[syndicate] 3 great lies

[Joe Gray]

Ivo, you do excellent work.  Been reading your articles periodically, 
just wish more people were.



On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 09:26  PM, Ivo Skoric wrote:

> "Across Iraq, life is being improved by liberty."
>
> "Across the Middle East, people are safer because an unstable
> aggressor has been removed from power."
>
> "Across the world, nations are more secure because an ally of terror
> has fallen."
>
> To hide, by now obvious, lies about weapons of mass destruction and
> Saddam's ties to terrorist groups, no real liberty and/or life
> improvement in Iraq, no safety in the Middle East, and no change
> whatsoever in the war on terror, Bush peppered his speech, to the
> cold and unimpressed audience of the UN General Assembly, with
> everything he believed his administration wanted to do good to the
> world.
>
> "We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two
> centuries after the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and
> more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last
> strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be
> allowed to thrive in our time."
>
> In saying that, he diplomatically avoided to name the ‘last
> strongholds' of slavery, kind of like Kofi Annan made an effort not
> to give a name to ‘some states'  in the following paragraph of his
> speech:
> "But until now, it has been understood that when states go beyond
> that and decide to use force to deal with broader threats to
> international peace and security, they need the unique legitimacy
> provided by the United Nations. Now some say this understanding is no
> longer tenable, since an armed attack with weapons of mass
> destruction could be launched at any time without warning or by a
> clandestine group. Rather than wait for that to happen, they argue,
> states have the right and obligation to use force pre-emptively."
>
> Clue: there is the same answer to both puzzles.
>
> German chancellor Schroeder walked out of the UN building and talked
> to journalists on the New York streets. To contrast that, Bush was
> whisked in and out in a heavily guarded motorcade under couple of
> inches of armor. It is a sad situation that the world's greatest
> liberator cannot freely walk on the streets in his own country. It
> must be he is doing something wrong if he has to fear for his life so
> badly. People who do good are loved, and most of other people would
> not want to kill them. I bet Bush must fear for his life in New York
> city, since he starved the city, which tragic symbolism he readily
> uses in each speech, of the federal funds.
>
> Iraq has governing council, that basically serves as an advisory
> board of Iraqi exiles, hand-picked by the Pentagon, to the US
> occupation forces in Iraq. Even them, who were not elected by Iraqi
> people, but appointed by US officials, now challenge US policies in
> Iraq. They want more power for themselves, of course. And they picked
> UN as the venue to push their agenda, knowing that the US would be on
> defensive there. If I am Bremer, I ‘d deport that Chalabi guy to
> neighboring Jordan. I've heard they want him for embezzlement and
> fraud there.
>
> The reports from Iraq are also unchanged: still every day some US
> soldier or US protege gets wacked by somebody, since Americans
> basically cannot guarantee security past their compound gates. There
> is still no power, because, as Bremer said, two heavy bombings and
> twelve years of sanctions after, Saddam failed to invest in the power-
> grid. And the inspection report that is due soon, is going to bring
> grave news: even with Saddam gone, and with 7 times more inspectors
> than ever before on the ground, there are still no weapons of mass
> destruction anywhere in Iraq, not even in traces.
>
> I think Tenet should resign. His operatives had ample time to plant
> evidence for inspectors to find. CIA is obviously sabotaging this
> administration. They were much more co-operative during Kissinger
> times.
>
> And where is Osama Bin Laden? Perhaps, he sips martinis at the same
> undisclosed location with Dick Cheney and laughs at the world? Kind
> of like look what we've made them do, poor bastards.
>
> While president Bush did not explain what connection this has to
> Iraq, if any (maybe the White House will say next that Saddam
> although they can't prove his connections to terrorists, indulged in
> pedofilia?!) he said this in his UN speech:
> "The Protect Act, which I signed into law this year, makes it a crime
> for any person to enter the United States or for any citizen to
> travel abroad for the purpose of sex tourism involving children. The
> Department of Justice is actively investigating sex tour operators
> and patrons, who can face up to 30 years in prison."
>
> This ads to the US reality - of harsher economic and political
> conditions. Yes, the productivity grows, but only few benefit from
> that. The unemployment is on the rise, and the government offers only
> two options: get arrested in do slave-labor in prison, or go to some
> war and fear for your life there. To make sure that people are more
> easily put in prison, this president signed numerous Acts into Laws.
>
> The one was Patriot Act, which is entirely unpatriotic. Now there is
> Protect Act, which perhaps will not protect anybody. The substance is
> always the opposite from the name. Like those Privacy Disclaimer
> Notices that we all receive from big corporations, and in which they
> state how they can, and that they will give your non-public data to
> almost anybody that they can make profit off, and of course to the
> FBI or IRS if they ask so. But they won't give the data to your wife,
> even when you need them to, for example. Everything seems to be
> working that way: screw the little guy to protect the big
> corporation.
>
> And to make sure that some fish just don't swim through the net,
> Attorney General Aschcroft issued a decree that nets need to be made
> denser: a 7 page memo was sent to all US attorneys instructing them
> to always go for the maximum possible penalty. Turn at least the US
> in one nice, big, well controlled prison. When they are obviously
> failing to do so with Iraq.
>
> Why there is so many Democratic candidates? When any of them could
> beat Bush, anyway... They can have their mascot run, for all that
> matters. But the primary will be interesting. What surprises me more
> is that I am not seeing any Republican candidates - well - except the
> incumbent. GOP can't seriously believe that he has any chances of
> winning the elections?! Arnold should forget California and run
> national. Ah, but he is foreign born, so he can't be a US president.
> Too bad, then. Republicans are just running out of eligible cadres.
>
> OPEC meets in a couple of days. Maybe to cut production. While US
> troops are literally sitting on oil, and cursing the ungrateful
> ingrates around them, who all want to blow Yanks up.
>
> ivo
>
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