At some point I saw the whole Armstrong idology as going hand in hand with what was going on in the country at that time. He was an American hero beating the **** out of the French at their own sport at a time when America hated the French for having the balls to say maybe we shouldn't invade Iraq because they didn't attack us on September 11th and posed no threat to us. We were hellbent on "spreading freedom" and Lance was dominant just as we knew we would be in Iraq. The problem is it was all Karl Rove's imagination and ploy to win re-election for the dumbest president in my life time. Armstrong was a fraud, Iraq was no threat to us. Saddam didn't have any connection to Al Queda because they are religious zealots that posed a threat to him. Armstrong allowed us to justify ignoring the rational analysis of the French and Germans on Iraq because he was telling them the obvious fact that Americans are just better and smarter than the rest of the world. At the end of the day, we have spent a trillion dollars and haven't caught Bin Laden. Our economy is in the toilet and I just spoke to somebody that spent the equivalent of $34 on a pizza in Europe. We've built support for the muslim extremeists and are probably less safe than we were 8 years ago.
What I don't understand is why Tony Blair fell for this ****.
Thank god Armstrong and Bush are about to be history. We deserve what we got because we blindly followed our patriotic hearts without using our brains.
Hey "No Positives" of JSull, what do you think? Or, I guess from your silence you must be the fair weather fans I always thought you were.
Sorry. I've held this in too long. I feel better now.