Hi Ann,
Re: The American people get the greater good motivation in Iraq action....why can't you do the same?
How about..... Because the American public are naive fools and I'm not?
Ann, wake up and smell the coffee. As we've all discovered to our sorrow, George Bush is the Bait-and-Switch President.
I'm shocked and disappointed that you don't see through Bush's ruse about introducing democracy to Iraq. Actions speak louder than words. Have you noticed how elections have kept 'slipping, slipping, slipping into the future' as a famous song from the '60s suggests? Well, get used to it.
We didn't go into Iraq to introduce democracy. That's just the propaganda that Bush used to confuse and lie to the American public.
The real reason we went into Iraq is because the Project for a New American Century(PNAC) plan calls for permanent military bases there, so that we can destabilize the entire region. Next on the hit list? Just read the new book from Richard Perle and David Frum. The hit list is the same one that Perle endorsed in PNAC's white paper "Rebuilding America's Defenses" in Sept. 2002.
Here's a quote from that white paper, declaring America's frontier to be in the heart of Mesopotamia:
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Yes, Iraq was the first nation designated by PNAC for attack. Next up? All of Ariel Sharon's other enemies.
[[I strongly encourage you to read Pat Buchanan's review of Perle's new book for a great analysis of the neocon "vision" amconmag.com ]]
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Re: Dems would be wise to stop spinning their wheels with WMD outrage.
Spinning wheels? Apparently you don't understand politics very well. What you call spinning wheels others call an educational campaign aimed at the American public in an effort to end some of the horrific brainwashing that they are victims of.
At the height of their insanity, 2/3 of the American public believed that Saddam Hussein was somehow responsible for 9/11. This is utter nonsense, but George Bush's lie were very effective in making the public not just stupid, but ill-informed as well. Same thing with the purported links between the Baath Party of Iraq and al Qaeda. 3/4 of Americans were naive enough to swallow this whopper. Why? Because George Bush lied to them. Of course the reality was that the fundamentalist al Qaeda and the staunchly secular Baath Party were mortal enemies with completely polar opposite ideas about governance. But the American public, in general, is entirely too naive to understand this concept. And George Bush delighted in making the American public even more ill-informed and naive than it already was.
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Re: international politics prevented Bush Adm from simply stating..."hey! It's time for Hussein to go...he's funding suicide bombings that prevent peaceful settlement of the Palestinian issue".
And thank god for the international community injecting some sanity in the madman Bush's plotting. I am so disappointed that you don't actually know the offer that Hussein made to the Palestinians. You have been hoodwinked into believing a lie by the right wing propaganda machine. Hussein offered a $25,000 condolence payment to the survivors of any Palestinian murdered or killed in the effort to end the illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. He never said anything specific about the suicide bombers. That is pure, vicious and distorted right wing propaganda. I'm sorry to see that you got suckered by the disinformation specialists.
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Re: In fact I recall being frustrated when Colin Powell's stubborness was preventing an earlier entry into Iraq.
OK, so you are a warmonger and an imperialist. I find that disappointing because it means that your moral sense is really confused. The American attack on Iraq would inevitably lead to much greater hardship for the Iraqi people than any other course of action. The Iraqis today live in fear. They are more terrorized today by the thugs of the U.S. military than they ever were under Hussein's regime. Today, the U.S. military is stringing razor wire around entire villages, effectively turning them into in situ concentration camps where self-governance is ruthlessly stifled with guns pointed at the heads of any who dare speak out for self-rule. This is not the image that the craven corporate media is presenting to you. But this is the reality. We are an occupying force, and we are not welcome in Iraq, except by those, like the Chalabi family who are profiting from their service as collaborators to the invading/occupying army.
We have, in essence, created our own Palestine. Where the U.S. is now stupidly playing the role of bad cop for Ariel Sharon. And our forces are growing more vicious and genocidal as they themselves find that they are sitting ducks for the anger of Iraqi patriots who rightly do not agree to occupied by a foreign army sent to plunder the resources of the country.
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Re: The only way to overcome Islamic Fundamentalism is to plant an infant democracy in its midst with the knowledge it is contagious &
What an unbelievably naive notion. Democracy has never grown out of the barrel of a gun. And what you are attempting to call democracy is intended to be a mere mockery of it by the likes of Paul Bremer. His task is actually to make sure democracy cannot succeed in Iraq. Because the democratic majority in Iraq would vote tomorrow to end the occupation, and the Bush Military Machine intends to be in Iraq for generations. Just like we occupied the Philippines from 1899 to 1992, Okinawa from 1945 to today, Germany from 1945 to today, Cuba (Guantanemo) from 1898 to today, we have no intention of ever leaving Iraq.
So you can forget about "democracy" in Iraq. What the Empire demands is a quisling government that will yield Iraq's wealth to rape artists from the U.S. And the Iraqis know this. The Bushies know this. Why don't you know this?
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Re: The American people get the greater good motivation in Iraq action....why can't you do the same?
Because the American public is astonishingly naive. And I'm not. |
