I haven’t heard much from the White House lately because of the media focus on the conventions, but has President Dubya gotten another message from God to go ahead and bomb our ally, Pakistan? We all know how Bush/Cheney want Bin Laden so badly they can taste it. But when random drones are being lobbed over the border and killing women and children, well, here we go again making another attempt at weird Bush bloody diplomacy. The innocent victims living in these places just might not appreciate our efforts and that is a perfect example of how we make more terrorists, we give them all the more reason to hate us. It is chilling to hear that so many women and children are baring the brunt of our missiles.
According to Stephen Cohen, Fellow of the Brookings Institute:
“George Bush [the US president] wants to leave office with the record of having captured Osama bin Laden [the al-Qaeda leader] … I think this raid was an attempt to either capture him or some of the senior al-Qaeda leadership…
“The Americans probably said ‘we are going to have to go in and get some of these guys and we don’t want to run into Pakistani soldiers on the way in or out’ and my guess is that Kayani probably said ‘okay do it – were not going to approve it but we’re not going to stop it’.”
So is this another regime change? Our Pakistan Ambassador was recently called in because of the raid involving the bombing of 20 people mainly women and children. Pakistan was pissed and protested this raid. Don’t get me wrong, there are real bad people out there who don’t like us and I’m sure the military has their ways of knowing where the ‘bad guys’ are, but they do make mistakes and they still can’t find a 6′7″ Bin Laden with all their modern, military, heat-seeking, satellite equipment.
There have been several of these bombings lately, others killed because we screwed up. 26 Pakistani police recruits on their “way to college” said one Pakistan official, and of course, ‘we the people’ have to wonder if all this was “legit”, or is it Bush delusional bombing again? These strikes have been growing lately as Bush has fewer days in office and he and Cheney won’t be able to get their ‘kicks’ out of blasting things and people anymore.
I don’t know the way we find all “the bad guys”. It seems that if Sarah Palin were to become our president, the “pitbull/barracuda” would be using the same Religious Right, God speaking, patriotic rationalization techniques that ‘born-again’ Bush has used. Oh, she might not say God told her, but she would play her religion card the same way she does in her Church when she told the congregation about praying for God to show them the way to get a nice $30billion government contract for a gas pipeline:
“I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,” Palin said.
This is what we want again? The Grand Old Party to “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” just like McCain is itching to do? Has the country caved to the Republicans Patriotic regurgitation that we must continue to bomb the shit out of any suspected ‘might-be’ terrorist villages? Does anyone ever wonder why so many terrorists hate us in the first place? Ummm, how about occupation? How about US forces on their land killing innocent people, bombing their homes and villages? How about Abu Garib memories? How about our aggression without diplomacy because a president speaks to his Old Testment God?
We all know that the Madras is a school and a tool for making and harboring terrorists, is there anyway to lean on countries, like say our ‘oil buds’, Saudi Arabia for example and say, cut the shit already, quit the terrorism boarding schools? (Oh, guess not since they have us in an oil stranglehold.) Has all hope for any peace vanished? And especially because of the way we have acted in the past 8 years to make our country so hated for going into places that had nothing to do with 9/11 and occupying and and bombing the villages into a bloody Fred Flintstone pulp? How would we feel being occupied and bombed constantly? Having only a few hours a day of electricity and limited water, and we had to fear for our lives when we stepped out the door? Would we be picked up for interrogation and hung from a meat hook till we gave them the info they think we have?
Scare tactics are what the GOP are drilling into our heads about what will happen to us if we are not aggressive, or “patriotic”. I got news, it’s going to happen one day again anyway, our borders and ports are still wide open thank you GOP…(and thanks to John McCain). Is there no one who practices the art of diplomacy anymore?
In Afghanistan the only way to have peace is through the warlords, we can’t change history though we keep trying. President Karzai knows he has limited control. iraq has seen the passing of Anbar Province which they say is a result of “the Surge”, the real test will be when we are out of there and to see what actually takes place when there is no United States presence. According to McCain and Palin, we will stay and spend billions enforcing our will, enforcing our patriotism upon these countries because otherwise, it will make the Bush/Cheney presidency look like losers, (as if they didn’t already). The GOP needs to save face and not make Iraq like Vietnam with less casualties, but more money. Iraq wants us to leave, Al-Maliki wants us out with NO immunity for our soldiers. When can we try something new? I am tired of seeing our military and money wasted. We could have built a bullet proof dome and a solid enforcable border wall coast to coast for all the billions we have spent in the middle east pushing our “patriotism”.
I am sick of watching the Republicans claim that just because they screwed up for 8 years we should give them more opportunity to do the same for 4 more –i f there is a God, can he tell us who to vote for?
OH, God just told me, he said to write in Ralph Nader…
photo credit” Prisonplanet.com
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September 5, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Could or would somebody, anybody, please ask God what is a WIN as specified by McCain for the war in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan? Urgently needed request is from Sarah … she can’t find it her playbook?