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Saturday January 03, 04 07:58 AM - W lies and the losers die. Recently I read the June 27th, 2003 article, “I Never Promised You A Ruse Garden” A Letter From Michael Moore To George W. Bush. It gives me courage that one of the most influential, articulate US liberal thinkers agrees with that of the common folk. After grousing about W dressing up for his “Mission Accomplished” photo-op, and assuming that the “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”, highest rank was that of Lieutenant, Mr. Moore wrote, “So, Lieutenant, I was wondering, would you do me a favor? Could you PLEASE do better than a ROSE BUSH? I saw the guy on TV yesterday that your boys found, the Iraqi who said he had "planted" some nuclear plans in his "back yard" in Baghdad -- 12 years ago -- "under a rose bush." Woo boy. That's a good one. Do you really think we are as dumb as we look? I know our fascination with "American Idol" and Scott Peterson may make us Americans look a little light in the head, but when it comes to lying to us to lead us into war, we really do demand a bit more of an EFFORT and a FOLLOW-THROUGH. You see, George, it's not the lying and the doctoring of intelligence that has me all upset. It's that you've had control of Iraq for over two months now -- and you couldn't even find the time to plant just a few nukes or vats of nerve gas and at least make it LOOK like you weren't lying to us. You see, by not faking some evidence of weapons of mass destruction, it shows that you thought no one would mind if it turned out you made everything up. A different kind of president, who believes that the American public would be outraged if they ever found out the truth, would go to great lengths to cover up his subterfuge.” Back on October 6h 2003, an article, “You can’t stop ripping of the US--all we ask is that you please protect our troops”, makes the point that, ““We all have our dark side to say the least, but dealing in death is the nature of the beast”! Who, except for the aging ex-hippies, knows that song lyric? Pink Floyd’s “Dogs of War” being unleashed by their silent transfers in marbled halls. Well Dubya, the Flim-Flam man--merchant of death, uses it as his credo. Once the wolfish Dubya acquired his first taste of blood, it became an irresistible appetite. He has slowly understood that you can good profits in ripping off US suckers, but you get your biggest bonanzas by raping and pillaging oil rich countries. That a host of our fine US boys and girls die in combat is a shame, but getting the cream off the top will require some sacrifice. Besides, we must show our enemies that the US won’t run away from a confrontation at the first little problem. The PNAC boys say we must be tough and stay no matter what the cost.” Whoever wrote this tripe, a b. connors--what a nom de plume, is a nobody who can write whatever mess he wants, unlike an established personage such as Michael Moore. This nondescript guy furthered Mr. Moore’s theme with a scathing attack at the duplicity of W as exhibited in the “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, “What was his tremendous photo-op on the USS Lincoln, with “Mission Accomplished” behind him other than a chance for him to act as the mighty, Commander-in-Chief? For the love of all that is good and decent in the world, Bush who proudly struts around as being concerned for the military, is going to look out for our youth in the Armed Services, isn’t he? His words don’t match his actions. I can hear the GOP operatives saying, “We have to spend a lot of money to make sure our troops have the best of everything to fight the “everlasting war against terrorism.” It would be one thing if that was true, but it is not. Since our dear troops aren’t in the top 1%, Dubya isn’t going waste his blood soaked booty, on adequate military equipment and processes on them. So what if through his idiotic actions Dubya has forced their lives to be on the line. For Dubya you either have the secret membership card, a big, fat wallet, or you are cannon fodder. In general, the "support our troops" crowd draws the line when that support might actually cost something. The usually conservative Army Times has run blistering editorials on this subject. Its June 30 blast, titled "Nothing but Lip Service," begins: "In recent months, President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress have missed no opportunity to heap richly deserved praise on the military. But talk is cheap — and getting cheaper by the day, judging from the nickel-and-dime treatment the troops are getting lately." There's also another element in the Iraq logistical snafu: privatization. The U.S. military has shifted many tasks traditionally performed by soldiers into the hands of such private contractors as Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary. The Iraq war and its aftermath gave this privatized system its first major test in combat — and the system failed. According to the Newhouse News Service, "U.S. troops in Iraq suffered through months of unnecessarily poor living conditions because some civilian contractors hired by the Army for logistics support failed to show up." Not surprisingly, civilian contractors — and their insurance companies — get spooked by war zones. In Iraq, reports The Baltimore Sun, "the Bush administration continues to use American corporations to perform work that United Nations agencies and nonprofit aid groups can do more cheaply." Both articles are disgusted with the laziness of W’s and Rove’s lies, sort of like Al Franken in his book “Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”. Let’s tally it up. Three progressive thinkers are appalled at the international policies of W, particularly in Iraq. Anything that a GOP president would these liberals would hate, so can we get an objective source? How about people in the hell that W has made? This holiday season I didn’t hear about any catastrophes in Iraq. I guess W is winning the war and all of those dolts who are on him about the “Mission Accomplished” fiasco will soon be eating crow. WRONG! An article by Al-Bawaba.comwww.albawaba.com of January 02, 2004, “One US soldier killed as Iraqi foreign fighter smuggler captured”, suggests that we are still losing US soldiers in Iraq, particularly in the Baghdad area. This quote, “U.S. military helicopter crashed west of Baghdad on Friday, killing one soldier and injuring another, the U.S. military said. The crash of the OH-58 Kiowa helicopter near the town of Fallujah was under investigation, the military said, according to The AP.” Everywhere else in Iraq they are greeting us as liberators. WRONG! Another article by Al-Bawaba.comwww.albawaba.com of December 31, 2003, “US soldier dies, blast kills Iraqi boy as police shoot dead two protesters in Kirkuk“, might be more troubling in that in this area, the Iraqi Kurdish are trying to separate from the rest of Iraq. This quote, “Hundreds of Arabs and Turkmen began protesting Wednesday morning to demand that Kirkuk remain under a central Iraqi government and not be incorporated into any proposed Kurdish federation. "Kirkuk is an Iraqi city!" protesters shouted. "Down with federalism." Some Kurds in Kirkuk have been calling for the city to become part of an autonomous Kurdistan.” This is a situation that intelligence agencies feared would happen. Having an autonomous Kurdish in Iraq would tend to destabilize the entire region. The odds are that Turkey will have to massacre Iraqi Kurds, as they have done throughout the earlier Bush administration, because they can’t allow the Kurdish segment in Turkey to dream of autonomy. Add the Kurdish problem with the Sunni problem, and you have a volatile mess. The Iraqi SCIRI is currently coalescing with their Iranian brethren, and this tinderbox of a country, is ready to explode. Back in the first Bush Iraq War, 41 didn’t go after Hussein because his advisors, who are now the PNAC crew, knew that the entire Middle East could destabilize without a violent thug, Hussein, to keep Iraq stable. Why then would the PNAC boys go ahead with this policy now? As Mr. Moore and Mr. Franken suggest, they realize that the US is their toy. The red staters are too ignorant to pay attention to international affairs, and since the GOP controls Congress, 43 can’t get impeached. In England, Dr. Wright, the Bishop of Durham said he did not think Blair and President George W. Bush had the credibility to deal with the problems in Iraq. "For Bush and Blair to go into Iraq together was like a bunch of white vigilantes going into Brixton to stop drug-dealing," he told the Independent. On his part, former English Foreign Secretary Cook warned the British leader he might never win back public trust after the Iraq war. Blair had tried to turn that "innocuous" finding into a threat when everyone in the UK could see Saddam had not had weapons of mass destruction, Cook argued. "It really is time that the Prime Minister accepted that himself," Cook told BBC Radio 4's Today program. "It is undignified for the Prime Minister to continue to insist he was right when everyone can see he was wrong," he added. Foreign leaders, the Bishop of English Durham religious spokesperson, and US liberal thinkers agree that 43 has lied. In England, the hatred for Blair is palpable. In the good old US of A our red staters doze. This aforementioned, b. connors bloke, ends up with, “You red staters, none of you are the Binkys and Chips in his blue-blooded secret club. If you vote for him you are voting against your own self-interests. Frankly, if the US wasn’t the chief world power, Dubya wouldn’t be considering how he can get re-elected. He would be fighting off charges of being a mass murdered as Blair currently is.” Alf landon04

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