I think Kazan's sig is a little off anyway, it shouldn't be "Christo-fascists" but rather "neo-conservatives", referring to Paul Wolfowitz and his buddies.
The fact that Bush was voted for by so many people is just baffling from here north of the border. Either americans have been so brainwashed by the Administration that they don't know any better, or that people vote along thier traditional party lines no matter whose in office or what the issues are. I mean, take the war on terror. To think that Bush is doing a good job through his invasion of Iraq is ludicrous.
For a similar example, I offer this. Let's say that the US finds it has 16 Cows with Mad Cow disease within their borders. After some searching, they discover that 12 cows came from canada, 2 from Brazil, 1 from Argentina and 1 Peru. In response to this threat to the health of the american public, the US shuts the US-Mexico border to beef.
Now, would that make any sense to americans? Would americans feel safer because of it? Let's say that Mexico had a history of trading substandard meats of other types like chickens, and so forth. Would it still make any sense??
If not, why in the hell would invading Iraq in some part of the war on terror make any sense, when most of the 9/11 hijackers and Osama Bin Laden are from Saudi Arabia? In fact, why would the US seem to place more importance on capturing Saddam Hussein rather than capturing Osama Bin Laden?
And then the Administration _lies_ and misleads the American people, and it's discovered that they lied and misled them, and even during the election campaign we have Bush saying "Iraq had links to terrorism" (referring to the Regime's donations of money to the families of Hamas suicide bombers) yet he leaves it open-ended, therefore implying to the people that these links were Al-qaeda related (even though it was shown they weren't), and thus Bush was still misleading everyone with the SAME bull**** and people still ate it up. Remember that this war on terror is targetting 'global-reaching terrorism', Hamas isn't one of those groups as I understand it, so it shouldn't be used as some twelth-string excuse for going to war with Iraq.
What this election has done is given the Bush Administration a new mandate to continue on with the neo-conservative vision to reform the middle east. I wouldn't be suprised if in the next four years, some place like Iran or Syria was also invaded and conquered by the US warmachine on some laughable pre-text of 'fighting the war on terror', but some dictatorship and indirect bush-election contributor like Saudia Arabia will likely never even be considered.
Oh well if there's one bright spot in all of this, as one person said on a CBC townhall the other day, Bush is good for the
loonie! 