- POWs are the Achilles heel of the Decider and his armies
of occupation around the world. This is so, even though it's been five
long years since the USA has taken no Prisoners-of-War, in any of our illegal
wars of occupation, torture, and the slaughter of innocents that we have
subjected the world to; just to meet the needs of Israel's paranoia and
our own obsessive greed, for resources and territory that was never ours.
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- This practice began with 911 when the fighters were supposed
to have been scrambled to intercept the attacking planes but the interceptors
were not scrambled: and the nation was lost! From that moment the Monstrous-Lie
was clear for all to see. That was the moment when the coup began, but
even then the Bandits were not smart enough to finish the job they
only accomplished two-thirds of what they set out to do. Had America had
anything like an awake and American-friendly media, 911 would have stopped
right there because real questions would have been asked, and real
answers would have been sought. That did not happen so from that
moment to this one the United States of America has made itself a
prisoner of the Cabal that stole this nation and now wants to finish this
bungled attempt at a takeover in very final terms. Incidentally:
Every single act since that moment has only compounded the initial crime,
until what is left is too large to even contemplate!
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- For five years now - the public has been treated to 'the
Decider's fantasies' regarding Rove's tendencies to make-up terms that
have no meaning. One of his favorite themes has been the elimination of
the term P.O.W. (Prisoners of War). The Decider decided that America needed
to be immersed in several total and unending wars. Everyone knows that
when a nation goes to war there will be prisoners-of-war, or POW's. But
wherever there are POW's there are the Geneva Conventions, and those global
rules must be followed-in terms of the treatment that the nation holding
the prisoners must follow. To escape this law the Decider created the term
"unlawful enemy combatants" something that has yet to be
ruled on by the courts. Initially, the term applied only to those swept
up on battlefields that the US created, virtually overnight. To date there
are an unknown number of Afghan detainees from many countries, plus about
14,000 UEC's (unlawful enemy combatants) from Iraq, and only god knows
how many others have been stolen in the night by some of the sixteen different
intelligence agencies that have been funded to the tune of some sixty-billion
dollars.
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- In these years of aggressions against so many why
have we never witnessed any trials of those supposedly lethal enemies of
the United States? The Israelis have a similar policy and they still hold
over 11,000 Palestinians, over 60 of which are members of the legal Palestinian
government. By contrast the Palestinians and Hezbollah hold just three
captured Israel soldiers. The invisible enemies that we say we're fighting
don't seem to capture American troops, in the course of conflict-yet we
persist in rounding up whole families, including children, that we simply
throw in jail to be tortured, maimed or killed-at the convenience of their
jailers. No explanations are ever given-except for National Security, of
course!
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- The USA has slaughtered people from the air using missiles
from predator drones that indiscriminately kill people. These 'people'
are later supposedly identified as insurgents, yet they often turn out
to be just ordinary people trying to survive in a war upon their own countries,
wars created illegally by us and for those massively powerful corporate
entities that fund the conflicts and collect the profits from supplying
the armaments that provide the destruction: this is augmented by secret
contracts to clean up their devastation and rebuild what they first destroyed-secretly
of course. But throughout it all, the point in all this destruction and
chaos (the enemy) is not catalogued, not tried, not convicted of anything
except of not being in agreement with US corporate or capitalistic policies:
Why not? Where are the show trials, where is the evidence, manufactured
or real, that would show the world the truth? Why has this totally false
administration not chosen to use these tens of thousands of prisoners to
demonstrate "the rightness" of their supposed cause? Because
there is no credibility for our actions, and we can't have courtroom proceedings
that might show this to be the truth!
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- One reason comes from the legal problems that they still
have with the court systems here. The Decider's minions have owned the
congress for decades. Consequently they do not fear congress because that
body has spinelessly sold its sworn oath to protect the constitution and
the American people for a song. Something like 70 percent of the congress
takes money from a foreign power-illegally-because that foreign power is
not registered as a lobby that represents the foreign power that Americans
know as Israel. The lobby is AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee)-which
just happens to be the single most powerful lobby in the USA.
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- The packed US court system however presents a slightly
different problem. Some of the justices seem to take what they do with
more gravitas than their counterparts in congress; The Supreme Court ruled
against the Decider's created enemies, by labeling his misuse of this weird
terminology as unconstitutional. What is really being sought now is the
right to be pardoned for past crimes, by legislation written by those who
committed those crimes-who now want the Supreme Court to grant them pardons
for all that they've already done to date-this is insane-please see the
quotes below!
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- From Democracy Now: "The Bush administration's
controversial military commissions and detainee treatment bill is one step
closer to being signed into law. On Wednesday, the House approved its version
of the measure, leaving it to a vote in the Senate today. Under the new
bill, detainees would be prevented from challenging their imprisonment
and denied access to evidence used against them. Critics of the bill say
it also gives too broad a definition of who can be ruled an "unlawful
enemy combatant"; {critics believe the wording is crucial, as it can
be interpreted to mean that this legislation will apply to American citizens
as well - k} and provides little protection against detainee mistreatment.
The administration was forced to come up with new procedures following
a Supreme Court ruling in the case of Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan.
On Wednesday, Hamdan's lawyer, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Charlie Swift,
said the new bill could again be ruled illegal.
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- U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Charlie Swift: "They're
basically recreating, almost identically, the same trial the Supreme Court
struck down that said they violated Common Article 3 and also violated
the UCMJ at that time, and just basically didn't provide fundamental, what
we call due process, for a fair trial. And no amount of saying that it's
a fair trial makes it a fair trial and that seems to be the bill's biggest
thing. We claim it's a fair trial but we haven't really changed any of
the things the Supreme Court found substantively problematic."
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- Just one in five Democrats voted with Republicans in
the House Wednesday. But Democrats say they won't challenge the bill because
they do not want to appear weak on terror ahead of the November elections.
In an editorial today, the New York Times writes: "Americans of the
future won't remember the pragmatic arguments for caving in to the administration.
They'll know that in 2006, Congress passed a tyrannical law that will be
ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation's version
of the Alien and Sedition Acts." "
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- This issue of the missing Prisoners-of-War is of major
importance because the status of hundreds of thousands of people is no
small matter; especially when one considers that the United States is supposed
to be a nation of laws not, not men. A nation created to be a place where
no person is to be considered either above or beyond the rule of law. Five
years is a very long time to leave so many people to rot and to be tortured
in illegal detainment, at the pleasure of illegal war machines that care
nothing at all about anything the world might think, or whatever rules
the global community has in place to deal directly with the prevention
of this exact same crime against human beings from so many nations.
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- The Decider and his ever-compliant cowards in the congress
need to face this issue and tell the world exactly what the hell they've
been doing with these people, and on what authority-for all these years!
The media throughout this entire masquerade has remained strangely silent-refusing
to even raise these questions-never-mind the fact that they should have
held extensive inquiries of their own into how this situation could possibly
be allowed to continue unabated for so many years? Of course the same thing
is true of both 911 and the illegal Israel lobby, along with all the unanswered
questions surrounding the number of dual-passport-government-employees
that have valid Israeli passports-Michael Chertoff, the Israeli head of
US HOMELAND security is one of these. The 'battlefields-at-home' are littered
with unanswered questions-questions that the congress and the courts are
charged with answering, especially in what Bush terms "this time of
WAR." All of this came to a screaming halt Friday, when the Senate
overwhelming passed the legislation-all that remains now is for Bush to
sign this treasonous bill into law.
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- How can it be that the United States of America has sent
troops into combat, with no clear line of authority for their being there
at all? How can it be that despite all the evidence and testimony to the
contrary that so many in the military (past and present) have provided
against the leadership that directs their every move, has gone unheeded!
The US military has lost the war in Iraq and lost it's military edge to
do what is required of it, because it has followed the orders of incompetent
leadership on all levels beginning with the Secretary of Offense, Donald
Rumsfeld-and continuing UP the chain-of-command to that creature at the
center of all the failures of US Policy for the last five years! No one
has been fired, and now because no limits have been set, we're looking
at two new wars to accompany the two failures we're still pretending to
fight?
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- "The U.S. has battled in Iraq longer than it fought
against Nazi Germany, and the situation in Iraq is out of control. The
Taliban have regained half of Afghanistan. The king of Saudi Arabia has
told Bush that the ground is shaking under his feet as unrest over the
American/Israeli violence against Muslims builds to dangerous levels. Our
Egyptian puppet sits atop 100 million Muslims who do not think that Egypt
should be a lackey of U.S. hegemony. The king of Jordan understands that
Israeli policy is to drive every Palestinian into Jordan." (1)
- What happened to American intelligence; not in the agency-term
of that word, but in the day-to-day form that ordinary Americans are supposed
to have in such abundance? When you have so many losing propositions, in
everything from jobs to education; from health-care to war and commerce-all
run by a government that is nothing more than a satellite arm of the oil
industry-is it any wonder that all we ever get is more failure from every
word they speak? Why have there not been more public demands for resignations
in every area that so-called government has infected with poisonous agendas
that were designed to kill every aspect of the United States. This was
once a much different nation from the metastasized cancer that it has become
today?
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- The government's use of the bogus term "unlawful
enemy combatant" needs to be outlawed. The US must answer for every
person they have detained, and begin to resolve the cases pending against
the individuals involved or dismiss them outright. The reason the world
chose to call captured enemy soldiers Prisoners of War, was precisely to
avoid the massive task of trying each person for whatever they did in combat,
given the difficulty of testimony, reconstruction of the crime-scenes,
and or the conditions under which anyone was captured. Fighting in a war
is not a simple procedure, and making rules about it is next to impossible.
Since crimes are usually committed on all sides in a wartime situation
prisoners when taken were intended to be held until the hostilities
ceased, when an exchange could then take place. But his "this war
on terra shall have no end" according to that illiterate psychotics
who are still in charge!
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- If the conflict really is to have no end, because this
is not a war against armies or nation-states, but a war upon an idea that
can never be completed-so long as hate and anger and injustice still exist-then
let us recognize these "wars" for the illegal actions that they
are, and end them now! These actions were designed to steal territory and
to subvert any who oppose our latest ideology of unrestricted Capitalism,
and unchecked Corporate-Crime. This is what happens when citizens become
consumers only, and when people fail to question, the actions of the rogue
government they have allowed to take over their lives. If any of us still
want to have a life, then we must demand answers and clarifications from
everyone at all levels of government-and we must not stop until those 'in-charge'-
are barred from politics for life and tried for the crimes that they've
all committed. The process that questions political behavior in America
is called an impeachment and the punishment for Treason against the
nation is death.
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- What does this nation stand for, and who among us chooses
to kneel to those that have stolen what was ours to begin with? Are you
willing to live life on your knees, or would you rather stand and speak
to those who would silence you with the stroke of a pen and call it national
security? If people do not soon speak, then like the POW's before us, many
will simply disappear, or be listed as missing-in-action. The time has
come to get involved America and the choice of what to do is yours!
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- Why Bush Will Nuke Iran
- http://www.rense.com/general73/whyc.htm
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- NOTES
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- Why We Fight - A Mother's Guide To Civil Disobedience
- http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092606K.shtml
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- Molly Ivins: Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 -2006)
- http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060927_molly_ivins_habeas_corpus/
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