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suckingeggs
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"...the Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution followed the Reichstag fire." -- Srdja Trifkovic
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JerseyBluEyz
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Posts: 1257
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Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:30 pm
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I received this email today from VoteNoWar in response
to Bush's speech last night asking for mo' money.
I am pasting it in its entirety. If you want to
bring our boys home, please at least register your name
at www.votenowar.org and be heard (maybe someone's listening!??!).
RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S
NATIONAL TELEVISION ADDRESS OF SEPTEMBER 7, 2003
Dear VoteNoWar Member:
President Bush's illegal war and occupation of Iraq
has left the Administration in a position of extreme
political vulnerability. He now wants the United
Nations and U.S. taxpayers to bail him out. Having
defied U.S. and world public opinion - which
preemptively opposed his planned, illegal invasion of
Iraq - the Bush administration wants to
internationalize responsibility for the U.S. quagmire
in Iraq. With U.S. casualties mounting daily he wants
the soldiers of other countries to do more of the
dying to take the heat off himself at home. And in the
name of fighting international terrorism he wants
already suffering working class, poor and middle class
communities to foot the bill to the tune of another
$87 billion (triple what they had "projected"). Having
had his public rationale(s) for the war been exposed
in recent weeks as a complete fraud, Bush shamelessly
reverts to the time-tested tactic of trying to scare
the hell out of people.
President Bush's conduct on Iraq - before, during and
now after the Iraq war - has made the old cliché about
truth being the "first casualty in war;" to be a grand
understatement. Everything about this "pre-emptive
war" is premised on deceit. Even in the realm of ever
duplicitous "world politics," the Administration's
pattern of cynical deception was and remains
breathtaking. Tonight's nationally televised address
conforms to this pattern of endless deceit.
1) Bush lied before the war. Iraq never posed a grave
and imminent danger to the United States. Iraq had
nothing to do with September 11th. Iraq never
possessed nuclear weapons. Iraq was not rapidly trying
to develop weapons of mass destruction. This was a war
of aggression against the second-largest oil producer
on the planet that had been weakened by a decade of
economic sanctions and political isolation.
2) Bush lied during the war. This was not liberation.
The Iraqi people did not welcome the U.S. armed forces
as liberators but as occupiers. Their lives did not
become better. On the contrary, this culturally rich
society has been torn apart, deprived of necessary
services to sustain civilian society and is on the brink
of internal collapse.
3) Bush is lying now. Iraq is not the battlefield
between "international terrorism" and the forces of
so-called "freedom" and "civilization." The growing
resistance to U.S. occupation is the consequence of an
angry and proud people in Iraq who insist on
reclaiming their own sovereignty. Having killed tens
of thousands of Iraqis in an illegal invasion - and
responsible
for a growing number of dead and maimed U.S. soldiers - the
Bush team wants U.S. taxpayers to spend at least
another $87 billion on the occupation of Iraq. The
vast majority sentiment in Iraq wants the U.S.
soldiers to leave and the U.S. GI's want to go home.
The Iraqi people's call to end the occupation is not a
call for even more foreign nations to occupy Iraq and to
take a share in the looting of Iraq's natural
resources. The truth is that the invasion and
occupation of Iraq is viewed by the people of the
Middle East as an act of "international terrorism" and
as such it can only lead to a dangerous escalation in
the cycle of violence.
Why did Bush address the nation tonight? He, like
Nixon a generation ago, fears that the people of the
United States are turning against this criminal war.
During his administration, Bush has only rarely felt
that he must address the people, and does so when he
fears that a sentiment is growing strong enough to
challenge his illegal actions. He must then lie more
to convince the people of the U.S. to support his
criminal endeavors, or at least acquiesce in them. His
shameful "top gun" act aboard the aircraft carrier the
U.S.S. Lincoln, in front of a "Mission Accomplished"
banner, was an effort to tell people in the United
States and around the world that the war was over and
that no more critical attention need be focused on
Iraq. Tonight, with that lie laid bare, he is seeking
to go a new route, to convince people that far from
being over, the war is a high stakes game to save
"civilization" and "freedom" and that it requires
endless sacrifice in human life and vitally needed
resources.
VoteNoWar.org calls on people in the
United States to join together for a massive
demonstration in Washington DC on October 25th to
demand "Bring the Troops Home Now, End the Occupation
of Iraq." Tens of thousands will be in the streets
that day as the antiwar movement picks up new
momentum.
Your support is needed to help end Bush's criminal
occupation of Iraq and to bring the troops home now!
Visit http://www.votenowar.org/donate.html to make an online
donation through our secure server or to obtain information
for writing a check.
Visit http://www.votenowar.org/pdf/o25flyer.pdf to download
the October 25th flyer (pdf format).
For information on transportation to Washington, D.C. for
October 25, visit http://www.internationalanswer.
org/campaigns/o25/oct25transp.html .
If you have not already done so, vote today in VoteNoWar's
Bring the Troops Home Referendum at http://www.votenowar.
org/. VoteNoWar, a campaign of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition,
has provided a free service by which you can immediately
make your views known to the White House and Congress by
(optionally) sending via email your ballot and a
personalized message to George W. Bush, Richard Cheney,
and/or your district's Congresspeople.
[Edited 3 times, lastly by JerseyBluEyz on 09-08-2003] |
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Mech
Joined: 06 Jun 2001
Posts: 8237
Location: THE 4th REICH USA |
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Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:38 pm
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"Kinky Sex Makes The World Go 'Round"
By Jello Biafra
Greetings:This is the Secretary of War at the State Department
of the United States
We have a problem.
The companies want something done about this sluggish
world economic situation
Profits have been running a little thin lately
and we need to stimulate some growth
Now we know
there's an alarmingly high number of young people roaming
around in your country with nothing to do but stir up trouble
for the police and damage private property.
It doesn't look like they'll ever get a job
It's about time we did something constructive with these people
We've got thousands of 'em here too. They're crawling all over
The companies think it's time we all sit down, have a serious get-together-
And START ANOTHER WAR
The President?
He loves the idea! All those missiles streaming overhead to and fro
Napalm
People running down the road, skin on fire
The Russians seem up for it:
The Kremlin's been itching for the real thing for years.
Hell, Afghanistan's no fun
So whadya say?
We don't even have to win this war.
We just want to cut down on some of this EXESS POPULATION....
Now look. Just start up a draft; draft as many of those people as you can.
We'll call up every last youngster we can get our hands on,
hand 'em some speed, give 'em an hour or two to learn how to use
an automatic rifle and send 'em on their way
Libya? Korea? How 'bout Northern Ireland?
Or a "moderately repressive regime" in South America?
We'll just cook up a good Taliban threat story
in the Middle East-we need that oil
We had Libya all ready to go and Colonel Khadafy's hit squad
didn't even show up. I tell ya
That man is unreliable.
The Kremlin had their fingers on the button just like we did for that one
Now just think for a minute-We can make this war so big-so BIG
The more people we KILL in this war, the more the economy will prosper.
We can get rid of practically everybody on your dole queue if we plan this right.
Take every loafer on welfare right off our computer rolls
Now don't worry about demonstrations-just PUMP UP YOUR DRUG SUPLLY.
So many people have hooked themselves on extacy
and amphetamines since we took over, it's just like Vietnam.
We had everybody so busy with LSD they never got too strong.
Kept the war functioning just fine
It's easy.
We've got our college kids so interested in beer
they don't even care if we start manufacturing germ bombs again.
Put a nuclear stockpile in their back yard,
they wouldn't even know what it looked like
So how 'bout it? Look-War is money.
The arms manufacturers tell me unless
we get our bomb factories up to full production
the whole economy is going to collapse
The Russsians are in the same boat.
We all agree the time has come for the big one, so whadya say?!?..........
That's excellent. We knew you'd agree
The COMPANIES will be very pleased. |
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