Slaying Our Dreams:
Created Our Nightmares
By Jim Kirwan
07/02/07 "ICH"
-- -- From
911 forward, the world has been consumed with discovering
what really happened on that day, to the three buildings in
the World Trade Center; to the plane that supposedly crashed
in Pennsylvania and as to how that missile managed to hit
the Pentagon. This is the latest video of what has been
learned thus far. (1)
The single largest
tragedy here is the one thing not in dispute: That is the
"unending war" that Bush promised the world, supposedly in
retaliation for 911. This will indeed be "never-ending"
unless people in the United States demand the immediate
withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. Many of he same people
that were in-charge of US policies when 911 happened, are
still in-charge today, and they have yet to answer for their
parts in the crimes committed on that day.
The head of the FBI
then is still in place today, Rumsfeld still has an office
in the Pentagon, and others like Richard Pearl, John
Ashcroft, Richard Armitage, along with Paul Wolfowitz, and
General Powell have not disappeared. There was also John
Bolton our stealth ambassador to the UN. Cheney, Rice, Rove
and Bush are all still active and have been joined by
Chertoff at DHS and now Gates at Offense. None of these
people have been seriously questioned about their parts in
what happened on 911.
The only member of
government that did speak openly was Richard Clark who tried
to warn Rice. But as CIA has largely taken the fall for the
intelligence failures on 911 - the agency has changed hands
several times. However, Richard Clark, the counter-terrorism
chief in the Clinton Administration is still claiming
responsibility for having created Al Qaeda, not as our
enemy, but as an operating arm of the CIA, prior to 911. (2)
Exactly how Al
Qaeda went from being an operating arm of the CIA to
becoming "responsible for 911' needs further on-the-record
elaboration. Just as Rummy needs to finally explain what
happened to the $2.3 trillion that he admits his agency
"lost" in Iraq. ($2.3 trillion would buy a lot of help for
our bankrupt federal government). Where are the subpoenas?
Where is the outrage? More importantly where is our sense of
ourselves as a coherent people, within a nation that we say
we claim as 'our country'?
The United States
has adopted international threats and global-instability as
our weapons of choice, backed up by overwhelming violence
and military force, in dealing with the rest of the planet.
This has never
worked for any length of time-throughout the long march of
world history-and there is no reason to expect that it will
ever work for us in this instance, either. Bush is fond of
portraying himself as a loner, a cowboy who stands against
the world, and defies anyone and everyone that opposes his
insanities. Yet the fact is that he is nothing but a deluded
puppet in a theater-of-the-absurd that has never drawn a
crowd: except perhaps for others of his kind-a crowd that
has equally oppressed their own people, for monetary gain
and for petty-political-powers that by definition shall have
to end, in infamy!
Bush believes he is
bold and daring, and believes that he has much in common
with Winston Churchill, the man who replaced British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain, with his policy of appeasement
in dealing with the Nazi's. However the facts of history
make clear that it is Chamberlain, not Churchill that most
closely represents Bush-the-lesser in the world today. (3)
In the Middle-East
Bush has been a partner in the continuing Israeli massacre
of the Palestinian people. For fifty years this country has
worn many hats in regard to Palestine and Israel. But with
the coming of the Bush-men in 2000, all of that began to
change. Over the previous five decades we have given Israel
trillions of dollars, and we've occasionally tried to play
the part of an "honest broker" for peace in the Middle-East.
But under the Decider, we have aided and abetted so many
crimes against the Palestinians-while we have repeatedly
failed to point out to the world that Israel wants to
destroy the Palestinian people.
We stood by while
Israel orchestrated the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, only
to serve again as Israel's bully-boy protector while
Israel's pitiful military tried unsuccessfully to invade
Lebanon. The world held its breath for thirty days, back
then, while that obscene farce was played out. And then we
actually wondered why there was no movement toward
"peace-in-Palestine." (4)
Then again we
backed Israel when they recently scoffed at the open and
freely democratic election that brought Hamas to power in
Palestine. We not only endorsed Israel's view, but we
blocked humanitarian aide from getting to the Palestinians
from anyone else as well. We're still supporting the
extremist Israeli government's decision to make war on Gaza
and Hamas, while blackmailing the Palestinians in the West
Bank with promises of food and water, if they do not come to
the aid of Gaza and the rest of Palestine.
This behavior of
the US, in favor of the blatantly criminal state of Israel,
whose president kept sex slaves, and was evicted from office
for that and other crimes: speaks volumes to all parties in
the region, and the world. How then can wee expect anyone in
the Middle-East to take the United States seriously about
anything else we might have to say - such as what we are now
demanding in Iran, or suggesting for Lebanon, or Syria or
anywhere else where we are manufacturing more lies as an
excuse to do our worst, and steal more of what is still not
ours. The whole world knows that the USA today is nothing
more than a blunt instrument in mercenary service to the
global criminal-elites. The new Quartet under the direction
of Tony Blair shall make this ever more clear, as that
failed leader takes charge of yet another group of Bandits;
this time Hell-bent on creating a Middle-East without Arabs
or Palestinians.
At home, things are
no better. All the wrong priorities have arisen to block
anything and everything that this country needs to survive.
Health care has become a con-game being run by those who
directly profit from their failure to provide the services
that they take money to provide. The nation reels from the
failures of this government to help its people whether the
topic is Katrina, or Education: Retirement or Social
Security: Justice or ordinary daily survival: the United
States Government has become the open and belligerent enemy
of the people of this nation.
Our economy is in
ruins, because the same philosophy that drove the nation
prior to the Crash of 1929 is back in business again (thank
Bill Clinton for that one), and they've just met: to
consider how ready the conditions are for a repeat version
of 1929. This collapse is not a question of if but when the
bounty can begin to flow to those who shall have escaped the
markets before they fall, again!
We kid ourselves
that we have a diverse business economy when in fact what we
have are the scraps left over from all the mergers and
acquisitions that have left this nation almost totally under
the spell of corporate oligarchies that thrive on
conglomerate acquisitions and mergers and leave most of
small business completely unprotected from their iron-fisted
controls over profits, no matter how far removed those small
businesses might appear to be from the global-corporatocracy
that actually owns all their once private business
opportunities: not to mention access to real 'capital.'
Oil Company's brag
about the virtues of teaching every child about the wonders
of Math & Science: when what is really needed are the
humanities in mega-doses, if there is to be a world left for
anyone to live in. They brag about burning corn instead of
oil, when what should be happening is that hemp ought to be
reintroduced so that the corn can be eaten, and the hemp can
replace the sugar, the corn and everything else used to make
artificial fuels. Hemp was once used in virtually
everything-Henry Ford used it to make parts for the bodies
his early automobiles. And, if we had a ready supply,
plastics could be eliminated.
The same is true of
much of what we now use to create medicines - nature's gift
to mankind was this plant that we have banned from
commercial use: "hemp." It was banned so that oil and
chemical companies might be able to prosper undisturbed,
look it up: it is fascinating reading!
The world that Bush
and his handlers have created for us all is as false as
their insurance company's promises that amount to the kind
of extortion that has resulted in death, in far too many
cases. The cynical and privileged elite have always tried to
corner all the profits and relegated the poor to virtual
slavery to achieve their ends. The time has come to reign in
the artificial life-expectancy that most corporations now
enjoy. The joys of multinational Corporate power should have
limits placed upon them: just as the people who work for
Corporations need to have their own separate and inviolate
"Bill of Rights" for anyone that has to deal with
corporate-anything. We have the power to demand that the
government we pay for must work for all of us and not for
those who seek to steal our lives and dreams.
By that token we
ought to be able to have Universal Health Care. After all,
as Michael Moore just so clearly pointed out in his film "Sicko"
'if we can pay out trillions for illegal and unnecessary
wars then we can definitely afford to provide healthcare for
every American' - for free! And if we can subsidize
big-business to the obscene levels that we have raised
corporate welfare to: then we can definitely begin to make
some real demands of "our" federal government-so that it is
no longer a feral threat to every man, woman and child in
this country. We had rights once upon a time, but we had
them only as long as we were willing and able to fight for
those rights.
What we do now to
change this equation for the future is really up to each and
every one of us. Those who choose to act will be part of the
solution: the rest will remain as part of the problem that
will need to be removed. The choices will not be easy, but
then freedom never was or is. If any of us are to ever have
dreams worth dreaming once again-then something very
different must begin to shape our thoughts!
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articles by Jim Kirwin
http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/articles.htm#row2007C
NOTES:
1) Zeitgeist -The Movie
http://video.google.com/videoplay
2) 911 Hearings - Richard Clark on Democracy NOW
www.democracynow.org/
3) Why Winston Wouldn't Stand for W
www.washingtonpost.com/
4) Who Will Stop the Countdown
www.rense.com/general73/wde.htm
