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Date: September 13, 2007 2:45:11 PM PDT
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Subject: Fwd: Pigs of War
In one of my meetings with Congressman Conyers, he told me that it
was more important to put a Democrat back in the White House in '08
than it was to "end the war." After I recovered from my shock, I
knew it was confirmed that partisan politics is exactly what is
killing us ...
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From: "Jim S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: September 13, 2007 1:24:16 AM PDT
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Subject: Pigs of War
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18367.htm
Pigs of War
By Cindy Sheehan
09/12/07
"I believe it is imperative that we never lose our voice of
dissent, regardless
of political pressure. As Martin Luther King, Jr said: 'there comes
a time when
silence is betrayal'However, it is unforgivable that Congress
has been unwilling
to examine these matters or take action to prevent these
circumstances [executive
branch crimes] from occurring again."-- Congressman John Conyers (D-
MI),
Introduction to Constitution in Crisis (2006)
"ICH" -- Pigs of War come in both political colors of red and
blue. We are all
unfortunately very familiar with the red pigs. The pigs of war who
manipulated,
cherry-picked, stove-piped and manufactured intelligence to suggest
to the world
that Saddam had mushroom cloud producing W.M.D. and something to do
with the
tragic events of 9/11 that occurred six years ago now.
Many blue politicians are pigs of war and they willingly went along
with the
deceptions and even parroted red pig talking points whenever they
got a chance
but now claim that the "fiendishly clever" George fooled them into
believing the
nearly unbelievable. I dont know about you, but I take small
comfort in that
excuse. When we have a system of government where our supposed
public servants
can profit off of war along with the corporations that pad their
bank accounts
both blue and red pigs benefit and young people needlessly lose
their lives
sometimes killing other humans in the process.
Our troops and the people of Iraq are the ones getting trapped
between our
pusillanimous politicians. These dear human beings become ciphers
in purely
political calculations from Congress and only an exercise in
abstraction from
pundits, poets, publishers and the majority of the average American
who has not
been personally touched by this excremental occupation. In Iraq,
every citizen
has been personally touched and the American occupation is a living,
fire-breathing, palpable entity that has intruded its imperialistic
self into
every aspect of their daily lives.
How do I know that Congress is playing politics with human hearts?
All one has to
do is observe the lack of action on the part of the red and blue
pigs to come to
this sad but inevitable conclusion. Apparently, MAJORITY Leader,
Harry Reid
(D-NV) has spent more time over his summer recess trying to
convince red pigs to
go against George's war plan than he spent trying to coalesce his
blue caucus
into something that would not resemble the red pigs so closely that
the blur
becomes purple. He and Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) have already decided
that they do
not have enough votes to end the occupation just as they decided
that impeachment
was "off the table" even before they were elected! So, they will
happily hand
over to George more of your tax money and Chinas money to
continue the killing
fields in Iraq. Why are they so miserly with democracy, but
generous with our
treasury and with our dear human treasure?
I got two very overt answers to this question one day in Congress
this past
spring when I was on the Hill. In one of my meetings with
Congressman Conyers,
he told me that it was more important to put a Democrat back in the
White House
in '08 than it was to "end the war." After I recovered from my
shock, I knew it
was confirmed that partisan politics is exactly what is killing our
children and
the innocent civilians in Iraq. My next stop was in a
Congresswomans office who
has always been 100% correct about the war. She is a lovely woman
with a lovely
heart and does not in anyway qualify (and there are a few dozen
others who do
not) as a blue pig. She had tears in her eyes when she told me:
"Cindy, when I
go to Speaker's meetings and we talk about the war, all the talk is
about
politics and not one of them mentions the heartbreak that will
occur if we dont
pull our troops out, now." People are dying for two diverse but
equally deadly
political agendas. The red pigs want to keep the war going because
they feed out
of the trough of carnage and the blue pigs want to keep it going
for votes!
Either way is reprehensible.
There is a lot of chatter about the Petraeus (written and produced
by the White
House) report. Will the general recommend drawing down troops --
even if he
does, three-five thousand doesnt even bring the number down to
pre-surge levels
-- and the report says, in direct contradiction to the G.A.O.
report on the
surge, that sectarian violence in Iraq is down 75%, without saying
that the red
pigs have re-defined the term "sectarian violence." All I know is
that the
report will paint a rosier picture than what really exists on the
ground in Iraq
and like Ron Paul said the other day in the Fox News "Leader of the
Red Pigs
Wannabe" debate: "How can anyone believe anything they say?"
The blue pigs won't believe the report, but they will expediently
go along with
the red pig request to further fund the disaster because they
believe that it
will mean political victory in '08.
It is up to we the people to care more about humanity and democracy
than either
the reds or the blues and it is mandatory that we mount campaigns
to defeat the
pigs and their masters: the war machine.
Twenty-one families here in America and dozens more in Iraq have
felt the sting
of the lethal politics of war just since the beginning of
September, and the beat
goes on.
What if instead of pigs of war in our government, we had elected
officials who
put humanity before politics and people before profits? Maybe the
horrible twin
tragedies of the Bush Regime and 9/11 would have never occurred
within our
borders and the rest of the world could look up to the U.S.A. with
respect as a
true leader in world peace instead of glaring at our shocking and
awful quest for
empire off the backs of the many who benefit the pocketbooks of the
few? It's
not to late, but we are getting there.
Silence is betrayal and the silence of a host of blue pigs is the
biggest
betrayal of all.
~~~
[Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan who was killed
in Bush's war
of terror on 04/04/04. She is the co-founder and president of Gold
Star Families
for Peace and The Camp Casey Peace Institute.
http://www.gsfp.org/
http://www.thecampcaseypeaceinstitute.org/ ]
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