Letters to the Editor
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he's really nuts and we have allowed this
the sad fact is that our unelected simple-minded leader who was installed by the Supreme Court, is a madman. The same imaginary being that told that poor woman to drown her five (or was it four) children is the same imaginary being who is telling our leader to create the final conflagration..so that some people can be raputred off to some perfect place. And we are just allowing all this to happen. It's our own fault.
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No Way to Clean Up This Mess
From the moment that the United States invaded Iraq I have maintained that President Bush was creating a mess that could not be cleaned up. Quite frankly, I thought that was obvious -- imagine my shock that this is a considered a new idea to many people.
If it really is true that critics of the war are only now beginning to consider this idea, then they -- along with President Bush -- have been in denial. Not as acutely as President Bush, but in denial nonetheless.
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faith and oil
The invasion of Iraq has nothing to do with faith. It was about oil and establishing military bases to get control of oil. That's why the U.S. military is creating 10 bases in Iraq. It's why they created the base at Diego Garcia. It's why they won't get out of Iraq. People who think the Iraq war was about winning an actual war find the Bush administation's attitude to the voters disdain for the war completely baffling but this is all part of a much bigger plan.The neo con/Pentagon plan to militarize and control the Middle East, both to protect Israel and to control the oil. Of course the plan to get rid of Saddam Hussein was part of it and plans to remove him began much earlier, in the 1990's but that was never the main game. And now these fools are behaving in a completely irresponsible way by flooding the Middle East with weapons, in particular weapons for the Saudis, who everyone believes are funding militias in Iraq that are killing Americans every single day. Clearly there's a hidden agenda if America is supplying weaons to a country that is supporting its enemy. It also has to be remembered that most of the reputed 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and now, bizarrely, that country will score a weapons bonanza. Anyone who really wants to understand what's going on only has to read the description of Dick Clark's surreal conversation with George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks in which Bush repeatedly told him to 'look again' at the intelligence and find a way to connect the attacks with Saddam Hussein. Clark's protest, 'But Mr President Al Qaeda did this' fell on deaf ears. The President even grew 'testy' according to Clark. In the final analysis Bush and the neo cons and the Pentagon don't give a damn about the truth. For them the truth is whatever will fly that day and in the background, secretly and relentlessly, they pursue their dangerous and deluded goals with no accountablility and no 'higher authority' to restrain them. Anyone who thinks these people respect God hasn't been paying attention. I recently saw a program on renewable energy in Portugual, of all places, and a man who makes solar barbeques and ovens said, 'God gave the Arabs the oil but he gave us the sun, the wind and the waves'. Portugual is in a frenzy of activity on the renewal energy front. What a pity that message hasn't penetrated the soundproof walls of the Pentagon and the CIA and turned these cold warriors, lost in deja vu and triumphalism, away from their apocalyptic plans.
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Love ya, Gary, but...
Nothing new in this article. Not one word I haven't heard, read, seen, whatever, a dozen million times. The only thing worth talking about now is the future, how we're going to stop the war, how we're going to deal with the consequences of what Bush has done. He didn't plan, but we can plan. We can talk about plans for different scenarios and send them to our legislators for their edification. We can send them in letters to editors. We can get them out there any way we can. And it may well be that that there is no workable plan; in that case, we need to militate as strongly as we can for simply getting out and taking the black eye that comes with having caused the whole fiasco. But talking about how sick and crazy and stupid Bush was and is gets us nowhere at this point in time.
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Your premise is faulty
Consider Alexander, Genghiz Khan, and the United States Army in World War II (cf. "There's A War To Be Won", by Geoffrey Perret).
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shut up
"We can talk about plans for different scenarios and send them to our legislators for their edification."
you are nothing but a grain of salt in the vast sea of power politics - you affect nothing.
Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria will influence our "fate" in Iraq, not a bunch of pissed of Americans.
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if Iran were to develop a nuclear weapon
and nuke Israel, would you place the blame on the 70 million Iranians.
No. This is Salon, it's the Jews own fault. Similarly If Iraqis are killing Americans, we can't blame them. It's the dead victims fault for raising the ire of Arabs.
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Iraqis have the RIGHT to kill American soldiers...
for whatever reason. Did we ask them if they wanted to be liberated? Regardless, if a foreign power came to the US to "liberate" us I'm pretty sure there would be an insurgency here.
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American soldiers have killed between 25,000-100,000 Iraqis
So far only 3700 US soldiers have been killed (and according to neo-cons that's not enough, for we need to "stay the course").
Things aren't fair and balanced in Iraq.
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Re: The Elephant in the Room
Having faith and reason is not mutually exclusive. Ghandi is a good example.
Bush's loss of reason did not occur on that dark day when he was announced as winning the election (the first dark day, that is). The author of that statement is giving him the benefit of HAVING reason. He is not the driving force behind the war. He is the mouthpiece. Look a bit deeper beneath the layers - follow the money. Who is profiting.
In response to 'Small Town Hick'. I appreciate your question: 'Could Bush's ultimate aim be the Apocalypse?'
Yes - he believes his source, not the facts. Bush doesn't have the brainpower to be the Anti-Christ. He is, however, stupid enough to allow his ego to make his decisions. What better way to manipulate a situation than appeal to a idiot that they are doing 'God's work' and that his praises will be hailed by God and his Host.
Save us from God's prideful followers and our idiot prideful president.