Decider had decided the next ill-conceived plan for Iraq. We are in a box, there are no good options to stop this lunatic. Democrats should do the right thing and hold this administration accountable for all his actions, then and now. Iraq war should be front and center for the next two years.
Why we never learn from the Vietnam debacle, USA militarism always brings no good to its average citizens and the world, it only enriches a tiny group of individuals.
This article from Scoop dissects the problem we have, we are addicted to War.
From the article:
Americans should be asking themselves WHY they're being advised that they cannot feel safe after they've made grossly disproportionate investments, by global standards, in what is by far the world's largest military? What do these exorbitantly expensive forces exist to do? Could it be that war's tangible rewards are so much greater for militarists than they are for the average citizen that the militarists are exaggerating the need for a "Global War On Terror" merely to justify their empire?
The Democrat majority in the congress should ask the right question for the Homeland Security. We invest in this huge bureaucracy, where the money goes? Does it make us safer? How come we still cannot examine more container boxes through the Oakland port? How come DC and New York won't get their fair share of security money? We are invested in our safety, but based on what happens, I don't think we are safer than before 9/11. Serious questions have to ba asked and people has to be help accountable for money spent.
According to UCSD Emeritus Professor of International Relations Chalmers Johnson, this vast military empire constitutes proof that the "Unites States prefers to deal with other nations through the use or the threat of force rather than through negotiations, commerce, or cultural interaction."
Dr. Johnson correctly concludes that American power has shifted from the people to the Pentagon with such dramatic finality that "a revolution would be required to bring the Pentagon back under democratic control."
In the Sundays Fox News, one of the commentator said, as up now , for Iraq, military intervention first than political solution follows. He is so wrong on this. With the gun hold Decider, and the defense complex so entranched in the Pentagon, it does need a revolution to bring the Pentagon back under democratic control.
Finally, GWB stands to inherit a multimillion dollar portion of whatever his father reaps through his consultations with, and investments in, CG. That might explain why GWB was so adamant both that his illegal elective war against Iraq MUST commence in March 2003, and that the estate tax MUST be repealed (which his party did in April 2005). Now when Poppy Bush dies, he can receive 100% of that blood-soaked windfall inheritance.
Are you feeling it, do you smell something really corrupted in here.
Furthermore, these same major defense contractors - the Carlyle Group, Bechtel, Halliburton, and their subsidiaries - have donated millions to the Republican Party and the Bush-Cheney campaign. Additionally, they paid for extravagant parties at the 2004 political conventions and the 2005 presidential inauguration. In short, war is a lucrative business that pays the elite war-profiteers and the Washington bribe-ocrats handsomely, while it impoverishes the taxpayers, drains the federal coffers, decimates the target nations, and kills the combatants and their innocent victims hideously.
War-profiteers are the worst, I hope full scale investigations to these companies. Democrats should play hardball with these bunch of profiteers.
USA is so deeply entranched, we may need a generation to alter this militaristic path.