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Everybody knows the clock is
ticking but nobody knows the time!
The "Season of Sharing" has drawn
to a close as we now return to the 364 days in The Season of Taking.
Nearly six years have elapsed in this time-warp that has made its
blood-drenched way toward impending total war: yet the planet still waits
upon those final moments that will finally tell us all-what time it really
is.
 What has been lost and what is
left to lose remains shrouded in mystery, for the most part. Thanks to so
many investigative articles by hundreds of writers and photo-journalists
we now know a great deal more about the history of this world than most of
us could ever have imagined before this nightmare began. What we do now
know is that we have been told only lies-but more importantly those lies
have been enabled and perpetuated by the vast majority of all the
politicians from both parties. And we know that to this day "The Decider"
has stonewalled all the real questions that he said justified all that we
did militarily.
Here is some of what Robert Fisk
has so clearly pointed out about the real complexities that are involved
in what the US has been doing since we turned everything over to the
Decider! (1)
America needs to take-back its
government, its laws and its seemingly long forgotten code of ethics.
There was a unique opportunity that was missed back in early October, when
Forward Base Falcon was destroyed and 319 military and civilian
contractors were killed in a single attack that lasted for three days. Had
news of those deaths reached the American public then-before the November
elections; then the anger in America would have risen well above the
abilities of the dark-powers to contain or shape that vote. The elections
could have mandated that politicians end the excessive privileges they
granted to the Decider, when congress surrendered their constitutional
responsibilities, to the Decider, before the wars even began.
 By canceling that illegal
permission to slaughter any and all that opposed us-the congress could now
have easily cut the funding for the wars and "taken-back" the troops which
would have been a true reflection of the will of the American public-had
the public only known about the deaths of the 319 back in October. (2)
This war has lasted longer than
WWII, and what do we have to show for it? In Iraq we demonstrated the
Twenty-First Century American version of the Nazi Blitzkrieg-when we used
Shock & Awe on Iraq. Our military purpose was to savagely bomb Baghdad
and to follow that up with an indiscriminate and inhumane slaughter of the
civilian population. The goal was to intimidate not just Iraq and Iraqi's
but to show the whole world how powerful we were and how brutal we could
be. The bombings led to the seizure of Baghdad, but as time passed the
massive fear we sought to instill began to turn to hatred and revenge, as
more and more Iraqi's began to demand that the occupation forces leave
Iraq. Still the Decider persisted ignoring any facts that disagreed with
either his preferred outcome or with "Staying the Course." (3)
When the war first began
questions were asked - "How Many Lives Will it Cost to do this?"
At least now, with the
death of Saddam apparently imminent, at least some of those questions can
be partially answered. The Lancet in England says that over 600,000 Iraqi
civilians have been killed. We know that tens of thousands of allied men
and women have been severely damaged or maimed, along with at least 3,000
that the government admits have been killed. We know that the deaths of
our troops are still secret, so we know that we don't really know how many
died-as in those 319 that no group has seen fit to investigate fully. What
we also know for certain is that the lives of our men and women have been
badly used and abused by their commanders, but especially by their own
government - and no amount of spin will ever change that fact: That is why
all who served there have been awarded the combat infantry badge - to mark
the differences between this war and all others, for Americans!
The US Dollar has just been
surpassed by the Euro-which the Media actually reported as a beauty
contest between the two currencies: having forgotten to mention that this
FACT might have a major impact on everything economic in the USA for
generations to come. What else have we lost-just the financial foundation
of the country along with our place in the world as a nation that once
meant what it said and frequently actually stood for something besides
banditry, thuggery and the nearly total supremacy of the Multi-national
Corporate States that seem to have taken over too many national decisions
and services. (4)
The Decider is still languishing
down at "the ranch" on another of his interminable "vacations" while he
"considers" how he plans to deal with denying the pulse of this
nation, while he plans to shove even-more-war down the collective throats
of the entire world. In the coming "Season of Taking" Americans
need to take back the power of their own voices and stop putting up with
all the various masks of treason, of hypocrisy, of murder, of torture, and
of betrayal that has come to stand for what America is now all about! The
clock keeps ticking; but how many really want to know the time?
Jim Kirwan
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