journal 30: SOME COMPETENCE, PLEASE!?3.21.7

Journal: Some Competence, Please!!!???


Completed: 3.21.7

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Get some “competent” people (who know what they’re doing), in the White House!
This “cabal” doesn’t know what they’re doing!

“People have ‘hazy’ memories;” this works, perfectly, for G. W. Bush (so he thinks)!

This is going to get worse, & worse, & worse for G. W. Bush!

3.21.7
Bush says that he will not undergo what he calls a “partisan fishing exhibition!”
Bush says that he will answer questions, but no public, (no oath) not under oath, & no transcript (before Congressional Committee)! He says that he will fight “those subpoenas” in the courts, if he has to!
Condoleeza Rice says: “watch your step with those ‘National Security Letters;’ you might lose them!”
There, likely, will be a “Congressional showdown” between Congress & President George W. Bush & Administration!
This is PURE corruption, as part of the Administration!

“It’s not too late for the Democrats to drop the ‘partisanship,’ & work together!” – G. W. Bush, 3.20.7
What’s he talking about? He wants the Democrats to leave him alone, & he wants
the country to stop protesting what he’s doing & what he wants!
“There is no indication that anybody did anything improper!” – G. W. Bush
G. W. Bush is (such) a whiny-baby, & a crepe, & insane, & a sociopath, &
psychopathic!

Bush wants a New World Order!

Bush is neither Conservative, or Fundamentalist, or Religious Right Wing, or Republican!
Bush is a “businessman!”

All Bush Administration Officials are “political,” & not based on “ability!”

Harriet Myers is unbelievably unqualified to be an associate/component of the Supreme Court!

Gonzales carried out the political wishes of the President!

Rudy Giuliani is connected/associated with/to Hugo Chavez!

The Bush Administration hates Government/Control; (Good) Government (Direction/Rule) impedes! The laws (edicts, ethics, acts, decrees, regulations, rules) of the Government impede (obstruct, hinder, hamper, slow down, delay, hold back, hold up, encumber, block, barricade, thwart, frustrate) their agenda (program, plan, schema, schedule)!
All that the Bushites want is a Unitary Executive Authority! Their strategy is to try to stop people from voting, & to stop Congess from having any say or power, & to be the “Deciders!” It’s a strategy, that has nothing to do with right, wrong, good, bad, whatever; it’s all political!

Our tax dollars have been going to this war of Bush’s! And we get nothing in return, except Bush’s terror!

Song:
Shout, Shout, Let it all out,
These are the things I can do without,
C’mon, I’m talking to you, C’mon!
Shout, Shout, Let it all out,
These are the things we can do without,
C’mon, I’m talking to you, C’mon!

Many people believe (deem, accept as true) that this is a “Christian” war that we’re betrothed (busy, affianced, engaged) in!

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Imagine a “community;” grandmothers, grandfathers, mothers, fathers, children, grandchildren, a puff of smoke, bullets, bodies cut in half, shooting women & children: that’s “conservatism,” according to some American’s who call themselves “conservative,” & who define “conservative” in this manner; supporting the killing of those who are not “conservative!” Can you understand this definition of “conservative;” the definition of killing, gunning down, fighting, eradicating (eliminating, stamping out, removing, exterminating, destroying)?

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It’s the Republican’s who are fighting (skirmishing, warfare, combat, hostility, struggling, belligerent, aggressive) over whether or not Gonzalez should go (depart, exit, go away, leave)!

The President (Bush) is absolutely (entirely, utterly) psychopathic, in his “insistence,” in whatever he is doing!
He’s sociopathic!
He doesn’t care!

We need to get out of Iraq!

Bush: World’s #1 Terrorist
Impeach Him!

It’s a “circular, perpetual” war (battle, conflict, combat)!
It’s such a “no brainer,” that even he (Bush) was expected to know that; attack an oil rich, Arab, Muslim nation; to “fight back” using that tactic that he (Bush) said was unconscious able (unconscionable); all to get Bush a seat at the OPEC table!

3.19.7
Today is day 1 of year 5 (of our presence in Iraq; Bush’s launching of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”)! Bush asks for our “patience,” & “support;” and it remains evident (obvious, plain, apparent, unmistakable, true) that the American peoples have lost confidence (assurance, coolness) in Bush’s agenda (program, schema)!

And Bush says that it (the war) is going very well!

The entire reason (motive, basis, grounds, motivation, rationale, explanation, raison d'être) for us being in Iraq is to contain, encompass, boast, comprise, have (a permanent, indefinite) military base’ presence (attendance, existence) in Iraq! This is the whole (complete) reasoning why we are in Iraq & Afghanistan! Saudi Arabia is only second to Iraq in the quantity (sum, total, amount) of oil we can get our hands (& feet, & guns, & WMD, & insurgency, & death, & violence, & terror, & Civil War, & WWIII) upon!

And, still (today), Bush carries on (prolongs) the reason for us being in Iraq being the threat of Saddam Hussein (& WMD); he upholds (continues, sustains, keeps up) the identical (alike) lies, lies, lies! And are we to accept (agree to, allow, believe) the lies, ad infinitum (endlessly, constantly, always)!!!???

They (the Bushites) fired the Elite 8 !

The “Debate” Is (So) Skewed (it’s not “fair & balanced”); the right is going further to the right! And we have a problem with the media (which is, always, under constant pressure of the Right)! News does not involve the truth, or fairness, or balance!

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Beatles For Sale
Original Release: 12.4.64
Words Of Love
Holly
Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real Words of love you whisper soft and true Darling I love you Let me hear you say the words I long to hear Darling when you're near Words of love you whisper soft and true Darling I love you

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S. O. S.
ABBA

Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind Whatever happened to our love? I wish I understood It used to be so nice, it used to be so good So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me S. O. S. The love you gave me, nothing else can save me S. O. S. When you're gone How can I even try to go on? When you're gone Though I try how can I carry on? You seem so far away though you are standing near You made me feel alive, but something died I fear I really tried to make it out I wish I understood What happened to our love, it used to be so good So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me S. O. S. The love you gave me, nothing else can save me S. O. S. When you're gone How can I even try to go on? When you're gone Though I try how can I carry on? So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me S. O. S. And the love you gave me, nothing else can save me S. O. S. When you're gone How can I even try to go on? When you're gone Though I try how can I carry on? When you're gone How can I even try to go on? When you're gone Though I try how can I carry on?

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Taylor Dayne
Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
I've heard people say thatToo much of anythingIs not good for you babyBut... I don't know about that...As many times as we've lovedShared love and made loveIt doesn't seem to meLike it's ever, ever enoughIt's just ... not enough, no, noCHORUS:My darling, I , can't get enough of your love babyBoy I don't know I don't know whyI can't get enough of your love babyOh some things I can't get used toNo matter how I try, ohIt seems the more you give the more I wantAnd baby that's no lie, oh noTell me .. what can I sayWhat am I gonna doHow should I feel, when everything is you you youWhat kind of a love is thisThat you've given meIs it in your kiss or just because you're sweet, sweetYou're all I know and every time you're nearI feel a changeSomething's movingI scream your nameWhat you got me doing(repeat chorus)If I could only make you seeAnd make you understandBoy your love for me is all I need nowand more than I can standOh wellHow can I explainAll the things I feelYou've given me so muchBoy you're so unreal, unreal, unrealWell I keep loving youMore and more each timeBoy what am I gonna doCause you blown my mind, mindI got the same old feelingEvery time you're nearI feel a changeSomething's movingI scream your nameWhat you got me doingBaby, it didn't take all of my life to find youAnd it sure ain't gonna take the rest of my lifeTo keep ya, yeah, keep ya, happyNo darling darling darling darling happy ooohChorus

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Marvin Gaye - Darling You're Wonderful Lyrics
Words seem to fail meWhenever you are nearI've got to get myself togetherAnd tell you how much I care'cause when you look at meI get weak in my kneesMy heart won't let me beWon't you help me, pleaseI really love youDarling, you're wonderfulDarling, you're wonderfulYou are so divineYou're my heavenly dreamYou're a cool, cool breezeThat caress me on a hot summer nightI suffer so much, babyWhen you're out of my sightSo baby come to my armsLet me thrill to your charmsSo I won't be aloneYou'll be the queen on my throne, babyDarling, you're wonderfulDarling, you're wonderfulThe Spinners would say:You're a sweet thing, babyYou're a sweet, sweet thingStevie Wonder would say:You are uptightClean out of sightSam Cooke would say:I know, I know, I know, I knowYou know that I know you're wonderful

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3/16/07 - New VR Ad In New York Times – Don’t Attack Iran
Today VR launched a powerful new ad on the New York Times editorial page demanding that Congress Members and military officers stop an attack on Iran. This ad is to coincide with the huge anti-war rallies this week across the country, including the candlelight vigil at the White House by Christian leaders tonight and tomorrow’s demonstration at the Pentagon. The ad can be downloaded here and we plan to run a version of this soon in the Washington Post. Please DONATE TO VR to help continue our ad campaign!


2/8/07 - VR's New Hard Hitting War Crimes Ad Debuts Today
VR has launched a new ad that will appear today in full page spreads in the Washington, DC City Paper and the Crawford, Texas Lonestar Iconoclast warning those who support an attack on Iran that they will be accomplices to war crimes. The ad asserts that Congress Members and Generals must take that long overdue trip to the White House and demand that George Bush resign. The complete text is below and you can download it here.


Saddam Hussein and his henchmen were hanged for committing crimes against humanity – a war crime. George Bush has committed war crimes in Iraq by attacking and destroying that sovereign country and causing the death of hundreds of thousands of children, citizens and soldiers on the basis of lies.
Now Bush and his cronies are preparing for more war crimes, this time against Iran -- an unprovoked, aggressive war, as in Iraq, which is called a "crime against peace." This is the most serious crime of all – the same crime for which Nazi leaders were hanged.
They have drawn up plans to use nuclear weapons against Iranian nuclear power facilities. The Geneva Conventions prohibit the bombing of such "inherently dangerous" targets because the fallout can kill millions of innocents. Moreover, international jurists have ruled that the use of such weapons is a crime against humanity because of the indiscriminate horror, death, destruction and fallout they cause.
Bush has repeatedly stated that all of these criminal options "are on the table," yet it is much more than that. He has ordered Patriot missile batteries and aircraft carrier groups to the region. He has raided Iranian diplomatic compounds and arrested their diplomats. He has accused Iran of supporting the Iraq insurgency and then stated that he would "seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq."
Bush prepares for nuclear war while he rejects all calls for diplomacy. He refuses to listen to the American people, members of Congress, the Iraq Study Group, his own generals and intelligence officials, or our allies abroad.
In the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy confronted a real and imminent threat, defused it and preserved the peace and the strength of America. Now Bush concocts a false and distant threat, rejects rationality and fans the flames of nuclear war.
Congress Members and Military Generals, if you don’t act to stop Bush’s dangerous and reckless conduct, you will be accomplices to war crimes. History will judge you harshly. You cannot wait. Bush can use any incident as a pretext to attack Iran.
You must follow the Watergate precedent when Republican leaders went to the White House and demanded that Nixon resign. Tell Bush that the jig is up and that he and his cronies must resign immediately or face criminal prosecution.
Please DONATE TO VR to help continue our ad campaign!
11/3/06 - VR Strike Force New Ad And Flyer



3/31/06 - VR's hardhitting ad in today's New York Times with slightly different text from the Washington Post ad.


3/17/06 - VR launches a new ad in The Washington Post demanding that congress listen to the American people, perform their constitutional duty to serve as a check and balance on unchecked Executive Power and stop Bush from starting another unnecessary war!


In front of the U.S. Capitol on "State of the Union" Night
In front of the White House
In front of the Washington Monument

10/26/05 - VelvetRevolution.us announces the release of our third print ad. Placed in Washington D.C.'s City Paper. Unfortunately, the release of this ad coincides with the 2000th troop killed in Iraq. Please consider a donation to VR to help us continue to place such ads around the country! More Info...

9/22/05 - VelvetRevolution.us announces the release of our second print ad. Placed in Washington D.C.'s City Paper to coincide with the weekend's massive anti-war rallies. Please consider a donation to VR to help us continue to place such ads around the country! More Info...

8/24/05 - VelvetRevolution.us announces the release of audio versions of our "Chickenhawk" ad campaign for use as radio Public Service Announcements. More info and Audio Downloads here...
8/16/05 - VelvetRevolution.us ("VR") today launched a long-term advertisement and awareness campaign to galvanize American citizens into taking their country back from those who believe that they are untouchable and unaccountable. This campaign will graphically show that those in power have lost touch with real people through a pattern of lies, corruption, fear mongering, incompetence, indifference and arrogance.
The first ad will appear today as a full two-page spread in the Crawford, Texas Iconoclast newspaper and will be delivered to the President's ranch during his long five-week vacation. Cindy Sheehan and hundreds of others opposed to Iraq war are protesting nearby and they will all be given free copies of the paper. VR supports Cindy and her cause, and she was originally interviewed on June 18th by VR co-founder Brad Friedman on his BRAD SHOW radio program. Cindy's son Casey was killed five days after arriving in Iraq in what the President calls a "noble cause." Now, however, in light of the Downing Street Memos, the world knows that the war was based on lies and deception.
Today's ad says: DON'T LOOK FOR THESE NAMES AMONG THE DEAD AND WOUNDED, and lists on Dog Tags the names of Jenna Bush, David Wolfowitz, Elizabeth Cheney, Valerie Rumsfeld, along with their religious affiliation. Below it says, "Our children have to die so Chicken Hawk children can stay home and get richer? Take back the White House for Americans who know the value of human life. Come to www.VelvetRevolution.us."
VR will place other hard-hitting ads throughout the country and on the Internet to raise awareness about:
1. the Iraq war based on lies,
2. the Downing Street Memos,
3. the rigged election of 2004,
4. the failure to heed pre-911 warnings,
5. corrupt vote machine companies,
6. war profiteering,
7. torture as a policy,
8. illegal outing of intelligence officials
9. the corrupt Iraq election.
These ads will appear in newspapers, magazines, billboards, transit shelters, bus and rail cars, and on dozens of web sites in order to reach the most people.
Please donate here because your donations will determine how many of these ads can run. VR wants to have continuous ads in hundreds of venues over the next 18 months. Avenging Angels Inc. will create all of the ads.
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Baker Commission: Another Study Group Charade Politicians Fiddle, Iraq Burns
By Brian Becker and Mara Verheyden-Hilliard
November 30, 2006
In 1970, Henry Kissinger chaired the Vietnam War’s version of the Iraq Study Group (ISG). Its name was virtually the same as today’s bi-partisan commission headed by James Baker. Kissinger’s commission was called the Vietnam Special Study Group (VSSG). Both the 1970 and 2006 commissions have the same goal: to extricate the United States from a losing war of aggression. The Baker Commission will have as much success as Kissinger’s “Study Group” from a generation ago. After the Kissinger Commission made its report for a phased disengagement, the U.S. war effort dragged on for three more years. Thousands more U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands more Vietnamese were killed before the U.S. acknowledged its defeat in 1973.
Bush’s criminal war against Iraq has failed. Military victory is unachievable. Now the two parties of imperialism are attempting to avoid a catastrophic defeat or the appearance of a catastrophic defeat. This is pretty much how the Vietnam War appeared to the policymakers of both parties by 1968.
How many more Iraqis will have to be killed, raped or maimed so that the U.S. government can avoid the appearance of defeat? Should one more U.S. soldier give their life so that the Pentagon can spin its losses for the media?
A lesson From the Vietnam War: Phased Withdrawal is the Prolongation of the War
For all the chatter about the similarities or dissimilarities between the Iraq war and the Vietnam War there is little useful study of how the U.S. disengagement from Vietnam actually took place and what role the U.S. anti-war movement played in bringing the conflict to an end.
Even under pressure from a truly massive movement against the war in Southeast Asia, Congress followed the lead of the generals and the president. Today, some people in the peace movement are excited that some members of Congress favor a phased withdrawal instead of what is called an open-ended commitment.
The lesson of Vietnam should not be lost on those who are putting their faith in the “pragmatists” or so-called doves in Congress. Anything less than an immediate, unconditional withdrawal is a disaster for the people of Iraq and for U.S. soldiers. But Congress today, as during Vietnam, will not accept responsibility for the military defeat of U.S. imperialism. The euphoric and gushing utterances from some in the peace movement about the makeup of the new Congress will not alter this reality one iota.
Just as in Vietnam, the policymakers in Washington have redefined the mission in Iraq. Avoiding catastrophic defeat is now the primary objective.
It took five years for the U.S. military to withdraw from Vietnam following the recognition by President Johnson, and Nixon who succeeded him in 1969, that a military victory was impossible.
"Withdrawal" Simultaneous with the Escalation of Mass Murder
Between 1968 and the final exit of U.S. forces in 1973, the U.S. government engaged in a phased withdrawal of troops, similar to what the Iraq Study Group is likely promoting. Nixon announced in May 1969 that 25,000 troops would be withdrawn, then 35,000 more in September 1969. In April 1970, he announced that another 150,000 soldiers would be withdrawn by May 1971.
Did that mean peace was at hand in 1969? On the contrary. As Henry Kissinger put it in an article in the December 1968 Foreign Affairs magazine, “The United States cannot accept military defeat.”
While Nixon and Kissinger’s phased withdrawal of soldiers was underway the war not only raged on -- it dramatically escalated. Between 1969 and 1973 more than 20,000 GIs were killed. The number of Vietnamese who died during those years is unknown but it was many hundreds of thousands. During that time, the U.S. Air Force carried out the “secret” bombing of Cambodia. More than 500,000 tons of explosives were dropped on Cambodia during this period -- more than double the bombs that were dropped on North Vietnam during the Nixon Administration. Half the population of Cambodia was made refugees by the bombing. Hundreds of thousands were killed.
It was during this same period of “phased withdrawal of U.S. troops” from Vietnam that Nixon invaded Cambodia (April 30, 1970) with 32,000 soldiers. Students rebelled against the invasion of Cambodia and were shot dead at Kent State, Ohio (May 4, 1970) and in Jackson State, Mississippi (May 15, 1970). It was not just at college campuses, but in high schools, in communities, and most importantly among rank-and-file soldiers that militant anti-war confrontations became a central feature of every day life. It was this growing, angry grassroots protest that changed the political climate in the country.
Congress Did Not End the War
What role did Congress play in this epoch-shaping confrontation? Although Congress is the only body that has the legal authority to declare war under the Constitution, the Nixon Administration decided to tell only two members of Congress that he and the generals had decided to invade Cambodia in 1970. Did Congress move to impeach for this illegal escalation of the conflict or for the blatant usurpation of their constitutionally mandated authority? The question is pure rhetoric. History knows that Congress only cut funding for the Cambodia operation in the summer of 1973. (They never prohibited the ongoing aerial slaughter in Cambodia by the U.S. Air Force.) And Congress cut off funding for Vietnam in 1974, more than one year after U.S. troops had already been withdrawn.
The bombing of Cambodia was undertaken in 1969 and was a complete secret. Congressional oversight committees were by-passed and no member of Congress was informed of this massive, sustained attack against another country. When news of the bombing became public through press reports in late 1969 and 1970, Congress took no action against Nixon or the generals.
Congress Then and Now
Congress is a talk shop. Dominated by a caste of professional politicians, who with few exceptions are feeding at the trough of corporate donations, Congress today is a relic of earlier era. Power today resides in the executive branch of government. The White House, Pentagon, FBI and CIA are the centers of decision-making.
Howard Dean, in his capacity as chairperson of the Democratic Party, went out of his way to make the point that the Democrats’ new control of Congress won’t mean anything significant. “The President is still Commander in Chief,” Dean repeated over and over again as if to assure the real power that Congress will only tinker, or pretend to tinker, with war policy. Despite having the “power of the purse" -- the power to decide whether to finance an illegal war - Nancy Pelosi pointedly stated that Congress won’t reduce, much less end, funding for the Iraq war. Harry Reid has now outlined his program for the new Congress, which does not include any spending cuts for the war in Iraq. Directly dismissing the voters and pledging obedience to Bush, he announced: “Now he's the commander-in-chief, and we're not going to do anything to limit funding or cut off funds.”
Disengagement from Southeast Asia was hard for the U.S. ruling elite to accept. Disengagement from the Middle East is not a fathomable option for U.S. imperialism. Oil is not just a source of immense profit. It is a vital strategic resource. If the U.S. was compelled to leave, the void would be filled by Germany, Japan, France, the UK or another imperial power. Or anti-U.S. resistance could sweep away the governments of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It is this over-arching and fundamental reality that makes a so-called exit strategy so difficult in the Iraq war.
The problem with Congress is not simply that they are "spineless" in the face of the real power in the White House, Pentagon, FBI and CIA. The leaders and overwhelming majority of the Democratic as well as Republican representatives embrace the same imperial foreign policy objectives. They share the objective of U.S. domination of the world economy and over peoples and countries trying to chart an independent course.
Solidarity with the Arab People, Not Congress
Attempting to make the program of the anti-war movement acceptable to the mythological “anti-war” wing of Congress requires the exclusion of Palestinian, Lebanese and other Arab people who are targeted by the U.S.-Israeli military alliance. It requires the abandonment of the fundamental struggle against U.S. imperial ambitions in the Middle East -- the basis for the Iraq war to begin with. The Democratic Party is not only unwilling to take responsibility for the defeat of the U.S. in the Middle East. It is a wholehearted supporter of the U.S.-Israeli terror against the Palestinian and Arab people. On July 22, 2006, as Israel rained cluster bombs and high explosives down on the Lebanese people, the House of Representatives passed a resolution saluting Israel for its “longstanding commitment to minimizing civilian loss.” This breathtakingly cynical resolution passed by a thoroughly bi-partisan vote of 410-8.
Congressional representatives cannot pretend to be “anti-war” while they support the endless war against the Palestinians and other peoples of the region.
On March 17 and 18, the 4th anniversary of the start of the war against Iraq, there will be a global day of action. We will demand an immediate unconditional withdrawal from Iraq and reparations for the Iraqi people as well as an end to colonial occupation in Palestine, Haiti and everywhere. The real challenge to the warmakers will come not in the halls of Congress, but by continuing to forge a global movement of protest and resistance.
The Bush White House, the Pentagon, and Congress intend to maintain a large U.S. military presence in Iraq for many years to come. Even those advocating phased withdrawal and "redeployment" will support maintaining tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq or in the region in order to maintain and defend the gigantic U.S. embassy in downtown Baghdad; to function as a shadow government in Iraq; and to serve as a force designed to intimidate and obstruct the ability of the people of the region to exercise genuine self-determination.
This is a war for empire and the people of the United States must let the rest of the world know that it is not our war, not our empire. The United States contingent in the global movement must make clear that we stand with all those throughout the Middle East and the world who are resisting in a just struggle for liberation.
(First of two parts)
Brian Becker is the National Coordinator of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. Mara Verheyden-Hilliard is a civil rights attorney and co-founder of the Partnership for Civil Justice.

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U.S. Peace Movement Plans to "Escalate" Street Protests
The ANSWER Coalition Responds to Bush's War Speech of January 10, 2007
ANSWER Coalition Statement:
Unwilling to accept the failure of his war of aggression in Iraq, his "war of choice," Bush announced tonight a plan that will succeed only in sending thousands of Iraqis and U.S. soldiers to their graves in the next year.
What Bush is really proposing is using thousands of additional U.S. soldiers in a planned reign of terror in the streets and neighborhoods of Baghdad against those who want the U.S. to leave. Bush chose to use a euphemism about the planned reign of terror when he stated that one of the past "mistakes" of the U.S. military operation in Baghdad was that, "there were too many restrictions on the troops we did have." The blood will flow just as Bush promises but this plan will fail just as badly as every announced initiative since Bush arrogantly taunted the Iraqi resistance with his infamous "Bring em on" speech back in 2003. Bush gave the people of the United States a warning that they should expect the coming year will be "bloody and violent," with "television screens filled with images of death and suffering." He tried to innoculate himself from responsibility for this carnage although his plan makes it inevitable.
Bush's aspiration to salvage his "legacy" and his place in history isn't worth one more life. Every mother and father of a U.S. soldier, every person who has a loved one in the U.S. armed forces should make it clear that the lives of their family members are too precious to be sacrificed for such an ignoble cause.
For the last six years, Bush has provided huge tax breaks for the billionaires and multimillionaires of this country. But it will not be their children who will be sent to fight and die in Iraq. The privileged ultra-rich, Bush's real "base," are shielded from the horrors of the war.
The deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis since March 2003 (see Lancet medical journal 10/06), proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Bush's claim that his invasion was for the liberation of the Iraqi people is a complete and utter lie.
"Clearing and holding neighborhoods in Iraq" is not the duty or right of members of the U.S. military. The people who live in those neighborhoods lived in peace before the arrival of the occupation forces. The occupation is illegal and the order to stiffen the occupation is illegal too. U.S. soldiers have the right and duty to disobey illegal orders.
Neither one more Iraqi nor one more soldier should die so that the politicians, who inaugurated a criminal "pre-emptive" invasion of a country that posed zero threat to the people of the United States, can postpone the verdict of history.
For their part, the Democrats in Congress are involved in a slightly more complicated dance. They want to posture as opponents of Bush's escalation and so-called surge without taking responsibility for bringing the war to a close. They could cut funding for the war which is their exclusive Constitutional prerogative. But they will absolutely refuse to take this responsibility. They are merely posturing for the 2008 elections hoping to take advantage of the well deserved public disgust for Bush and the Iraq war.
The issue right now for the anti-war movement can not simply be opposition to a surge or an escalation: the issue is the war itself. The troops must be brought home now. As in Vietnam, that is the only solution. Those who initiated the war and who funded the war should be held accountable for one of the great crimes of the modern era.
Everything that Bush has said about the Iraq war has proved to be a lie. This was always a war for Empire in a strategic area that possesses two thirds of the world's oil supply. He proclaimed tonight that, "failure in Iraq would be a disaster for the United States." If Bush fails in Iraq the people of the United States lose nothing. It is not our Empire.
On March 17, 2007, the anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq, tens of thousands of people from around the country will descend on the Pentagon in a mass demonstration to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq Now! 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 anti-war march to the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. The message of the 1967 march was "From Protest to Resistance," and marked a turning point in the development of a countrywide mass movement.
Thousands of organizations and individuals are mobilizing for the upcoming March on the Pentagon. Organizing committees and transportation centers are being established to bring people to the March on the Pentagon.
Tomorrow, January 11, there will be emergency demonstrations in scores of cities around the country protesting Bush's planned escalation of the war in Iraq. A schedule of the demonstrations can be found by clicking here.
The March 17 demonstration will assemble at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Constitution Gardens) at 12 noon in Washington, D.C. and march to the Pentagon. Go to http://www.answercoalition.org/ for more information. There are more than 1,000 endorsers for the March on the Pentagon, including:
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney GeneralAlice Walker, Pulitzer prize winning authorCynthia McKinney, CongresswomanCindy Sheehan, co-founder Gold Star Families for Peace, authorRon Kovic, Vietnam Veteran, author, Born on the 4th of JulyMalik Rahim, Founder, Common Ground Collective, New OrleansBishop Thomas Gumbleton, Catholic Archdiocese of DetroitPaul Haggis, Director of Crash, 2005 Academy Award for Best Picture Elias Rashmawi, National Coordinator, National Council of Arab Americans (NCA)Howard Zinn, Author, A People's History of the United StatesRev. Luis Barrios, Iglesia de San Romero - UCCHeidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers GuildChaplain James Yee, former Army chaplain, Guantánamo Detention CenterMahdi Bray, Executive Director, Muslim American Society Freedom FoundationFather Roy Bourgeois, Founder, School of the Americas WatchLeonard Weinglass, Attorney for the Cuban FiveEric LeCompte, National Office, School of the Americas WatchMara Verheyden-Hilliard, Co-founder, Partnership for Civil JusticeBrian Becker, National Coordinator, ANSWER CoalitionMounzer Sleiman, TV commentator and Vice Chair, National Council of Arab AmericansBen Dupuy, Co-Director, Haiti ProgresJuan Jose Gutierrez, Executive Director, Latino Movement USACalvin Gipson, Former President, San Francisco LGBT Pride CommitteeRev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Pastor, Plymouth Congregational Church, Washington D.CKay Lucas, Director, Crawford Peace House, Crawford, TXChuck Kaufman, Co-coordinator of the Nicaragua NetworkAl Garcia, Alliance for a Just & Lasting Peace in the PhilippinesMacrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity NetworkEugene Puryear, Howard University, student leaderGloria La Riva, Coordinator, National Committee to Free the Cuban FiveCAAAV: Organizing Asian CommunitiesNodutdol for Korean Community DevelopmentKAWAN: Korean Americans Against War and NeoliberalismJustice CommitteeEd Asner, ActorShirley Knight, ActorDebra Sweet, National Coordinator, World Can't Wait -- Drive Out the Bush RegimeJennifer Harbury, Human Rights Lawyer, author United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA)Jim Lafferty, Director, National Lawyers Guild - Los AngelesIglesia de San Romero - United Church of ChristMimi Kennedy, Actor (Dharma & Greg)


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LAURA BUSH,
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