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Only five days remain before the
masquerade begins in Iraq. We are in the eye of the most dangerous of
storms, surrounded by the contrived and ever-dangerous folly of that
aggression that we call WAR. This one is big brother to the one we walked
away from in Afghanistan, that is still smoldering, still killing us and
them in lower numbers now - but death is still final for all too many
people in both countries.
In Iraq, numerous factions have
joined forces to end our self-appointed occupation of that place. The chaos
that ensues is far worse than was the actual war itself. The US has stopped
giving totals for the numbers of Americans killed-that goes hand in hand
with why we don't count the others that we kill, capture, torture or charge
with any crimes. Basing our actions on lies and deceptions is a hell of way
to begin a "democracy." Just as lying about the status of our own
military has made a farce of "victory" in a world where clearly
there have been no winners anywhere.
How many more Americans will need
to die before the public says "enough"? Bush now wants to send in
15,000 more American targets (he calls them troops), to put yet another
band-aid over the severed arteries of our "triumph." We're still
building military bases in Iraq, 14 were ordered, but who will be sent
there when there is no security anywhere? Halliburton will no doubt be
paid, either way, just as they were for all the infrastructure and all the
maintenance that is now again in ruins. Who pays-we do. Who profits-Cheney
and his thugs, is that enough reason to lose a loved one? Few here are
asking, but the wider world still wants to know how many more Iraqi lives
will be sacrificed to feed Bush's denial and his utter failure in this
entire escapade?
Since America no longer bothers
making military plans - or as the "Defense Department says, 'we just
make it up as we go along.' Then what's next in Iraq now that we have
managed to create the beginnings of a full-scale civil war? We've trapped
ourselves and condemned our policies to certain failure, because we chose
an armored fist over real diplomacy.
Add to this the created nightmare
of the world of military prisons - both known and secret - and one begins
to wonder what can be the point of all this strange behavior. We were
supposed to set standards in the world, not lead the way to barbarism.
The reasoning of Rumsfeld, Cheney
and Wolfowitz went like this: we had a war, in places where there was no
uniformed enemy, but we went to war anyway. Now we must have prisoners to
show that there was an enemy, that the "threat" was real. We sent
in the mercenaries to round up the population and begin to fill the prisons
with the "savages, the haters and the enemy combatants" that have
no names or faces - they're only bodies to be used to justify our presence
in country (any country will do, because all countries have been targeted
for regime change), so it hardly mattered where they got arrested, or where
they are tortured.
What matters is that we can
torture them, intimidate and humiliate to our heart's content. We can
blackmail the victims of our abuse, then use them at a later date to extort
co-operation they would never otherwise give to any foreigner. At the same
time we have prisons full of enemies, lots of people that we can impress
with our power over ordinary citizens that have done nothing except to try
and live in the hell that we created. So prisons offer us a shortcut to
real power through intimidation, sexual abuse (for fun and profit), and
lots of avenues to mine for the proofs we need to justify everything we
have done, or may be planning. All of this, has until now, been very
secret.
Yet none of the adventures of
Cheney-Bush-Sharon have gone as planned. They have achieved nothing, except
to set the stage for upheaval everywhere, especially in the Middle East. In
the nearly three years of this war-upon-the-world, what has been
accomplished? Chaos, ever-greater danger to all people everywhere, and
we've increased a hundred fold, the number of people worldwide who will
remember us for decades, as that embodiment of evil, who sought to enslave
the world for bucks and corporate interests. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
Look at the farce. See its
beginnings in Fahrenheit 911, and then follow along on the course they took
to implement the nightmare that we can't seem to wake from. Those who the
administration pointed to, as the enemies of freedom and democracy, have
turned out to be on our payroll, in our employ: From there on everything
else has proven to be equally fallacious. This entirely orchestrated farce
was undertaken just to scare the hell out of Americans, to keep paranoia at
record levels, and to install fear where courage once lived; to replace
innovation and energy with despair and joblessness, all the while driving
the nation beyond bankruptcy, by giving away the treasury to the largest of
the robber-barons, and calling it either tax-cuts or no-bid contracts.
Why, you ask? So that we can
return to a time before there were regulations of any kind upon businesses
or corporations. There should be limits on corporate charters, not greater
freedoms for them. A charter of responsibilities for corporate life is
needed, that if unmet, can be grounds for permanent dissolution of that
corporation, and banishment of all its officers from any participation in
any other corporate ventures.
Instead the congress, the courts,
and the administration have embarked upon a policy that has ceded the
country to transnational and global interests at the expense of decent
jobs, a social order, and a responsible and honest government that punishes
criminals, rather than sponsoring them: The Enron Tapes were seized in
2002, and held by the Department of Justice, in secret, to protect Bush's
largest sponsor in the 2000 election. Ashcroft should be charged with
criminal conspiracy to cover-up a crime of massive proportions.
Every argument Bush used to
justify the wars was something that the US has been guilty of many times
over: beginning with his lies and deceptions, and the treasonous misleading
of this nation into illegal attacks upon other nations that were never a
threat to anyone beyond their own borders, and certainly not to the United
States of America!
Bush is fond of saying that Saddam
was ordered to disarm by the UN, and that Saddam's refusal to do so was
grounds for invasion - but what happened to the 8,000 pages that we excised
from his report to the UN? Saddam had no aggressive armaments, no air
force, no missiles, nada, nothing zip! How many nations in that region or
the world did Hussein threatened before 911-none! Why-because we'd been
bombing him 24-7 for twelve years, and because our sanctions had crippled
the population, killing a million and a half at least. He was no threat to
anyone-except maybe Bush in some deluded nightmare of the Bush family's
misbegotten view of the world. George keeps on saying that getting rid of
Saddam was worth everything. The world does not agree. We have replaced
Saddam with George W. Bush, and maybe the reason we don't keep numbers for
those killed, is that Bush is close to passing Saddam in the numbers of
Iraqi's he has killed?
When it comes to Outlaw nations,
one must look at the actuality of the threat as posed. Saddam failed on
every front-but we're actually overqualified for that position, and besides
we want to rule the world. That is our stated intention it's in the Bush
Doctrine of 2002.
The USA and Israel are outlaw
nations with serious Weapons of Mass Destruction. Because those weapons are
in our hands the world has cause to be very afraid, for everything that
most people hold dear-beginning with life itself. It's Israel and the US
that people fear, it is we who have disregarded UN sanctions and shown
contempt for anyone who disagrees with what we seek to steal from others.
The only people on this planet that don't "get this" yet-seem to
be Americans. That simple fact speaks volumes, about what we are and what
we say we care about. If we cared, we would demand changes in the policies,
and bring the troops home now.
www.ips-dc.org/
Americans are the real hostages
that have been taken in by this administration; all of the above is only
window-dressing for what waits for every one of us. "The Universal
National Service Act of 2003" It is S89 in the Senate and HR163 in the
House. In June of 2005 the administration plans to make every person
between the ages of 18 and 49 in this country eligible for the
"new" draft-no deferments, no exceptions. Those over 49 will be
put to work (30 hours per week) in HOMELAND security on neighborhood watch,
for anything that these folks think might be unnatural or suspicious -
welcome to 1984! If this doesn't point the way to national enslavement to
perpetual war, then nothing will. Have we earned this new world order, or
will we resist this, before it becomes the law of the land?
If we stick to form in Iraq, we'll
probably unleash Shock & Awe, again. The goal this time being to so
thoroughly subjugate all factions, so that we can stun the resistance, and
proclaim another false flag victory long enough to hold that ceremonial
lie-the lie that will partially proclaim Iraq as a free nation state on its
way to complete sovereignty. More lies! The longer we hold on, the more
devastating will be our ultimate withdrawal.
This Eye of the Storm will soon
pass and we will all return to that inferno of our own making. All that
remains is whether we will use the time remaining to demand real changes
before the possibility to do so begins to disappear. The time to end this
nightmare is now!
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