America begins to sicken of carnage in Iraq T A More

Opinion, August 2003, www.aljazeerah.info

America begins to sicken of carnage in Iraq

T A More

8/26/03

A new poll finds most Americans believe the United States will be bogged down in Iraq for years to come, and are beginning to sicken of the carnage, misery and death. Over 314 US & British Soldiers and over 7700 innocent Iraqi citizens have died thus far to enrich the Bush Regime's Corporate Global Empire : http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/updates/081203.html

The Newsweek poll finds nearly 70 percent believe the United States will not achieve its goals in Iraq. Of course, its probably because Americans have been kept in the dark concerning the real motives. The USA's spending on so-called "defense" exeeds the next richest 18 countries combined each year! This includes the Nato Countries, France, China, Russia & the Arab World: for goodness sake, our spending on the military industrial complex is excessively gluttonous and more-does-not-translate into better defense! The USSR starved their people over-spending on their military for years, and eventually bankrupted their country (The USA is making the same mistakes spending on Defense Contractor's boondoggles that don't even work like the Anti-Ballistic Missile System & Osprey, etc. costing hundreds of billions & are jokes!). You will not be better protected if you buy 1000 guns instead of 2 or 3, to defend your home and starve your fa! mily in the process!

The Pentagon's Military Industrial Complex has run amok with excessively obscene spending exceeding $450 billion per annum (23% of our annual budget: just plain stupid) - We can protect our nation spending much, much less on enriching corrupt Defense Contractors & Pentagon Officials. Moreover, the Europeans spend a higher percentage of their national budgets on programmes to ensure that all of their citizens live a decent life including education, health care, infrastructure, social security, etc. The major security & defense risk that Europe, China & Russia are worried about is the United States of America's Rogue Regime whose wars on behalf of corporations destabilize countries and create more terrorism.

Nearly six in 10 Americans worry that the U.S. military will be stretched too thin should another security threat arise, while seven in 10 fear the costs of the war will increase the deficit and hurt the economy. Since we have no draft, only the poor and working class sacrifice their sons and daughters blood and lives. You won't see the off-spring of Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, neo-con "arm-chair" chicken-hawks, or the Corporate Robber-barons, making any sacrifices in blood or treasure.

The war costs the United States roughly $1 billion a week. The cost of the war in Iraq to-date exceeds $70 billion, with an on-going cost of over $4 billion per month:-- due to the Bush Cabal's arrogance and inept planning. Bush has run up a deficit in 2003 of over $455 billion to enrich his cronies with tax cuts & welfare-for-the-rich and corporations. Bush's big deficit spending will exceed $1.9 trillion by the end of 2004-- and he has contributed to the highest National Debt in our nation's history.

Americans have mixed feelings over how to proceed. About 48 percent say the United States should withdraw military personnel because of attacks on coalition troops, while 47 percent say the soldiers should stay. Perhaps the Bush Regime's kids and the kids of their Corporate Cronies should go fight and die. Aren't they patriotic?

Most polled -- 72 percent -- say they would support turning over some authority for rebuilding Iraq to the United Nations. The United Nations has expertise in building governmental institutions that would enable the Iraqi people to assume control of their own country. Of course, that's just what the Bush Regime's Corporate Paymasters don't want, since they're counting on enriching themselves off of American & Iraqi Cannon Fodder (i.e. US military & Iraqi people) to grab Iraqi assets (i.e. Oil).

Refer to "Enough is Enough" on http://www.msnbc.com/news/956458.asp

Earth, a planet hungry for peace

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).