 THIS IS WAR |
WTF? Yesterday I posted about how US missiles “accidentally” hit IraN instead of IraQ. Now the US has accidentally shot down a British jet. They also seem to have attacked a British news team. What with helicopters crashing into each other and friendly fire, the US-UK alliance seems to be experiencing significant losses… from themselves. How is that even possible?
(Not to mention other problems like a potential military clash with Russia brewing away, North Korea just itching to show off their nukes, resistance from “allies” in the North, resistance from “allies” in Iran, and protests around the world and at home against this war…)
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Oh, and you remember how you've been told all those stories by the propaganda machine about all the Iraqis that have been surrendering? The Pentagon has announced that about ten thousand have surrendered, and that they expect over a quarter million more to surrender soon. Problem is, General Franks says that the US is holding as few as one thousand POWs… When asked where the rest of them are, the official answer is “they must have run off.”
So basically the three choices are:
- The US forces are incredibly incompetent and let 90% of the POWs escape
- The US command is lying and these Iraqis never surrendered
- The prisoners were executed in violation of the Geneva Convention
Questions from Iraqis: Why are you here in this country? Are you trying to take over? Are you going to take our country forever? Are the Israelis coming next? Are you here to steal our oil? When are you going to get out?
You might have noticed that there has been no talk about an exit strategy. That's because there isn't one. The Bush administration plans to stay in Iraq ... We, of course, will get stuck with the bill, and it will cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Some of the politicians' corporate cronies are already being promised lucrative contracts.There's always a profit to be made from war. You and I won't make it; the soldiers, sailors and airmen won't make it. No, as consumers, we pay the price in treasure and blood and grief; the big corporations reap the profit.
I have long been against taxing Americans to solve problems in foreign countries. It seems to me a simple proposition. Until an American politician can honestly say that all Americans are healthy and prosperous, that all children attend a clean, well-equipped school, that our entire infrastructure is up-to-speed, that all of our public health and environmental problems have been solved, then American tax dollars ought to be spent in the United States. I've read the Constitution I don't know how many times, but I never found anywhere in it that Congress can tax Americans and give the money to foreigners. But Congress does it anyway, and most Americans don't protest. Too busy watching television, I suppose.
Oh yeah, it turns out that Iraq doesn't actually have WMDs — oops! Sorry about that! Guess the inspectors, the UN, and the rest of the world were right. Oh well, it's too late now, there's no turning back. Got to keep up with the killing…
Not that I have any doubt that they won't “find” them eventually.
PS. The pope says war threatens the fate of humanity.
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