- War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and there is Victory
waiting for Iraqi's in a Democratic Iraq!
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- First there were the elections when both houses of congress
changed hands and the message was thought to be clear: Then the in-depth
report from Jim Baker & Lee Hamilton that did not mention either "victory"
or "democracy." Today comes a mumble from the military-yes-men
in Iraq, some of whom want to remain anonymous-no surprises there either.
What's left? No doubt there'll be some kind of silly report from Cheney
& Condi about the rest of the War Department that has reduced 'the
Decider' to Mr. Twenty-percent.
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- In Iraq people still die by the hundreds each and every
day while the Decider twiddles away our time-trying to find his escape
from reality. When he was asked about this at his press conference with
his British poodle he said: "It's Bad-in-Iraq, Does that help heh-heh"
This attempt at levity, about a topic so severe, surpassed even that other
failed moment when he treated news cameras to a look under his Oval Office
desk for the Weapons of Mass Destruction that of course were never found:
These 'statements' sum up the nothingness that has turned the self- described
'Decider' into Mr. Twenty-percent!
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- The elections didn't faze him; the studied criticisms
have left him unmoved. Now comes the newly victorious 'democratic majority'
with their message of "No talk of Impeachment," and 'no subpoenas
will be issued.' So what was the point in all the talk about how things
in Iraq (and in government) had to change?
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- It's not as if new laws have to be written-the laws are
very clear they're in the US Constitution and they need to be enforced
-all that's missing is the political will in Congress. The Outlaws acted
beyond the laws of the United States, and the Congress must take back that
"License to Kill" that they illegally gave to the Decider. Congressional
responsibilities cannot be delegated to the executive branch of the government
regardless of what the self-appointed executive says he needed at
the time. In Iraq we are approaching 3,000 officially killed: remember
when there were only about 120 dead, and Bush declared "Mission Accomplished!"
Which is it: a still unfinished Mission Accomplished, or was the truth
what he stated way-back then; at the beginning of the destabilization of
Iraq?
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- The primary responsibility of government is to protect
and defend the Constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic:
and that is what they have consistently failed to do since congress first
allowed the Supreme Court to appoint Bush-the-Lesser to office back on
12-12-2000.
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- The country faced a similar impasse when Nixon faced
Impeachment and congress allowed him to simply resign, because had he been
impeached he would have taken too many members of the 535- Club down with
him-if that process had gone forward. As it was Gerald R. Ford pardoned
Nixon; so there were no consequences for that crime against the people
of the United States. Similar conflicts of interest came up again when
Ronnie and Bush 41 fell short of the laws during and beyond the Iran-Contra
scandals. Investigations then became problematic; some indictments happened
but most of the players were again pardoned and many of those criminals
have been serving in 'the Decider's portion of the New World Order.
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- This time however, there were consequences but not for
the criminals-the consequences have gone against the public and in favor
of the continued rise of criminality within what has passed for government
these last six years of War, War, and Lost-More-War! To end this cycle
of ever deeper criminality, massive bloodshed and war-profiteering on a
grand-scale-the United States must return to Constitutional government.
If the new congress chooses not to proceed with serious investigations
or to enforce their ban on Impeachments-then those who stand for this new
cover-up of the political and military crimes already committed need to
be added to the list of those to be impeached.
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- The Iraq Study Group touched on some of what needs to
happen in the Middle East, but they stopped well short of what's required.
All the nations of the Middle East need to gather together to discuss how
this war can be terminated. The key player left out of every discussion
seems to be Israel. If Israel cannot talk to her neighbors, then obviously
she cannot be part of the new Middle East. What needs to be clearly stated
is that neither the United States nor Israel are genuine players in the
region: because both these countries have deserted diplomacy and substituted
weaponry for words, on virtually every occasion when it has mattered.
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- The US Department of State used to be the place where
alliances were formed and policies were made. Not so now! Under the total
incompetence of Condoleezza Rice and her befuddled boss, conversations
of any kind are rendered moot because in this administration's view,
talking to anyone's enemies only indicates weakness. Couple the total failure
of the Department of State with the yes-men in the overstretched US military
and it's easy to see that the United States has been reduced to a military
Junta that has no other way to communicate with other nations except under
the threat of US military force, blackmail, or Special Operations. Each
and all of which have failed every other Empire that has chosen that route
to dominance: just as it has failed these late-comers to Caesar's global
dreams that ended in the dissolution of the Roman Empire.
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- The Decider keeps laying blame on "terrorists,"
while failing at every turn to understand that the United States has no
actual claim to any land in the Middle East, much less to any of the resources
that Bremmer's one-hundred rules virtually gave (or privatized) for corporations
in the West. Our 'claim' is against those who reject our determination
for them to choose a way of life for themselves: that's what makes
them 'terrorists.' Israel
- contributes little beyond hatred and loathing for the
native populations of the land they covet and are still stealing. Whenever
serious observers sit down to look at the situations that have cost massive
amounts of treasure and blood invariably Israel is seen to have more
than a passing interest in each event. Yet Israel has always been treated
as 'special' regardless of the facts, in any of the bloody footprints that
have criss-crossed the Middle East since first that still unfinished 'nation'
applied for statehood.
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- Israel has received so many trillions of our money over
the last fifty years that what she does is definitely our business. Many
call us "US-rael," because it is too difficult to differentiate
the differences between them and us. It would be tempting to see a conference
of the Middle-Eastern nations called together to discuss their world with
Israel and the USA. This odd-ball union with Sharon's Israel and the Bush
version of the USA represents the worst extremes of both "nations"
The problem might be who would take the lead and who would be the surrogate-so
many wonder about this deeply divisive and unholy nuclear union. Still,
whether this happens now or later-it must happen because nothing major
will ever change in the Middle-East as long as these two outlaw nations
remain actively involved in everything that's planned for that region and
the world.
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- The Greater State of Israel involves parts of Jordan,
Syria and Egypt, in addition to Iraq and Iran. Israel apparently never
saw the need for modesty when it came to adding to its lands and riches.
A quick look through the last fifty years in that region will yield a lot
of very ugly history, and much of it has to do with what Israel wants,
or says it wanted. And yet Israel seems to be immune to global concerns
that so many other nations must deal with such as the IAEA (the International
Atomic Energy Association) and its rules about nuclear weapons: not to
mention the over 65 UN Resolutions that Israel has ignored. Even today
the ghost of Ariel Sharon still hovers over Olmert and his incompetent
rule-and as always the world must hold its breath concerning whatever that
smallest state is rumored to want now! Suffice it to say if the nations
of the Middle-East were to have a vote on who should remain in that region
neither the USA nor Israel would even be granted an honorary vote-given
all that's happened in Iraq, and will be 'coming-soon' to Iran and Syria
as well.
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- Over here: What the congress of the United States must
do now is cut off funding for the War. The choice to stay or go is not
something that will be 'decided' by this government, but by facts-on-the-ground
inside Iraq and the other actual nations in the Middle-East. This lesson
was forcefully given to the world when we lost in Vietnam but Rummy
was Secretary of War then so that lesson was not retained. This was
part of the reason for the heavy- construction of the Green Zone in Baghdad-so
that the retreat from the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon would
not be replayed in Iraq. But size and weaponry alone are not enough to
prevent overwhelming numbers from an angry and determined people: and this
'condition' is one of the things that the administration remains in complete
denial on. Continued funding for the war in any form - will only waste
more lives and money and will have no effect on the outcome of this already
'lost war in Iraq.'
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- Congress wants to approve a pending $130 billion to cover
the remaining expenses of the Bush administration. That should not happen:
but rather that money should be approved for New Orleans to resurrect the
disenfranchised people and repair the damage which FEMA and the Federal
government ignored since the day Katrina happened!
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- Lots of things need to be done to resurrect this nation
from the strangle hold that these thugs have held us in, since 911. But
without the Constitution, without the real freedoms in the Bill of Rights,
or any real change in this nation at this late hour-then what will any
of the proposed tinkering really matter? The minimum wage, proper medical
services, education, retirement or any of the hundreds of things that have
gone so wrong since funding was cut to virtually every aspect of American
life. The new congress wants to play in that garden of promises and pipedreams.
But without a basis for this government with the will to punish and prosecute
those who have dragged us kicking and screaming into these cul-de-sacs
of War upon War, upon War: then we must begin to ask-what really matters
now!
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- It may be that circumstances and nature may intervene
and bring this whole nightmare of the Tar-Baby of Iraq down upon all those
still stranded in that broken place. But if that doesn't happen then at
the very least this government must disassociate itself from Israel: cut
off all military funds for the Iraq War, and launch the long overdo investigations
into so much of what was so arrogantly done in the names of each and every
one of us! (1)
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- Do we have the will to do more than vote every couple
of years? Does it matter how many of those we love die in failed wars for
corporate profits at the ends of the earth? How are we not responsible
for those collaterally killed in these un-thought-out actions that this
nation keeps starting? At the end of this what will it matter to Americans?
The Democratic Party, even before it has assumed office no longer represents
the kinds of changes that they wanted the voters to believe in-before they
were elected! The "new" congress-same as the old congress: Just
as the Decider's "Way Forward in Iraq" is identical with his
FAILED- ways to this point in time. But then what could be expected from
someone who had no idea where any other country even was, before he was
appointed to office!
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- America needs a "use-by date" on Campaign promises,
and if those promises are not met-the Constitution needs to be amended
so that the offending politicians can be quickly and legally removed from
office. But most of all America needs her people to become involved with
who runs this place, with who is served and who is ignored: if that is
not done then nothing much really matters anymore!
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- Whatever the US has firmly placed our interests
into the Tar- Baby-of-Iraq, and we seem to have left ourselves no way out.
The war-profiteering of Cheney (2), the ignorance of Condi, the sheer lack
of nerve within the Pentagon, none of this will matter a whit because we've
accepted being lied to for so long now that Double- speak is becoming the
order of the day even the 'Democrats' have begun to use it! What
do we have left to lose?
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) There is Only One Way to End the War in Iraq
Part I
- http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1201-33.htm
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- 2) Cheney Escalates Lunatic War Drive Against Iran
- http://www.rense.com/general74/chene.htm
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- Why We Are at War
- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15830.htm
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