- There is a criminal misconception as to how the office
of the presidency is being used to prosecute our wars. 'The Decider'
has chosen to focus solely on his magnified role as Commander-in- Chief;
in all matters that have to do with his wars of dubious purpose in the
world today. A leader of this or any other nation, when faced with problems
of this magnitude would, of necessity, choose to use all the functioning
assets of the nation to resolve these conflicts. Instead; Bush has chosen
to follow a course that focuses every national asset on only the military
aspects of his wars.
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- This is not a new concept. Every president from Kennedy
through LBJ to Nixon and Ford all left too much up to the Generals: This
ultimately brought about the defeat of the US in Vietnam: but only after
the number of US troops reached 500,000. The reason that this nation was
supposed to be governed by a civilian and not a general is that the office
of the president has far more than one responsibility to the people of
the United States. When a president sees himself as a Dictator with unlimited
powers over all other branches of government as well as having (in his
mind), become the leader of the whole world: then the world and the USA
are in deep, deep trouble.
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- Anyone with knowledge of basic history knows that wars
are never won solely by military actions alone. There must be overriding
and deeply held political convictions that can be agreed to on all sides
of any conflict, for any war to be concluded. And to date this 'Decider'
has decided not to even allow dialogue to take place for any reason. The
irony is that this has also become true in US domestic policy as well.
Leadership requires that leaders attend to the needs of the people of
this country before the needs of other nations in the world. That has
not happened and may never happen!
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- It did not happen in New Orleans after Katrina, it did
not happen when it comes to the medical treatment of returning GI's, and
moreover this selective political isolation has resulted in insuring
that the bulk of American citizens will continue to receive perhaps the
poorest health care among all the industrialized nations in the world
today. This is not about health- insurance, which is nothing but semi-legal
extortion, nor is it about "access," which is code for making
polite noises but in the end denying treatment. This is about guaranteeing
every American, the kind of health care that is needed to make life worth
living and to fulfill those implied promises that paying taxes makes
to the citizens of this country. We pay and pay, and pay but what
do we get for that money? We get roads that are an obstacle course and
a danger to every vehicle that must use them; and we get a bloated bureaucracy
that buries everyone beneath miles of red tape that is simply there to
conceal the rape of those promised government services which, for all
practical purposes-no longer exist! Congress is 'outraged' over the treatment
of GI's coming back from the wars where's their outrage for those
of us who have worked our entire lives only to watch Social Security becoming
privatized and its meager benefits being eaten up, in ever larger costs,
that sap the miserly benefits that were supposed to protect the poor from
becoming homeless in their retirement? What about their medical needs-forget
them-because there is no money for those who made this nation what it
was before Bush II.
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- George W. Bush is NOT the president because his entrance
into that office was not the result of a valid election-it was the result
of a swindle by the United States Supreme Court, in collusion with a
cowardly Congress that failed to do its Constitutional duty and intervene
in the vote count in Florida, in 2000.
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- That said, 'The Decider' has not fulfilled the duties
of that office faithfully if you look at his 1,000 plus signing
statements that basically override the will of congress, whenever he
feels the need to do so. That role was to have been attended to, in the
Constitution, by the Presidential Veto. But the Bandit decided that he
would not be bound by that convention either. Bush has plunged the nation
into unimaginable debt, for his wars and his international policy that
caters to Israel and to all of what is good for Israel, especially to
those planks in our policies that put "Israel First." This nation
was not established to serve the policies of that still unformed pretension
that is called 'Israel.' Bush is an insult to the Constitution, and to
free people everywhere yet the only people who seemingly just don't
"get this" yet-are those Americans that insist on believing
in "their president right or wrong."
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- We have collectively arrived at a crossroads in the War-on-Iraq.
We cannot win this struggle militarily, yet we are allowing a complete
neophyte that became a deserter from the War in Vietnam, who, when it
comes to the military matters has dictated a policy that is not only wrong
but that will kill thousands more Americans because he is too much of
a coward to even consider entering into dialogue.
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- Bush keeps saying that we need to just "Just Give
War a chance," We've given him and his Collection-of- Pretentious-Fools
far more than that: we've given them over four years, and the lives of
nearly a million that he's killed, along with three thousand plus Americans
(that he admits to). He and his pathetic generals have failed at every
turn. Bush has made "Supporting-the-Troops" his battle cry.
In the press his flunkies have screamed that "congress cannot be
allowed to micro-manage the wars!" Why not ALL the professionals
(especially the Congress) have already failed-and they remain in denial,
just as did the generals in Vietnam right up to the day when they had
to flee from the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon, back in 1975.
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- Intelligent people learn from the collective past, so
that it is not repeated. This bunch of rejects that pretends to be in
control of the US military are incompetently-wedded to the idea that if
only they had more men and equipment, more time, more everything then
they "will be victorious." That is utter crap! Americans have
allowed a tin-pot dictator to lead us into a war that had no purpose,
based on a stack of lies that have all been proven wrong: and yet those
same people who have repeatedly lied, and who have failed so often that
it is no longer even mentioned are still in the positions they had
when this obscenity broke out. Now, together with Israel our unofficial
fifty-first state "we" are apparently planning to expand
these wars, to go for ever-deeper involvements so that we cannot possibly
extricate ourselves from this Shakespearean Tragedy-the first two chapters
of which have already opened on the world.
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- The people of the United States owe a debt to the planet
for allowing George W. Bush to take command of the US military-a command
that he has never understood or appreciated. Because if he gave a damn
about those troops (to which he owes so much), then he would have never
allowed them to be slaughtered to the degree that he has, nor would he
have tolerated their unattended medical problems for the last four years:
but then had he been interested in seeing them in their hospitals
he might have had some idea of what was happening. Yet Bush spends far
more time in Crawford, Texas, than he ever has, in even thinking about
what he's done with and to our troops-in all his wars! If he "supported"
the troops he'd stop the damned war and bring them home immediately.
That's not going to happen without a fight here - in the streets of America.
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- Why do all these things above just keep on happening
here? Why do they only seem to get worse and never better? 'One of things
that is constantly undervalued here, is the idea that people can actually
affect any real changes in the way anything gets done, in this cesspool
that we call the US today. And - may I hasten to point out that 'the people'
here have not been willing to inconvenience themselves in the slightest
to affect the needed changes: So - the criminals just keep doing what
they do and laugh at us all-while they add tons to that everyday load
they put off on everyone who actually works - to pay for them and for
their numerous criminal conspiracies.' The people alone have stopped
criminal regimes all over this planet - it's only the Americans that haven't
yet rebelled. And that is what keeps the killing, the maiming, and the
torture going - everywhere!
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- The nations of Central and South America are demonstrating
in the tens of thousands now to protest the current visit of our Dictator,
who is just beginning five days in that region of the world. Do they
know what we refuse to see-that this administration is 'the real evil'
that has allowed the USA to become The Major Rogue Nation on the planet
today? If we are not that evil, then why do we allow this government to
do such unspeakable things to so many in our collective name? Neo-colonialism
is not the "right" of any nation to pursue, yet that has been
the bulwark on which American Empire has built our bloody way-of-life,
and its corollary: which has been shown to be the-way-of-death for far
too many people who have suffered from the 737 military bases that we
maintain around this world.
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- The "Compact" between the people and their
so-called government has been shattered, first by the Act of 1871, and
more recently by the pretensions of a bunch of criminals that are running
what's left of this nation into the burning ruin or our own scorched earth
policies. We need to fire these imposters and renegotiate the terms under
which we can agree to being governed! If we do less than that, we are
agreeing to be slaves, to a corporate nightmare that will devour everything
we say we value. How much longer can we wait because "things
are not going to get better on their own"!
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- NOTES
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- Protests Sweep Latin America as Bush Begins Five Nation
Tour
- http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/09/1443209 the video
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- 737 Military Bases around the World
- http://counterrecruiter.wordpress.com/2007/02/19/737-us-military-bases-around-the-world/
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- Why I fled George Bush's War
- http://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20070205_140356_140356
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- When AWOL is the only way out
- http://yannone.blogspot.com/2006/06/book-mission-rejected.html
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- The Act of 1871
- http://www.worldnewsstand.net/history/1871Act.htm?
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