01.20.07

The Bush Push to War with Iran

Posted in General at 8:59 am by MamaSaid

            Let’s face facts, the Bush Administration has been a dictatorship since he was allegedly elected into office.  The ballots of absentee military personnel, mostly non-WASP, were conveniently dismissed so that Bush could assume the Presidency whether the American public wanted him or not.  I am still outraged about his irreverence toward military members and races other than his own and clearly it has gotten a lot worse.  We suffered through the 9/11 charade.  We needlessly lost men in Iraq, paralleling the situation in Vietnam decades ago.  While in Iraq killing, religious relics cherished by people for centuries were carelessly destroyed.  Now Bush and his puppet administration actually intend to continue this tirade of terror in Iran.
 

            Last week the New York Times reported that the recent United States raids against Iranian interests in Iraq were ordered by President Bush, who authorized a military offensive against Iranian operatives in the country.  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, talking head for Bush, states prior to leaving for the Middle East, “There has been a decision to go after these networks.”  Rice further said that Bush acted “after a period of time in which we saw increasing activity” among Iranians in Iraq and “increasing lethality in what they were producing.”  Apparently Bush began bantering about the push to war with Iran back in the fall, when he first raised the issue with the National Security Council.  Much like the other attacks initiated by the United States, Bush makes his final decision without the support of the American people at large while attempting to instill fear into the public through misrepresentations.
 

            Bush is further attempting to substantiate his actions with other vague statements made by his office, such as officials who describe Iran as the single greatest threat the United States faces in the Middle East.  I tend to agree with the critics who feel the talk about Iran is a diversion to shift attention away from the chaos and failure in Iraq.  After all, where are those weapons of mass destruction anyway?  How about Osama?  Is our attention span that short?  I don’t think so – it’s more like the dictatorship has taken over and is assuming worldwide power.
 

            On Martin Luther King Day, service members joined peace activists to call for an end to the war in Iraq.  One of the protesters quoted Dr. King by stating, “Dissent is not disloyalty.”  We remember that Dr. King objected to the Vietnam war and insisted that the protesters were not traitors or fools.  Since our Vietnam veterans still suffer from Agent Orange exposure and related post traumatic stress disorder, obviously Dr. King had a valid point.  How many of our soldiers have already been lost or doomed to a life of disability for which they will never be adequately compensated by their government?  How many more will be permanently harmed before this insanity is over?
 

            Further, a recent poll of military personnel revealed that their support of the war has dropped 54 percent.  Sgt. Jabbar Magruder of Los Angeles, a member of the National Guard who served 11 months near Baghdad, accurately said, “We served in combat and we have seen the futility of this war.  The soldiers want to resist.  The soldiers want to come home now.  We need the citizens to back us.”
 

            Clearly the citizens do back the military in wanting to end the war.  The Stop the War on Iran petition has over 20,000 signatures of people such as U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Harold Pinter, historian Howard Zinn and many other famous activists.  Stop the War on Iran tells us that reports from last year revealed that the Pentagon’s Central Command and Strategic Command planners are already identifying targets and preparing for an attack that could kill thousand of Iranians, along with our own soldiers.
 

            So who really wants the war in Iran?  The good old boys network that began with George Bush Sr. and is being perpetuated by his son.  After all, these are the folks that are profiting from the war activity (how about Cheney) – why should they care if it is at the expense of so many lives for no good reason?  After all, isn’t their financial success and power of prime importance and aren’t we simply irrelevant in the big scheme of a society ruled by dictatorship?  How ironic that Bush alleges to want to bring democracy to the Middle East – how about democracy here in the United States, where we seem to have lost it?  Our country does not even have an adequate health plan, children are starving, soldiers and their families are suffering and we can’t even sweep our own stoop, so why are we sweeping someone else’s?  Mama Said there’d be days like these…

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