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The Congress of the United States,
in theory, makes up one third of the government. It's primary
responsibilities include providing a check on excessive powers in the
other two branches, and in that capacity they are responsible for
oversight of the administration, and for approving Budget's that must be
approved by them-for the entire government to function.
They failed to stop the illegal
Supreme Court ruling, in 2000, that in effect appointed George W. Bush to
the presidency. After 911, the Congress granted extraordinary powers to
the executive that in effect made the executive into a full-blown
dictator: as they had effectively ceded their congressional powers to him
for the duration of a war that Bush says "shall never end."
During the entire time from 2000 up to the present moment - the Congress
has yet to hold meaningful examinations of any of the things that
Cheney-Bush have done or are continuing to do-going forward. These actions
by the congress are crimes against those people that they purport to
serve, in their capacities as representatives of the people in the
Republic of the United States. The USA is not 'a democracy' it is a
Republic!
In a democracy the majority rules
absolutely. In a Republic all people have a right to their own views, and
minority opinion is supposed to be protected from majority rule: this
difference is paramount and is the essence that is required to keep a free
nation - FREE! Congress continues to maintain the fiction that there are
two parties working in this so-called system: That is simply not true!
There is no formal opposition,
and hasn't been for decades. What there is may look like the congress's of
old-but since at least the end of WWII, every year has seen each congress
grow ever-further from the actual will of the people, that they were sent
to Washington to theoretically represent.
Congress represents the
Corporations and the 37,000 lobbyists that pay extra for their time: and
that wholeheartedly includes whatever is good for the State of Israel: yet
the wishes of American taxpayers are no longer even considered by the
congress, as having any real meaning. That is the environment in which the
so-called debate on the troop surge is taking place. And as of today, long
after Pelosi's "first hundred hours" - it appears that the New
Congress is exactly the SAME-as-the-old-congress: Thoroughly bought and
paid for and definitely NOT there to do the bidding of the people of the
United States of America. (1)
The current quagmire is over
whether or not to even have a debate, about a non-binding resolution
against the "decider's" announced troop surge in Iraq. Too many
of these fake representatives are trying to term the pending
non-binding-resolution as a vote against "supporting the
troops." That could easily be fixed! All that needs to be included in
the language is the recognition that what is being challenged is not the
funding for the troops - but the lack of leadership that wants to send
those troops straight into certain death for no real reason at all-except
to continue the cover that the "Decider" needs to fend off
criticism until he can start his third war in this new Millennium.
The language should say: 'This
resolution is intended to stop commanding authorities from issuing orders
that are and have many-times-over, already proven to have failed. This
resolution is aimed at the commanders of our forces, all the way to the
Commander-in-Chief, and does not seek to deprive the troops of anything
they need: Rather it seeks to keep those troops already there alive, while
it seeks to prevent more men and women from going to their certain deaths
at the hands of completely incompetent commanders and policies-as can be
seen from the last four years of failed warfare!'
As a footnote: both the Congress
and the Pentagon, as well as the Commander-in-Chief must take
responsibility for following exactly the same course in Baghdad, as did a
different American armed force, when the exact-same kinds of collaborative
warfare practices (pretending to train and arm the locals to
"secure" the country) were used in Saigon, Vietnam. It did not
work in 1975 at the conclusion of that twenty-five year war, and it will
not work now. Iraq has something like 75% unemployment and starvation and
disease are becoming real problems along with the displacement of millions
of people. There is virtually no other 'occupation' available to Iraqi's
except to join some kind of force, just to stay alive. The fact that
neither congress nor the Pentagon seems to find any of that troubling, or
even to be a factor in why the war continues to intensify-make clear-some
of the fallacies at the heart of this darkness that is called the
War-on-Iraq. (2)
When the White House announced
its new Budget, it contained $1.6 Trillion in domestic cuts for the
programs that keep Americans alive, and increases for the Pentagon, the
War, and Israel-while seeking to make the obscene "tax-cuts"
permanent. "The Decider" promised that only in this way could we
obtain a balanced budget somewhere down the road. You don't have to have a
degree in economics to figure out that this Budget is just more Snake-Oil
and worth nothing at all to the national dialogue.
What needs to happen is that
those previous tax-breaks need to be retroactively reversed, and the money
needs to go into reparations for the war, to be paid to the displaced, the
wounded, and the families of the innocent dead. New, War-Profits-Taxes
need to be levied on all those corporations that have profited massively
from this unilateral and illegal war. The amount of the taxes ought to be
drawn from a large percentage of their questionable War-profits-according
to the degree of transparency provided to the public: The more secret the
contracts, the higher the taxes ought to be. Funds to continue the War
should be cut to the minimum needed to extract the troops and to provide
for the humanitarian assistance needed for the NGO's to begin to rebuild
both the people and the country of Iraq. Maybe some new people here might
be able to find some diplomats that haven't been involved in mass murders
in this or the previous decades, to represent US, and oversea the
corrections needed, to begin to correct what USA incorporated has done to
the Middle-East. Of course none of this will happen - power never
willingly surrenders its powers: but at least it is clear that something
has to change for all those people (both here and there) who want their
countries back!
On the budget-a key to
understanding just what a total failure looks like is-is the cost of
treating the wounded. That figure translates now to sixteen wounded for
every death reported. The costs of treatment alone will run from $350 to
$700 billion: and as soon as light-on-the-debate is over, 'the decider'
will begin to slash the hell out of those military benefits, just as he
has been doing all along.
This is not part of "the
costs of the war" for a so-called president who thinks that the only
thing he needs to worry about is more weapons and mercenaries, and, he
intends to pay for that by slashing every social program that congress
ever authorized-especially those that affect the truly needy!
The issues that this masquerade
that calls itself the Congress must deal with now are fundamental to the
rights and liberties of all Americans, and unless the crimes against the
people are reversed by congress, then we should just send congress home
and cut-out the middlemen by using AIPAC directly, instead of relying on
the second-hand-hacks who are posing as American congressmen and women.
Yes it has come to that-and no it cannot wait, or be postponed for another
week or two or
To whenever, the corrupt
leadership in congress decides to allow this issue to be heard. (3)
For this nation to have gone for
nearly six years without any congressional oversight whatsoever, lays it
all out "on the table" as politicians are so fond of saying. The
public should give their politicians the same harsh treatment that these
imposters have been giving others now for the last six years. We should
assume their guilt unless they can easily prove their innocence. There are
perhaps a few dozen who have tried mightily to do their jobs, and their
efforts are easy to see, just as the efforts of those who thwarted them,
cannot really remain a secret. Maybe a committee might want to ask Cheney
why his financial holdings are not in this country! Or some might want to
delve into the backgrounds of some of those perennially present members of
the "old-guard" that simply refuse to die. There also needs to
be a limit on presidential pardons for criminals, especially when those
being pardoned actually worked directly for the one giving the pardons.
America has the filth of decades to clean-up - the background video speaks
to some of this-but the whole truth is far larger. (4)
 Everyone in that group that's
wedded to corporate plunderings seems to know the price of everything and
the value of nothing. And these are the people that we have allowed to
wreck the environment, to destroy the value of diplomacy, and to erase the
nation states that once held so much of humanity together. In today's
world the North-American-Union is about to become a fact. That involves
dissolving the borders between Canada, the USA and Mexico; you can see the
fragments of all three in this preliminary logo. The dollar will become
the Amero, and all of that without being brought anywhere near public
opinion. It's not scheduled for a vote in congress, and it won't be a part
of any campaign platform - because we're not supposed to know -until it
"happens." Google NAU, there's enough there to see this TREASON
in its infancy-and to begin to challenge this one-unless you don't mind
losing this nation literally!
About the only escape clause from
this obviously impossible decent into the labyrinth, might be something
like this: Each congress is theoretically different from it predecessors.
So if this congress were to suddenly discover the testosterone to
challenge the current status quo-then maybe that might be enough to begin
to turn the tide back to being a nation in our own right again: Maybe not!
One thing is clear, we cannot go
on with business as usual, and we must stop this war, before the two we
have morphs into three. Sorting out the crimes committed all round seems
far too big to tackle now, but with performance as a guide, a great deal
could still be accomplished.
Israel's influence must be SHUT
DOWN and investigations into her behavior beginning with the Attack on the
USS Liberty must be undertaken-or we need to all be granted Israeli
citizenship, since it's our money anyway! A start in this direction might
begin with turning back that obscenity that is pending in congress now;
the one that seeks to grant protection to Israel from scrutiny by anyone
who has questions about that countries so-called history. No other nation
on this earth has ever tried to classify the knowledge of its own history
as a punishable offense with prison-terms for anyone outside their own
country, anyone that dares to question, the supposed international
historical record. So watch the clip below - and ask yourself if this
man's 'cause' is just, or is it just another cover-story for yet another
power grab at the expense of the rest of the world. (5)
Congress has FAILED, no question
about that-now it's up to us!
Jim Kirwan
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