FeelFree1 provides the best articulation of the real issues I''ve seen to date:
Every U.S. service member, as you know, swears an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States...". Our Constitution cites international treaties as the "Supreme Law of the Land", meaning that ALL U.S. policies are bound by any international treaty of which the U.S. is signatory.
One such treaty is the U.N. Charter, which provides for only 2 cases which a member country may legally wage war against another. One is in the event of an imminent threat (currently being invaded/attacked), and the other requires a specific U.N. Security Council Resolution authorizing the use of force. We know that the Bush regime failed to push through an actionable U.N. Resolution, ahead of the invasion of Iraq, and we know that there was no imminent threat from the Saddam regime. As such, the war against Iraq violates the U.N. Charter, which is in turn a serious violation of our Constitution.
The Iraq War also constitutes an "illegal war of aggression", as described by the Nuremberg Charter, another U.S. obligated treaty, since it was an offensive action by the Bush regime, and there was no threat, only fabricated intelligence, in support of the invasion.
Notblue, your comments (below) sound like you believe every p.r. brand name you hear. If you think that unjustified, un-Constitutional, preemptive bombing of innocent civilians is for their "liberation," and that the citizens of Iraq have any chance to govern themselves under the current U.S./Allied dictatorship, you need to go live on an ostrich farm with your peeps, ostriches. Your head is in the sand, right where the spin doctors want it.
It''s funny how the left/terrorist supporters always justify the actions of the militants by calling the U.S. occupiers. This is an incorrect statement, the U.S. is not there to occupy and take Iraq as Americas property, we are liberators. Giving the people of Iraq a chance to govern themselves not to be supressed by dictatorship or theocracy. After Sadam was removed 12 million Iraqi citizens voted for DEMOCRACY not theocracy which is what the Islamic militants want, they know they cannot be relevant in a democracy so with the support of the leftwing in this country they will scream occupation and drive any chances of freedom from the people of Iraq.
NavyRetired2, are you actually saying that, because the man returned to the village while being attacked in an open field from the air, he was "hiding behind innocents" and was "gutless?"
Man, you are twisted. That''s all I can say. Do you have PTSD from your time in the military?
Reagan was an actor; Bush I, a CIA Director (!!); and Bush II, an insecure, bumbling, dry (questionable) drunk, little boy.
It''s not about the parties. It''s far bigger than that. You don''t think that our presidents are pre-determined beforehand by a ruling elite? Think again. Private interests are now so ubiquitous in relationship to the political process, that they determine its outcome.
Chilling to watch the apathetic complicity of the people in the room. Now I get how Nazi Germany and all totalitarianism can come to pass. The year-long 300-level course on the Holocaust that I took at a prestigious university couldn''t illustrate the phenomenon of mundane evil so well.
On Iran, Rice said the administration shares Congress'' goal of making sanctions tougher on Iran. But she urged patience among lawmakers, who are increasingly frustrated that not enough was being done to deter Tehran''s nuclear ambitions. [And what about U.S. ambitions? Is the U.S. the only civilization on Earth? Come again?]
Rice: "...the combination of Iranian terrorism, Iranian repression at home and the pursuit of nuclear weapons technology . . . is a very dangerous mix," she said. [Substitute "U.S." for "Iranian" and see how it reads. And/or take out any nationalistic reference, and one is left with the obvious: a combo of terrorism, repression at home, and pursuit of nukes = a very dangerous mix. No duh, Condi.]
Rice: "The timing comes down to what it is we need to do to give moderate forces in the region a boost and to deal a blow to forces of extremism." [Gee, Condi, does this mean that extremist, occupying murderers like you and yours--will be dealt a blow?]
The conference has not been scheduled, but should happen by the end of the year, she said. [A PEACE conference? Up is down, down is up, 2+2=5; Orwellian wordspeak]
On a separate issue, Rice said an emergency State Department review found serious problems with the way private security guards operate in Iraq and that more changes to government policy for contractors may be needed. [So astute and preventatively ahead of the game, Condi.]
Rice said she and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have told their No. 2 officials to do a further study. Rice has already ordered two rounds of changes to the rules for security contractors intended to install greater oversight from Washington. [A frightening notion.]
1. This thing goes way beyond the U.S. govt. The world oligarchy, or plutocracy, has Everyman (in every country) just where they wants us: afraid, terrorized, practically mute, and dismayed, except for a few courageous souls. We''re disposable pawns in their game of controlling resources and culling overpopulation so they can live in conspicuous, unbridled, stupored consumption and false ego fluffing (%u201Cfluffer%u201D pun intended).
The above being said:
2. All %u201Creality%u201D is a macrocosm of the microcosm that is each of us. %u201CWe have met the enemy, and he is us.%u201D (Walt Kelly, Pogo comicstrip) Hence, we get the govt. and world situation that we %u201Cdeserve,%u201D i.e., that we serve of, that we co-create by complicity. Physics now proves the co-relation between the observer and the observed, the imaginer and the imagined.
3. The only hope for a good/harmonious world is if we think, speak, act and behave in the highest good/harmony for all. Eye on the prize: a harmonious, kind, loving, sustainable world. This requires vigilant focus and training of the mind, consciousness, thought, word and deed. I have to give myself this pep talk so I don''t dissolve in despair, which would mean that the evil ones, and the evil within, had won. (%u201CEvil%u201D is the opposite of %u201Clive.%u201D)
The score: World Oligarchy--Out of the ballpark Everyman--Benched
This thing goes way beyond the U.S. govt. The world oligarchy, or plutocracy, has Everyman (in every country) just where he wants us: afraid, terrorized, practically mute, and dismayed, except for a few courageous souls. We''re disposable pawns in their game of controlling resources and culling overpopulation so they can live in conspicuous, unbridled, stupored consumption and false ego fluffing ("fluffer" pun intended).
The only hope for a good world is if we think, speak, act and behave in the highest good or all. Eye on the prize: a harmonious, kind, loving world. I have to give myself this peptalk so I don''t dissolve in despair, which would mean that the evil ones had won.
Every American should see the Moyers report from this summer, documenting how our "liberal" press totally rubberstamped Bush on the pre-war WMD claim, and failed their mission of true information. The disproof of it was known at the time, simply not reported by liberal bastions NYT and Washington Post. Knight-Ridder had it, and the national media ignored it.
You can watch it on your computer;
http://pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
You won''t be getting up once you start into it, it''s riveting. Pass the link on please -
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Every U.S. service member, as you know, swears an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States...". Our Constitution cites international treaties as the "Supreme Law of the Land", meaning that ALL U.S. policies are bound by any international treaty of which the U.S. is signatory.
One such treaty is the U.N. Charter, which provides for only 2 cases which a member country may legally wage war against another. One is in the event of an imminent threat (currently being invaded/attacked), and the other requires a specific U.N. Security Council Resolution authorizing the use of force. We know that the Bush regime failed to push through an actionable U.N. Resolution, ahead of the invasion of Iraq, and we know that there was no imminent threat from the Saddam regime. As such, the war against Iraq violates the U.N. Charter, which is in turn a serious violation of our Constitution.
The Iraq War also constitutes an "illegal war of aggression", as described by the Nuremberg Charter, another U.S. obligated treaty, since it was an offensive action by the Bush regime, and there was no threat, only fabricated intelligence, in support of the invasion.
It''s funny how the left/terrorist supporters always justify the actions of the militants by calling the U.S. occupiers. This is an incorrect statement, the U.S. is not there to occupy and take Iraq as Americas property, we are liberators. Giving the people of Iraq a chance to govern themselves not to be supressed by dictatorship or theocracy. After Sadam was removed 12 million Iraqi citizens voted for DEMOCRACY not theocracy which is what the Islamic militants want, they know they cannot be relevant in a democracy so with the support of the leftwing in this country they will scream occupation and drive any chances of freedom from the people of Iraq.
Man, you are twisted. That''s all I can say. Do you have PTSD from your time in the military?
Reagan was an actor; Bush I, a CIA Director (!!); and Bush II, an insecure, bumbling, dry (questionable) drunk, little boy.
It''s not about the parties. It''s far bigger than that. You don''t think that our presidents are pre-determined beforehand by a ruling elite? Think again. Private interests are now so ubiquitous in relationship to the political process, that they determine its outcome.
On Iran, Rice said the administration shares Congress'' goal of making sanctions tougher on Iran. But she urged patience among lawmakers, who are increasingly frustrated that not enough was being done to deter Tehran''s nuclear ambitions. [And what about U.S. ambitions? Is the U.S. the only civilization on Earth? Come again?]
Rice: "...the combination of Iranian terrorism, Iranian repression at home and the pursuit of nuclear weapons technology . . . is a very dangerous mix," she said. [Substitute "U.S." for "Iranian" and see how it reads. And/or take out any nationalistic reference, and one is left with the obvious: a combo of terrorism, repression at home, and pursuit of nukes = a very dangerous mix. No duh, Condi.]
Rice: "The timing comes down to what it is we need to do to give moderate forces in the region a boost and to deal a blow to forces of extremism." [Gee, Condi, does this mean that extremist, occupying murderers like you and yours--will be dealt a blow?]
The conference has not been scheduled, but should happen by the end of the year, she said. [A PEACE conference? Up is down, down is up, 2+2=5; Orwellian wordspeak]
On a separate issue, Rice said an emergency State Department review found serious problems with the way private security guards operate in Iraq and that more changes to government policy for contractors may be needed. [So astute and preventatively ahead of the game, Condi.]
Rice said she and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have told their No. 2 officials to do a further study. Rice has already ordered two rounds of changes to the rules for security contractors intended to install greater oversight from Washington. [A frightening notion.]
continued...
1. This thing goes way beyond the U.S. govt. The world oligarchy, or plutocracy, has Everyman (in every country) just where they wants us: afraid, terrorized, practically mute, and dismayed, except for a few courageous souls. We''re disposable pawns in their game of controlling resources and culling overpopulation so they can live in conspicuous, unbridled, stupored consumption and false ego fluffing (%u201Cfluffer%u201D pun intended).
The above being said:
2. All %u201Creality%u201D is a macrocosm of the microcosm that is each of us. %u201CWe have met the enemy, and he is us.%u201D (Walt Kelly, Pogo comicstrip) Hence, we get the govt. and world situation that we %u201Cdeserve,%u201D i.e., that we serve of, that we co-create by complicity. Physics now proves the co-relation between the observer and the observed, the imaginer and the imagined.
3. The only hope for a good/harmonious world is if we think, speak, act and behave in the highest good/harmony for all. Eye on the prize: a harmonious, kind, loving, sustainable world. This requires vigilant focus and training of the mind, consciousness, thought, word and deed. I have to give myself this pep talk so I don''t dissolve in despair, which would mean that the evil ones, and the evil within, had won. (%u201CEvil%u201D is the opposite of %u201Clive.%u201D)
World Oligarchy--Out of the ballpark
Everyman--Benched
This thing goes way beyond the U.S. govt. The world oligarchy, or plutocracy, has Everyman (in every country) just where he wants us: afraid, terrorized, practically mute, and dismayed, except for a few courageous souls. We''re disposable pawns in their game of controlling resources and culling overpopulation so they can live in conspicuous, unbridled, stupored consumption and false ego fluffing ("fluffer" pun intended).
The only hope for a good world is if we think, speak, act and behave in the highest good or all. Eye on the prize: a harmonious, kind, loving world. I have to give myself this peptalk so I don''t dissolve in despair, which would mean that the evil ones had won.
Every American should see the Moyers report
from this summer, documenting how our "liberal"
press totally rubberstamped Bush on the pre-war
WMD claim, and failed their mission of true
information. The disproof of it was known at the
time, simply not reported by liberal bastions NYT
and Washington Post. Knight-Ridder had it, and
the national media ignored it.
You can watch it on your computer;
http://pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
You won''t be getting up once you start into it,
it''s riveting. Pass the link on please -