Close Gitmo and End Un-American Military Commissions Now

AS THE WORLD SQUIRMSã

November 14, 2008

Most Recent Edition

Note: Some hotlinks, formatting and emphasis added for context and perspective

~ Owen

Archives & Resources

· As The World Squirms

· Menu – Constantly Updating Information Sources

· Political Music & Music Videos

· U.S. Israel Lobby & General (Videos, Commentaries,

Interviews)

· Favorite Quotes

HINT: Use the new Google search engine (above) to locate a specific item within the Hotpoliticsã / As The World Squirmsã Archives. When Google locates a page (or list of promising pages) containing your search keyword(s), use your “Edit” and “Find” Function (upper browser toolbar) to scroll directly through the selected search page(s) to your keyword(s).

“Political language ... is designed to make lies sound

truthful and murder respectable, and to give an

appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

~George Orwell~

Charles Lindbergh's - September 11, 1941, Des Moines Speech Warning Against FDR, Britain and Others Covert Machinations Dragging America Into War

(Nothing Changes…)

“Of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

~Hermann Goering~ Nazi leader In custody during the Nuremberg Trials, shortly before being sentenced to death.

Cold War Hawks Nesting With Obama

Nov 11, 2008

By Robert Scheer

So, Vladimir Putin was right: It was Georgia that started the war with Russia, and once again it was President Bush who got caught in a lie. As The New York Times reported last week, “Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the long-standing Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.”

On Killing the Right People

By Andrew Bacevich

(Excerpt)

“Reports in The New York Times have revealed the existence of a hitherto secret counterterrorism campaign conducted by U. S. troops in Pakistan, Syria, and other countries. … We can safely assume that the governments of Syria and Pakistan, not to mention the organizations targeted by these attacks, have known about these activities for some time. In other words, "secret" in this context means keeping the American people in the dark about actions taken in their name. We can only speculate about various sources, whether acting independently or at the behest of high authorities, have chosen at this juncture to spill the beans. In truth, the existence of such a program, fully consistent with the Bush administration's penchant for using force and for defining executive authority in the widest terms, hardly qualifies as surprising. True, these raids, which have regularly trampled on the principle of national sovereignty, makes all the more laughable the Bush administration's condemnation of Russia for violating the sacred sovereignty of Georgia. Yet at this point no one pays much attention when the United States claims to stand on principle. … More germane is the question of who exactly we are killing. Having learned about this secret war being conducted on their behalf, Americans now have an obligation to find out more. That obligation is both moral and political. The moral obligation is to ascertain whether or not the people we are killing are in fact terrorists, that is, members of organizations engaged in actively plotting attacks against the United States. If we are killing people who are not terrorists, then these special operations attacks are profoundly wrong. Indeed, in that case, they amount to little more than state-sponsored terrorism of the sort that Washington quickly and rightly condemns in others.”