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Kirwan Articles
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Why is it so Hard for us to Admit?
October 2003
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Why is it so hard for Americans to
connect the dots, when it comes to the completely false foundation for the
Bush Doctrine of Pre-emptive Aggression against Iraq? It is one thing to go to war, after
this nation is physically attacked. It is something entirely other for the
United States to attack another country based solely on what we' think'
that country might someday want to do to us. If anything the evidence for
the latter argument must be far stronger, than any mere presumptions,
especially
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when the nation in question, has been under constant
bombardment for twelve years prior to the start of our official and overt
invasion.
Why have we not understood that
in the twelve years of bombing and covert operations against Iraq,
immediately preceding our attack - probably most, if not all, of Saddam's
Weapons of Mass Destruction had been destroyed or at least severely
compromised. However, instead of considering this point the administration
chose to base their fears for our safety on 'intelligence' that was
generated in 1991.
Then citing "imminent and
immediate danger to both Iraq's neighbors, and the world, as well as to
the United States - Bush chose to attack without waiting for proof of his
allegations, or for the support of the members of the United Nations.
Having blown this phase of the process, and isolated our position from
world opinion, we then viciously prosecuted a war with no thought given to
how that country would be governed after we finished breaking what
remained of this impoverished nation. There was no preparation or planning
for how to rebuild a civil infrastructure, how to reconstitute what had
been a dictatorship, whose people were struggling even before we arrived.
During the war many hours of television footage were devoted to all the
rooms filled with documents that were left to the elements to be
destroyed.
Now we are being told that we
have nowhere to begin, because we have no records. We seem to have
forgotten that the only part of the government we seized and protected,
during the invasion, were the records of the Ministry of Oil. Basically we
obviously didn't give damn about anything else. American troops stood by,
or turned a blind eye to the looting, of all the various ministries, the
hospitals, the universities, and all the functional arms of any
governmental nature, including the disbanding of the military. So of
course we have no way to know the good from the contaminated, the real
from the false. This only happened because we did not plan for an Iraqi
future. We did however let no-bid contracts well in advance of the war for
the protection and development of the oil fields, the pipelines and
everything associated with those resources.
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Why is it so hard for us to fathom
that what we destroyed for war purposes must now be replaced at tremendous
cost to the U.S. taxpayers? Why can we not grasp that this ancient and
proud people were not waiting-with-baited-breath, for the US to grant them
freedom or democracy. True they desperately yearned to be rid of Saddam,
but not at the expense of their own nationhood, or their lives or the
lives of loved ones.
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They have told us repeatedly to
leave - and of course we refuse, because then all the questions would have
to answered. As it is now, the president's press secretary, can simply
ignore the questions - but if we leave - then the administration would
have to answer for all the dead and all the wounded, all the destruction
and most of all for the sheer arrogance of our attack in the first place.
Only the rest of the civilized world wants that: so naturally Bush will
NOT be moved by their wishes, as that would conflict with his role as
Dictator-in-Waiting for the planet.
Speaking of costs, why can we not
connect the dots on that ledger sheet? The Iraqi' children went back to
school yesterday with sanitized new schoolbooks, furnished by us. How many
children in the United States are not given even old school books, never
mind freshly printed ones? The Fire stations in Baghdad are getting new
trucks, while in the US we're laying off firemen and police to pay for the
creation of our new police state.
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The Iraqi's are getting a huge
new police force, while our police are being stripped down to
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the bare
minimum - just barely able to respond to 911 calls because of the high
priority of the phantom needs of John Ashcroft's secret police state. Many
states here are flirting with bankruptcy, while congress decides to fund
computerized post offices as well as modern new prisons (at $50,000 per
inmate) for Iraq.
This is an upside down world,
this Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive aggression. Our jobs are being sent
offshore, and our corporations are allowed to downsize at phenomenal
rates, while Bush is giving away the treasury to the rich. We have no
viable jobs available for working Americans, and even the governments own
programs for the disabled and the unemployed are being answered by people
overseas, subcontracted for by the very government that has caused the
unemployment and the hardships here - in the first place.
Why will we not impeach this
entire administration for the very real crimes they have committed against
America and the world? Tens of thousands of people have died. It's one
thing to send troops into battle, with a clear war to fight, but when the
war is not over and they are left to die one-by-one-by-one: targets all -
both military and civilian - then that should qualify as a criminal act.
Yet this goes on and on and on - and there are apparently no consequences.
Where are the calls for Impeachment? The families of the fallen hate what
has happened. The wounded are not visited by the AWOL resident in the
White House, because they scorn him, while the authorities can only wring
their bloodstained hands and whisper that 'things are not as they should
be.' Is this some modern twisted form of Shakespeare? Is there no reason
in this place?
These are indeed strange times: Times in which we have
given the control of this nation over to fools, to privateers, and to an
assortment of criminals - aided and abetted by a deaf, dumb, and pliably
complicit media. No nation so beset, can survive this way for very long.
And the United States will not prove to be an exception to this cardinal
rule for all who would seek to become part of our perverted dreams of
Global Empire.
kirwan
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