Wednesday, October 9, 2002

shrub & company's Real Goal QUOTE OF THE DAY "President Bush, even when pressed for details, has been unable to produce hard evidence to show that Iraq poses an imminent threat to the U.S., or that a preemptive first strike against Iraq will make our country safer from terrorism." - - Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) 10/8/02 RHINO HERE: Congresswoman Lee introduced H.Con.Res.473 calling for the U.S. to work through the U.N. to renew arms inspections, assure Iraqi compliance with U.N. resolutions, and to oppose unilateral first strike military action. Available online at: (http://www.house.gov/lee/releases/02Sept18.htm) There are 38 co-sponsors but she needs more! Care to help her? Join me. Today - call (202) 224-3121 and ask the operator to put you thru to the following Congress people and urge them to support this amendment: Lucille Roybal-Allard Xavier Becerra Lois Capps Henry Waxman Brad Sherman Juanita Millender-McDonald Afterward, please confirm by calling Barbara Lee's office at 202-225-2661 and ask for Julie or Shannon who will keep a tally of this action. RHINO CONTINUES: They want us to believe this war will be about Saddam, about terrorism and U.N. resolutions and weapons of mass destruction. But is just ain't so. "Rebuilding America's Defenses," a report by the "Project for the New American Century" published in 2000, listed 27 people who attended meetings or contributed papers in preparation of the report. Among them are six who have assumed key defense and foreign policy positions in shrub & company. (Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, Eliot Cohen, I. Lewis Libby, Dov Zakheim and Stephen Cambone) This report has become a blueprint for Bush's foreign and defense policy. Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal recently covered the "Rebuilding America's Defenses Report" and the players behind it. His article is excerpted below but I encourage you to click the link to go to the entire article. Its detailed, but important to understand what they're trying to do, like it or not. TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE, GO TO: http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/bookman/ 7:59:19 AM    comment

The President's Real Goal In Iraq By JAY BOOKMAN, Atlanta Journal, 9/29/02 The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence. The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was missing. In recent days, those missing pieces have finally begun to fall into place. As it turns out, this is not really about Iraq. It is not about weapons of mass destruction, or terrorism, or Saddam, or U.N. resolutions. This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out by those who believe the United States must seize the opportunity for global domination, even if it means becoming the "American imperialists" that our enemies always claimed we were. Once that is understood, other mysteries solve themselves. For example, why does the administration seem unconcerned about an exit strategy from Iraq once Saddam is toppled? Because we won't be leaving. Having conquered Iraq, the United States will create permanent military bases in that country from which to dominate the Middle East, including neighboring Iran. In an interview Friday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld brushed aside that suggestion, noting that the United States does not covet other nations' territory. That may be true, but 57 years after World War II ended, we still have major bases in Germany and Japan. We will do the same in Iraq... TO READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE, GO TO: http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/bookman/ Reprinted under the Fair Use doctrine of international copyright law ( http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html ). All copyrights belong to original publisher. "RHINO'S NEWS BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. Feedback is encouraged and can be emailed to him at: rhino@kifaru.com RHINO'S WEB SITES: http://radio.weblogs.com/0103207 (RHINO'S NEWS WEBLOG - PRESENT & PAST) http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) 7:48:34 AM    comment

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