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The Decider has decided to take a
break from deciding, because everything he's touched so far has failed.
For his part Bush chooses to blame these failures on the people of Iraq,
on all the various factions that have resisted his invasions, and anyone
that challenges any of the insanity that he calls his policies in "the war
on terra."
We have been at war in
Afghanistan (Oct 7, 01) and in Iraq since the 1991 Gulf war. In all that
time this leader-among-the-ignorant has still not yet figured out that for
any people to be liberated they must have drinking water, some
electricity, and some kind of job to allow daily-life to continue. Since
it's been five long years without the necessities of life-it is hardly
surprising that the resistance to our occupation only grows with every
passing day: what kind of idiot could believe that he could prevail
without providing any of the things that create the daily-chance to live
one's life? The Decider cannot figure out why he is not winning "hearts
& minds," never mind the War itself. Rummy dissolved the Iraqi army,
and allowed Saddam's troops to melt into the population with their weapons
and without jobs, that was a clear prescription for chaos-yet the decider
did not seek more advice-only more troops to enforce his failures in
"Staying the Course."
Rove's new "look" for
the Decider's troika features Bush between Condi and Cheney: no more the
lonely John Wayne figure striding from plane to platform, but if anything
there is now more chaos than ever behind the scenes. That's not-much of a
change; but apparently the Outlaws believe that if they do not react to
all the advice, then the public will just go along with the new
prescription of another $130 billion, and another 20,000 American men and
women will be fed into the meat-grinder that chews up money, material and
people with equal vigor. The "coalition of the willing" is no longer
willing (1): and the poverty of the military's lack of any
kind of plan has finally laid bare the sheer idiocy of any thought behind
anything that's already been done from Guantanemo to Abu Ghraib. It is
time for a truly new approach!
Leadership involves practicing "the art of the
possible." To do that one needs the true facts on the
ground, in order to craft solutions that will work. First it must be
recognized that Iraq was never an American war-this was always part of
Israel's war of conquest. The Americans were sent in to fight the Iraq war
for Israel, just as they will be sent in to Iran and or possibly Syria to
fight those wars for Israel as well. (2) It's time that
the troops dying in these wars wore their real colors on their sleeves.
 One obvious change that ought to
be done immediately is that Pro-counsel Paul Bremmer's One-Hundred Rules
ought to be immediately rescinded. That would give Iraq back to the Iraqi
people, and remove the clearly colonial mold that was cast immediately
after the Fall of Baghdad. The Decider wants Iraqi's to stand up because
they now have a constitution with "Freedom & Democracy"-but
no Iraqi can make a meal or a job out of any of that political farce that
was manufactured in the Pentagon and The US Department of War. By the same
token American troops are being asked to do the impossible - and many of
them want to be withdrawn - now! (3)
People that have nothing to live
for become desperate; and when virtually everything in one's country is
under attack - it is clear that those who created that nightmare will
remain targets as long as they remain in the affected country. Imagine
what would happen if the USA were to have sustained five long years of a
foreign power's occupation of this nation. That would involve rape,
routine torture, religious persecution, along with a lack of water,
electricity, jobs, or security of any kind-and what if all of this took
place under the kind of media-censorship that we've imposed on Iraq and
Afghanistan? Would it matter how our wives and children died, or that vast
numbers of our citizens were abducted by police to be tortured and
murdered daily-by the hundreds? Could the Americans that survived the
initial attacks, plus the brutality and criminality that flows from such a
wholesale destruction of any country remain so abstract about their
treatment? How long then would the remaining Americans want that occupying
foreign force to remain in this country, after the so-called "Mission
was Accomplished"? And, after the occupiers leave, how long would the
survivors "remember" the maiming, the shaming, and the deaths of
loved ones? Why can Americans not see how very wrong this war-on-Iraq has
always been?
America is now broke and we don't
actually "have" an extra 20,000 battle-hardened troops to send
back into Iraq (this will ultimately be the decider's choice to win the
war)-to hell with the fact that this War cannot now be "won," in
conventional terms (4). Hundreds of influential people have
observed that diplomacy has to be part of any lasting peace-but when
Condoleezza Rice was appointed US Secretary of State-the message to the
world was: "Forget about it-we don't talk to our enemies - EVER!" Still
the US lacks the resources to continue, we also lack the troops to
prosecute wars without purpose or end, and most of all American's are sick
of being lied to about everything that has anything to do with this
government or the wider world. Yet action must now be taken: So why not
replace the American occupation forces with Israeli Defense Forces?
The IDF has been at war with
nearly everyone in the middle-east for fifty years, so they should be well
equipped to take over in Iraq! There is of course only one small
problem-the Iraqi resistance tries to kill those that want to kill them-as
a result Americans are dying in phenomenal numbers, and it isn't even our
war. It's time for the end-user of this destabilization in the Middle-East
to begin to pay in blood and treasure for that which they have demanded
from the USA and Britain. To assist in this redeployment; why not draft
the existing 100,000 strong army of privatized militias that could be kept
on, at one-tenth their current pay - to actually begin construction on
something besides those military bases they were sent there to secretly
supply and protect. The illicit money paid to Halliburton and its
subsidiaries should be seized and used to pay the Iraqi's for the
rebuilding of those infrastructural reconstructions that were
theoretically paid for but never even begun?
 Of course this idea is outrageous
to the Israeli's and to those whose idea these wars were created for. But
what's at stake now is a far larger issue than just what a few corrupt
politicians and wanna-be dictators might prefer - this is about whether
there will be a world after so many criminals have taken their portion of
the loot.
This might sound tough, but
that's one solution that could work in Iraq, for the Iraqi's, and for a
wider peace in the Middle-East. With the IDF completely tied down, trying
to stay alive in Iraq, they would have to agree to a real peace in
Palestine. That fact alone would more than calm the region-it might
actually bring about some of the major changes so long overdue for the
world-changes that were promised to the world at the end of the Cold War.
Of course the proposal to let
Israel fight inside Iraq could never be seriously be proposed, much less
accepted. We're way too far down this road of fantasy and denial to ever
allow that to happen-much less demand it! What is fascinating and probably
contains the seeds of what shall happen is contained in the stances taken
by the so-called opposition parties in the USA. The public has once again
given the Democrats another free pass, without holding anyone to account
for the war, for the current stalemate in every area of this government-or
for the massive criminality that Katrina was so much a part of. America no
longer has political parties that stand for anything-what we have are
reactive interest groups that are cowardly and despicable in nature and
getting worse with every day that passes. So if America is ruled by "the
Art of the Possible" then we need some creative people who are willing to
challenge all that we've so recently become!
"Impeach President Bush? Why
would we do something like that?
Cut off the funds for the war in
Iraq? What war?" (5)
Kirwan
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