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War is
Peace, Freedom is Slavery and there is Victory waiting for Iraqi’s in a
Democratic Iraq!
First there were the elections
when both houses of congress changed hands and the message was thought to
be clear: Then the in-depth report from Jim Baker & Lee Hamilton that
did not mention either "victory" or "democracy." Today
comes a mumble from the military-yes-men in Iraq, some of whom want to
remain anonymous—no surprises there either. What’s left? No doubt
there’ll be some kind of silly report from Cheney & Condi about the
rest of the War Department that has reduced ‘the Decider’ to Mr.
Twenty-percent.
In Iraq people still die by the
hundreds each and every day while the Decider twiddles away our time—trying
to find his escape from reality. When he was asked about this at his press
conference with his British poodle he said: "It’s
Bad-in-Iraq, Does that help heh-heh" This attempt at levity,
about a topic so severe, surpassed even that other failed moment when he
treated news cameras to a look under his Oval Office desk for the Weapons
of Mass Destruction that of course were never found: These ‘statements’
sum up the nothingness that has turned the self-described ‘Decider’
into Mr. Twenty-percent!
 The elections didn’t faze him;
the studied criticisms have left him unmoved. Now comes the newly
victorious ‘democratic majority’ with their message of "No talk
of Impeachment," and ‘no subpoenas will be issued.’ So what was
the point in all the talk about how things in Iraq (and in government) had
to change?
It’s not as if new laws have to
be written—the laws are very clear they’re in the US Constitution and
they need to be enforced—all that’s missing is the political will in
Congress. The Outlaws acted beyond the laws of the United States, and the
Congress must take back that "License to Kill" that they
illegally gave to the Decider. Congressional responsibilities cannot be
delegated to the executive branch of the government – regardless of what
the self-appointed executive says he needed at the time. In Iraq we are
approaching 3,000 officially killed: remember when there were only about
120 dead, and Bush declared "Mission Accomplished!" Which is it:
a still unfinished Mission Accomplished, or was the truth what he stated
way-back then; at the beginning of the destabilization of Iraq?
The primary responsibility of
government is to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies both
foreign and domestic: and that is what they have consistently failed to do
since congress first allowed the Supreme Court to appoint Bush-the-Lesser
to office back on 12-12-2000.
The country faced a similar
impasse when Nixon faced Impeachment and congress allowed him to simply
resign, because had he been impeached he would have taken too many members
of the 535- Club down with him—if that process had gone forward. As it
was Gerald R. Ford pardoned Nixon; so there were no consequences for that
crime against the people of the United States. Similar conflicts of
interest came up again when Ronnie and Bush 41 fell short of the laws
during and beyond the Iran-Contra scandals. Investigations then became
problematic; some indictments happened but most of the players were again
pardoned and many of those criminals have been serving in ‘the Decider’s
portion of the New World Order.
This time however, there were
consequences but not for the criminals—the consequences have gone
against the public and in favor of the continued rise of criminality
within what has passed for government these last six years of War, War,
and Lost-More-War! To end this cycle of ever deeper criminality, massive
bloodshed and war-profiteering on a grand-scale—the United States must
return to Constitutional government. If the new congress chooses not to
proceed with serious investigations or to enforce their ban on
Impeachments—then those who stand for this new cover-up of the political
and military crimes already committed need to be added to the list of
those to be impeached.
The Iraq Study Group touched on
some of what needs to happen in the Middle East, but they stopped well
short of what’s required. All the nations of the Middle East need to
gather together to discuss how this war can be terminated. The key player
left out of every discussion seems to be Israel. If Israel cannot talk to
her neighbors, then obviously she cannot be part of the new Middle East.
What needs to be clearly stated is that neither the United States nor
Israel are genuine players in the region: because both these countries
have deserted diplomacy and substituted weaponry for words, on virtually
every occasion when it has mattered.
The US Department of State used
to be the place where alliances were formed and policies were made. Not so
now! Under the total incompetence of Condoleezza Rice and her befuddled
boss, conversations of any kind are rendered moot – because in this
administration’s view, talking to anyone’s enemies only indicates
weakness. Couple the total failure of the Department of State with the
yes-men in the overstretched US military and it’s easy to see that the
United States has been reduced to a military Junta that has no other way
to communicate with other nations except under the threat of US military
force, blackmail, or Special Operations. Each and all of which have failed
every other Empire that has chosen that route to dominance: just as it has
failed these late-comers to Caesar’s global dreams that ended in the
dissolution of the Roman Empire.
The Decider keeps laying blame on
"terrorists," while failing at every turn to understand that the
United States has no actual claim to any land in the Middle East, much
less to any of the resources that Bremmer’s one-hundred rules virtually
gave (or privatized) for corporations in the West. Our ‘claim’ is
against those who reject our determination for them – to choose a way of
life for themselves: that’s what makes them ‘terrorists.’ Israel
contributes little beyond hatred and loathing for the native populations
of the land they covet and are still stealing. Whenever serious observers
sit down to look at the situations that have cost massive amounts of
treasure and blood – invariably Israel is seen to have more than a
passing interest in each event. Yet Israel has always been treated as ‘special’
regardless of the facts, in any of the bloody footprints that have criss-crossed
the Middle East since first that still unfinished ‘nation’ applied for
statehood.
Israel has received so many
trillions of our money over the last fifty years that what she does is
definitely our business. Many call us "US-rael," because it is
too difficult to differentiate the differences between them and us. It
would be tempting to see a conference of the Middle-Eastern nations called
together to discuss their world with Israel and the USA. This odd-ball
union with Sharon’s Israel and the Bush version of the USA represents
the worst extremes of both "nations" The problem might be who
would take the lead and who would be the surrogate—so many wonder about
this deeply divisive and unholy nuclear union. Still, whether this happens
now or later—it must happen because nothing major will ever change in
the Middle-East as long as these two outlaw nations remain actively
involved in everything that’s planned for that region and the world.
The Greater State of Israel
involves parts of Jordan, Syria and Egypt, in addition to Iraq and Iran.
Israel apparently never saw the need for modesty when it came to adding to
its lands and riches. A quick look through the last fifty years in that
region will yield a lot of very ugly history, and much of it has to do
with what Israel wants, or says it wanted. And yet Israel seems to be
immune to global concerns that so many other nations must deal with –
such as the IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Association) and its
rules about nuclear weapons: not to mention the over 65 UN Resolutions
that Israel has ignored. Even today the ghost of Ariel Sharon still hovers
over Olmert and his incompetent rule—and as always the world must hold
its breath concerning whatever that smallest state is rumored to want now!
Suffice it to say – if the nations of the Middle-East were to have a
vote on who should remain in that region – neither the USA nor Israel
would even be granted an honorary vote—given all that’s happened in
Iraq, and will be ‘coming-soon’ to Iran and Syria as well.
Over here: What the congress of
the United States must do now is cut off funding for the War. The choice
to stay or go is not something that will be ‘decided’ by this
government, but by facts-on-the-ground inside Iraq and the other actual
nations in the Middle-East. This lesson was forcefully given to the world
when we lost in Vietnam – but Rummy was Secretary of War then – so
that lesson was not retained. This was part of the reason for the
heavy-construction of the Green Zone in Baghdad—so that the retreat from
the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon would not be replayed in Iraq.
But size and weaponry alone are not enough to prevent overwhelming numbers
from an angry and determined people: and this ‘condition’ is one of
the things that the administration remains in complete denial on.
Continued funding for the war in any form - will only waste more lives and
money and will have no effect on the outcome of this already ‘lost war
in Iraq.’
Congress wants to approve a
pending $130 billion to cover the remaining expenses of the Bush
administration. That should not happen: but rather that money should be
approved for New Orleans to resurrect the disenfranchised people and
repair the damage which FEMA and the Federal government ignored since the
day Katrina happened!
Lots of things need to be done to
resurrect this nation from the strangle hold that these thugs have held us
in, since 911. But without the Constitution, without the real freedoms in
the Bill of Rights, or any real change in this nation at this late hour—then
what will any of the proposed tinkering really matter? The minimum wage,
proper medical services, education, retirement or any of the hundreds of
things that have gone so wrong since funding was cut to virtually every
aspect of American life. The new congress wants to play in that garden of
promises and pipedreams. But without a basis for this government with the
will to punish and prosecute those who have dragged us kicking and
screaming into these cul-de-sacs of War upon War, upon War: then we must
begin to ask—what really matters now!
It may be that circumstances and
nature may intervene and bring this whole nightmare of the Tar-Baby of
Iraq down upon all those still stranded in that broken place. But if that
doesn’t happen then at the very least this government must disassociate
itself from Israel: cut off all military funds for the Iraq War, and
launch the long overdo investigations into so much of what was so
arrogantly done in the names of each and every one of us! (1)
Do we have the will to do more
than vote every couple of years? Does it matter how many of those we love
die in failed wars for corporate profits at the ends of the earth? How are
we not responsible for those collaterally killed in these un-thought-out
actions that this nation keeps starting? At the end of this what will it
matter to Americans? The Democratic Party, even before it has assumed
office no longer represents the kinds of changes that they wanted the
voters to believe in—before they were elected! The "new"
congress—same as the old congress: Just as the Decider’s "Way
Forward in Iraq" is identical with his FAILED-ways to this point in
time. But then what could be expected from someone who had no idea where
any other country even was, before he was appointed to office!
America needs a "use-by
date" on Campaign promises, and if those promises are not met—the
Constitution needs to be amended so that the offending politicians can be
quickly and legally removed from office. But most of all America needs her
people to become involved with who runs this place, with who is served and
who is ignored: if that is not done then nothing much really matters
anymore!
Whatever – the US has firmly
placed our interests into the Tar-Baby-of-Iraq, and we seem to have left
ourselves no way out. The war-profiteering of Cheney (2),
the ignorance of Condi, the sheer lack of nerve within the Pentagon, none
of this will matter a whit because we’ve accepted being lied to for so
long now that Double-speak is becoming the order of the day – even the
‘Democrats’ have begun to use it! What do we have left to lose?
Jim Kirwan
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