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There
is a criminal misconception as to how the office of the presidency is
being used to prosecute our wars. 'The Decider' has chosen to focus solely
on his magnified role as Commander-in-Chief; in all matters that have to
do with his wars of dubious purpose in the world today. A leader of this
or any other nation, when faced with problems of this magnitude would, of
necessity, choose to use all the functioning assets of the nation to
resolve these conflicts. Instead; Bush has chosen to follow a course that
focuses every national asset on only the military aspects of his wars.
This is not a new concept. Every
president from Kennedy through LBJ to Nixon and Ford all left too much up
to the Generals: This ultimately brought about the defeat of the US in
Vietnam: but only after the number of US troops reached 500,000. The
reason that this nation was supposed to be governed by a civilian and not
a general is that the office of the president has far more than one
responsibility to the people of the United States. When a president sees
himself as a Dictator with unlimited powers over all other branches of
government as well as having (in his mind), become the leader of the whole
world: then the world and the USA are in deep, deep trouble.
Anyone with knowledge of basic
history knows that wars are never won solely by military actions alone.
There must be overriding and deeply held political convictions that can be
agreed to on all sides of any conflict, for any war to be concluded. And
to date - this 'Decider' has decided not to even allow dialogue to take
place for any reason. The irony is that this has also become true in US
domestic policy as well. Leadership requires that leaders attend to the
needs of the people of this country before the needs of other nations in
the world. That has not happened and may never happen!
It did not happen in New Orleans
after Katrina, it did not happen when it comes to the medical treatment of
returning GI's, and moreover this selective political isolation has
resulted in insuring that the bulk of American citizens will continue to
receive perhaps the poorest health care among all the industrialized
nations in the world today. This is not about health-insurance, which is
nothing but semi-legal extortion, nor is it about "access,"
which is code for making polite noises but in the end denying treatment.
This is about guaranteeing every American, the kind of health care that is
needed to make life worth living and to fulfill those implied promises
that paying taxes makes to the citizens of this country. We pay and pay,
and pay - but what do we get for that money? We get roads that are an
obstacle course and a danger to every vehicle that must use them; and we
get a bloated bureaucracy that buries everyone beneath miles of red tape
that is simply there to conceal the rape of those promised government
services which, for all practical purposes-no longer exist! Congress is
'outraged' over the treatment of GI's coming back from the wars - where's
their outrage for those of us who have worked our entire lives only to
watch Social Security becoming privatized and its meager benefits being
eaten up, in ever larger costs, that sap the miserly benefits that were
supposed to protect the poor from becoming homeless in their retirement?
What about their medical needs-forget them-because there is no money for
those who made this nation what it was before Bush II.
George W. Bush is NOT the
president because his entrance into that office was not the result of a
valid election-it was the result of a swindle by the United States Supreme
Court, in collusion with a cowardly Congress that failed to do its
Constitutional duty and intervene in the vote count in Florida, in 2000.
That said, 'The Decider' has not
fulfilled the duties of that office faithfully - if you look at his 1,000
plus signing statements that basically override the will of congress,
whenever he feels the need to do so. That role was to have been attended
to, in the Constitution, by the Presidential Veto. But the Bandit decided
that he would not be bound by that convention either. Bush has plunged the
nation into unimaginable debt, for his wars and his international policy
that caters to Israel and to all of what is good for Israel, especially to
those planks in our policies that put "Israel First." This
nation was not established to serve the policies of that still unformed
pretension that is called 'Israel.' Bush is an insult to the Constitution,
and to free people everywhere - yet the only people who seemingly just
don't "get this" yet-are those Americans that insist on
believing in "their president right or wrong."
We have collectively arrived at a
crossroads in the War-on-Iraq. We cannot win this struggle militarily, yet
we are allowing a complete neophyte that became a deserter from the War in
Vietnam, who, when it comes to the military matters has dictated a policy
that is not only wrong but that will kill thousands more Americans because
he is too much of a coward to even consider entering into dialogue.
Bush keeps saying that we need to
just "Just Give War a chance," We've given him and his
Collection-of- Pretentious-Fools far more than that: we've given them over
four years, and the lives of nearly a million that he's killed, along with
three thousand plus Americans (that he admits to). He and his pathetic
generals have failed at every turn. Bush has made
"Supporting-the-Troops" his battle cry. In the press his
flunkies have screamed that "congress cannot be allowed to
micro-manage the wars!" Why not - ALL the professionals (especially
the Congress) have already failed-and they remain in denial, just as did
the generals in Vietnam right up to the day when they had to flee from the
roof of the American Embassy in Saigon, back in 1975.
Intelligent people learn from the
collective past, so that it is not repeated. This bunch of rejects that
pretends to be in control of the US military are incompetently-wedded to
the idea that if only they had more men and equipment, more time, more
everything then they "will be victorious." That is utter crap!
Americans have allowed a tin-pot dictator to lead us into a war that had
no purpose, based on a stack of lies that have all been proven wrong: and
yet those same people who have repeatedly lied, and who have failed so
often that it is no longer even mentioned - are still in the positions
they had when this obscenity broke out. Now, together with Israel our
unofficial fifty-first state - "we" are apparently planning to
expand these wars, to go for ever-deeper involvements so that we cannot
possibly extricate ourselves from this Shakespearean Tragedy-the first two
chapters of which have already opened on the world.
The people of the United States
owe a debt to the planet for allowing George W. Bush to take command of
the US military-a command that he has never understood or appreciated.
Because if he gave a damn about those troops (to which he owes so much),
then he would have never allowed them to be slaughtered to the degree that
he has, nor would he have tolerated their unattended medical problems for
the last four years: but then had he been interested in seeing them in
their hospitals - he might have had some idea of what was happening. Yet
Bush spends far more time in Crawford, Texas, than he ever has, in even
thinking about what he's done with and to our troops-in all his wars! If
he "supported" the troops he'd stop the damned war and bring
them home immediately. That's not going to happen without a fight here -
in the streets of America.
Why do all these things above
just keep on happening here? Why do they only seem to get worse and never
better? 'One of things that is constantly undervalued here, is the idea
that people can actually affect any real changes in the way anything gets
done, in this cesspool that we call the US today. And - may I hasten to
point out that 'the people' here have not been willing to inconvenience
themselves in the slightest to affect the needed changes: So - the
criminals just keep doing what they do and laugh at us all-while they add
tons to that everyday load they put off on everyone who actually works -
to pay for them and for their numerous criminal conspiracies.' The people
alone have stopped criminal regimes all over this planet - it's only the
Americans that haven't yet rebelled. And that is what keeps the killing,
the maiming, and the torture going - everywhere!
The nations of Central and South
America are demonstrating in the tens of thousands now to protest the
current visit of our Dictator, who is just beginning five days in that
region of the world. Do they know what we refuse to see-that this
administration is 'the real evil' that has allowed the USA to become The
Major Rogue Nation on the planet today? If we are not that evil, then why
do we allow this government to do such unspeakable things to so many in
our collective name? Neo-colonialism is not the "right" of any
nation to pursue, yet that has been the bulwark on which American Empire
has built our bloody way-of-life, and its corollary: which has been shown
to be the-way-of-death for far too many people who have suffered from the
737 military bases that we maintain around this world.
The "Compact" between
the people and their so-called government has been shattered, first by the
Act of 1871, and more recently by the pretensions of a bunch of criminals
that are running what's left of this nation into the burning ruin or our
own scorched earth policies. We need to fire these imposters and
renegotiate the terms under which we can agree to being governed! If we do
less than that, we are agreeing to be slaves, to a corporate nightmare
that will devour everything we say we value. How much longer can we wait -
because "things are not going to get better on their own"!
Jim Kirwan
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