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Posted: 2004-09-02 13:06:10
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Achtung! Heil Bush Baby
President Bush might well have told the American people in a nationwide TV address, that "war is neither inevitable nor imminent” and that “the use of the military is [his] last desire," but then again, this man also once said that, “Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”
Since December 1998, Iraq has failed to allow any weapons inspectors into the country, after previous inspectors had found and destroyed thousands of litres of concentrated anthrax and botulinum. Bush alleges that since this time, Saddam Hussein may have been constructing biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, threatening the Middle East and the whole world. Given Iraq's past record, Bush assumes, even without evidence from inspectors, that Hussein has been preparing weapons. Bush claims that “the worst weapons are in the hands of the world’s worst leaders,” (anyone spot the irony there?) and that Hussein must be disarmed.
However, there seems an odd desire to sabotage any peace talks with Hussein. On July 4 2003 Kofi Annan began negotiating with Iraq over the return of UN weapons inspectors, and they were on the verge of agreeing. On the next day, the Pentagon leaked its war plan to the New York Times: a Pentagon official revealed the preparation of "a major air campaign & land invasion to “topple President Saddam Hussein”. The talks immediately collapsed. was George Junior taking revenge for Saddam’s assassination attempt on his daddy in 1993? By the same logic Bush will nuke the Simpsons next. Does Bush needs a boost in his popularity? His own election four years ago was hardly well supported, and his war on terrorism hasn’t been a spectacular success.
Today, Bin Laden is still free, and the “war on terrorism” has achieved nothing (as the Bali bombing proves). At least Saddam Hussein a hated enemy got caught, who would have been located and bombed without bothering with peaceful negotiations, giving Bush a bit of good publicity. Yet, this is not about Iraq. This is not about weapons of mass destruction. This is not about terrorism, or Saddam, or corrupt regimes. This is about the United States of America becoming a fully fledged empire, seizing sole global authority and responsibility.
Bush is trying to make the USA the sole superpower in the world, able to impose their military and financial might over all nations. Why the complete disregard for an exit strategy from Iraq? Because the USA plan never to leave. Permanent military bases will be created, and from this position of strength, the US will attempt to dominate the Middle East. Containment and deterrence would not allow the expansion of American power. This is why they continued to push for war.
The National Security Strategy was published a week after the September 11th terrorist attacks. It sets out a newly aggressive military and foreign policy, embracing pre-emptive attack against perceived enemies. It talks of "convincing or compelling states to accept their sovereign responsibilities." Essentially it lays out a plan for permanent US military and economic domination of every region on the globe, undeterred by international treaty: "The United States will require bases and stations within and beyond Western Europe and Northeast Asia." To ensure that no country dares to challenge the United States, the report advocates a much larger military presence spread over more of the globe, in addition to the roughly 130 nations in which US troops are already deployed.
Bush seems determined to declare war on the arab world,and gain complete control of the region.As always his loyal friend is our beloved Prime Minister, who will support him in his bid for American global dominance
The German foreign minister compared “Dubya” to Hitler, and it seems that this is an accurate comparison: “HEIL BUSH!”
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Posted: 2004-09-02 13:18:18
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Who's Counting the Dead in Iraq?
by Helen Thomas
Quote:Remember the enemy body counts during the Vietnam War? Some of those U.S. tabulations were highly exaggerated in an effort to show gains on the battlefield.
Well, we don't do that anymore.
The Pentagon has meticulously reported the American fatality toll in Iraq, now up to 286. That number includes 183 deaths from hostile fire since the start of the war. It also includes 148 dead since May 1 when President Bush declared the end of major combat operations. A Pentagon spokesman said that 1,105 U.S. service personnel have been wounded since the war began.
That kind of numerical precision doesn't apply throughout Iraq. Trying to find the death count among Iraqis has proved to be mission impossible.
I asked Pentagon officials: ''How many Iraqis have been killed in this war?'' The answers were given ''on background'' -- meaning that the Pentagon spokesmen requested anonymity. The spokesmen were honest. They clearly were following orders from the policymakers when they replied that the Iraqi fatality toll was simply not our concern.
The reply to my first Pentagon call was: ``We don't track them (Iraqi dead).''
Weeks later I pursued the question and was told by a Defense Department official: ''They don't count. They are not important,'' meaning the casualty figures.
I later asked for an explanation of why there has been no attempt to find out the number of Iraqi war dead. A Pentagon officer patiently responded: ``In combat operations, we have objectives. We don't have an objective to kill people. Our objective was to remove Saddam Hussein from Iraq.''
''If the Iraqis laid down their arms,'' he added, ''there was no problem. But if we have to go in by force to kill them, the numbers don't make a difference. It's not something we are concerned with.'' He said that U.S. forces used precision weapons to minimize the casualties.
''We achieved our military objective. We did not count'' the enemy dead, he said. ``It would be difficult at best to determine who was killed when dealing with soldiers on the ground.''
Various news organizations have come up with estimates of Iraqi dead that range from 1,700 to 3,000 persons. The heavy tonnage of bombs dropped on Iraq probably raised the civilian death toll higher.
An official at the U.S. Army Center of Military History acknowledged that the question of enemy fatalities ``is a bit sensitive to our people. We just don't face up to how many people were lost.''
Books at the history center refer to 50,000 Americans killed in World War I and some 250,000 Americans in World War II. Germany lost 1.8 million soldiers in World War I, and, as our archenemy in World War II, lost about 3.25 million people.
We do know, however, that in the Vietnam War 58,198 Americans died -- and many thousands more Vietnamese.
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was asked this week whether President Bush knows how many people were killed and wounded in Iraq -- ''not just Americans but the total people killed and wounded in Iraq since the beginning of the war.'' He dodged the question, simply saying that Bush is ``well aware of the sacrifices that our troops have made and the sacrifices that their families are making with our troops over there in Iraq.''
On March 18, two days before the U.S. invasion, Barbara Bush had an interview with ABC-TV's Diane Sawyer.
''Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen?'' Mrs. Bush declared. ''It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?'' Maybe she is right, but I don't think so.
If we do not know or care about the human cost of war for the winners and losers, America will be forever diminished in the eyes of the world.
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Posted: 2004-10-02 15:13:29
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This bloke should have a little one on one with Mike Moore......
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T. Bubba Bechtol, part time City Councilman from Pensacola, Florida, was asked on a local live radio talk show the other day just what he thought of the allegations of torture of the Iraqi prisoners. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience.
'If hooking up an Iraqi prisoner's scrotum to a car's battery cables will
save one American GI's life, then I have just two things to say:
"Red is positive, black is negative" '
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Posted: 2004-10-05 05:13:35
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shows how stupid some people can be...
I'd like to hook his scrotum up to a car battery; if it'll save one iraqi child's life.
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Posted: 2004-10-05 06:57:00
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On 2004-10-05 05:13:35, gelfen wrote:
This bloke should have a little one on one with Mike Moore......
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T. Bubba Bechtol, part time City Councilman from Pensacola, Florida, was asked on a local live radio talk show the other day just what he thought of the allegations of torture of the Iraqi prisoners. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience.
'If hooking up an Iraqi prisoner's scrotum to a car's battery cables will
save one American GI's life, then I have just two things to say:
"Red is positive, black is negative" '
Some people just do not have any respect for human life...They casualy make comments such as this thinking somehow they will live forever.When our time comes we will die and be buried taking nothing with us but our good will towards our fellow humans...If every human on earth thought about dieing more often we would have far fewer probs on this planet.
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Posted: 2004-10-05 13:56:09
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I was saddened and shocked to read this that the bodies of U.S servicemen are arriving back in the U.S as as baggage along with suitcases...reason number 100,000 why this war is wrong.
Video and Article
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Posted: 2005-12-13 03:21:04
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