I listened to Bush's press conference today on NPR, and I'm offering some talking points. I've been watching a number of issues rather closely, and I'm not going to give links because I'm going to comment on some things that have fairly extensive documentation.
First, the war in Iraq.
The president, confronted with the popular support for the Democratic position on the war, retorted that the American people do not want the troops left out on the battlefield without supplies to carry on the war.
He's right about that, BUT THAT is not what the Democrats are proposing.
No, Mr. President, the American people do not want YOU to throw a tantrum and put our troops in danger to make a political point that underscores YOUR disagreement with what the majority of the peoplewant, in terms of ending the war.. The American people do not want YOU to stubbornly insist on defying the interests of the nation in favor of the war profiteers.
The American people would prefer that you act like a reasonable ADULT, and realize that the policy of this nation with regard to the war, IS TO END IT, and that YOU should be taking the appropriate actions to END our involvement in Iraq, INSTEAD of your stubborn insistence on creating a colonial client state in Iraq.
Second, the "war on terrorism."
It has become blatantly obvious to the majority of the people that your continued insistence that we face a global, intractactable foe with the resources of an alliance of nation states IS A FRAUD.
Al-queda is a small group of fanatics, who could be EASILY defeated, arrested and marginalized, if the president would cease and desist pursuing policies that are counterproductive and are creating MORE ENEMIES. The president is consistently repeating a false narrative that accords Islamic fundamentalism a global status of importance that it does not deserve.
The president's repeated claims that al-queda would "take over Iraq" if the occupation were ended is FALSE. There is NO EVIDENCE that this strawman excuse for keeping Iraq occupied would manifest if the occupation were ended. The president also claims that the occupation is preventing Iraq from traveling to that country and setting up shop there, while he also maintains the contradictory claim that Al-queda, IS IN FACT, traveling to Iraq and setting up shop there. There is ample evidence that the government of Iraq and BOTH sects (Sunni and Shia) are taking action to drive al-queda out of Iraq EVEN NOW, and would continue to do so if the occupation were ended.
The president's FAILURE to deal with al-queda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and with it's funding from SAUDI ARABIA, is the reason that al-queda still exists. Consistent with the Administration's absurd counterproductive policies to create more enemies, al-queda is now being funded by the Bush Administration, and for the purpose that has intensified the sectarian conflict in Iraq. The effort by Dick Cheney to fund al-queda to fight Shiite militias, is in fact, a policy to exacerbate the civil war.
I submit that Bush, Cheney, Hadley, Rice, Wolfowitz, Bremer and the rest of the 33 current and former officials who are the Neocon cabal, are NOT attempting to "win" any struggle against terrorist threats, but are in fact in the business of intensifying that threat, and marketing that threat, to run a multi-billion dollar protection racket. We can no longer accept the false narrative that consistent incompetence with regard to every aspect of war policy from beginning to end is simply incompetence. It is not incompetence. It is treason.
Let us bring the charges of treason and let those accused try to argue that they have been consistently incompetent in a manner that PROFITS them and their accomplices consistently, and consistently places profit over the interests of national security.
Third, The Iran War Plan.
The Bush Administration has deliberately planned for war with Iran, for several years. Those actual plans have been relentlessly moved forward and each obstacle to the pursuit of war has been turned aside with aggressive actions to overcome those obstacles. When faced with opposition to war with Iran from advisors, allies, diplomats, and legislators, the decisions were made to push ahead with plans for war. When senior military personnel resigned rather than carry out the war plan, military personnel were sought out to replace them, so that plans for war could go forward.
Faced with increased scrutiny by the intelligence community over the proposed use of "false flag" attacks to provide a justification for war, targets were changed. First American cities were planned as the targets. Scrutiny of that plan led to changing the target to Israeli cities. Scrutiny of that plan led changing the target to American troops in Iraq, and use of Administration-payrolled terrorists to carry out this false flag. As it stands today, there are indications that the intermediaries (The Saudis) have refused to cooperate in this diabolical and traitorous scheme.
But we will know soon. Within days, in fact. The DATE for the start of hostilities was leaked to the press last week, and it was to have been Good Friday, so the false flag "justification" would have to come this week to accomodate that war plan. The last word received, is that the Good Friday attack has been scrubbed. Given all of the time and effort invested, I find it hard to believe that the war plan has been abandoned.
The LIAR, Bush, has claimed that Iran is pursuing a path that will hurt them economically. In fact, it is the plan by Iran to sell nuclear fuel on the international market that is the focus of Dick Cheney's sociopathic obsession with attacking Iran's nuclear fuel industry with nuclear weapons. Dick Cheney wants the Chinese nuclear fuel market for his nuclear industry cronies, and he is willing to kill a million people, LITERALLY, to see it through.
On all three of these issues, the common denominator is murderous and sadistic greed. Devoid of any moral or legal restraint, this small group of treasonous racketeers have betrayed the American people, the United Nations, and the human race.
The Iraq War is a Crime Against Peace. It is a war fought for empire. The justifications given for waging it were false reasons, given under the doctrine of pre-emptive warfare. Crime Against Peace is the War Crime of all war crimes. The Nazis gave FALSE PRETEXTS for the wars they initiated, under the doctrine of pre-emptive warfare. They were judged guilty of this crime, and they were sentenced to be executed for it, in addition to their other crimes, which we call the holocaust. The Nazis' Crime Against Peace was the conflict that was used to further all of their other crimes.
And what do we see as a result of the Iraq war, and the counterproductive policies that the Neocons pretend are for the purpose of addressing the threat from terrorism? We see policies to commit other war crimes, including illegal detentions, show trials, ghosting prisoners, establishing secret prisons, and the use of rape, torture, and murder to terrorize people all over the world and incite hatred and foster radicalism in it's wake. WHY? More enemies to fight, and more money in the pockets of those pretending to fight them.
Finally, the true intent of this authoritarian conspiracy, is shown in example after example in their conduct of domestic affairs. Brazen defiance of laws intended to curtail constitutional abuses of power. Instituting the serial and mass commission of felonies by law enforcement officers, as policy. Pretending that edicts written by the president supercede laws passed by Congress and decisions made by courts. Suspending the most important writ of the constitution, without which, none of our rights are safeguarded. Preparing mass detention centers. Preparing for the imposition of martial law with policies regarding the authority over the National Guard.
This president and his cabal of 33 officials, and their enablers in government office, including some legislators, has declared war on the American people. If he has no qualms about paying the very organization that attacked us on 9/11 to further his mad designs to initiate a war against a UN member using nuclear weapons, then what will he hesitate to do?
To those who scold me for comparing him to Hitler: He has made preparations like those Hitler made before plunging the world into war and initiating a heinous genocide. Peruse, if you will, the anti-muslim literature of his supporters, and compare it to the literature circulated regarding the "Jewish menace" in the 1930s.
In later days, do not say you didn't know!