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Wednesday, May 14, 2003
[11:03:38 PM]

The paper today had an article about Shiites digging up graves of Saddam-victims. It mentioned they were killed partly for having rebelled after Poppy's Gulf War.

Funny, the article didn't mention that Poppy told them to rebel, and then refused to help them. Nor did it mention that he refused to help the Iraqi Shiites -- same religion as Iraq's whacko religious dictators -- but that Bush *did* protect the Kurds. Protecting Kurds was unprecedented in the history of the human race. If somebody protects Kurds, but doesn't protect you, that's a major message about your place in the Universe.

We know Poppy and Saddam were business partners. We know Saddam asked for permission to invade Kuwait, and we know Poppy *gave* Saddam permission to invade Kuwait. In writing, actually.

Then of course Poppy got all "must exorcise demons of Vietnam War" on Saddam, and he had to do it quick before Saddam could pull his troops out of Kuwait. So the deadline had to be 48 hours -- not a week, or even 72 hours.

Here's an un-dis-provable hypothesis. Conning the Shiites into rebelling was payback for Saddam -- payback in the sense of going some way to make up for the other problems that went with stabbing Saddam in the back.

I'm suggesting Poppy got the Shiites to rebel as a favor to Saddam, so Saddam could kill a large number of potential enemies, and especially so Saddam's Republican Guard would have something to do that would distract them from, say, overthrowing Saddam. Defeated militaries like to come back with a win.

No Shiite rebellion, no more Saddam.

Oh, it would have been someone just as bad as Saddam, but that wouldn't be much consolation to Saddam.

There's no way to disprove that this was Bush's plan. Is it plausible? Would a man like Bush set people up to be slaughtered? Having double-crossed Saddam for domestic political purposes, why not double-cross the Shiites to keep Saddam in power? Saddam was a known quantity, and less dangerous than the risk of getting somebody new.

[10:22:49 PM]
Saw Jonathon Schell at Kepler's, talking about and reading from his new book Unconquerable World.

I really like the title. I'm not sure I like it for exactly what he is saying, but close enough. It's approximately what Clinton just said: on one side are the builders, and on the other side are the destroyers. Throughout history, the destroyers have done their damned-est -- figuratively -- but we keep building.

As the vile Republican Imperialists make a play for world domination, they do it in the wreckage of previous empires. We human beings don't like empires.

Can Bush and his cronies turn back the clock to the darkest hours of humanity and excercise unconstrained power to their corrupt hearts' content, or will people everywhere see these villains for the abomination that they truly are. Newsflash. People see.

Of course the Bushistas lie about their intentions and motivations. "Must invade Iraq because of WMD." That's to be expected. They could not persuade anyone to go along with their plans without fear-mongering propaganda. They, like Hitler, seek to deceive.

And that's the point. Faced with the truth, people are for "onward and upward", not for hatred, poverty, and war.

It's very difficult to get a sufficient group of competent fascists together. I mean, these guys have to put Junior in the White House and Aschlocht in Justice. The fascists are always scraping the bottom of the barrel, because ordinary, competent human beings are repelled, while in the fascist power-mongering sub-cults, rising through the organization is based on expressions of ideology, not on competence. Look at the buffoons they puke up onto their propaganda networks.

The good news: the extraordinary lengths to which the villains must go to get their way, the fundamentally psychotic nature of the people who rise to power. Think of Hitler, Delay, Ashcroft, Bush Junior. Jeb Bush is supposed to be the smart one, and even he was such a cheap, pathetic crook that Florida took away his real estate license.

The Poppys of the world are even more rare than the JFKs and MLK Jr.s. It's just that by some pure, sheer coincidence, it's the JFKs and MLK Jr.s that keep getting whacked, not the Poppys. Hmm. Like the Wellstones and Carnahans die in plane crashes due to equipment failure....

"Unconquerable" is a good word for Iraq. We could drive our tanks anywhere we wanted. We could kill with practical impunity. With the jingoistic, war-mongering, right-wing media in the US, we could kill civilians without fear of public backlash. But for all the violence at our disposal, we were able to do no more than wreck. Practically everyone in the world is glad Saddam is gone, but that doesn't mean Iraqis want yet *another* US-imposed dictator -- even if we declare the country a "democracy". We declared South Vietnam a democracy, after all. People have seen this movie before.

Schell suggested that the outbreak of World War One was a defining event for the 20th century, from which we never really recovered. His fear is that Bush's war for hegemony is likely to define the 21st. I'm curious about the argument about World War One. Was the change really that big? Not quite curious enough to buy the book, but then I'm about to move and I'm trying to shed books, not accumulate them.

The Roman Empire would conquer a territory or nation, and they could be endlessly ruthless in maintaining authority. Camp X-ray is *nothing* compared to mass crucifixion. Look what they did to the Jews. But look what it took for Hitler to do his genocide. And now think of American society. We might leave Iraqi children to die of diseases by tens of thousands, but can you imagine that even Bush could pull off direct-action mass murder on the scale of millions?

The world has changed. Fundamental values have accumulated. Teen-agers in this country do far more volunteer work than previous generations. Cops are slower to shoot fleeing suspects. Unless the Right-wing Corporate Media hides the video, everyone can instantly see everyone else's suffering. Compassion is globalizing.

The problem, of course, is timelines. The destroyers can destroy in short order, and fool enough of the people for long enough that it takes a huge effort -- or huge changes -- to toss them in the garbage dump of history. For most of us, it would be convenient to rid ourselves of the Bush plague *sooner*, rather than later. Lets go back to endless peace, endless prosperity, endless freedom. Onward and upward, thanks.

Kein tausendjahrer Krieg. Kein tausenjahres Reich. Bush -- nein, danke.

[7:11:34 PM]
AK-47: $50 street in Al Kut.
400 lbs explosives: $5 to the kid who led you to the cache just south of town.
World-around TV footage of Colin Powell in front of destroyed apartments in Riyadh: Priceless.

[5:24:43 PM]
Poor General Ashcroft. Can't find Osama. Can't find Anthrax man. Can't find Saddam or Kenny-Boy or DICK. Can't find the socks from W.'s aviator costume. Can't even bring the rogue Texas Democrats to justice.

And it seems like every time he tries to peek under the blue drapery at Justice's full, luscious bosoms, some peon walks by and he has to pretend he's scouting for his next press conference. It's a tough pretense, since DICK won't let him give press conferences anymore.

He's a frustrated man, General Ashcroft. So he chased down Tommy Chong for selling bongs.

Are we safe yet?

[5:11:03 PM]
"All of human history can be seen in part as a race between the forces of the builders and the forces of the wreckers -- those who believe they have the total truth and they can only rise if someone else were falling. And every single time, since people first rose out of the African savannah a hundred thousand years ago, when it came down to it, the builders have prevailed. The people who believed in our independence have prevailed, the people who believed in our common humanity have prevailed. I want you to use your education to make sure that in the 21st century, we prevail." --Bill Clinton

[4:43:25 PM]
Dawnna Dukes, Austin
Jim Dunnam, Waco
John Mabry, Waco
Elliott Naishtat, Austin
Eddie Rodriguez, Austin
Patrick Rose, Dripping Springs
Roberto Alonzo, Dallas
Kevin Bailey, Houston
Lon Burnam, Fort Worth
Gabi Canales, Alice
Jaime Capelo, Corpus Christi
Joaquin Castro, San Antonio
Norma Chavez, El Paso
Garnet Coleman, Houston
Robby Cook, Eagle Lake
Yvonne Davis, Dallas
Joe Deshotel, Beaumont
Craig Eiland, Galveston
Dan Ellis, Livingston
Juan Escobar, Kingsville
David Farabee, Wichita Falls
Jessica Farrar, Houston
Kino Flores, Mission
Pete Gallego, Alpine
Timoteo Garza, Eagle Pass
Ryan Guillen, Rio Grande City
Scott Hochberg, Houston
Terri Hodge, Dallas
Mark Homer, Paris
Chuck Hopson, Jacksonville
Jesse Jones, Dallas
Pete Laney, Hale Center
Glenn Lewis, Fort Worth
Ruth Jones McClendon, San Antonio
Jim McReynolds, Lufkin
John Mabry, Waco
Trey Martinez-Fischer, San Antonio
Jose Menendez, San Antonio
Joe Moreno, Houston
Paul Moreno, El Paso
Rick Noriega, Houston
Rene Oliveira, Brownsville
Dora Olivo, Missouri City
Aaron Pena, Edinburg
Joe Pickett, El Paso
Robert Puente, San Antonio
Chente Quintanilla, Tornillo
Richard Raymond, Laredo
Allan Ritter, Nederland
Jim Solis, Harlingen
Barry Telford, DeKalb
Senfronia Thompson, Houston
Carlos Uresti, San Antonio
Mike Villarreal, San Antonio
Miguel Wise, Weslaco
Steve Wolens, Dallas

[3:55:45 PM]
Texas Democrats bust out like a Huntsville daydream.

Well, the rain exploded with a mighty crash
As we fell into the sun
And the first one said to the second one there
I hope you're having fun

Chorus:
Band on the run, band on the run
And the guvner man and Ranger Stan
Were searchin ev'ryone
For the band on the run, band on the run
Band on the run, band on the run

Well, the undertaker drew a heavy sigh
Seeing no one else had come
And a bell was ringing in village square
For the rabbits on the run

Chorus:
Band on the run, band on the run
And the guvner man and Ranger Stan
Were searchin ev'ryone
For the band on the run, band on the run
Band on the run, band on the run

Yeah the band on the run, the band on the run
Band on the run, band on the run

Well the night was falling as the desert world
Began to settle down
In the town they're searching for as ev'rywhere
But we never will be found

Chorus:
Band on the run, band on the run
And the guvner man and Ranger Stan
Were searchin ev'ryone
For the band on the run, band on the run
Band on the run, band on the run

[11:45:43 AM]
Score another one for MediaWhoresOnline.com!

They catch Colin Powell (former AOL-Time-Warner board member) giving away the game: "we have to redouble our efforts to go after terrorists", said the Bush family stooge.

"Redouble our efforts"? asks MediaWhoresOnline.

If it's possible to redouble efforts, that states clearly that they aren't doing all they can to fight terrorism.

Of course an even clearer indication of that was the success of the infamous September 11 attacks, brought about after Bush ordered his family business partners should be protected from investigation. If you needed another indication, look at the invasion of Iraq -- wholly unrelated to the fight against terrorism, except in vile Republican propaganda.

[10:52:33 AM]
The Al Qaeda money-shot of the day: Colin Powell standing in front of bombed-out buildings in Riyadh. You can't *buy* publicity like that. All you can do is *pray*.

Colin "Mi Lai Massacre Cover-up" Powell says Junior's gonna git them terrists. Like that doesn't have people rolling in the aisles laughing. High-fives all around back at the "cave".

[9:58:41 AM]
Hey Cops! Tired of having your fellow officers gunned down on the streets by assault weapons?

Get over it! Vote Republican!

Republicans will do everything they can to keep assault weapons in circulation.

Think of it as job security. Think of it as a way to gain public support for eliminating all the other rights Americans have that interfere with your work.

Stop whining about a few cops sprayed dead with bullets. They're HEROES. Do you love this country, or would you rather live in Cuba?

[9:50:54 AM]
"All my neighbours say this TV is controlled by the Americans to get out their point of view. But I don't care there was no news. In Iraq the news is always bad." --Abbas Mohammed

[9:47:25 AM]
Well, Bush gave Al Qaeda a big victory by withdrawing most US forces from Saudi Arabia. Smelling blood, Al Qaeda struck again. The US State Department immediately ordered non-essential personnel out of the country. Another Al Qaeda victory!

Note that one of the targets was a US company that trains the feudal tyranny's -- Saudi Arabia's -- military. Except for the occassional Bush War photo-op, why does Saudi Arabia have a military? In case the people who live there ever get tired of the current family of corrupt dictators, of course.

Of course *we* installed the vile, repressive dictators, but then we installed Saddam, too. Al Qaeda would like a theocratic tyranny. We're likely to "bring Democracy" to Saudi Arabia -- like we just brought it to Iraq. The Saudis, after all, are the ones who really are involved with terrorism. They may be Bush business partners, but hey -- so were Saddam and Noriega. And there's all that oil, just waiting to be democratized.

I suppose it would create a bit of a mess to democratize Saudi Arabia before Iraq's oil production is flowing again. (Better get on with the Halliburton contracts!) But what's the worst that could happen? Widespread recession and tens of billions of dollars in extra profits for Bush campaign contributors. Chevron-Texaco and Exxon-Mobil would give the standard one percent commission to the Republican party, and Jeb Bush would have $800 million to spend on his 2008 campaign. You can see why W. wouldn't want to democratize Saudi Arabia....