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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-29-08 06:27 AM
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Black Hole in Bush's Brain
Black Hole in Bush's Brain
By Peter Chamberlin

28/04/08 "ICH " -- Judging from the campaign rhetoric coming out of both camps, whoever wins the Oval Office will be inclined to continue the failed military policies in Iraq and to pursue a confrontation with Iran. Apparently it does not matter to either party what will follow those actions, or what these disastrous policies have produced as they played-out in Iraq and Afghanistan. It does not matter who gets elected, whether it is "bomb, bomb Iran" McCain, or "obliterate/massive retaliation" Clinton, nothing will change.

American researcher Suzanne Maloney spells out the results of the "successfully" surging American war on Iraq:

"Of the many American illusions and delusions surrounding this war, the Administration's calculations with respect to Iran were among the most wildly off base. Instead of generating a liberal, secular democracy whose reverberations would drive out Iran's clerical oligarchs, the disastrous Bush policies fostered a sectarian Iraq that has helped empower Iranian hardliners. Rather than serving as an anchor for a new era of stability and American preeminence in the Persian Gulf, the new Iraq represents a strategic black hole, bleeding Washington of military resources and political influence while extending Iran's primacy among its neighbors." http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0321_iraq_maloney.aspx

In spite of the problems these policies have created for us and the world (including the deadly fuel inflation ignited by the chaos), and the devastating human toll taken so far, the Cheney wing of the co-presidency continues to pursue every possible avenue for expanding the failed war into a regional conflagration, which could only be settled with nuclear weapons. The bulldog drive to crush all opposition that has characterized every move of the Bush White House, is once again ignoring reality to envision a new America-dominated world order that can only be built upon the ruins of the demolished old order. If only some situation could be created which would provide the perfect pretext that would justify pushing the button on Iran. Would we be correct in judging Cheney to be a super-patriot, or is he really a secret neo-communist, hoping to forcefully overthrow the world order and enthrone his elitist neocon proletariat and their corporate state as a world dictatorship?

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19829.htm
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-29-08 09:33 AM
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-29-08 10:29 AM
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2. The downfall of ...
The war criminals in the WH will start WWIII before 11/2008
Then they'll instruct their m$m shills to catapult their BS:
"mc$ame is the only one candidate with military experience"
They'll use "fearmongering" over and over and over again...
They'll use "electionfraud" over and over and over again...
Why can't the Dems read the PNAC and realize we're screwed?
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