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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
A memo from John Sawer, Blair's special envoy to Iraq after Saddam's overthrow, reveals the mess in Iraq started right after the invasion.
Dahr Jamail: "Why does the Bush Administration refuse to discuss withdrawing occupation forces from Iraq? Why is Halliburton, who landed the no-bid contracts to construct and maintain US military bases in Iraq, posting higher profits than ever before in its 86-year history?
US policymakers have replaced the Cold War with the Long War for Global Empire and Unchallenged Military Hegemony. This is the lens through which we must view Iraq to better understand why there are permanent US bases there."
Howard Zinn: "On the third anniversary of President Bush's Iraq debacle, it's important to consider why the administration so easily fooled so many people into supporting the war.
I believe there are two reasons, which go deep into our national culture.
One is an absence of historical perspective. The other is an inability to think outside the boundaries of nationalism.
If we don't know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals and journalists who supply the carving knives. But if we know some history, if we know how many times presidents have lied to us, we will not be fooled again.
We must face our long history of ethnic cleansing, in which the U.S. government drove millions of Indians off their land by means of massacres and forced evacuations.
We must face our long history, still not behind us, of slavery, segregation and racism.
And we must face the lingering memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It is not a history of which we can be proud."
Let's be honest, the present rogue American regime is vying with the nazis (national socialists) in its creation of a national American global capitalism.
America is a violent nation. The government even has trouble maintaining law and order in American prisons.
NYTimes: "Federal prosecutors opened a sweeping murder and racketeering case on Tuesday aimed at dismantling what they called one of the nation's most vicious prison gangs, the Aryan Brotherhood."
America's rogue foreign policy is based on intimidation.
SNA: "The United States demand that Bulgaria grants them unlimited access to Bulgaria's military bases and equipment, and Bulgaria does not agree.
However, major disagreements arise around the conditions of access to the bases. While Bulgaria wants guarantees that these facilities would not be used without its consent, the US demand full access. They also want to apply their own jurisdiction and laws when an American violates the law on Bulgarian territory. Bulgarians do not agree on that point and this has stalled the negotiations for a while."
The military is calling the shots.
Military: "Now comes the issue of implementing Prompt Global Strike truly promptly.
Conventional Prompt Global Strike is vital to national defense and homeland security. Implementing it is a job that the Silent Service seems uniquely suited to help achieve, and participation by the Air Force as well may offer more fire-mission options, better tactical flexibility, and needed systems redundancy in a transformational non-nuclear dyad."
Nevertheless, for all its might, this rogue American regime is losing its grip on South America and the rest of the world. It is not sustainable.
Telegraph: "The United Arab Emirates is planning to switch 10pc of its foreign reserves from dollars to euros in the first sign of fall-out from Washington's snub to Dubai Ports World last week."
Violence is a sign of weakness; when a nation can't convince by its example, achievements or morality, it uses war.
George W. Bush is a rogue president who should be impeached for treason, war crimes and blatant incompetence in managing America.
The bickering about censuring a rogue president is ridiculous; the man should be impeached and arrested.
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