AN ADDENDUM: DEATH BECOMES US
by Malik Isasis


Earlier this week I wrote about the research paper titled, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.” The paper written by Professors John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University laid out evidence as to why Israel is a strategic liability to the United States.

Mearsheimer’s and Walt’s stated in one of their theses:

“A final reason to question Israel's strategic value is that it does not act like a loyal ally. Israeli officials frequently ignore U.S. requests and renege on promises made to top U.S. leaders (including past pledges to halt settlement construction and to refrain from "targeted assassinations" of Palestinian leaders). Moreover, Israel has provided sensitive U.S. military technology to potential U.S. rivals like China, in what the U.S. State Department inspector general called "a systematic and growing pattern of unauthorized transfers."

According to the U.S. General Accounting Office, Israel also "conducts the most aggressive espionage operations against the U.S. of any ally”(34).

On December 27, 2006, The New York Times reported,

“In a rare public rebuke to Israel, the Bush administration said Wednesday that an Israeli plan to construct a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank for the first time in 10 years could violate the terms of an American-backed peace proposal.”

For more go to the New York Times article.

Please read the research paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" for yourselves, here.

Read the article just out on December 20, 2006, "Has Israel Learned Anything?"




GUILLOTINE NATION


"Dear faithful people, I say goodbye to you.”

Saddam Hussein is expected to be swinging from the gallows in 24-36 hours. Corporate news outlets report that the execution will be taped and photographed and possibly, have bits of the execution aired to the Iraqi people.

The Bush Public Relations Administration will somehow conflate Saddam’s death with justice, and progress toward the ‘War on Terror’ and possibly say, “The World is a much better place, now that Saddam is dead.” I’m just guessing this is what will be said.

This execution will prove to be more fertilizer for the warring factions in Iraq who are ripping each other apart, filling the streets of Baghdad with blood and body parts.

Saddam was doomed the moment he appeared before the Kangaroo Court. He had too much dirt on Ronald Regan and Bush 41 and the neocons. When he dies, so does the secrets of his dealings with Ronald Reagan and Bush 41.

Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch stated on December 26, 2006, “Imposing the death penalty, indefensible in any case, is especially wrong after such unfair proceedings. That a judicial decision was first announced by Iraq’s national security advisor underlines the political interference that marred Saddam Hussein’s trial.”

Human Right Watch stated, “The Iraqi government should not implement the death sentence against Saddam Hussein, which was imposed after a deeply flawed trial for crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today. The Appeals Chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal, which was first reported by Iraq’s national security adviser to have upheld the sentence, should have conducted a thorough legal review of the verdict and then announced its findings.”

Read the Human Rights Watch report here.
Read documents that link Saddam to Reagan and Bush 41.

















PRICK OF THE YEAR: 2006

Prick, /prik/ noun, a man regarded as stupid, unpleasant, or contemptible.

I just started this blogging thing two months ago, however, if I’d been doing this for the past six years, George W. Bush would have received this award for the sixth straight year.

Death seems to follow this man, like new chicks fresh out of their eggshells. When he was Governor of Texas he executed more prisoners than any other Governor in US History.

Death has followed him into the White House.

The deaths in Iraq averages nearly a hundred a day; nearly 3 soldiers die a day in Iraq. Over the summer, he refused to stop Israel’s bombing of civilians in Beirut, where the death toll for Lebanon totaled 1,000 civilians, and for Israel 120 military deaths and 39 civilians deaths.

George W. Bush has divided the nation deeply. The divide has tribalized us into Blue vs. Red. This ultimately has made the country weaker and vulnerable. He has created an environment where ideology drives policy and faith outweighs science and facts.

He has isolated us from allies and refuses to talk with people who disagree with his worldview. He builds his relationships on loyalty rather qualifications e.g. Hurricane Katrina Disaster, Iraq Occupation, Deficit etc…

Bush has created a Constitutional crisis because of his fragile ego, won’t allowing him to work with others; instead he ignores the judicial and legislative co-equal branches of government.

Bush has legalized torture. He has made it legal to detain foreign and American citizens indefinitely without knowing the charges.

He has legalized wire-tapping without legal authority from the courts, and without the knowledge of member of the congress.

Bush has used signing statements to ignore laws passed by the congress.

Bush couldn’t have done all of this without the help of the Republicans and the Democrats in the congress, so they receive the runners-up for Prick of the Year.

Congratulations Mr. Bush.

You are the Prick of the Year.

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