Taking
pride in war
Ignoring
the literary world, the President's real focus has been
eloquently uncovered
by Eric Margolis:
George Bush, who takes pride in not reading books, and
calls Greeks "Grecians," is charging like a
Texas bull into the trap set for him by both bin Laden
and Gen. Sharon.
Maybe right before a war begins, Bush's linguistic ramblings
will call war "peace." Or perhaps his own version
of the Ministry
of Truth will cut the words peace, harmony, freedom,
liberty and rights out of every publication. There goes
From the Front.
Friends, now enemies
Only
the naive think that US foreign policy is consistent
and principled. Bill
Barnwell explains that Iraq's use of chemical weapons
was fine so long as it maintained the balance of power
in the oil world:
But the most explosive charge in the Times article is
that the U.S was well aware of the fact that Iraq was
using chemical weapons against Iran and did not change
its support for Hussein.
Currently,
Bush, neocons and other war hawks hate Saddam because
he has WMDs. Barnwell insists that this "is nothing
more than a convenient excuse to go to war" to protect,
what else - oil.
No arms for you, says Blair
Tony
Blair has stated that Britain
will no longer export arms to Israel - so long as
they occupy Palestinian territories and kill civilians.
Don't worry Israel, you will have plenty of ammo for your
"terrorist hunts." The US
will take up the already enormous slack:
...from
1949-2001 the U.S. has given Israel a total of $94,966,300,000.
And do they need those high caliber bullets and ejection
seats from Britain! Especially with all those sharp rocks
being thrown at them by Palestinian children....
Safety
before freedom???
Is
this America? The head of the FBI's counterterrorism division
insists that Americans are worrying to much about freedom
- we
have "short attention spans."
Watson said that terrorists seek to exploit the weaknesses
inherent in a free society.
What are those weaknesses Mr. Watson? It appeared that
the "weaknesses" that they "exploited"
on 9/11 were military interventions, entangling alliances
and intrusive foreign policy, which angered them to the
point of kamikaze suicide. His "security inconveniences"
(read Patriot Act) are much more dangerous than any crazed
terrorist.
Exempt from the Constitution
This is John Ashcroft's intention for Department
of Injustice.
But the secret court, itself bordering on being unconstitutional,
finally stopped some of his measures. Considering
[t]his court has never rejected an application for
surveillance despite more than 1,000 such applications
each year,
it
is odd that Ashcroft was scolded.
Wonder how it feels to have the Constitution slap you
in the face....
