[syndicate] Re: 3 great lies

[astr ëe galbiatta]

yes indeed,
i've been reading too since long,
and appreciate these pretty acute, serene, ironic, biting & clever views !
thanks

> 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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