. For a while, it appeared the Republicans were going to run on the "stay the course" in the Iraq War-again. You know the spiel: Iraq is the central battle in the "war on terror"; dissent only helps the terrorists; we're fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here; and if you elect "cut and run" Democrats, they would immediately surrender America to the Islamofacists. But this time there was a slight problem. A majority of Americans now believe invading Iraq was a big mistake, the occupation has deteriorated into an unwinnable quagmire, and we need to bring the troops home. Then, when the Republicans saw their favorite pro-war Democrat, Joe Lieberman, lose his Connecticut Senate primary race to anti-war newcomer, Ned Lamont; they knew they needed to adjust their message. They decided to go with the good, old fashioned, tried and true motivator of the masses-FEAR.
"...the lifetime chance of an American being killed by international terrorism is about one in 80,000 -- about the same chance of being killed by a comet or a meteor." --John Mueller, Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2006
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