Ta-Da! Connections
#1 major connection for Yellowcard is 9/11 and the war in Iraq as well as the public opinion on the Bush administration. In the book From 9/11 to Terror War: the dangers of the Bush legacy the author, Douglas Kellner, expresses feelings of the public as well as those that the band points out in their lyrics and music videos not to mention my own opinions of how the government is handling the war in Iraq. It goes a little something like this: “The Bush Administration’s Iraq policy has created tremendous ongoing controversy. Since the 9/11 attacks, the Bush Administration’s foreign policy has exhibited a marked unilateralism and militarism in which U.S. military power is used to advance U.S. interests and military hegemony. The policy was first evident in the Afganistan intervention following September 11, 2001, terror attacks, and informed the 2003 war against Iraq.” It goes on about how Kellner feels Cheney and Bush were pushing for a war no matter if there was a rightful cause or not. “On September 8, 2002, Cheney and the other top warmongers of the Bush Administration were all over the Sunday talk shows making their case for war against Iraq. Cheney repeated on Meet the Press all of the well known crimes of Saddam Hussein, insinuated long-discredited ties between Iraq and al Qalda, and even tried to pin the anthrax attacks on Iraq, although all evidence pointed to U.S. weapons-grade facilities. Cheney was going to have war against Iraq no matter what the price, and it appeared that George W. Bush was equally gung ho and set on war.” I have a lot to go on here.
Elton John… wow I’m excited about this one. I plan on expaining in some detail the backbone of the Watergate scandal. Like in the Elvis article I am going to assume that my reader doesn’t know all the details about what caused the scandal as well the conspiracy behind it. Here’s a little examlple from The Watergate Crisis by Michael Genovese: “The roots of Watergate extend as far back as the Vietnam War and the divisiveness it cuases at home. Nixon was elected in 1968 in the midst of that long divisive war. He was elected in part, on his promise to end the war. But when he became president, he realized that getting out of Vietnam would be no easy task…” Watergate involved 3 separate, but interconnected conspiracies. The Plumbers conspiracy, the reelection conspiracy, and the cover-up conspiracy. << I’ll go into a little more detail here about what each of these mean. The difficult part here is how to tie in all my pictures, cartoons, articles, reviews, quotes, cover art, lyrics, and so on, into one coherent flowing message.
