How Pelosi Ended 'The War With Iraq'
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but The War With Iraq is over.
Like everything with the Bush administration's relationship to it's gullible public, the point is never what they're doing, but what they say they're doing; it's the words, not the deeds.
So No Child Left Behind of course has nothing to do with helping challenged children in bad schools to keep up, it's about defunding and dismantling the public school system. And 'saving Social Security' has nothing to do with saving social security, its about handing over what's left of the public trough to the investment industry, etc, etc, etc---is there a single American under a rock anywhere that doesn't know this drill by heart by now?
And now the war with Iraq is no longer 'The War With Iraq'; its been successfully rebranded as 'The War with Iran'.
Try and sit through a single newscast or reading of the international page without finding a reference to how Iran is the real 'enemy' over there; whether it's the nuclear bomb there's no evidence of them developing, the IEDs there's no evidence of their government smuggling across the border to harm the agents of our benign humanitarian effort in Iraq, or how Ahmadinejad's denial of the facts of the Holocaust means he's ready to wipe out the free world---or at least America, which can't really be called the free world anymore. But I digress.
Mel Gibson denies the facts of the Holocaust, too, but unless he's planning on wiping out the free world by boring them to death with shitty movies, I don't really see him as much of a global threat. And our own leader, the intellectual from Yale who can't pronounce 'nuclear'--he routinely denies the facts of not only evolution, but global warming, contraception, carcinogens in drinking water, etc, etc, etc and you never hear a peep about him bringing on Armageddon. (Well, only in fundamentalist churches, but they're happy about it.)
But if you scan any of the news for idiots---The NY Daily News say, or CNN--- you'd think Ahmadinejad had actually flown the planes into the World Trade Center and that he literally walks around Tehran with American blood dripping off his bib. When he spoke at Columbia the other week, the conservatives who run American mainstream media spun it like Hitler had spoken at ACLU headquarters in the middle of the Blitz.
The rebranding of War With Iraq into War With Iran is only Phase I of a multi-phased rebranding strategy that will go on for years, a strategy that is in fact prepping us for the big hand-off to a Democratic White House that needs its own public spin for staying in Iraq until we've met the one and only (private) benchmark we've had all along; a permanent force in the world's largest military base securing the theft of the world's second largest deposit of oil. But don't take it from me--ask Alan Greenspan, that liberal.
If you doubt the existence of this strategy, than you must've missed the emergence of Phase II last week, when all three of the leading presidential candidates from the 'opposition party'--- the party that supposedly has a mandate from the American people to end the war---furrowed their collective brow and professed dismay that it just seemed too darn unrealistic---and no doubt unpresidential--- to get troops out of Iraq any earlier than--are you ready?--2013.
Why not just let Bush stay president? It's what he wanted all along.
Of course the troops the Dems plan to keep there won't be 'combat' troops, because the 'war' will be over---at least rhetorically. They'll be a 'stabilization force'--that's Phase III of the rebranding.
Phase III will last 50 years, and you'll never hear the word 'combat,' only 'stabilization', but on the ground, the facts will be the same they've always been; unwelcome Americans kids getting killed and maimed by a debilitated local populace who hate them. Desperate Iraqis--armed and otherwise--with no water, sanitation, electricity, protection or hope will still be slaughtered in the streets or made into internal or external refugees. And of course there'll be the big cherry on top we've wanted all along; control of the oil.
And voila--we'll basically have our new Israel; a permanently volatile and unstable place that we'll diplomatically dither with for eternity, all the while pumping tax dollars into a 'stabilizing' military infrastructure to ensure the local population will never have peace and are so distracted by survival that we'll get away with grabbing what we've decided is ours to steal.
Any questions?
The opposition party 'came back into power' and passed non-binding resolutions to chide a president who doesn't give a shit who chides him and then voted to support an ill-advised surge and increase funding for the very war they had a 'mandate' to end. These are facts, not rhetoric.
The Democrats bought Bush the time he wanted by pitching their rhetoric to their constituents, while the White House bought time pitching their rhetoric to their few remaining constituents, and now the moment to get out of the whole abhorrent mess has passed. Bush will be gone but the troops will stay and we'll have gotten the oil.
Oh sure, there's all the side 'benefits'--the American taxpayers funding the creation of a massive invasion/occupation industry--companies like KBR, Bechtel, Blackwater, you know the names--that take taxpayer dollars to at first rip a region down and then take taxpayer's money to build the region up again, albeit in accordance with their own privatized corporate needs and with inferior materials and slave labor.
(or perhaps you thought all those buildings in the Green Zone were built by well-paid union construction workers outfitted in state of the art protective gear with round-the-clock-workplace safety standards in place--you know, like in Katrina)
In short, a massive, publicly funded destruction/reconstruction industry for private profit. Call it 'socialized terror.'
They'll call it 'job creation.'
What could've stopped it all, the great rebranding, the escalation, the extra deaths and crippling debt, not to mention yet another gutting of the power of the American voter? The impeachment process. This is of course the one thing Nancy Pelosi declared was 'off the table' before she'd done a single thing as Speaker.
Say it again, to yourself: 'The one thing that truly could have derailed the longest war in US history, in the one moment where it was still possible, was declared 'off the table' by the leader of the opposition party, placed in power by a mandate from the people.'
The 'Ending The War Phase' is over and the 'How Can We Sensibly Approach A Solution Phase?' has begun. Feel any different?
It's like Karl Rove is still writing the script. Maybe he is.
Our new Democratic president will tell us the 'war is over' and it will be as hollow as 'mission accomplished'--especially to the Iraqis. But Americans will hear our 'combat troops' are coming home and sigh with relief as they nod with a feeling of democratic triumph at 'the wave of change in Washington'---and go back to American Idol and Dancing With The Stars.
Maybe we should stop parsing the spin and arguing over which lie seems closer to the truth we want to believe.
Maybe we should forget about reality TV for a sec and start thinking about reality reality.
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We should be finding REAL democrats to run against the democrats in office, that will do our wishes and vote the spineless , arrogant democrats out of office...
They have deleted our constitution , freedom and rights the same as Bush, Cheney and the republicans have and it now means what Bush said: it is a G.D. piece of paper and he can do what ever he wishes....
The democrats no longer consider the main core of the party a threat to their re-election. They believe we will vote a straight democratic ticket, not matter what they say and do , because we will not vote for the right-wing republican.
So they receive the political donations from the corporations and the Jewish organizations that wish the war Iraq to continue and expand into Iran & Syria.
Liebermans support from the democrats in 2006 election against our democratic candidate Lamond, should have told you that the democrats have no intention to stop the war in Iraq.
The democrats just keep feeding us a bunch of BS about what they are going to do , then in secret, behind close doors , they give Bush everything he wishes plus more...
We can no longer believe a d... word they say, because they plan on voting to support the war hawks to gain their donations and votes.
Should we Impeach Pelosi, Cheney, Bush simultaneously?
Someone floated the idea of laying seige to the Today Show each morning.
Non-violent anti-war demonstrators could force GEMSNBC to make 30 Rock into a miniature green zone in Manhattan.
It would be amusing if they had to secure their environment from social-agitators.
sad but true, the Oil-Interest Dems' position: "declare 'Victory' and STAY."
Looks like a good many Democrats played to the anti-war left to get into office, then betrayed that constituency in order to...
...do the right thing.
Welcome to American politics.
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Tom Gilroy, I've got an anecdote for you. Just got back from a face-to-face with my Dem. Rep. Michael McNulty (NY). I asked him point-blank why the Democratic leadership in the House won't use the process granted to them by the Constitution to end the War by defunding it? "We don't have the votes," he said, the usual Dem. mantra. "Don't let Bush bills out of committee for a floor vote, thereby killing them", I said. Then he got huffy and defensively told me about his brother who was killed in Vietnam and how great a leader Nancy Pelosi is but she can't do a thing about those Blue Dog Dems. It didn't end well. I hope there's an independent running against him in '08. He never did give me a straight answer.
You were right on about not letting the bills out of committee. Notice how he changed the subject when you asked him.
Re: "He never did give me a straight answer." And you were surprised at that...?
Saw a bumper sticker yesterday that read, "Want Real Change? Go get Lee Harvey!" Now there's a driver with balls...bu
My words exactly! Four years ago when dip shit in Chief first announced he was invading Iraq.
It's all about the oil. It was always about the oil. When we said "no blood for oil" we were attacked as unpatriotic, not supporting our brave troops, etc., etc. (telling the truth is unpatriotic to this bunch).
It is unconscionable that the only real redress the people have to an out of control executive was taken off the table immediately. Their corporate sponsors are the same as Bush's, and are heavily invested in this war, im- moral as it is, but corporations don't have morals, only a mandate to make the most money possible and morals interfere with profit. Corporations, fortunately, can't vote, so...
If they won't do the people's will, vote the bastards out. I'm ashamed of Tommy d'Allesandro's daughter, I had expected her to be a fighter.
Complaining about oil.
How much more complaints if we suddenly didn't have any?
Think about that the next time you get into your car or even onto a bus.
We will suddenly not have any oil. The only question is, when?
No matter how many people we kill, the oil is going away.
So why not avoid killing people and move on to sustainability now?
Those are the only two issues I care about in the coming election.
The transition will be hard, or it will be catastrophic. It will not be easy. We need to get used to the idea.
9-11 didn't "change everything". But the end of oil will.
If we use nukes in Iran, we'll get a chance to find out how we will do. Ever heard the phrase;
"black gold"?
Dear Oldchef: We were absolutely correct on the "No Blood For Oil" from the very beginning. these folks are specialists in diverting the conversation to attack mode. Keep shifting the debate to attacks and you can ignore the original assertion about the OIL! "Operation Iraqi Liberatiom" Remember? they had to change it because it was sooo OBVIOUS! Soon there is sooo much OBFUSCATION that the original point gets obscured in the confusion. These shapers of the Guvmint and the Media are Masters of creating the confusion! JaneC
Very well said. Bravo. I was just talking with a co-worker about Pelosi and the wimp democrat party (yes, republicans do say that, and increasingly they do) taking the only thing that mattered off of the table. Well, tell her to talk to Hillary about the proverbial table. this is pathetic! this is democracy? George Carling is right. Dont bother voting. Get busy revolting. We need a revolution in this country
What about the 'wimp' republican party... like her? What are THEY doing to stop things? We are blaming democrats as if they started all this and it is now their responsibility to end it.
When the hell are the republicans going to stop sitting on their fat wallets and help in making the right decisions?!!
Both sides need to work together..
Hey Concerned -
The Republicans are of course to blame but what's being said here is that the Dems have been empowered to change the course of this country and have done nothing. I am a Democrat. I don't like bashing Democrats but the reality is WE ARE THE PROBLEM.
"We don't have the votes." is a huge lie. They do have the votes. They just don't want to take the consequences of using their votes. Here's what they lose if they do:
1. Financial support of the Fortune 500 and the military industrial complex.
2. Support from the MSM which is practically the same thing.
3. Support from the Israeli lobby.
The fact is there is not a lot of difference between Dems and Reps. And to their credit, at least the Reps say what they are going to do and then do it.
The Reps are war mongers. The Dems are war wimps which may be even worse. Frankly, if Osama hits Washington D.C. next, he could be doing us all a big favor.
Concerned: The Repugnicans could not do it now without the help of the complicit deal-making Dems to help out! MONEY talks when you are trying to get re-elected! Who ya gonna call? But I agree with you in your frustration. This is supposed to be about serving the American populace, NOT serving yourselves! Now that concept is where the rubber will meet the road, if we could get these QUACKS to figure it all out or RUN them all (off the road) out of DODGE! JaneC
The last thing we need is official bipartisan
ebbasta: We are creating the revolution here! They hate the blogs, because they are a NON-VIOLENT means to inform and create change without KILLING. Money can't be made without this Violence that is being perpetrated with the looting of the public treasury. That is the true outrage! WE THE PEOPLE are being forced by these renegades to fund our own destruction! That children of all ages must live without healthcare so George can get his Colonoscopy at our expense is another outrage! That the entire Government needs to NOT have our money to pay for their healthcare is self-evident. NO CARE FOR THE SELF-SERVERS UNTIL ALL AMERICANS GET HEALTHCARE! This is a no-brainer. We would not want them to have SOCIALIZED MEDICINE Would we? HYPOCRITS ALL! SICKOS! JaneC
You're probably right about blogging because there sure is a corporate interest in ending how the internet works now because the bad publicity is not in their best interest.
Why was it these evil doers attacked us in the first place? (They do not like our freedoms)
Lame is as lame does.
You get precisely what you vote for.
Hey, Henry! We did not vote for these Clucks! It has all been driven by election fraud! Nancy and the gang are equally complicit in that they "CHOOSE" not to take the actions to correct the original fraud, collusion of the media and the Supreme Court! This is about MONEY and back room deals for POWER! Who knows, Maybe John Kerry was in on it? You know how those Skull and Bones members do all they can to promote one another! The way John laid down and died, I've always felt it was not so innocent! Even Al Gore did not fight the U.S. Gov't for his won election! Make one Wonder? Peace, JaneC
Henry,
We did not elect them Henry... the election was a fraud and was fixed by voting machines built by a Bushee.
Don't tell me... you're sure THAT didn't happen?
What about the other 1/2 of us that NEVER pulled the handled for this idot. We don't deserve it. 4000 of us would have different holiday picture this year. Can you actually for one minute think how it would have if he NEVER would have gotten his foot in the door the fist time? Maybe the top 2% wouldn't have laundered our treasury through a war...and honestly..
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Posted October 9, 2007 | 09:39 AM (EST)