- It cannot be that the American people are unaware that
their freedoms, at least on paper, have been legislated away. It cannot
be that they are uninformed about this. A recent article indicated that
fully a third of Americans are now convinced that their own government
was complicit in 9/11, yet there is little public outrage or agitation
generated by such knowledge. The implication is that this terrorism was
justification for Bush's invasion of Iraq. Are Americans just stupid,
or are they merely cowards? Accusing our government is not finality
it may well be merely the last judgment that can follow only after unbiased
and unfettered inquiry. When will such inquiry be initiated to replace
the whitewash and cover-up of the 9/11 Commission?
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- Although previous information on the subject was sketchy,
and if not that, at least mollified by a shroud of inherent speculative
overtones, a flat-out statement by an economist on a video available briefly
on Information Clearing House, offered that Saddam Hussein had started
selling his nation's crude oil for euros instead of American dollars.
This dastardly deed increased his profits 17 percent! Now I will conclude
that it is this, more than any other reason, that suggests why Bush hastened
to attack and invade Iraq. It was never about Osama bin Laden, nor Saddam,
nor even al Qaida. Bush's "War on 'Tur'" is just the latest
chapter of human history displaying the continuing greed-caused horrors
of all unnecessary wars. And is there any other kind? As Paul Craig Roberts
has called him, the "White House Moron" keeps smirkin' and jerkin'
US around as our kids are dying, losing their limbs and minds, and being
forced to fire upon and murder innocent civilians in yet another nation's
civil war, just as they did for LBJ and Nixon in Vietnam.
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- It was Nazi Hermann Goering that offered that the people
of any nation never want war, and that only their leaders do. To motivate
the mass media dumbed-down public into desiring armed conflict with another
nation, Goering stated that the people must be convinced by their leaders
[and the latter's captive media] that another nation intends them immediate
and serious harm. And it still works.
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- When Winston Churchill attempted to embroil the United
States in World War I by cleverly engineering the deliberate sinking of
the Lusitania in 1915, albeit via snookering the Germans into doing it
for him, he ignited the first flames of hatred that were directed by Americans
at "the Hun." As Benjamin Freedman pointed out, Germany had
offered the Allies mere stoppage of hostilities without conditions. Zionists
offered to Great Britain their methods to bring America into the war through
their control of both the American media and also of the then-American
dimwit, Woodrow Wilson. Their payoff was the Balfour Declaration that
eventually transformed into the state of Israel. And as the current smirking
dimwit's granddaddy might have said, "'n ah hept."
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- Even the American Revolution was a war of greed. Federalists
George Washington and Benjamin Franklin maneuvered politically to obtain
huge land grants fromEngland's King George III, as did anti-Federalist
Thomas Jefferson. When King George and Parliament made clear to these
Founders that none of their real estate dreams of advantage and wealth
would be realized, and when Benjamin Franklin began printing paper money
backed by real estate holdings in the Colonies, Parliament's House of Lords,
in all likelihood inflamed by the outrage of Rothschild, directed the Colonies
to cease printing their own money and revert back to the British pound.
These were the real incidents fanning America's growing animosity towards
the British, much more so than any tea parties or stamp acts.
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- The present mess our nation is in can never be solved
by partisan politics, even well-intentioned bi-partisan transactions.
There are just too many greed-motivated "outside interests" all
looking and bidding for their own dreams of advantage in the court of the
King George II of our own making. Our quagmire was CAUSED by the very
same court intrigue that a majority of Americans still believe can extricate
US, even when knowing full well that it was this that put US there in the
first place. For them, it's "business as usual" and totally
defined by Democrat versus Republican, or conservative versus liberal,
or constitutionalist versus "neoconservative," or libertarian
versus Libertarian.
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- The luxury of a political solution has long since passed,
the Iraqi Study Group notwithstanding. It was a glimmer of hope, as were
the Valerie Plame affair, the Downing Street memos, the 9/11 Truth movement,
and other political efforts to solve what was caused by political expediency
and now desperately hoped for as a means to bring the criminal regime crashing
down upon itself. The thought remains that reform can "come from
the streets" but where do we see this happening? Sure it happened
during LBJ's unnecessary war in Vietnam, but back then, we had the support
of some semblance of a free and independent press. Today's press supports
both Bush and the Congress' unending wars to bring death, destruction and
slavery, in the guise of democracy, to any nation that doesn't want these
values.
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- In another video [You Tube] offered by Information Clearing
House entitled "Stop the Funding of the War," Representative
Jim McGovern [DMA] urges US to sign a petition to end funding Bush's
War and to bring our troops back home via House bill H.R. 4232. He hopes
to use the same funding strangulation used by the late progressive N.Y.
Congresswoman Bella Abzug. What a nice gesture our government could have
made, ending this unnecessary, unjust and now lost war and bringing our
military back home for Christmas, and not "the holidays."
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- But just as Congressman John Conyers has been marginalized
and his outrage fizzled silent, fellow Bush professional, Nancy Pelosi,
the soon-to-be first female Speaker of the House, will also take a "do-nothing"
bi-partisan approach assuring the continued destruction of our nation.
You may recall Pelosi's interview on "60 Minutes" just prior
to the Congressional elections, wherein she proclaimed that there will
be no impeachment or investigations of any kind by Congress of the Bush
crime machine, since she considered that such actions would be "unprofessional"
and that both she and Bush were, after all, "professionals."
So were Al Capone and Adolf Hitler.
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- Under the cover of business-as-usual politics, "the
Decider" pounced on the opportunity for that readily available method
of smoke and mirrors to continue protecting his mass-murder sprees and
genocide: "The party of FDR, and the party of Harry Truman, has become
the party of cut and run." FDR allowed 2,400 Americans to die at
Pearl Harbor in 1941 at the hands of the Japanese, just as Churchill had
allowed 1195 passengers, including 123 Americans, to die at the hands of
the Germans on the Lusitania in 1915. And "the-buck-stops-here"
Harry Truman refused to negotiate with the Japanese during World War II,
causing the war to drag on and resulting in many more deaths and injuries
to our American military personnel. The Japanese were desperately seeking
a noble peace and cessation of hostilities for a year, when Harry, ignoring
their cease-fire pleas, exploded two horrific atomic bombs unnecessarily
over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. About
a quarter of a million Japanese died. We had to make an example of them
to terrorize the Russians. No other nation has ever used nuclear weapons
of mass destruction such as these on innocent civilian populations
just US. Thank you, "Dirty Harry."
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- So, isn't it completely appropriate to now properly regard
and reflect upon the notable accomplishments our great presidents have
brought forth, and to also recognize them now as well for their great achievements
in bringing our great nation of valued human freedoms and "democracy"
to its present day condition? Now we are engaged in a great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that [nation] as a final resting
place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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- God save America, and shed Thy grace and forgiveness
upon US...
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- © THEODORE E. LANG 12/17/06 All rights reserved
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- Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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