LewRockwell.com
4.30.07
(Excerpt)
Every American who voted Republican shares
responsibility for the great evil America has brought to the Middle East.
The evil that America brought to Iraq transcends the
tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have been killed and
maimed in the conflict. The evil goes beyond the destruction of ancient
historical artifacts and the civilian infrastructure of a secular state and
the decimation of the lives, careers, and families of millions of Iraqis.
The violence and killing that Bush brought to Iraq has
spread antagonism between Sunni and Shiite throughout the Middle East with
potentially draconian consequences. Bush’s war has turned Muslim hearts and
minds against America and made terrorism an acceptable means to resist
American hegemony. With his mindless war, Bush has created more terrorism
than the world has ever seen.
The reasons given for the American
invasion of Iraq have been exposed as lies, revealing America as either a
country of fools and idiots or of war criminals. Worldwide polls show that
America is no longer regarded as a guiding light but is tied with Israel as
the second greatest threat to world stability.
The nuclear-armed Russians, alarmed
by America’s
gratuitous aggression and interference in Russian and Middle Eastern
internal affairs and by Bush’s aggressive withdrawal on June 13,
2002 from the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty, no longer see the US as a
partner in peace but as a dangerous militaristic aggressor. The chance for
understanding and trust with Russia has been destroyed by the stupid Bush
administration. The White House Moron, who cannot successfully occupy
Baghdad, believes he can run over Russia.
Former CIA director George "Slam-Dunk" Tenet
writes in a new book, At
the Center of the Storm: My years at the CIA that Vice
President Dick Cheney and the neoconservatives caused America to invade
Iraq without ever holding a serious debate about whether Iraq was a threat.
Tenet writes: "There was never a serious debate that I know of within
the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat."
The 2003 American invasion of Iraq is a war crime under international
law. The invasion caused sectarian violence far beyond
anything Iraq had ever experienced under Saddam Hussein. Tenet writes that
"sectarian violence in Iraq has taken on a life of its own and that US
forces are becoming more and more irrelevant to the management of that
violence."
War and the Police State: Complicity of
the American People
by Donna J.
Thorne
Global Research, April 21, 2007
(Excerpt)
"We are apt to shut our eyes
against a painful truth…. Is this the part of wise men,
engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be
of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear
not..? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing
to know the whole truth; to know.. it — now." Patrick Henry, 1775.
In this era of perpetual warfare,
escalating domestic tyranny, government-sanctioned torture, and a Nazi-like
pursuit of Middle-East
domination, one would expect, at the very least, an audible outcry from the
People who proclaim resolute devotion to the ideals of liberty and justice
for all. Yet for the most part, Mainstream America continues
to assume a posture of apathy, bitterness, or eerie silence.
When confronted with hard facts and
scientific evidence linking key government officials to the attacks of
9/11, ostensibly intelligent, levelheaded people angrily and
defiantly reject said information without a moment's deliberation.
Sincerely compassionate and peace-loving individuals support the
criminal invasion of Iraq and close their eyes to the U.S. slaughter of
600,000 Iraqi civilians, choosing instead to believe in the myth of
American supremacy, at the heart of which lies the notion that foreigners
alone are capable of such atrocities.
And now, in the aftermath of 9/11 and the subsequent establishment of Homeland Security,
previously rigid supporters of civil rights quietly tolerate the piecemeal
deconstruction of the U.S. Constitution under the pretext of protection,
and to their own peril, disregard increasingly strident warnings and
signs of a growing and imminent police state. Clearly, Mainstream America
has surrendered to the subjugation of a power-crazed, despotic
administration whose control continues to expand exponentially with each
passing rumor of imminent peril.
Why, when confronted with a
black-and-white record of autocratic offenses, are so many
sensible Americans ignoring and even endorsing the current administration
as it openly paves a tyrannical road to hell? Are we so deluded by rhetoric
and weapons-grade propaganda, that we are no longer able to distinguish
truth from fiction, thereby allowing, if not abetting our own enslavement?
Inarguably, a collective set of
circumstances exist to explain the acquiescence of the American People.
What follows is the first in a series of explorations by which this writer
will attempt to identify possible core factors contributing to the scourge
of apathy in American society today.
Real Cost of Iraq War:
More Than $500 Billions
May 1, 2007
FUBAR
(Excerpt)
The cost for President George W.
Bush's failed Iraq war will soon top $500 billion.
That half a trillion dollars or ten
times what administration officials claimed the war would cost before Bush
launched the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Reports Ron Hutcheson of McClatchy Newspapers:
More…
Wolfie
Shakes Down Global Loan Shark Outfit
By Kurt Nimmo
4.30.07
(Excerpt)
According to Steven
C. Clemens, not only does the war criminal Paul
Wolfowitz want “some acknowledgment” that the
world-class loan sharking operation known as the World Bank shares “complicity in
the messy circumstances surrounding his and Shaha
Riza’s
situation,” but it appears Wolfie will attempt to ride it out until June 1st, when he is “eligible for some large financial
bonus—for performance and time on the job. One estimate puts this figure
at about $400,000. Wolfowitz wants to make sure those funds are credited to
his private bank account before saying farewell to an institution that has
come to despise him.”
The body of the former Russian
president Boris Yeltsin lies in state in Moscow.
Yeltsin died of heart failure on
April23, aged 76 [AFP]
Iran surrounded, wouldn’t you
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