December 9, 2005

This is about politics (Tim Murphy Psychobabble-style)

Also last week, Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa) was on C-Span's Washington Journal trying to prop up Bush's War. As he was spewing NeoCon Talking Points on Iraq, he was trying to get a point across along the lines that "Democracy Isn't Easy."

You know, the kind of thing that you can hear from many on the Right about how we can't expect the NEW IRAQTM to be perfect from the start...that we had our own problems with our revolution...how just because we had slavery at the start didn't mean that our country didn't end up in a good place...yadda, yadda, yadda.

As he's going on like this with his examples of "some aspects of history" he throws in this gem:

"...but in this county if you look at our history and the struggles that we have had in racism. With early on in our history the difficulties between Native American Indians and white settlers, etc., you would also see fighting that continues on. We have to remember this, and if there's anything that I have learned in my years operating as a psychologist, it is that there is certainly within all of us a capacity for bad and there is also a great capacity and drive to do good. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom someone once said and it is something that we have to make sure, if there is any message that we can teach that is of value to the people of Iraq, it is that same concept."

(Audio clip here -- 12/1/05, about 59.20 into the program)
"Difficulties"?

"Difficulties"?!?

Well I guess when you compare Abu Ghraib to the Trail of Tears, Ghraib really is only a walk in the park...

Thanks, Tim, for putting it all into perspective for us! :-) :-) :-)
(Hmmm, do you think Murphy realizes that we are the bad guys in his little analogy?)
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1 comment:

  1. ShawnDecember 9, 2005 at 9:15 PM

    Also, the whole "we told you this was gonna be tough" line doesn't hold water. A number of policymakers, Pearle most famously, thought that the Iraqi people, especially the Shiites, would just welcome us with open arms. It was a patronizing, simplistic, and hopelessly naive worldview. And now they've the gall (Gaul?) to lecture us on how tough democracy is.

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