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R.Ashen

Published Letters: 194     Editor's Choice: 8

  • amidst the blindness a canary warning not seen or heeded...

    [Read the article: Bush's delusions die in Gaza]
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    Anyone who fails to see or refuses to see that what is taking place in Gaza to the Arab Palestinians is abusive of most take away post WW2 Nazi indictments and condemnations is surely morally bankrupt.

    Israel has a record in/with Gaza that when honestly looked at and truly seen for what it is does violate any precept or concept of rightful political position or inherent validity.

    Clearly the Gazans are being given no reason to do anything other than what they now are doing. How could they when upon having elections which endorse what Israel does not like or desire those election results are abused,ignored and castrated by Israel.

    One perhaps could sincerely hope or wish the Americans would stop Israel from doing what it does every day in Gaza just on the merits of fairplay and decency. Nevermind human rights and any notion of human compassion or mercy.

    But then again such hopes or wishes likely are doomed when one looks at how the Americans treated Native Americans in the creation of the United States.

    Egypt should do what Israel refuses to do. This surely would cast Egypt in a light that would fully outline how wrong and brutal Israel is with Gazan lives and hopes for better days.

    Indeed when one sees how truthful it is to describe this Gazan act as a jailbreak one should also fully define who the jailers are.

    Israel trades on untruths and deceptions in and over Gaza in ways that beggars the question--Have the Israelis no decency?

    The Americans run with self-deception and lies regarding what they do in West Asia these days that surely rival any of what Hitler and his Nazi war criminals pronounced as being rightful while they plunged the world into a conquest maelstrom.

    The Americans and Israelis are the Nazis in West Asia today. Who is attacking and bombing who? Truthfully,honestly-- who is?

    Sadly it all will likely get much,much worse before it ever starts to get any better.

    Consider Gaza the coal mine canary amongst us today.

  • With a choice between Hillary Clinton and John McCain likely coming up disbanding may as well happen...

    [Read the article: What "bipartisanship" in Washington means]
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    Well...disbanding would be a genuine admission of not being relevant to be sure. That much brutal honesty would also not be very likely in this early 21st century WashingtonDC.

    The Soviets practiced and the Chinese still do practice the illusion of "national concensus" well enough. We Americans may as well submit to that same hollow hokum. Joey Lieberman says so. The DC GOPers surely see things that way. Harry Reid seems pretty content with it.

    We do know the American Militarists,Corporatists and Obscenely Wealthy Parties are doing well in America today and in the current primary elections. It is certain the IRS plan Huckabee is promoting will go nowhere. A national healthcare plan similar to what the Congress awards itself being put in place for all Americans is surely a political/social equity mirage. McCain is fully engaged with the American Warmonger/Pentagon Party.

    Hillary is very likely in full parley with the AWPP as well.

    We Americans are told that we cannot afford Social Security as it is now known in America. We are told a national healthcare plan for all Americans is not possible. We are told we must accept the top 5% of Americans raking in wealth,economic payouts and plunder because capitalism is equivalent with democracy and the American Way.

    Yet WashingtonDC spends plenty on the Pentagon and then too finds more money for American Militarism year in and year out.

    We are told over and over how these amounts must increase and increase more still.

    It is likely John McCain will follow G.W.Bush into the WH in Jan.2009. The big money players,militarists and warmongers likely already positioning/putting that outcome in motion.Iraq will not be given up easily and any talk of doing so or downsizing American corporate welfare or militarism will be sidelined. How ruthless this becomes a matter of how real the threat becomes. The Pentagon will not submit lightly. Nor will the American arms merchants and makers. Nor will the corporate world accept a world where American funded garrisoning does not exist to protect the money and payout gambits.

    There will be no justice for the Bush/Cheney regime. There will be more war,more war profiteering and corporate welfare coming.

    The DC DEMS may as well disband and join up with the GOPers in light/view of how they have caved in repeatedly during 2007 and appear set to do so during 2008.

    Mac is Back!..."bomb,bomb,bomb Iran" is the new "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"...

    Stopping the money is the most effective/sure way to bring WashDC to heel.

    But that surely remains a frayed and unlikely to be used leash.

    ...the DC DEMS may as well disband. Just go with the American Way Party...which is pretty much the American Money/War/Hegemon Party.