Today, America crushes its intellectuals through mind numbing, repetitive drivel that�s simply fed through official agencies into the media.

How on earth can we possibly make informed opinions based on footage that�s simply looped over and over without any trace of informative comment with completely unrelated headline trailers running across the bottom. All we get is speculation and official propaganda. Government will release carefully crafted statements that our media simply spews out without any analysis whatsoever. Newspapers aren�t much better with big banner headlines, full page colour photos and damn little context.

If you believe the numbers, though, they�re giving us what we want. There are options - PBS, NPR, etc. But we won�t watch those. Not glitzy enough, I guess. Quite frankly, those polls are only based on what we react to. We don�t know what we want.

Like sheep, we accept and go along with what�s happening without question. But let me ask you this. Since when is it acceptable to invade a sovereign nation, no matter how big a scumbag its leader is, based on such feeble premise as the ones that are being thrown around lately?

You found a missile in a garbage dump that may have had poison gas in it? Saddam may be harbouring terrorists? He better stand in line. Weapons of mass destruction? Look in the mirror. The US is the only nation to have actually used the Atomic bomb to kill families in their homes�as a demonstration of might.

But who�s standing up against this farce. Sure there are pockets of resistance but US politicians, in the end, will only listen to US voters. And where are they? That comedy at the UN today? It took this long to come up with that � mere jingoism?

I never thought I�d see the United States perpetrate such folly. Even at it�s worst, there was a sense of justice and value in the nation�s political rational. That�s just not there in this case. They�re going to kill Iraqi people by the thousands, and we�ll consume the spectacle the same way we swallowed the Monica Lewinski debacle and O.J.�s trial.

I do despair some times.

Arc