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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24790)	6/12/2003 7:30:36 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Always good to look up and see one of those "hogs"....

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24790)	6/12/2003 7:46:04 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Hawk, Thanks for the technical opinion. It's about what I would have expected, and you did a good job. What was missing from your analysis, IMHO, is any discussion of the implications of the MIC, the Military-Industrial Complex, being on the warpath against the taxpayer and our civil society. I actually am beginning to see the MIC as the greatest enemy of the American public, much as President Eisenhower so prophetically warned us against: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech in 1953 ****** "In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." --Farewell Speech, 1961 ************* In today's news on Democracy Now! democracynow.org we learned that Richard Perle is making some extraordinarily menacing and inappropriate threats to the North Koreans. We really do need to pull the plug on Perle. He is a clear and present danger to our nation and the world. While the North and South Koreans engage in a sensible and long overdue "sunshine" policy, the belligerent and evil war mongers in the Bush Mal-Administration insist on bringing us closer to war, rather than engaging in diplomacy to do what has been America's intelligent international policy for the better part of two centuries. I can't help but feel that the level of deceit, bullying and theft of the world's natural resources for the corporate cronies of the Thief-In-Chief and Oil Slick Dick will cause irreparable harm to the future of the planet. The present, malevolent head of the Pentagon and those who surround him are creating a world that no one, except a war profiteer and criminal class of exploiters would care for. It is time for this nation to get back to its senses. We have the most malignant Administration in our history in control of our foreign policies, which are ruthlessly criminal. And we have the same malefactors attempting to destroy the social fabric of our great nation. While I often disagree with Tom Friedman on the Middle East and globalization, I believe he did the country a service by pointing out in yesterday's NY Times that Bush isn't just cutting taxes. He's cutting out the heart-and-soul of the social services that Americans have come to expect from their government: nytimes.com Mr. Bush is on a malevolent course of destruction across the board. He needs to be stopped now. -R.