Ok, just this once...
...I will read
the War Street Journal. Rarely does one find in
its pages calls for ending war or stopping it before it
starts. So Brent
Scowcroft's column is a welcomed surprise. A former
National Security Advisor under Ford and Bush I, he believes
that there are more pressing issues at hand that trump
Saddam: war on terrorism, domestic security, etc. Perhaps
he should add: protecting civil liberties,
promoting peace and military disengagement.
Freedom
is slavery, Bush style
Hail
Furher Bush:
"I
don't want our hands tied so we cannot do the number one
job you expect, which is to protect the homeland,"
Bush said.
Oh
sure, no problem Mr. President. Hey, while we are at it
why don't we disband the annoying Congress with all its
committees and debate. You know what else, constant martial
law would really stop all those terrorists. Oh yeah, and
all these economic problems we are having could be solved
by some simple central planning ( ignore Mises' "impossibility
of calculation,"). Wow, I can't wait until you
take over Mr. President, then I will truly be safe for
terrorists!
Wipe
your.....
The
president
is arguably the most powerful man in the world, but he
cannot repeal the Constitution by fiat.
Supposedly the author
of the above forgot a certain government
official who wipes his... hands (yeah, that's it)
with the Constitution.
The
Spectacle of war
Utilizing "logic and reality" – two things warmongers
consistently ignore – Dan
McCarthy deciphers the government's propaganda war:
War itself is a technique of propaganda...As a
spectacle, nothing is better than a war for unifying the
masses behind the State, mobilizing them in service to the
State, and making the masses forget their troubles at
home.
Reminiscent of
Randolph
Bourne's famous thesis, McCarthy's quote reminds us
that we must be skeptical of the polls and Power
Points of policy makers, neocons and chicken-hawks.
WMDs, here at
home
Japan is the only
country in the world that can justifiably advocate the
disarmament of WMDs – they
have experience with them. Now it appears they have
video of the American military at its best: spreading
havoc, this
time with germ warfare. What's more, the antiwar cause
is growing in that peaceful nation, with calls
for respect of its "pacifist Constitution" and government
assurance that they will.
A War
for neocons
"It's our
country too," pleads Murray
Polner. Not if the neocons have anything to say about
it, and it appears they do. Repeat after me: Iraq
is a "threat," dirty
bombs are everywhere, the Constitution
is a relic, Arabs are bad and George Bush is intelligent.
Three cheers for Barzani
The US is
trying to show the world that those in Iraq, specifically the
Kurds in the north, want Saddam out as badly as we do, but
it ain't so. The leading Kurdish leader has refused to
meet with Iraqi opposition groups meeting in the States.
Surprise, surprise...he claimed he was upset about the US
government's "broken promises." The US?
Never!