VIDEO: How U.S. Presidents Past & Present Resist Calls For Withdrawal

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Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer

The opening teaser (1:12) to today’s Democracy Now juxtaposes quotes resisting withdrawal from LBJ and Nixon during Vietnam to that of George W. Bush today. The bulk of today’s program (which can be streamed here) was dedicated to screening the new Sean Penn narrated documentary “War Made Easy: How Presidents And Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death” which is based on the Norman Solomon book by the same name.

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    Dredd said on 5/30/2007 @ 6:06am PT: [Permalink]

    Here is the song W originally sang to Rove, and has now become the anthem of the spin bushies:

    Dizzy, I’m so dizzy my head is spinning
    Like a whirlpool it never ends
    And it’s You Rove makin’ it spin
    You’re making me dizzy

    First time that I saw You Karl,
    I knew that I just had to make You mine
    But it’s so hard to talk to You
    with neoCons hangin’ round You all the time

    I want You for my sweet pet,
    but You keep playing hard to get
    I’m going round Iraq circles all the time

    Dizzy, I’m so dizzy my head is spinning
    Like a whirlpool it never ends
    And it’s You Rove makin’ it spin
    You’re making me dizzy

    Karl You’ve got control on me,
    cuz I’m so dizzy I can’t see
    I need to call doctor Fritz for some help

    Dizzy, I’m so dizzy my head is spinning
    Like a whirlpool it never ends
    And it’s You Karl makin’ it spin
    You’re making me dizzy

    (Apologies to Roe, emphasis mine).

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