- The various electronic tickertapes in Times Square ought
to carry the truth for a change, which if they did, might convey the
following advisories:
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- "Promises Are Prosperity; Lies Are Truth; Ignorance
Is Strength;
- Freedom Is Slavery; and of course: War Is Peace."
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- "Dayton, Ohio -- The images from Baghdad and Basra
bristled with explosions, burning buildings, street protests, rocket smoke
wafting from the Green Zone.
- The words from Dayton were "remarkable" and
"victory" and "rebirth."
- "Normalcy," President Bush said, "is returning
back to Iraq."
- The juxtaposition of images and words crisply illustrated
Bush's challenge in pleading for more patience from his own weary public
for a war that has now surpassed five years and 4,000 American dead.
Bush came to Dayton on Thursday to make the case that Iraq has made impressive
progress in political reconciliation in recent months, even as his argument
was overshadowed by the latest outbreak of violence.
- Bush cast the battling in Basra not as a setback but
as more fodder for optimism, a sign that Iraq's leaders are ready to challenge
the militias who dominate the southern city, employing a tough security
crackdown designed and led by their own forces." (1)
- Aside from the fact that Iraqis had to be replaced by
American forces after four days of failures: There are also other realities
now thriving amid the chaos surrounding the US military involvement in
both Iraq and Afghanistan-realities that have so far gone completely unnoticed
by corporate media in the US. It is utterly amazing how much continues
to escape the American-hive-mentality in this country, which has become
the repository for so many of the actualities that form the backbone of
our occupation in the pre- emptive Bushwar's that we've launched against
the Middle East. For instance there was this from Obama, in answer to
Amy Goodman's questions on Friday last:
- "AMY GOODMAN: Can you call for a ban on the private
military contractors like Blackwater?
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- SEN. BARACK OBAMA: I've actually-I'm the one who sponsored
the bill that called for the investigation of Blackwater in [inaudible],
so-
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- "AMY GOODMAN: But would you support the Sanders
one now?
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- SEN. BARACK OBAMA: Here's the problem: we have 140,000
private contractors right there, so unless we want to replace all of or
a big chunk of those with US troops, we can't draw down the contractors
faster than we can draw down our troops. So what I want to do is draw-I
want them out in the same way that we make sure that we draw out our own
combat troops. Alright? I mean, I-
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- AMY GOODMAN: Not a ban?
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- SEN. BARACK OBAMA: Well, I don't want to replace those
contractors with more US troops, because we don't have them, alright?
But this was a speech about the economy.
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- AMY GOODMAN: The war is costing $3 trillion, according
to Stiglitz."
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- SEN. BARACK OBAMA: That's what-I know which I made a
speech about last week. Thank you." (2)
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- Did the public miss this point entirely; the FACT of
the 140,000 private contractors that "must be protected" by
US troops? These would be the same contractors that employ some of the
most vicious mercenaries from around the world, many of them trained at
American expense, in what was formerly called "The School of the
Americas," a "school" that in reality trained the hated
Death Squads that were used throughout Central and South America!
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- These are the same mercenaries that do not answer to
US laws or to the US military chain of command; the same contractors that
can make upwards of $1000 a day, to do what GI's did prior to the Cheney-Rumsfeld-Coup
at the Pentagon. The Coup succeeded in completely destroying the effectiveness
of the US military, however their version of US military force has largely
been a colossal failure wherever it needed to show any real signs of military
success-whether that was needed before during or after the two invasions
in which these disastrously ill-prepared troops were showcased. Now we
suddenly must also protect these off-the books mercenaries that have been
responsible for so much of the random slaughter of civilians, plus the
mind-boggling waste of so many billions of dollars in a mini-series of
wars that has only produced illicit-profits for corporate insiders, and
the friends of Cheney- Bush.
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- US forces need to be withdrawn, immediately and totally.
The mercenaries have their own aircraft and can remove themselves: after
all running is one of the things these guys do best, and since the god
they serve is only "Gold, Oil & Dollars," they can find
their own way out. By 'signing up" they have already sacrificed whatever
might have been left of their souls for money, so whatever happens to
these mercenaries is not a concern that the already overburdened taxpayers
must also now be saddled with. This is another gray area of US military
policy that the Cheney-Rumsfeld- Coup utterly failed to deal with in their
zeal to pass out those secret no-bid contracts by the fistful. Nor has
any of this been covered by the criminally-negligent-congress that is
still soundly- sleeping wherever any oversight has been genuinely needed!
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- That said; what do Obama's comments reveal about this
presidential contender's views and attempted Double-Speak when it comes
to what he will "do" about the Wars. He wants "to bring
the troops out" without mentioning that the 140,000 private thugs
will apparently be staying. US policies need to be issued with one voice
and understood without exceptions, otherwise these 'decisions' are not
real, but are only tactical moves in a game that we refuse to leave because
there is simply far too much money to be made by staying-the death tolls
and the destruction throughout the region be damned! It's no wonder that
the public doesn't really want to know the truth-because in this instance-the
truth might actually be far uglier than the fiction that it was created
to serve!
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- This is certainly true of the numbers of the dead, the
permanently damaged, and the walking wounded which these last seventeen
years of the War upon Iraq has produced. "73,846 US troops dead,
1,620,906 disabled." (3)
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- However it is the same with everything that has been
done beneath the stealth-policies of the last two illegally constituted
administrations. Everything from Finance and Wall Street to American
Jobs and the nationwide crumbling of Main Streets across the country have
been the result of this comic-book presidency that promises SECURITY,
yet produces only more fear accompanied by huge servings of pseudo- terror
in this latest chapter of their attempted-seizure of the once civilized
world.
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- Don't take my word for this just re-read the novel "1984."
It's all there from the torture and the prisons, to the Real ID Cards,
to the loyalty oaths and the tracking of every movement of all the citizens
that subsist in abject terror of their 'leaders.' The final cog is being
mandated now by the Federal Communications System that is requiring us
to all buy new television sets, supposedly to obtain better quality through
a new method of transmission: when the truth is that the point is to make
possible the two way-cameras that can watch and listen to whatever is
happening around every tube that is out there. The irony is they've found
a way to get us to pay to be spied upon even further than they've already
gone! (4)
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- The shorthand for the whole enterprise of the New (OLD)
World Order can be summed up in what ought to be headline news around
this nation:
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- "Promises Are Prosperity; Lies Are Truth; Ignorance
Is Strength;
- Freedom Is Slavery; and of course: War Is Peace."
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) Iraq Fighting Complicates Bush's Task
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/03/28/
MNVSVRKB2.DTL
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- 2) Sen. Obama on Heeding Iraqis' Call for Full US Withdrawal
- http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/28/ amy_goodman_questions_sen_obama_on
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- 3) US Depart, of Veterans: 73, 846 US troops dead, 1,620,906
disabled.
- http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/node/28224? PHPSESSID=42cf5d64711fa8ffa6d3baa065657e95
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- 4) Comcast Cameras to start watching you?
- http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5927
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