IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

by Malik Isasis

















If we retreat -- were to retreat from Iraq, what's interesting and different about this war is that the enemy would follow us here…Now, the Democrats who pass these bills know that I'll veto them, and they know that this veto will be sustained. Yet they continue to pursue the legislation. And as they do, the clock is ticking for our troops in the field. In other words, there are consequences for delaying this money. In the coming days, our military leaders will notify Congress that they will be forced to transfer $1.6 billion from other military accounts to cover the shortfall caused by Congress's failure to fund our troops in the field. That means our military will have to take money from personnel accounts so they can continue to fund U.S. Army operations in Iraq and elsewhere.

This $1.6 billion in transfers come on top of another $1.7 billion in transfers that our military leaders notified Congress about last month. In March, Congress was told that the military would need to take money from military personnel accounts, weapons and communications systems so we can continue to fund programs to protect our soldiers and Marines from improvised explosive devices and send hundreds of mine-resistant vehicles to our troops on the front lines. These actions are only the beginning, and the longer Congress delays, the worse the impact on the men and women of the Armed Forces will be.
President Bush, April 10, 2007

In typical fashion Bush speaks of the Occupation of Iraq and the condition of the troops as if he had nothing to do with it. This is the narcissism that has so crippled his intellectual and emotional maturation. The corporate press, the despotic Republican Party and the go-along to-get-along Democratic Party continues to enable him to use the troops as props and sacrificial lambs in the theatre of a bloody and destructive colonization effort.

Bush and the neocons need to use fear-based tactics in his governance of this country in order to cause a distraction away from his exceptional lack of talent as a Statesman. Nearly everything that dribbles out of his petulant mouth is a lie. He is a pathological liar willing to say anything to keep the American people from becoming hip to his cowboy hustle; but his hustle was exposed during the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Aside from the 33% that will support him no matter what, the rest of the American population has caught on to Bush’s attempt to scare his way into the history books as one of the most inept men to ever run the so-called free world.

Bush thrives on violence and death. He’s the Pied Piper of death and death surely follows him like hatchlings.

Not surprisingly, tragedies like the Virginia Tech incident is exploited and assimilated into trite and nonsensical gibberish that is disconnected from his personal wake of tragic destruction.
"It's impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering," He said at the convocation ceremony. "Those whose lives were taken did nothing to deserve their fate."

“It's impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering. Those whose lives were taken did nothing to deserve their fate." Those very words can be said for the suffering of the Iraqi and Afghani people. Bush doesn’t grasp the irony of the bullshit that comes out of his mouth because he is not thoughtful and has no insight into what he says or what he does.

War to the End

Bush’s Administration is mired up to its eyeballs in corruption, and in an attempt to distract, Bush and his flying monkeys are doing what they do best: whipping up fear, fear about September 11, 2001. In every speech this week and last, he has referred to 911 and the terrorists invading the eastern seaboard if we were to leave Iraq. This may have worked with a large majority of the American people two years ago; however, the American people have seen George W. Bush slip on way too many banana peels in a time of crises—from September 11, 2001, the Occupation in Iraq, the Occupation of Afghanistan to Hurricane Katrina; he has lost the confidence of the American people.

Who is he trying to fool? We’ve all seen his cowardice on September 11, 2001 when he was paralyzed with fear after he was told about the planes going into the towers. He fled in Airforce One…and since then, he has been trying to rewrite history by showing us how brave he is by calling himself a war president and using other people’s children to fight an unwinnable occupation.

Bush and his neocons are propagandizing a war with Iran, even in the face of failure in Iraq and everything that he touches. No matter, the next president will have to clean up this pile of shit Bush has left behind. He’s like a kid who sucker-punches and dashes off so that others will take the blame. What a punk.

He and his neocons can no longer govern using Arabs and Muslims as boogey men, so now they’ve just become outright, outlaws—thugs, kicking over trash cans and knocking over mailboxes in the international community.

Sanctity of Life

Bush and his two newly appointed right wing jurists Roberts and Alito has paid big dividends for the Evangelical and Corporatist Right, in a decision on April 18, 2007 to uphold the Partial-Birth Abortion law [Public Law 108-105, HR 760, S 3, 18 U.S. Code 1531] that was passed by the despotic Republican 109th Congress, which deals with abortion in the second trimester.

”The Supreme Court decision is an affirmation of the progress we have made over the past six years in protecting human dignity and upholding the sanctity of life," Bush said in a statement. "We will continue to work for the day when every child is welcomed in life and protected in law."

Johnny Two Buicks Bush is an affront to humanity. In his complete disconnectedness from reality, he can spew the words “sanctity of life” in a time when he is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and the displacement of millions.

Thanks to a corporate media full of fools, sycophants, corporatists, despotic Republicans and the Democratic Party, Bush is able to continue to destroy this country and everything that he touches.

In the words of my favorite truth seeker, Mike Malloy, "Did I tell you how much I hate these people?"

BLACK AMERICA AND PALESTINE

by Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report













African Americans are the group that most supports the rights of Palestinians to be treated justly - which makes Blacks the most vulnerable targets of the Israel lobby. Effectively controlling the U.S. Congress, the Israel lobby creates endless enemies for the United States, abroad, endangering every American citizen. Yet an imposed silence prevents any semblance of national dialogue on the subject. Relentlessly, the Israel lobby launches political "hit men" to attack anyone who challenges the U.S. alliance with the Zionist State.

A nation that inflicts collective punishment on civilian populations, tortures minor children, uses civilians as human shields, and commits extra judicial killings ought to be condemned by all decent, civilized nations. It seems like a no-brainer. If that country is Israel, those common sense assumption no longer apply. The United States routinely vetoes any and all United Nations resolutions that condemn a variety of Israeli actions.

Israel's existence depends totally on America's largesse, yet Israel calls the shots. That nation receives $15 million aid every single day. In return Israel sends spies to the United States and effectively controls the Congress through its American allies...read on.

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