Republican 2006 Call to Arms- Familiar but more vicious

Want to read the minds of republican strategists? Just read the transcripts of their recent public musings and you will find a list of common threads that run through all of them on the pattern of Wikipedia list of synonyms. Some of these words and terms are,

Islamists

Islamo-Fascists

Terrorist ideologues

Muslim nihilists

Radical dead-enders

etc. etc.

This is just a sample of the thematic props for the republican leaders to win back the lost hearts and minds of ordinary American voters. There is no weapon more powerful than the weapon of fear. Terrorists used this weapon once on 9/11 and achieved their objective. Republicans are using this tactic everyday on American people with even greater success. Their audacity to continue terrorizing American people has gone far beyond the destruction caused by terrorists on 9/11, both in terms of loss of lives and the economy. By now, far more Americans have been killed in conflicts abroad than 2800+ killed on 9/11. The blow to our economy will be felt by this generation, the next generation and the next to next generation. The social services that our seniors and our less fortunate rely on, will almost be non-existent by the time, republicans have fulfilled their narcissist objectives.

Throughout this abstract and asymmetrical war on 'terror', which is in fact a war on a noun, this cabal of greed has estranged ordinary Americans from not only so called 'enemies' of western civilization, but also from the traditional and historic allies. The damage to American interests in most cases long term and some cases permanent. American businesses have lost their niche and their goodwill in common brand areas. Bill boards and signs with American recognition are being replaced or being covered throughout the world. This may not be hurting Boeing, Lockheed Martin or GE, but it is affecting every other consumer businesses. The aversion to American businesses is not being caused by despotic regimes or autocratic rulers; this great dislike has simmered among the general populations of nations, both friends and foes alike.

Democratic leadership in the house and senate is no support to lean on. They are myopic in their own pursuit of pulling political scores, defying the sentiments of their own constituents. They are walking a tight rope of re-election, no matter what. In this tunnel race, they are not willing to give a damn to what their own voters are disgusted about. And mind it, this disgust to republican direction of the country is despite the fact that Americans do not see the horrific images of war, both of the innocent people being killed in hundreds of thousands, designated as 'collateral damage' and our own young men and women. Their opinion is based on just hear say and the verbal tug of war on a few cable channels. If they are able to see the real pictures, the people of this country will demand a U-turn in the course of action, and they will get it.

So, what is the solution? Two things must be done right away,

1- Gather as many images of war as possible and post them online and in the media. These images must reflect the reality on the ground. This won't help wake up the dead conscience of republican leaders, but will let the American people feel what their leaders have brought upon our young men and women and upon innocent men, women and children under the pretext of national security.

2- We must rally around the few sane minds inside the congress and outside of it, the likes of those who might sound controversial but prophetic in the due course of time (no names). In doing so, please beware of the turn coats who will jump on the band wagon once they see it moving