[mobglob-discuss] BUSH TERRORIST NETWORK ON THE BRINK OF MASS DESTRUCTION (fwd)
Tom_Childs at Douglas.BC.CA
Tom_Childs at Douglas.BC.CA
Sun Jul 28 22:39:45 PDT 2002
...time to organize a neighborhood 'resistance' demo in your neighborhood...
take some digital images of it and post it to the internet via indymedia.org.
....go for it. regards, t.
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From: Isidor <isidor at videotron.ca>
Subject: BUSH TERRORIST NETWORK ON THE BRINK OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:13:44 -0400
Scott Ritter and UNCOMs Decommissioning of Iraq's Weapons
[US "GOVERNMENT PLOTS MASSIVE TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST IRAQ]
"Ritter was careful to note that there are no good wars - as a
veteran, he described war as purely awful and something not to be
trivialized - but that there is such a thing as a just war. He
described America as a good place, filled with potential and worth
fighting for. We go to just war, he said, when our national existence
has been threatened.
According to Ritter, there is no justification in fact, national
security, international law or basic morality to justify this coming
war with Iraq. In fact, when asked pointedly what the mid-October
scheduling of this conflict has to do with the midterm Congressional
elections that will follow a few weeks later, he replied, simply,
"Everything."
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"His purpose for coming to that room was straightforward: The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Democrat Joe Biden, plans to
call a hearing beginning on Monday, July 29th. The Committee will
call forth witnesses to describe the threat posed to America by Iraq.
Ritter fears that much crucial information will not be discussed in
that hearing, precipitating a war authorization by Congress based on
political expediency and ignorance. Scott Ritter came to that Boston
classroom to exhort all there to demand of the Senators on the
Committee that he be allowed to stand as a witness."
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According to Ritter, there is no justification in fact, national
security, international law or basic morality to justify this coming
war with Iraq. In fact, when asked pointedly what the mid-October
scheduling of this conflict has to do with the midterm Congressional
elections that will follow a few weeks later, he replied, simply,
"Everything."
"This is not about the security of the United States," said this
card-carrying Republican while pounding the lectern. "This is about
domestic American politics. The national security of the United
States of America has been hijacked by a handful of neo-conservatives
who are using their position of authority to pursue their own
ideologically-driven political ambitions. The day we go to war for
that reason is the day we have failed collectively as a nation."
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"If Iraq was producing weapons today, we would have definitive
proof," said Ritter, "plain and simple."
And yet we march to war, and soon. A chorus of voices was raised in
the room asking why we are going. What motivates this, if not hard
facts and true threats? According to Ritter, it comes down to
opportunistic politics and a decade of hard anti-Hussein rhetoric
that has boxed the Bush administration into a rhetorical corner."
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The removal of Saddam Hussein became a plank in the GOP's race for
the Presidency in 2000. After gaining office, George W. Bush was
confronted with the reality that he and many within his
administration had spent a great amount of political capital
promising that removal. Once in power, however, he came to realize
what his father and Clinton already knew - talking tough was easy,
and instigating pinprick military confrontations was easy, but
removing Hussein from power was not easy at all. His own rhetoric was
all around him, however, pushing him into that corner which had only
one exit. Still, like the two Presidents before him, he treaded
water.
Then came September 11th. Within days, Bush was on television
claiming that the terrorists must have had state-sponsored help, and
that state sponsor must be Iraq. When the anthrax attacks came, Bush
blamed Iraq again. Both times, he had no basis whatsoever in fact for
his claims. The habit of lambasting Iraq, and the opportunity to
escape the rhetorical box twelve years of hard-talking American
policy, were too juicy to ignore.
The dearth of definitive proof of an Iraqi threat against America
began to go international. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld appeared before
NATO not long ago and demanded that they support America's looming
Iraq war. Most of the NATO nations appeared ready to do so - they
trusted that America's top defense official would not come before
them and lie. But when they tried to ask questions of him about the
basis for this war, Rumsfeld absolutely refused to answer any of
them. Instead, he offered this regarding our utter lack of meaningful
data to support a conflict: "The absence of evidence is not the
evidence of absence."
Scott Ritter appeared before NATO some days after this at their
invitation to offer answers to their questions. Much of what he told
them was mirrored in his comments in that Boston classroom. After he
was finished, 16 of the 19 NATO nations present wrote letters of
complaint to the American government about Rumsfeld's comments, and
about our basis for war. American UN representatives boycotted this
hearing, and denounced all who gave ear to Ritter.
Some have claimed that the Bush administration may hold secret
evidence pointing to a threat within Iraq, one that cannot be exposed
for fear of compromising a source. Ritter dismissed this out of hand
in Boston. "If the administration had such secret evidence," he said,
"we'd be at war in Iraq right now. We wouldn't be talking about it.
It would be a fait accompli." Our immediate military action in
Afghanistan, whose ties to Al Qaeda were manifest, lends great
credence to this point.
Ritter dismissed oil as a motivating factor behind our coming war
with Iraq. He made a good defense of this claim. Yes, Iraq has the
second-largest oil reserves on earth, a juicy target for the
petroleum-loving Bush administration. But the U.S. already buys some
68% of all the oil produced in Iraq. "The Navy ships in the Gulf who
work to interdict the smuggling of Iraqi oil," said Ritter, "are
fueled by Iraqi oil." Iraq's Oil Minister has stated on camera that
if the sanctions are lifted, Iraq will do whatever it takes to see
that America's oil needs are fulfilled. "You can't get a better deal
than that," claimed Ritter.
His thinking on this aspect of the coming war may be in error. That
sort of logic exists in an all-things-being-equal world of politics
and influence, a world that has ceased to exist. Oil is a coin in the
bargaining, peddled as influence to oil-state congressmen and
American petroleum companies by the Iraqi National Congress to
procure support for this baseless conflict. Invade, says the INC, put
us in power, and you will have all you want. There are many ruling in
America today, both in government and business, who would shed
innocent blood for this opportunity.
Ritter made no bones about the fact that Saddam Hussein is an evil
man. Like most Americans, however, he detests being lied to. His work
in Iraq, and his detailed understanding of the incredible
technological requirements for the production of weapons of mass
destruction, leads him to believe beyond question that there is no
basis in fact or in the needs of national security for a war in Iraq.
This Marine, this Republican who seemed so essentially hawkish that
no one in that Boston classroom would have been surprised to find
wings under his natty blue sportcoat, called the man he cast a
Presidential vote for a liar.
"The clock is ticking," he said, "and it's ticking towards war. And
it's going to be a real war It's going to be a war that will result
in the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans and tens of
thousands of Iraqi civilians. It's a war that is going to devastate
Iraq. It's a war that's going to destroy the credibility of the
United States of America. I just came back from London, and I can
tell you this - Tony Blair may talk a good show about war, but the
British people and the bulk of the British government do not support
this war. The Europeans do not support this war. NATO does not
support this war. No one supports this war."
It is of a certainty that few in the Muslim world support another
American war with Iraq. Osamanbin Laden used the civilian suffering
in Iraq under the sanctions to demonstrate to his followers the evils
of America and the West. Another war would exacerbate those
already-raw emotions. After 9/11, much of the Islamic world
repudiated bin Laden and his actions. Another Iraq war would go a
long way to proving, in the minds of many Muslims, that bin Laden was
right all along. The fires of terrorism that would follow this are
unimaginable.
Scott Ritter wants to be present as a witness on Monday when the
Foreign Relations Committee convenes its hearing, a hearing that will
decide whether or not America goes to war in Iraq. He wants to share
the information he delivered in that Boston classroom with Senators
who have spent too many years listening to, or propounding,
rhetorical and speculative fear mongering about an Iraqi threat to
America that does not exist. Instead, he wants the inspectors back in
Iraq, doing their jobs. He wants to try and keep American and Iraqi
blood from being spilled in a military exercise promulgated by
right-wing ideologues that may serve no purpose beyond affecting the
outcome of the midterm Congressional elections in November 2002.
"This is not theory," said Ritter in Boston as he closed his
comments. "This is real. And the only way this war is going to be
stopped is if Congress stops this war."
On the web: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
http://foreign.senate.gov/committee/
William Rivers Pitt is a teacher from Boston, MA. His new book, 'The
Greatest Sedition is Silence,' will be published soon by Pluto Press.
Scott Ritter and UNCOMs decommissioning of Iraq's weapons - nobody
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=194702
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=194699
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The Bush terrorists, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, Robert
Zoellick, Richard Perle, Fony Blare, those "Congressmen" [sic(k)],
those military chicken hawks, the Bilderberg Group, the CFR, the CIA,
the Vatican, the Trilaterals, the British Monarchy and others, have
got to be the most despicable pack of monsters that ever crawled the
Earth. How any person can put up with these God damn bomb freaks is
way beyond me!!!
Given the opportunity to be locked up in a room with any one of these
pompous, greedy and conceited cocksuckers, I would smash their
sickening faces with my bare hands! Make no mistake about it: YOU
WOULDN'T HEAR A SINGLE LIE COMING OUT OF THEM AGAIN!! YES, I utterly
HATE, LOATHE AND DESPISE these pathological liars, thieves, murderers
and sycophants for what they have done and for what they are about to
do.
THERE IS VERY LITTLE TIME LEFT!!
ISN'T IT HIGH TIME TO GET UP OFF YOUR ASSES
AND LOCK THESE BASTARDS UP???
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sincerely,
Isidor
P.S.: If this bunch of mass murderers destroys Iraq or any other
country, I won't be wasting any more of my time writing! The sheeple
of the U.S. will get what they deserve and there will be nothing left
to say.
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Millions on the streets would stop this War - DL
War in October - William Pitt
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=194648
"Scott Ritter should be commended for speaking up against the
impending Imperialist War on Iraq. But he is wrong to believe that
the sycophantic U.S. Congress will have the spine & integrity to stop
this Bush League Mad War disease.
There is, of course, another way to stop this War. And that is for
millions of citizens to stand up, marching down the streets and
demanding an immediate stop to the War. It happened once during the
aggressive war on Vietnam back in the 1970s. Yes, things are
different now, but activists have to remember that it took years to
build a massive anti-war movement. It can happen again, but we will
need to re-analyze very keenly, and we need to persevere for however
long it takes to organize against the world's #1 terrorist state.
The time is very short, so let's roll up our shirtsleeves and get
started..."Don't Mourn, Organize!"
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The only JUST WAR I see is the war against this filthy pack of
criminals that calls itself the US Government and all its agencies
along with those Transnational banksters like the Bilderbergs, the
CFR, the CIA, etc...etc...
Don't forget Plan America! - Isidor
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=192123&group=webcast
"I am one left wing guy who has had enough of this crap. Its
impeachment time and not just for Bush and Cheney but for the filthy
five Supreme Court Justices as well, for their role in fixing the
election. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and any other officers involved
must also go for their role in 9/11. I know for a fact that there are
good people in the Military, the Intelligence Community and
throughout the government that know what is really going on and are
capable of making a move against these crooks that have stolen our
government. I am calling on those folks within our government to make
that move now and breath life back into our dead Constitution.
How can we possibly survive this politic that has come over this land
without removing from power these cynical men and women that believe
they own the right to rule as the Monarchs my family fled in 1620 to
come to this great and wondrous land.
I beg of you, it is time to risk all to take back of our stolen
liberty." - By Lloyd Hart
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The Media Knows the Truth - Lloyd Hart
Impeach the Filthy Five - sweet mother of mustafa
Time To Roll Out The Guillotine!! - Isidor
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=194663&group=webcast
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