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It has been said that 'Truth is in the
eye of the beholder.' This time truth lies also in the number of the wounded,
the maimed and the dead, throughout the Middle East as well.
In an effort to justify this
misbegotten attack upon the upon the world, what Bush calls, "the war on
terra" - Bush and his outlaw band have gone through one excuse after
another, but only after each one in turn has been completely discredited.
Yet Bush clings to each new tattered
shield, for his barbaric actions against defenseless people, as if each new
excuse was the "real and only reason" for our blatantly illegal
actions in the first place. Why has this game of ever-changing reasons become so
difficult for the American public to follow? When will the voters begin to
finally treat this angry and petty tyrant as the imposter that he is? So long as
he is allowed to hold campaign stops that lock up any and all dissent, miles
from his podium; then there is little chance that the public will ever see him
challenged, on television, by anyone who disagrees with his positions.
If the truth is what is being sought in
this campaign, then there are a great many things about this "war on
terra" that must be accounted for, beginning with the dead. The Outlaws
have claimed that we went to Iraq to free the people of Iraq. Bush said that he
did that because Saddam was a brutal dictator, who tortured his own people. So,
if it was Saddam that he went there to get, why are we still there? Saddam's in
jail, we have become the torturers of the people, and now we're killing more
Iraqi's every day than Saddam ever did.
We say we care about the sacrifices of
the Iraqi people, in their bid for freedom and democracy-yet we have no idea how
many of them we have killed. Daily we continue to burn them, to murder them, and
to wreck havoc on what is left of life for them; and then Bush says that that we
are doing this because they love freedom and we want to help them escape from
"terra."
The people of Iraq are not the enemies
of the United States, or they weren't until we began to senselessly slaughter
them, while destroying their homes and villages wholesale. The Iraqi populations
were the victims of Saddam and now they've become the victims of US foreign
policy. We round them up and imprisoned them with abandon, but then we have to
let 90% of them go because we finally determine they were guilty of nothing at
all. Yet while they were in captivity many suffered from brutalities and abuse
that break all international conventions, and some are even killed, before
they're found to be 'innocent of all charges.'
Worst of all they are simply trying to
live in their own country; a country in which we are the invaders, and it is we
who are bringing what Bush calls "Terra," but what the Iraqi's
identify as real terror is what this administration has brought into their
lives. The Iraqi people want us gone! Everyone seems to have forgotten that
Saddam is our creation. He was nothing but a low-life thug, a minor warlord
until we took him in hand, and saw to the success of his rise to the head of
that state. We armed him, and we directed him, until GWHB decided that Saddam
was too big a threat, he knew too much and he was getting uppity, so it was time
to kill him. But while Bush 41 was able to retake Kuwait, he stopped short of
going after Saddam. Junior decided that he would show "poppy" how
things were done - despite the intelligence, despite the wisdom on the ground
within the region: so we have this obscenity in place with no end in sight.
The region is now unraveling because of
our impatient, illegal and arrogant attacks. Because we did not plan to leave we
have no exit strategy, and now because we did what we did so poorly, it's also
clear that we cannot stay. The situation is untenable, we have wasted vast
amounts of blood and wealth, and we are further now from any real power in that
region than ever before. Further we said that this would mark the beginning of
real peace and would open the path for freedom and democracy throughout the
region-the exact opposite is now true and it worsens each day that we persist in
staying. Bush got us into this war for greed and profit, and now he and Cheney
are demanding to be allowed to continue, because they say they are the only ones
tough enough to deal with "terra."
Bush 43 should have been impeached for
cowardice in the face of the enemy on 911, rather than having been allowed to
become a candidate for the office he stole in 2000. All that's clear from the
faux debates is that the USA now seems determined to be able to have it all with
no responsibility for any of the death and destruction that we've caused in
defense of 911, when that crime was done to us by the very people that are now
directing this "War on Terra," because there was a 911 to justify
their actions.
Apparently this nation does not
disagree with the idea that this country should be allowed to attack anyone we
please at will, without provocation and without regard for international laws.
Over ten million people worldwide demonstrated against our actions. When did we
have that discussion? Did that happen in the middle of the night, like the
approval of the Patriot Act, that felonious piece of treachery that congress
failed to even read before they approved it? When did this nation have a
discussion about instituting the ultimate act of WAR, for thought crimes,
committed by people who might one day hate us?
But most important, when will the
public begin to understand what we are sending our troops out to do, in our
names, to so many different peoples around this planet?
What happened to allowing free speech,
throughout political campaigns? The questions asked of both candidates last
night, may have been soft, but they were the first televised time in four years
that an audience did not contain only the supporters of the candidate. How can
Americans claim to have free speech and then allow these transgressions against
the First Amendment to stand? Either the public is free to disagree with a
candidate, at one of his functions-or that right of free speech has illegally
been taken from the public.
When free speech is curtailed, by
police state tactics, the effect of that action leaves television viewers with a
misconception about the popularity of that candidate. When this happens that
campaign appearance amounts to nothing more than propaganda. When a candidate
faces a tough audience that is news that needs to be seen. If the candidate
cannot answer for his policies, then that too is news in itself. None of that
can happen when there are no dissenting voices in the televised crowd.
To prevent this kind of uncomfortable
moment for a candidate, by simply arresting hostile members of the public that
try to attend campaign appearances, should be illegal. If this happened in third
world nations we would condemn that, so why do we allow it here in the election
of 2004? This is not the "Freedom and Democracy" that so many died to
preserve-but this is the way of the New World Order and the Bush Doctrine of
2002. It is also a constitutional violation of the right of all Americans to
question their government, in public and on the record, about polices and the
actions that are undertaken in the public's name.
Why has Bush been allowed to avoid all
the questions that make him uncomfortable, especially about his war policies and
his mental lapses: And speaking of flip-flops, why are his reasons for his
actions constantly being revised, and never challenged?
Maybe the public agrees with universal
warfare against the entire world, it would certainly appear to be the case-since
neither candidate finds anything wrong with having attacked Iraq in the first
place (despite all the proofs to the contrary). One casualty in all of this is
the word of the American political establishment - which has become an
international farce. And when the world figures out that the public here is in
complete agreement with the war policies of our supposed leaders; then the
hatred of our government will begin to extend to all of us as well.
If Americans thought they were unsafe
after 911, that will be nothing when compared to how "unsafe" we all
will be, once the world adds up our attitude toward the rest of the planet, and
decides that we are no different than the homicidal maniac now sitting in the
Oval office.
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