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What amazes me, and this is not meant to be a snide comment at all....
is that people expect the government (any government) to be open and
honest (caveat: I live in Canada, not the US, but politics is
fundamentally the same here).

Why are people surprised that the real facts are different to what was
presented as fact before? The whole campaigning, electing, lobbying, and
other political processes are predominantly based on at the best times
compromise, and at the worst times manipulation. The conduct required
from a political candidate to get elected is the exact conduct that we
don't want in elected politicians ... yet, it should come as no surprise
that once elected, politicians don't change.

In other words, political campaigns are based on spite, defamatory
conduct, manipulation of information, lying, deception, making
impossible promises, and general arrogance. Yet, we expect politicians
to become honest, principled, and "open" once they are elected.

Anyone who is surprised at the recent revelation of the "facts" should
have their voting rights removed.... they simply do not know enough
about politics to have the right to vote. Every, and I mean absolutely
every single decision made by a politician has some hidden agenda, and
it should be assumed that not all the facts that the politicians knew
will be revealed for the public to comprehend.

In other words, the political system is designed to draw the most
deceptive people to powerful positions, and leopards can not change
their spots.

The only thing that makes me content with the poor political systems
currently implemented is that I can not think of a different system that
would have consistently better results.

Rolf

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> James Newtons Massmind wrote:
>
>   
>> http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#17
>>     
>
> While looking around on the projectcensored.org site, I found something
> else.
>
>
>   
>> But the 9/11 "attack" did move the nation to support the invasion of Iraq by
>> the USA, 
>>     
>
> Not only that. It also did move the nation to support the invasion of
> Afghanistan. Yet:
>
> On <http://www.projectcensored.org/updatedrealnews/index.htm>:
>
> ------------------------
> No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11
> Researched by Morgan Ulery
>
>
>   



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