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"Shock
& Awe - Baghdad is Burning," "Beirut Under Siege by Israel
-Again!" Lebanon is Leveled - GAZA continues to Burn; The Wall keeps
growing while Palestine shrinks to Nothing! What's next: "Teheran is
Obliterated"- "Damascus is Destroyed"? Beirut is Back in
the Stone-age?
"How Quickly We
Forget!" - Whose interests do these crimes against the world really
"serve"? Millions are displaced as refugees, wandering between
countries with no status and only the clothes on their backs, while "back
home" the death tolls approach millions of dead or desecrated by
"American Interests." Have we really become this vile, this
narrow and this pig-headed, in just six years? We wave a flag that has
become heavy with the blood of innocent people while nationally we speak
of heroes, and sacrifice and being "number one"! We're
"Number One" alright, but not in any of the things that count.
If this keeps up the short and arrogant life of the United States will be
expunged from the history of the world as the most heinous of nation
states since Ghengis Khan destroyed the East in the 1200's.
The headlines will keep on
coming, but if what they herald doesn't begin to change soon - then
nothing much will really matter anymore. If we continue to forget even
recent history, then we are destined to repeat it all-with an intensely
personal vengeance!
America-incorporated has become
an errant spendthrift with a huge psychosis for violence as the only
solution to every problem. This is easily summed up by Rumsfeld in his
infamous phrase: "War, War, and Lots-More-War!" Speaking of
which, Rummy that perpetual Dream-Slayer of civilizations, is still on the
job and hiding in plain sight, according to Jack Blood.com:
"Rumsfeld is still running
the War Department
A recent article in the
Washington Times by Rowan Scarborough, ("Rumsfeld's transition raises
questions" 1-25-07) confirms that Rumsfeld has resurfaced in
Arlington, VA and opened a "government-provided transition office
with 7 Pentagon-paid staffers working for him". He is listed as a
"nonpaid consultant" so he can continue to "review secret
and top-secret documents". As Scarborough aptly notes, "Rumsfeld
has left the Pentagon but not the Defense Department". He is
accompanied by his top aide, Stephen Cambone. The question this raises, of
course, is whether Rumsfeld is still calling the shots at the Pentagon? My
guess would be; Yes. The Rummy-resignation was just more-of-the-same War
Department hocus-pocus (psy-ops) There was never the slightest possibility
that Dick Cheney would take congress' disapproval of Rumsfeld's
performance seriously and throw him overboard. Rummy and Cheney are joined
at the hip; you can't dump one without the other. Consider Cheney's
comments just last week to fully appreciate his disdain for congress. When
he was asked about the senate resolution which rebukes the president for
surging more troops into Baghdad, Cheney sneered, "It won't stop
us.""
"How Quickly We
Forget!" Do Americans give a damn that the failed generals who "administered
this failed war-on-Iraq will continue in the tradition of the
"YES-Men" who serve not the nation but the self-appointed
Dictator? Congress continues to rubber-stamp every move that is dictated
to them without so much as a whimper, including every new
General-in-charge-of-Slaughter! In fact, to conclusively prove "How
Quickly We Forget" just look at the electorate in the battle with
American political hacks. In spite of two stolen presidential elections,
rigged ballot boxes, and the illegal-enemy's-lists drawn up by a paranoid
government - the November elections saw both houses of congress change
hands in 2006: THAT was supposed to change everything! In fact it changed
NOTHING!
"How Quickly We
Forget!" True to form the same hacks are back-touting the elections
of 2008 as the new "solution" to all of America's problems-despite
the fact that thousands are dying every month in Iraq and Afghanistan,
along with hundreds of our own. IF we had not already forgotten the
elections of 2006 - we would remember that those elections were also
supposed to have been the beginning of real changes in this government and
in our war policies. But Rummy is still there doing his filthy thing, Bush
is still spitting on the public's demands for an end to his wars-and the
media has whipped up about a dozen candidates for president who are all SO
seriously trolling for approval about something that isn't going to happen
for at least another eighteen months. What do you say to the survivors of
all the death that will happen between now and then - "We will deal
with it, but only in the next election"?
"How Quickly We
Forget!" The nation has been waiting on medical care for everyone, no
strings, no insurance, and no exceptions - for at least the last 50 years
that I've been watching this charade. The governor of California wants to
force every Californian to buy medical insurance, including the
unemployed-but insurance is just legalized extortion-what is needed is
medical care, and not more income streams for the already-rich! There are
close to 50 million people who are not covered by anything except their
own poverty, and that number is growing daily, while the politicians try
to steer the plight of the medically poor into the coffers of the
Insurance Industry, and while hospitals and clinics are closing at an
unbelievable rate.
"How Quickly We Forget!: The
Billions upon Billions that keep disappearing from the War Department's
gifts to privatized-industry, in those secret no-bid contracts: yet
hundreds of thousands are still waiting in New Orleans for help to
resettle their lives-but there is nothing at all from the US government,
from FEMA or from any official source that had a responsibility to RESPOND
to a crisis that happened in September of 2005! "No money" is
the common refrain and yet the Superdome was rebuilt, the museum-home of
Robert E. Lee was rebuilt, at the same time that the black population was
being denied rental assistance in those places to which they had been
forcibly disbursed to: from Alaska to Maine. Now government wants to
bulldoze 5,000 livable apartments because they sit on land that is too
valuable for the poor to live on. What this so-called government is doing
to people is not confined to the millions who are being destroyed
overseas: It's happening everywhere HERE, to the least of our own citizens
who have been deemed worthless by this government!
"How Quickly We
Forget!" This applies directly to how we view the world, but most of
all it should apply to what is really meant by "American
Interests." What are these interests! Are they American, Israeli,
Corporate or the founding principles of the New World Order that includes
all the aforementioned plus a few more of those
seriously-criminally-minded organizations to which the filthy-rich belong?
We are in a war that has been going on almost since the nation was founded
- and we're losing, in case you might not have noticed. A friend, visiting
from Ireland, told me last night that he picked up an LA Times and looked
at the jobs section. "I couldn't believe it!" he said.
"What they're offering to pay is the same or worse than it was ten
years ago." And yet: "the bonuses going to the CEO's and board
members are in the 36% range. This increases their already staggeringly
out-of-control pay packages." We decided that the working side of
this equation needs a real revolution or we will soon cease to have the
means to even exist.
"How Quickly We
Forget!" that life is about more than a simple race to the top of the
economic ladder. Our schedules for out pitiful lives are ridiculous,
whenever a Katrina happens, or a new Nuclear War breaks out - but between
events we are supposed to begin to look at how much of this can be
controlled. "How Quickly We Forget." that we can throw the
Treasonous-occupants in the White House out of office. We can use the
constitution to do that-or we can use the power of the people to do it.
Either way, if we do NOT do this, then those in power have already made it
clear that they will lock the doors to this cage that we've all been
quietly living in since well before 911.
If we do not wake up and come to
our senses, BEFORE the bombs begin their annihilation of yet another
capital and yet another people then we shall have no need for memory -
because our lives shall no longer be our own! It's still
"Up-to-US" but for how much longer can we really afford to
continue to be so forgetful of everything that really matters?
Jim Kirwan
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