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Monday, March 24, 2003 |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We should not march into Baghdad. . . . To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero . . . assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability."
- - George Bush, Sr (in his 1998 book A World Transformed)
RHINO HERE:
As a documentary filmmaker myself, I'm thrilled to be able to congratulate Michael Moore for his winning the Oscar last night for Best Feature Documentary for his compelling film, "Bowling For Columbine." If you haven't seen it yet, you really must get yourself to the theatre and see it.
Always controversial & never one to shy away from speaking his mind, for his acceptance speech he invited all his fellow nominees to join him in solidarity on stage and said, (to the best of my memory) "We as documentary filmmakers appreciate non-fiction. But we live in fictitious times, with fictitious elections that have given us a fictitious president (cheers & boos erupted at this point) who has taken us into a war for fictitious reasons. Shame on you Mr. Bush!" http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com
Current Theatre Listings For "Bowling For Columbine":
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/about/theaters.php
The other remarkable point in the ceremonies was Adrian Brody winning for Best Actor for his heart wrenching portrayal of Warsaw Ghetto survivor, Wladyslov Szpilman in "The Pianist." His comment was (again, to the best of my memory) "Immersing myself in the story of The Pianist brought me close to the suffering and sorrow that comes of war. What ever you believe in, whether its God or Allah, let's all pray for a peaceful and swift resolution." Rhino says, "Amen!"
http://www.thepianist-themovie.com/
Vladimir Slipchenko, is a Russian military analyst, doctor of military sciences, professor, major general of reserves & a specialist on future wars. His predictions of the course of US military operations in Iraq (1991, 1996, and 1998), Yugoslavia (1999), and Afghanistan (2001) coincided almost 100% with what subsequently happened in reality. Today's BOTTOM LINE is an interview in which the military analyst predicts the course & outcome of the current US war against Iraq.
The most significant revelation here for me & why I'm suggesting you take the time to read it through, is his explanation of the process that the Military Industry manufacturers must go through to have any new weapon system approved for purchase by the U.S. Military. This is not boring red tape stuff. If true, Rhino thinks this is evidence of crimes against humanity.
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THE BOTTOM LINE
"Shock and Awe"
Interview with military analyst Vladimir Slipchenko by Aleksandr Khokhlov;
Russian Expert Predicts 500,000 Iraqi Dead in War Designed To Test Weapons
Originally published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta in Russian, 22 Feb 2003.
Posted on www.globalresearch.ca on 3/3/03
[Khokhlov] Vladimir Ivanovich, so much has already been said about the reasons and causes of the new war in Iraq, but I cannot get rid of the feeling that they are either talking about something entirely different, or not telling the full story...
[Slipchenko] The main purpose of the war is indeed being left out of the picture and nobody is saying anything about it. I see the main purpose of the war as being the large-scale real-life testing by the United States of sophisticated models of precision weapons. That is the objective that they place first All the other aims are either incidental, or outright disinformation.
For more than 10 years now the United States has conducted exclusively no-contact wars. In May 2001 George Bush Jr., delivering his first presidential speech to students at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, spoke of the need for accelerated preparation of the US Armed Forces for future wars. He emphasized that they should be high-tech Armed Forces capable of conducting hostilities throughout the world by the no-contact method. This task is now being carried out very consistently.
It should be observed that the Pentagon buys from the military-industrial complex only those weapons that have been tested in conditions of real warfare and received a certificate of quality on the battlefield. After a series of live experiments — the wars in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan — many corporations in the US military-industrial complex have been granted the right to sell their precision weapons to the Pentagon. They include Martin Lockheed, General Electric, and Loral. But many other well-known companies are as yet without orders from the military department. The bottom line is $50-60 billion a year. Who would want to miss out on that kind of money? But the present suppliers of precision weapons to the Pentagon are also constantly developing new types of arms and they must also be tested The US military-industrial complex demands testbed wars from its country's political leadership. And it gets them. And that is the main aim of the new war in Iraq...
The rest of this article is at:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SLI303A.html
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