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Bush has been babbling on about a
lot of things that he obviously knows nothing about; such as the military,
unilateral wars and failed nation-states.
His current 'catchy phrase' seems
to be about leaving a "failed state" in Iraq if we leave. It has
apparently escaped his attention that the Iraq he and his unilateral
decisions created has become a failed state-due in particular to the
obscenity of his policies.
First we attacked Iraq to
liberate the people of Iraq from Saddam. Then he prematurely declared
'Mission Accomplished' - and then he and Cheney and Rummy began to
construct the quagmire that they now find themselves in. After Saddam's
removal from the scene, the Decider decided to hang-around with Bremmer as
the American Pro-Counsel, until some kind of deal could be struck to steal
Iraq's oil. This necessitated the farce of creating a puppet-government that would
simply sign over the wealth of Iraq to those who had unilaterally
invaded their country.
Throughout this folly Bush and
the US congress kept demanding that the Iraqi people must stand up and
take responsibility for their own defense. But that job belonged by law to
the conquering invaders (US). The US military couldn't do that job - yet
somehow the Iraqi's were supposed to accomplish that which our
multi-billion dollar military could not.
There were also some additional
problems for the Iraqi's. We were supposed to have fixed the water
treatment plants, the electrical grids, the roads, the hospitals and the
schools that our savagery has almost completely destroyed.
We certainly paid KBR and
Halliburton enough money to do it-yet this has still not been done. Now
the invaders are threatening the Iraqi's again: this time with leaving if
they (the victims of our sustained attacks over the last four years) do
not accomplish the impossible. Bush says that "we cannot allow Iraq
to become a failed state."
Well what do you call a state
that has 2 million internally displaced persons, another two million
living outside the country as permanent refugees in several countries, and
yet another two million killed by direct actions?
Six million directly affected by
US unilateral and illegal actions-just might make Iraq eligible for 'Failed
Nation Status.'
If we leave altogether-no doubt
the Iraqi's could fix what needs to be fixed (a whole lot cheaper than we
had promised to do it under Halliburton) and if they did it - it might
actually stay fixed. One common thing among so many different, apparently
competing forces, inside that country now-is that all of them want us and
our bases - gone! With the Americans out-of-Iraq - no doubt the Iraqi's
could rebuild their own nation their way - without our private
contractor's and our military that together amounts to more than 300,000
occupiers that have made life inside Iraq into a living hell. There are
many nations in the region ready willing and able to help - once we and
our mercenaries get out of the way.
The only reason those nations
don't come in now is because we are still there. There are 190 countries
in this world, and we have bases in 130 of those countries. Is it any
wonder that the Iraqi's don't trust us not to do this all over again?
First we promised liberation, and then we promised freedom, now the Cabal
thinks that the elected government should be taken over by yet another
"strong man." How can any sane person blame the Iraqi's for not
trusting us? We have committed war crimes in abundance, and allowed an
ancient center of civilization to be desecrated and utterly
destroyed-simply because the amateurs who attacked their nation knew
nothing at all about how to manage the military conquest of Iraq.
Now the Decider wants to point
the finger of blame toward the Vietnam War. That was the same war that he
went AWOL from. Many saw parallels between these two failed enterprises,
early on: but we were all ridiculed as giving aid and comfort to our
enemies in Iraq. The truth is that the US has always been the Empire in
both conflicts-and in neither did we have any business even being there.
We lost in Vietnam, openly and in
disgrace. Now The Decider wants to hang on in Iraq until the same thing
happens there that happened in Saigon. The Cabal says that we must have
victory. But this war cannot be won with bombs and bullets-it must be
negotiated with diplomacy. The trouble is that we have no internal
integrity - anywhere in the world today. And any nation whose solemn word
cannot be believed, simply cannot win anything in the long run-regardless
of how much stolen money is thrown at all the problems. The whole world
knows that our leadership lies with every word they speak-we've become an
international joke.
The people perhaps most clueless
in all of this are still the US congress that apparently is incapable of
doing anything except to play follow the leader-even if that means that
they're just going to march this nation right off the proverbial cliff:
rather than challenge this obviously insane "leadership."
For those who disagree with that
statement - I suggest that they remind themselves that all this congress
needs to do is get a spine and cut off the funds. There's more than enough
in the pipeline now to remove the troops: and as for "supporting
them"-- bringing them home alive is far more supportive than anything
that this administration has done throughout the entire four plus years of
this completely misguided war.
All of what's wrong in Iraq today
are things and circumstances that any intelligent military planner would
never have allowed to happen: but in Iraq Cheney and Rummy wanted to fight
the war with only "yes men" for generals, while they remained
our of sight and earshot from any demonstrated opposition. The Decider's
band of privateers thought that because they have most of the money and
all the military weapons anyone could ask for - that this would be a
cakewalk. How bloody wrong they were!
In fact they patterned every
single thing they did on the British invasion of Iraq in the 1920's, right
down to being met by people throwing roses.
The Brits failed, just as we have
failed and for the exact same reasons-if the Cabal could read, or knew
anything at all about history-they would never have attempted this farce. (1)
Cheney-Bush meanwhile is planning
to do the exact thing to Iran as they tried to do in Iraq. We have CIA
people inside Iran, openly trying to destabilize that country (that's an
act of war all by itself), and we're trying to use the UN and a number of
world organizations to force the Iranians to capitulate to the wishes of
these failed leaders in the one clearly failing state of these United
States of Extreme Capitalism.
If the USA actually cared about
real peace and security in the world, not just for us, but for people
around the world then we would stop supporting Israel and let that still
unformed state defend itself against all its enemies - until it agrees to
a real peace with the Palestinian people. We've forgotten how to talk to
our friends, much less our self-declared enemies in the world, which are
becoming legion. The Decider and his gang of thugs have no compassion, no
decency, and no self-respect: so they cannot deal with those who do. All
this administration knows is brute force, torture and spying especially
upon their own citizens: what part of that is even remotely honorable,
much less productive-if the long term goal is to "stabilize"
anything?
Think about it: Our Department of
Justice wrote the torture memorandums, and also helped with doing away
with Habeas Corpus - people held without being charged, and kangaroo
courts where the accused is not allowed to see the evidence against them
because of "national security"-does that sound like America to
anyone out there? Our courts are corrupted, congress supports those who
were charged with protecting the nation on 911-but who failed-before,
during and after the attacks to protect anything, but especially our
constitutional rights. Those people who failed were kept on, not
immediately fired, and no one in Washington even found that strange.
In fact the General in charge of
"protecting the Pentagon" got promoted to Chief of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, within weeks of the attack!
Given the complete record of
total failure by this administration: how can any American believe
anything that this government says? They broke their promises to the
survivors of Katrina, and of those who survived the Tornado in Kansas.
FEMA is the largest agency the world has ever seen - yet they have no
money to help anyone in a natural disaster. That's because only 6% of
their funds go toward disaster relief - all the rest goes toward building
COG (Continuity Of Government) facilities, that's underground shelters for
the government: for those unfamiliar with that term. (2)
Enough of these personal and
political failures-leave Iraq now-and stop that damned war before
thousands more give their lives for multi-national corporate profits.
Jim Kirwan
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