- The Decider has decided to take a break from deciding,
because everything he's touched so far has failed. For his part Bush
chooses to blame these failures on the people of Iraq, on all the various
factions that have resisted his invasions, and anyone that challenges
any of the insanity that he calls his policies in 'the war on terra.'
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- We have been at war in Afghanistan (Oct 7, 01) and in
Iraq since the 1991 Gulf war. In all that time this leader-among-the-ignorant
has still not yet figured out that for any people to be liberated they
must have drinking water, some electricity, and some kind of job to allow
daily-life to continue. Since it's been five long years without the necessities
of life-it is hardly surprising that the resistance to our occupation
only grows with every passing day: what kind of idiot could believe that
he could prevail without providing any of the things that create the daily-chance
to live one's life? The Decider cannot figure out why he is not winning
'hearts & minds,' never mind the War itself. Rummy dissolved the
Iraqi army, and allowed Saddam's troops to melt into the population with
their weapons and without jobs, that was a clear prescription for chaos-yet
the decider did not seek more advice- only more troops to enforce his failures
in "Staying the Course."
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- Rove's new "look" for the Decider's troika
features Bush between Condi and Cheney: no more the lonely John Wayne
figure striding from plane to platform, but if anything there is now more
chaos than ever behind the scenes. That's not-much of a change; but apparently
the Outlaws believe that if they do not react to all the advice, then
the public will just go along with the new prescription of another $130
billion, and another 20,000 American men and women will be fed into the
meat-grinder that chews up money, material and people with equal vigor.
The 'coalition of the willing' is no longer willing (4): and the poverty
of the military's lack of any kind of plan has finally laid bare the
sheer idiocy of any thought behind anything that's already been done from
Guantanemo to Abu Ghraib. It is time for a truly new approach!
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- Leadership involves practicing 'the art of the possible.'
To do that one needs the true facts on the ground, in order to craft
solutions that will work. First it must be recognized that Iraq was never
an American war-this was always part of Israel's war of conquest. The
Americans were sent in to fight the Iraq war for Israel, just as they
will be sent in to Iran and or possibly Syria to fight those wars for
Israel as well (1). It's time that the troops dying in these wars wore
their real colors on their sleeves.
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 One obvious change that ought to be done immediately
is that Pro- counsel Paul Bremmer's One-Hundred Rules ought to be immediately
rescinded. That would give Iraq back to the Iraqi people, and remove
the clearly colonial mold that was cast immediately after the Fall of
Baghdad. The Decider wants Iraqi's to stand up because they now have a
constitution with "Freedom & Democracy"-but no Iraqi can
make a meal or a job out of any of that political farce that was manufactured
in the Pentagon and The US Department of War. By the same token American
troops are being asked to do the impossible and many of them want
to be withdrawn now! (2)
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- People that have nothing to live for become desperate;
and when virtually everything in one's country is under attack it
is clear that those who created that nightmare will remain targets as
long as they remain in the affected country. Imagine what would happen
if the USA were to have sustained five long years of a foreign power's
occupation of this nation. That would involve rape, routine torture, religious
persecution, along with a lack of water, electricity, jobs, or security
of any kind-and what if all of this took place under the kind of media-censorship
that we've imposed on Iraq and Afghanistan? Would it matter how our wives
and children died, or that vast numbers of our citizens were abducted
by police to be tortured and murdered daily-by the hundreds? Could the
Americans that survived the initial attacks, plus the brutality and criminality
that flows from such a wholesale destruction of any country remain so
abstract about their treatment? How long then would the remaining Americans
want that occupying foreign force to remain in this country, after the
so-called "Mission was Accomplished"? And, after the occupiers
leave, how long would the survivors "remember" the maiming,
the shaming, and the deaths of loved ones? Why can Americans not see how
very wrong this war-on- Iraq has always been?
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- America is now broke and we don't actually "have"
an extra 20,000 battle-hardened troops to send back into Iraq (this will
ultimately be the decider's choice to win the war)-to hell with the fact
that this War cannot now be "won," in conventional terms (3).
Hundreds of influential people have observed that diplomacy has to be
part of any lasting peace-but when Condoleezza Rice was appointed US Secretary
of State-the message to the world was: 'Forget about it-we don't talk
to our enemies EVER!' Still the US lacks the resources to continue,
we also lack the troops to prosecute wars without purpose or end, and
most of all American's are sick of being lied to about everything that
has anything to do with this government or the wider world. Yet action
must now be taken: So why not replace the American occupation forces
with Israeli Defense Forces?
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- The IDF has been at war with nearly everyone in the middle-east
for fifty years, so they should be well equipped to take over in Iraq!
There is of course only one small problem-the Iraqi resistance tries
to kill those that want to kill them-as a result Americans are dying in
phenomenal numbers, and it isn't even our war. It's time for the end-user
of this destabilization in the Middle-East to begin to pay in blood and
treasure for that which they have demanded from the USA and Britain. To
assist in this redeployment; why not draft the existing 100,000 strong
army of privatized militias that could be kept on, at one-tenth their
current pay - to actually begin construction on something besides those
military bases they were sent there to secretly supply and protect. The
illicit money paid to Halliburton and its subsidiaries should be seized
and used to pay the Iraqi's for the rebuilding of those infrastructural
reconstructions that were theoretically paid for but never even begun?
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- Of course this idea is outrageous to the Israeli's and
to those whose idea these wars were created for. But what's at stake now
is a far larger issue than just what a few corrupt politicians and wanna-be
dictators might prefer this is about whether there will be a world
after so many criminals have taken their portion of the loot.
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- This might sound tough, but that's one solution that
could work in Iraq, for the Iraqi's, and for a wider peace in the Middle-East.
With the IDF completely tied down, trying to stay alive in Iraq, they
would have to agree to a real peace in Palestine. That fact alone would
more than calm the region-it might actually bring about some of the major
changes so long overdue for the world- changes that were promised to the
world at the end of the Cold War.
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 Of course the proposal to let Israel fight inside Iraq
could never be seriously be proposed, much less accepted. We're way too
far down this road of fantasy and denial to ever allow that to happen-much
less demand it! What is fascinating and probably contains the seeds of
what shall happen is contained in the stances taken by the so- called opposition
parties in the USA. The public has once again given the Democrats another
free pass, without holding anyone to account for the war, for the current
stalemate in every area of this government-or for the massive criminality
that Katrina was so much a part of. America no longer has political parties
that stand for anything-what we have are reactive interest groups that
are cowardly and despicable in nature and getting worse with every day
that passes. So if America is ruled by 'the Art of the Possible' then
we need some creative people who are willing to challenge all that we've
so recently become!
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- 'Impeach President Bush? Why would we do something like
that?
- Cut off the funds for the war in Iraq? What war?'(5)
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- Footnotes:
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- 1) Israeli Dissident - The Problem Is Israel
- http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=306
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- 2) About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal
- http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070101/cooperweb
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- 3) Report - China to Dump One Trillion In US Reserves
- http://www.rense.com/general74/report.htm
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- 4) British Government Dumps 'War On Terror'
- http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/UKdumpsWOT.htm
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- 5) Democrats Vow to Continue Funding the Iraq War
- http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/democrats-vow-to-continue-
funding-iraq-war
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