- The United States has become a criminal enterprise led
by a 'government' in league with criminality at the highest levels of
this land. Since the 'election' of the current congress, almost a year
ago-investigations have been reinitiated, supposedly to get to the bottom
of the larger aspects of what appears to be apparent criminality throughout
the government. To date those investigations have not yielded the necessary
documentation required to bring charges against any of the key players-except
that by these failures in both the congress and the courts, what has become
clear is that they too are 'complicit' and are co-equal partners in the
crimes of the administration.
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- What has become of all the inquiries regarding the illegalities
of Dick Cheney, from his office inside the Matrix of this War upon the
US and the world? Cheney has created an entirely secret shadow government:
he is directing a completely asymmetric war policy that has broken with
all sanity, and in which he continues to move ahead with his War-on-Iran,
regardless of the global consequences-yet the congress refuses to charge
him with contempt of congress. And Cheney is not alone Rumsfeld,
Rice, and Bush have all acted well beyond the law, blatantly defying the
Constitution, the Geneva Conventions and the will of the majority of the
people, as they and congress, have each failed to prosecute those behind
this failed series of wars throughout the Middle-East.
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- The theft and disappearance of Trillions of dollars remains
unexplained, while the policies of the nation at home remain unfunded.
There is nothing secure about 'living' in this USA that is no longer secure
or even viable in the wider world-while we continue our freefall into
bankruptcy and disrepute around the world. That election in November of
06 was supposed to mark a turning point-and all we got was more war not
less, more troops sent in, instead of the withdrawal that was being sought
by the majority of those who voted: and if anything far more new money
was committed to continuing the wars, rather than the cut-off of funds
that voters thought that were demanding; now more than a year ago.
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- To be labeled "criminal," simply means to operate
outside the established laws. This congress and the courts have now conjoined
with the executive in blatantly defying the Constitution of the
nation-in their pursuit of something that was never envisioned by the
founding documents of the nation. The Constitution founded a co- equal
three branch government not a government with only one ruler: Not a "Decider"
free from any checks or balances that could limit his actions or restrain
his absolute rule.
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- Words no longer seem to have any meaning, because "real
or legal consequences" have become part of what the administration
refers to as 'quaint relics of our distant past.' Yet this is only a
small part of how we have become a criminal enterprise.
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- During the Vietnam War the body-bags containing many
American soldiers were shipped home with heroin packed inside the remains
of those killed in that war. It was the perfect 'hiding place' to escape
US customs or official notice, and it was a callous act that might be
behind why the dead from this war have been 'protected' by an official
act of secrecy declared by the Decider. After all, the Heroin in this
war comes not from the Golden Triangle near Vietnam, but from the Poppy
fields of Afghanistan that are now almost back to 100% production. This
instance was the source for this aspect of that story. (1)
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- Given that we now know that the government has been lying
about the actual number of dead from the Middle East, thanks to Mike Whitney:
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- "The Pentagon was covering up the real magnitude
of the "suicide epidemic". Following an exhaustive investigation
of veterans' suicide data collected from 45 states; CBS discovered that
in 2005 alone "THERE WERE AT LEAST 6,256 AMONG THOSE WHO SERVED
IN THE ARMED FORCES. THAT'S 120 EACH AND EVERY WEEK IN JUST ONE YEAR."
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- That is not a typo. Active and retired military personnel,
mostly young veterans between the ages of 20 to 24, are returning from
combat and killing themselves in record numbers. We can assume that "multiple-tours
of duty" in a war-zone have precipitated a mental health crisis of
which the public is entirely unaware and (for) which the Pentagon is in
total denial.
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- If we add the 6,256 suicide victims from 2005
to the "official" 3,865 reported combat casualties; we get a
sum of 10,121. Even a low-ball estimate of similar 2004 and 2006 suicide
figures, would mean that the total number of US casualties from the Iraq
war now exceed 15,000.
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- That's right; 15,000 dead US servicemen and women
in a war that--as yet--has no legal or moral justification.
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- CBS interviewed Dr. Ira Katz, the head of mental health
at the Department of Veteran Affairs. Katz attempted to minimize the surge
in veteran suicides saying, "There is no epidemic of suicide in
the VA, but suicide is a major problem."
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- Maybe Katz (was) right. Maybe there is no epidemic.
Maybe it's perfectly normal for young men and women to return from combat,
sink into inconsolable depression, and kill themselves at greater rates
than they were dying on the battlefield. Maybe it's normal for the Pentagon
to abandon them as soon as soon they return from their mission so they
can blow their brains out or hang themselves with a garden hose in their
basement. Maybe it's normal for politicians to keep funding wholesale
slaughter while they brush aside the casualties they have produced by
their callousness and lack of courage. Maybe it is normal for the president
to persist with the same, bland lies that perpetuate the occupation and
continue to kill scores of young soldiers who put themselves in harm's-way
for their country.
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- It's not normal; it's is a pandemic---an outbreak of
despair which is the natural corollary of living in constant fear; of
seeing one's friends being dismembered by roadside bombs or children
being blasted to bits at military checkpoints or finding battered bodies
dumped on the side of a riverbed like a bag of garbage.
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- The rash of suicides is the logical upshot of Bush's
war. Returning soldiers are traumatized by their experience and now they
are killing themselves in droves. Maybe we should have thought about
that before we invaded." (2)
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- Whatever the number of dead really is, the War on Iraq
is a direct outgrowth of the Vietnam War that gave the War Department
a template for exactly how our wars of conquest could be waged.
right down to how those wars could also be used for illicit profits as
well as for privatized corporate windfalls that have no equal in history
or in human memory. So ask yourself again - Why did the US classify the
deaths of servicemen and women coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan in
the first place!
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 Bush was asked before the war what the fall of Saddam
would cost. He had no answer then, but we're beginning to understand some
of the true costs now. . .
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- For too many Americans the Vietnam War is way beyond
ancient history-it is barely even an event for far too many. But for those
that might want more context "Apocalypse Now" (the film) can
quickly bring you up to date. It's a film and an epic piece of entertainment.
A re-creation not meant to be taken literally as part of the actual military
history. However the theme of the film clearly outlines why the Decider
chose to use mercenaries for the most disgusting aspects of his War on
Iraq: Because it is clear that the War-on-Terror is a direct outgrowth
of the misbegotten hell that was called "the Vietnam War." http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Apocalypse_Now
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- Not unlike the fabled mystic-character, updated from
Joseph Conrad's" Heart of Darkness" (a 19th century exploration
of the limits of human capacities); the screenplay for "Apocalypse
Now" probes the mindset behind that same madness in the 20th century.
Is it possible that the Cheney-Bush wars will eventually divulge the latest
version of these dark and twisted thoughtforms in the 21st century? One
thing is certain: when major-powers are misused the results are usually
catastrophic, and in this instance, this Complicity in criminal behavior
has resulted in Contempt, not only for law & order, but for the roots
of freedom and humanity as well.
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- There is more than enough evidence to charge Cheney and
others with Impeachable offenses immediately. If this Congress will
not issue Contempt of Congress citations for the Vice-President and his
secret government officials then why are we paying these criminals
who are obviously complicit in their crimes against us!
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- Either we have laws clearly stated that are obeyed, or
we do not. What we have now are laws that only apply to the little-people
in this country. For the owners of this society there are no longer any
laws by which they might actually be controlled or even inconvenienced.
Americans need to demand that their government forego it's "vacation"
and lift the veils of secrecy: Arrest those that have put those cloaks
in place, because as was said of Vietnam: "It's the judgments that
defeat us" because the stench of lies is what these wars create!
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- Free people are only free when they are willing to challenge
those that would take away their freedoms with the stroke of an illegal
order or an Executive Decree. . .
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net.
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- 1) Heroin Smuggled in Body Bags of GIs Reported by Military
Eye Witness
- http://www.wanttoknow.info/militarysmuggledheroin
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- 2) Pentagon Cover UP
- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18737.htm???
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