Slowly I turned

I note the latest opinion poles show declining support for the policies of the current administration. People are coming down from the high of fax patriotism, generated by the media post 911, and shamelessly exploited by the president to promote his agenda.
Real patriotism is a respect for the ideas America is founded upon, and a commitment to uphold them. The fog of panic is starting to thin, and America is realizing ever so slowly how political fear has been used to take us places we would never have gone without a catastrophe to blind us.
Face it. There is no possibility that congress would have allowed us to attack Iraq, a not threat, with out the mind numbing panic induced by the 911 tragedy, and the ensuing smoke and mirror lies of the white house, and the political fear of being unpatriotic that gripped congress.
Just possibly, we are now beginning to see how thoroughly our emotions have been used strangle us. The reality of what has been going on is is something to fear. And change.
Adaven