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Does anyone remember that really bad Scorpions song about the end of the cold war and the fall of the Berlin Wall, called “Winds of Change”?

If you don’t, congratulations.

If you do, you’ll be as sickened as I am that the MSM are resurrecting this cold war cliché to describe a fantastical BushCo-orchestrated “democratic transformation” of the Middle East.

Oh, man, this is gonna be awful.

We are about to be bombarded with a new BushCo media narrative. It goes like this:

The decision to invade Iraq was right, as evidenced by the democratic revolutions now sweeping the Middle East. Iraq is the centerpiece of the Bush presidency, and the success of Iraq and the democratic domino effect it has initiated in the Middle East therefore validates the Bush presidency and invalidates criticism of the Iraq war by the left. Bush is triumphant. Liberals are left scrambling to find their identity in a world where they are increasingly irrelevant.

Yes, the winds of democratic change are blowing through the Arab world, thanks exclusively to BushCo. The whining liberal doubters are left with egg on their faces. Why vote anything but Republican from here on out?

This message is going to resonate big time because Americans love to pat themselves on the back — even when the premise of their self congratulation is patently false.

Cuz, guess what? If anyone believes that American military power is being deployed in the Middle East, or anywhere else on this planet, to bring true democracy, a political philosophy rooted in equality, justice, and human rights, I have a signed Paul Wolfowitz pinup for you.

It’s gonna get worse, guys.

A now fully Kremlin-ized American media is telling the yellow-ribbon idiots that they were right to support the war. Meanwhile, the real BushCo global agenda advances under the guise of democracy.

It’s really bad.

It’s worse than that Scorpions song.

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