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The goals of the Bush "empire" are to dominate the mideast, and
| thereby cement domination of the entire world. "We're an empire now", neo-con-men affably gaffed, thinking they no longer had to listen to the "quaint" Constitution they had sworn to uphold. There's no doubt that this interest in the Mideast is all about OIL and the perceived necessity of oil to run our society. Oil is where the money is, and oil is running our foreign policy as well as our domestic opposition to oil-free plug-in cars. The juvenile, half-baked idea of dominating the world and starting an "American Empire" contrary to Washington's advice will inevitably fall to the ground, like the standards of the SS and before, those of the Napoleonic legions aiming to conquer the world. Overweening greed and immorality are the hallmark of the Bush madness. The whole tedious, doleful mechanism of the neo-con-men, the empire- building, the liars and the evil people such as Bush, Cheney, Rice, Andy Card, Rumsfeld, etc., would conspire to violate our precious Constitution. And of coure, the lying neo-con-men themselves turn their backs on their sworn oath of office as they do on the hallmark of truth. Instead of fiscal responsibility, which is supposed to be the way of the party they seized (with the help of feeblemninded "born again"), we see massive debt, massive borrowing, massive loss of our manufacturing base and massive pandering to the lobbyist with the most money. Nothing is beyond these evil neo-con-men and women, no sin, no travesty, no bold lie. Torture has been instituted as a feature of US policy; the Starr Chamber, specifically outlawed in the Constitution, has been re-established; the preamble of the Declaration of Independence itself has been violated. Bush does NOT hold as self-evident that all people have certain inalienable rights: rights are limited by Bush's kangaroo courts and secret prisons throughout the world. No longer can a human be accorded the fundamental right to Liberty, if Bush or his minions decide, falsely or not, that the person is not a Citizen, and can be imprisoned without Habeas Corpus and "rendered" to foreign puppet states to be tortured. Along with our moral capital, our Bill of Rights has been shredded, our people cowed by false alarums, our nation readied to accept the traces and goads of the all-powerful state, the fascist regime, anything, any indignity, to supposedly be kept "safe". We see a formerly proud people now bowing low, submitting to fetters and bonds, because of the fear whipped up by the neo-con-men. Bush and his oil-soaked rule must end, and we must have a return to Constitutional government. Someone must stand up to the oil companies, muzzle evil Chevron, shred the oil monopoly, force them to relinquish control of the NiMH batteries and their control of oil-soaked companies like GM. Some could see, back in 2000, that Bush and his coterie of fascists were going to kill the Electric car, kill fair ballots, kill diplomacy, and devastate our finances. An election as evil as that of 1968, when the Nixon madness caused millions of unneeded deaths in Cambodia and Viet Nam, and crooks entered the heart of government. There is one politician who, in 2002, saw this coming, saw the evil neo-con-men and their filthy machinery of oppression even before they set it up. Some saw, Obama being one, that the endless war that Bush, like all dictators, needs to perpetuate his rule was vain and futile, an excuse for emergency rule and a "dumb war": ----------------------------- Remarks of Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama Against Going to War with Iraq October 2, 2002 Good afternoon. Let me begin by saying that although this has been billed as an anti-war rally, I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest in history, and yet it was only through the crucible of the sword, the sacrifice of multitudes, that we could begin to perfect this union, and drive the scourge of slavery from our soil. I don't oppose all wars. My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton's army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain. I don't oppose all wars. After September 11th, after witnessing the carnage and destruction, the dust and the tears, I supported this administration's pledge to hunt down and root out those who would slaughter innocents in the name of intolerance, and I would willingly take up arms myself to prevent such tragedy from happening again. I don't oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne. What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income - to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the President today. You want a fight, President Bush? Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings. You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to make sure that the UN inspectors can do their work, and that we vigorously enforce a non-proliferation treaty, and that former enemies and current allies like Russia safeguard and ultimately eliminate their stores of nuclear material, and that nations like Pakistan and India never use the terrible weapons already in their possession, and that the arms merchants in our own country stop feeding the countless wars that rage across the globe. You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells. You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil, through an energy policy that doesn't simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil. Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair. The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not -- we will not -- travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain. ---------------------------- |
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