Re: OT: why USA is a regime

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_teksavvy.com)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:43:29 -0400

Bill Todd wrote:
> Indeed, and Kerry's vote and subsequent attempts to weasel around it are
> major reasons why I won't consider voting for him

<man, this is tough to resist answering>

In fairness to that vote, at the time, the "official" purpose, as outlined by
the Bush regime, was to put pressure on Hussein to fully comply with the UN
resolutions. At that time, Hussein still had some petty stuff left to reveal
(paperwork etc).

However, many around the world saw the writing on the wall that Bush's real
intentions was to go to war and that he'd find a way, any way to justify it.
This is why the initial 1441 proposal, as presented by the USA, had specific
text granting the USA the right to invade. But that proposal did not pass and
the USA had to replace that text with "serious consequences" which would have
required a second resolution to define and enact. And that is the only reason
1441 was adopted unanimously.

Bush had bet that Hussein wouldn't cooperate and thus allowed Powel the time
to try the UN. But when the UN actually worked and Hussein cooperated, Bush
was in a bind. His troups were already massing and his plans for invasion well
underway, but because the UN process was working, he knoew he woudln't get
support for a second resolution, and this is why he lost patience and declared
that he could wait for couple more weeks for the UN to complete its work and
launched his invasion without authorisation fron the UN. Note that I don't
believe and act of war was signed in the USA.

So it is interesting that the democrats had the perfect out for this: they
were mislead by Bush into believing that vote was SOLELY to put pressure on
Hussein to comply with the diplomatic efforts of the UN and give peace a
chance, when the real intentions of the Bush regime was to obtain some carte
blanche to invade Iraq no matter wgat the outcome of the UN process was.

This would throw the ball back to Bush since he would them be accused of
miselading congress with the true intentions of that vote.

Yet, the democrats failed to find this argument to defend themselves agianst's
Bush's accusatios of flip flopping on that vote.

The Bush regime consistently lied and mislead americans and american media,
yet, the democrats stood by like zombies high on drugs.

(AS an example, NATO had a meeting to discuss possible need to protect Turkey
from the mess should the USA go ahead with its invasion. In that NATO meeting,
many NMATO countries supported the concept of defending/helping Turkey against
the mess the USA would create.

However, Bush, on TV, proclaimed that he had now enlisted the support of
countries such as Canada for his war against Hussein. None of the media
challenged him on that, neither did the democrats, even though this was a lie.
Canada supported a NATO resolution to protect Turkey against the USA. It did
not support a resolution to help the USA invade Iraq.

There is a long long list of similar lies.

It was Jimmy Carter who said it best some time ago:

        YOU CAN'T LEAD IF YOU MISLEAD.

The democrats could have destroyed the Bush regime. They could have brought it
to the supreme court for violating US constitution. They could have worked
hard to remove any credibility it still had. Instead, they flip flopped and/or
stayed silent, giving the Bush regime full brainwashing control of the
american population via the gullible media who are more concerned about having
any piece of White House propaganda on air first rather than checking facts
before airing some white house propaganda.

Yet, the democrats feared that by being to strong against the Bush regime,
they would further polarize the nation and make winning and votes from soft
republicans impossible.

The montreal newspaper reports today that a texas newspaper has received
threats, has had its advertising pulled by many local companies, local stores
refusing to carry that newspaper etc simply because it passed an editorial
that was negative against the bush regime.

(and this is not to dissimilar to the fgemaler signers from texas whose songs
were essentially banned from Texas radio stations when they annoucned they
were against the Bush invasion of Iraq).

Anytime you have a large segment of the population who refuses to believe the
big mitakes made by a government, it generates a very dangerous situation.

Germans refused to believe international accusations that they own government
was committing genocide on jews. How could such a civilised government do such
a thing ? They believed their own government's speeches that stated that jews
were being recruited to work on new factories to help Germany win the war. The
shame of what germans allowed their government to do has come to haunt
generations of germans, to this day.

Look at how americans refuse to even consider the evidence that the Bush
regime has violated the USA constitution. Even the supreme court has stated
such when it ruled that the kidnapped victims held at Gantanamo had a right to
some legal process. Yet, the republicans prefer to ignore this extreme
violation of human rights, prefering not to believe it is happening even
inside the USA.

The americans refuse to consider that the Bush regime has resulted in the USA
having lost an/all credibility with its so called intelligence. So when the
USA accuses Iran of developing nukes, since the USA can provide no hard
evidence (even faked evidence as it did for Iraq), nobody takes them seriously.

Sudan argued succesfully to the UN that the USA should not be allowed to send
troups to africa since they would create a mess as big as they did in Iraq.
The unfortunate side effect is that other western counries such as Canada and
France are prevented from sending peace keepers to complement the few north
african peacekeepers that Sudan accepted.

Americans think that the USA is the world police. It is not. It is not the
only superpower in the world. It economic dominance is fading with europe and
china rising fast. Americans don't seem to realise that this isn't the cold
war with missiles and armies. It is a contest of economic muscle where
economies compete to see who can be most efficient at building widgets.

And it is amazing that republicans are completely blind to the fact that the
Bush regime has turned a very hard earned balanced budget with surplus into
massive record deficits, and still have the guts to accuse the democrats of
having irresponsible promises for spending.

In fact, the way it looks from outside the USA, half the USA population is so
brainwashed into voting republican, that it doesn't matter who they put as the
president, as long as he is republican.

And it is further even more amazing that Bush has succesfully create an image
that he is a leader (in fact better image than Kerry's) when it is well known
that he is just a puppet controlled by Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz. It is those
last three who should be explaining to americans what they intend Bush to do
in the next 4 years.

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