Letters to the Editor
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Look who's missing
Even though they were warned by Berger and Clarke, even two weeks after 9/11 when everyone knew Al Qaeda was responsible, Afghanistan was still not on their radar. They would soon be claiming that they had taken the threat of Al Qaeda seriously all along, even as they struggled to settle on a pronunciation. But they never really did, illustrated by the perfunctory Afghan campaign.
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W. Bush voters were not ready to hear it until..
Until around the last election, when the Democrats advanced, when that Iraq Commission issued its report. Nobody said it forcefully enough at that time. And part of that victory leaked away.
Just this week, had a reiteration of Al Gonzalez's and G.W. Bush's brutal obsession with torture. A reiteration of this stuff now may sink in more than it did before.
The problem has been that people such as Gen Clark have said things, and been dismissed. Apparently, they needed to keep on saying things, and get right in Bush's face, and stay there.
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Imperialism
Many Americans do not want to accept this truth about the leaders of this government. This administration is imperialistic and it is not the first. It won't be the last until we all are honest about the cost and incorrectness of US imperialism. Russians have face the failure of communism. Japan has faced the failure of Emperor worship. Great Britain has recognized the failure of imperialism honestly.
If we faced this 300-pound gorilla and conquered it, we could solve other problems; health care, balance of payments, and industrial strength. It is the expense of empire is bankrupting our economy and our march toward justice. We need to speak out every time. This is not an easy fight.
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January 20, 2009
Sigh. Can't get here fast enough.
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Thanks
for amplifying this part of Clark's book. The book is short and certainly worth reading and this part was particularly enlightening.
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Trapped In Quicksand and Flypaper in Iraq.
General Clark should not have been surprised when hearing of these aggressive plans to put the U.S. on the road to engaging in a perpetual war. When the Neocons wrote a letter to Bill Clinton establishing "The New American Century" this was the modern equivalent of Hitler's "Mein Kampf." Though Clinton did not completely act upon this he did collude in their resolution passed by congress to embark on a policy of regime change in Iraq. The Neocons had realized their agenda could not be fulfilled until we suffered a catastrophic event such as when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. That event happened on Sept. 11, 2001; their ship had come in. We now hear the constant refrain that after invading and devestating that ancient Messopotamian nation we cannot leave because sectarian strife would soon result. Of course, they knew that as did Dick Cheney when he justified the elder George Bush's decision to not completely occupy Iraq and evict Saddam Hussein becausse he presciently predicted what we are now seeing over there after toppling and hanging Saddam and occupying that distraught nation. Thus it could be said the Neocons and their agenda has been the only success achieved by this fiasco the Bush administation entangled itself into. They have their permanent war. Of course, as the saying goes, "The best laid plans of rats and men often go awry" and what has happened since their "success" is something which we will have to wait and see.
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We don't need retired generals...
to find all this out. During the post-9/11, pre-war call-to-arms, all one had to do was google the members of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee and read their essays and speeches and see who they worked for and to whom they gave those speeches. All through the '80s and '90s they wrote about oil and Israel. It's by no means a "secret strategy."
Credit to Clark, though, for attempting to get the message out for so long. I would vote Edwards/Clark in a heartbeat.
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Gadarene Swine
We are jumping off a cliff overlooking the ocean led by a bunch of crazies and we have not called a halt to it, cast out the demons and dusted ourselves off.
If the Neocons are so determined to destroy the world, the rest of us need to cut them off and we need to destroy the base of their power. Unfortunately, that is now the Presidency and Vice-Presidency. Congress has the power to impeach and I am wondering where their nerve went.
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Wesley Clark's claims
The Chicken Hawk right wing-nut faction of "crazies" will likely jump all over the General for this...That's good. It's better they pick on someone their own size than on kids without health insurance!
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In a perfect world...
We would have a Bayh/Clark ticket from the Democrats.....it doesn't really matter which order. One has the experience and pragmatism to clean up the economic mess of 20 years of trickle-down, supply-side economic nonsense. The other has the experience on the ground, not to mention years of war college experience, to restore America's reputation in the international community.
Instead, we'll get some kind of Clinton/Obama/Edwards ticket...three politicians that have shown little if any leadership, and in the case of Edwards and Obama, have little voting record to show us where they exactly stand.
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9/11
I think this once again raises the issue of the Bush administration's facilitation of the 9/11 attacks.
If the neocons had a plan to conquer the Middle East within a finite time window, then they had to also have a plan for starting a war, that is, for fabricating a rationale.
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the 3 Stooges take over the world?
So this has been around for years -A widely known public figure - Wesley Clark has not only spoken about it but written about it in a book , yet Gen Clark walks arounds,socializing and politicizing with the elite ,apparently in no fear of any kind of retaliation( plutonium poisoning etc).
This seems to indicate that the Neocons expect no real resistence to their plans ( electoral fraud or great propoganda both already in wide use) or that they have already decided some way to deal with resistence ,if any from the domestic populace (Note -our prisons are overcrowded so where would they store large numbers and the National Guard is pretty much incapacitated overseas.) or from the most strictly religious Moslem regimes ( nuclear Pakistan and the Saudis with our oil supply).
Obviously they'd have to plan to go nuclear or advanced missles but they still couldn't control the populations with ground troops.It may have been a wish list at some point and I don't put attempting Iran past them but comeon' they just don't have the organizational skills to even pull off a toothless country like Iraq.