[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Ellen Frank wrote: > >> the Bush folks > >If this war was only the war of "the Bush folks" it would not be >occurring. >Attacks on Bush personally or on "The Bush folks" are, > I think, mostly >propaganda for a milataristic Democrat in the white house in 2004. >The key question is not why the bush folks went to war. The key question >is why the ruling class and the democratic party are lining up behind >the war. You have a good point, but partly I think people line up behind the war because (1) war is popular with the public and wartime presidents always see a surge in their approval ratings; (2) those who openly oppose war risk being branded traitors and enemies of our troops and so risk losing elections or having their products boycotted (witness the Dixie Chicks; (3) principled anti-war opposition is associated with leftish, anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist positions, so is suspect in the mind of conservatives in any case. This is not to say that there are no material interests at stake in this war for the ruling class, as Carrol suggests. I just have a hard time seeing what these are -- aside obviously from oil.
Ellen > > >
