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IDEOLOGY DRIVEN INCOMPETENCE

  The above title, "Ideology driven incompetence" comes from a column in the Seattle Post Intelligencer of 9/28/04 in which Walter Williams, professor emeritus at the U of W's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs accuses the Bush administration of incompetence caused by ideological belief.

Ideology, according to Webster's dictionary, is "visionary theorizing."

  The ideological belief that drives the Bush gang up the wrong path, says, is their belief that if the U.S. is such a powerful super power, and the Bush gang is the most powerful political power in the U.S. then they ought to be able to become world-dictator, including America, if that isn't enough, add the clincher used by most ideologues of history - "it is God's will" - used by most ideologues of history, and they cannot resist forging ahead against all reality and common sense. Everything is decided on the ill-defined, "you are either for or against evil." evil is defined by the ideological gang.

  Of course, there is always the nuclear option. If they have the power, why not use it?  But the world has become nuclear armed in several places, and if one party chooses it, others may be tempted to throw the bomb because everything is now down the tube anyway. Then we face the ultimate in ideological madness - irreparable global destruction. "God's will be done!

  Belief in such an enormously unreal task, as already seen in Vietnam, can only lead to an incompetent mess. That is becoming more obvious as death, destruction and chaos reign in Iraq wile the rest of the world shudders. How long is the Bush gang's incompetence going to continue threatening the world? To what lengths will they go to try to make the real world fit their belief in total military and religious power? the Bush ideology is blind.  It will continue to blunder as an army in the night. The Bush gang must be stopped before a major world crisis blows us put of the water. You can help save the world by throwing the Bush gang out November 2nd.

 

 

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