I notice a lot of things on this forum.  Mostly, I notice that many of you seem to have a mission against a certian politican.  I think that sometimes they deserve your wrath, and sometimes, to me at least, it is the same rhetoric that is spewed against progressive people by the neocons.  My dream is, that someone pay attention to the game, rather than its players.

Obviously, the neocons have an "ultimate goal" in mind, and they are tring to achieve it with small moves, gradually, that ultimately will achieve ther goals.  I personally belive that to them, thier goal is to create an ideologica utopia, where they hold all power, are immune to real justice as they abuse the rights and privilages of the masses...and the masses are compliant to the subjugation.  I don't belive this is only confined to the US, but the powers of the US military, and the treasury are being used to forward this goal.

So what we catch a politican in a lie, or his hand in the till.  To the ones caught, they belive that they are being martyered. They know that in America, where instant gradification is the rage, and patience is not a virtue, we clamour for the head of the man, and when we get him, we call it a day.  In fact, this may be the strategy of the neocon all along.  They know that when they set out to drastically change our system, there will be people getting caught under the wheels of the chariot.  Remember that all of them have been indoctrinated to the neocon mantra, and if they must sacrifice themselves, thier careers, thier families, and thier freedoms, they belive that in the end, they will be held up as heros when (in thier thinking) thier ideology is realized in policy and law.

I think it would be more productive in rebuffing the neocon not to focus attention of the "lame ducks", and thier members with shaky ethical or social values.  We need to focus on the system of neocon policies that seem to be passing for government these days.  We know who the real players are, the money men, the organizations that disquise themselves as legitimate groups with humanitarian sounding names.  Perhaps, then those politicans with a conscience will come out of the woodwork and start working for us, rather than tring to please thier campaign masters. 

I think the Democrats in our government bodies are just beginning to realize this and are deciding not to directly engage with the neocon with reaction to thier rhetoric, but anticipating it, and countering it with moves that make them accountable to thier own virtuous sounding words.  I think it is a smart, and most refreshing move, and we should support it.  However, since they are subject to the same political machine that supports the neocon ideology, we need to keep thier feet to the fire and remind them often that they are accountable to us.

Tear down this wall !! 

Asalamu' alaykum

Zanubiyah