Sunday, January 30, 2005

Today Iraqis Vote; 1,430 US Soldiers Have Died

Yesterday, national security adviser Stephen Hadley wrote in an op-ed article in The Washington Post: "Instead of exaggerating any imperfections, democrats around the world should celebrate the election as both a milestone in the advance of liberty and a source of profound hope to all the people of Iraq.” We might feel that way, Mr. Hadley, but for the fact that we didn’t attack Iraq to bring them democracy or liberty or freedom. The original reason that the fascists in the White House attacked Iraq was because Iraq was an easy target for kicking off their plan of global aggression. That plan was hatched in 1997. When it came to fruition in 2003, it was cloaked in the term, “preemptive strike”. Preemptive strike meant: Now that the Republican party is in power again, when the GOP decides a country has resources the US wants, the US will attack that country and call it defending the world. This type of defense of the world was articulated by the Project for the New American Century on June 3, 1997 (www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm). The PNAC statement of principles was signed by: Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William J.Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, Fred C.Ikle, Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Webe, George Weige, Paul Wolfowitz Bush I began in January 2001 with the BushMen already having decided to attack Iraq. When was the question. The answer: As soon as possible, came with the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. And the sub-text was to blame Iraq’s Saddam Hussein even though Osama bin Laden had orchestrated the WTC bombing. After 9/11, the secret plan to attack Iraq morphed into a US proclamation that Saddam had to go in order to free the Iraqis. When the Iraqis did not fall down and worship the United States, the 1997 plan received yet another, even brighter and shinier justification. The BushMen claimed that the US had invaded Iraq to bring democracy to Iraq. Mr. Hadley, your predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, with the help of Secretary of State, Colin Powell lied us into a war that Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Florida’s Governor, Jeb Bush planned in 1997. Democrats don’t have to exaggerate the imperfections in the war in Iraq. The imperfections have existed since 1997 when the PNAC developed its plan for ruling the world. What many of us democrats can’t understand, Mr. Hadley, is why anyone would celebrate anything going on Iraq today or any day since the US invasion on March 20, 2003. We can only mourn the deaths of 1,430 American soldiers who have died in a war that signaled the White House fascists' plan for global supremacy had begun.

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