"Here, at 4.44 am on, a US patrol in two vehicles was surprised and overrun by insurgents. The burned bodies of four soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were found on the road. Three others had disappeared. It was obviously a mistake for a small and isolated detachment to be in an insurgent-controlled area. Such is the fear of roadside bombs that a relieving force took an hour to reach them."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2542384.ece "Such is the fear of roadside bombs that a relieving force took an hour to reach them" How many reports like this do we need before we realize ...? ---------- The neocon mission was to establish authority in the ME. They disguised and packaged the mission with puffery laced with deceit, and convinced enough people to go along with their agenda to get that invasion launched. True to the fanatic mold, they completely miscalculated two crucial areas. First they miscalculated the resistance, and second they miscalculated popular support. They've evidentially found enough professional solider-types from a population of 300 million to keep the fighting going, and they have extracted enough of our tax money over time to build a formidable arsenal. But as history has shown time and time again, there is no power stronger then the dedicated "hearts and minds" of people who refuse to be conquered. The TV distorts this resistance behind a cloak of "sectarian violence", but the truth is that people in the Arab/Muslim world will not tolerate being occupied. Surely we must intuitively know this, because we ourselves wouldn't tolerate it either. This gang, the perpetrators of that invasion, are now plotting and scheming to unleash the Big Guns, and we're still letting them get away with it. How is this so? Because we're being fooled again. This time we're being tricked into believing that because we've decided that invasion was a mistake and no longer support it, they will listen and it will end. False! Why? Because the gang still has the power. They still control the gates of Congress, they still control our primary information supply, and they still have their fingers on triggers of destruction the likes of which the world has never seen. A single submarine can destroy an entire country, and they have a fleet of them. Since the 50's we've been in and out of the 'nuclear holocaust' mindset so many times that we've become numb and jaded to the point where we all know it's true, but have lost interest in talking about it anymore. We now think that because it hasn't actually played out after so many false alarms, that it cannot or will not happen. But the truth is that a finger pushes a button and it does happen. Just like that. Victory, in the conventional sense, is no longer a possibility. Now it's becoming clear that there are only two strategic possibilities left: withdrawing and accepting defeat, or pushing that button. Which bring us to another thing we're being fooled about: the depth of the gang's commitment. While here we are today, pretty much expecting another Vietnam-style ending, with another embarrassing withdrawal and a decade or so licking our wounds. But is that what the gang will actually do? Will the military machine, the oil barons and the soldiers of Israel, aka the neocons, accept a humiliating defeat, or will they push that button before losing control? They planned this mission for years, and then they took their shot. They know they will not get another chance to establish their authority in the ME, so this is it. This is the Big Showdown. And if you have any doubt whatsoever about their resolve, do some research into the permanent bases they are *still* building in Iraq. Bush is disoriented and in a delusional stupor, but Cheney is a real live monster. He is the gang's finger, fully capable of pushing that button. All he needs is an excuse, and he and his cronies know all about fabricating stories. We have one recourse: justice. It is justice, not violence, that is the means to the end. In case we've lost sight, the end is a peaceful world engaged in eliminating suffering and building paths to our future in space. Unjustified violence begets only more violence. If that wasn't clear 4 years ago, it should be very painfully clear by now. But justice lives down the street named truth, the turnoff to which we missed some four + years back. It's still not too late to turn around, but we surely don't have a mountain of time. The light of day that shines into the house of justice will melt away the masks of the charade, and from the truth it reveals will come the demand that the perps be put on trial for crimes against humanity. Tens, some say hundreds, of thousands of Iraqi's are dead so far, and their country is destroyed. Not a one of those people did us any harm before that invasion. Now, as a result of that invasion, we have countless millions of people all over the world hating us and wanting to see us destroyed. Stopping this madness is a matter of justice, true, but it's also the way to put out the fire that threatens to engulf us all. It appears that people here are afraid to go to the streets, because the police have made it very clear they have no compunction to beat down and jail protestors. That leaves us with the few who are unafraid, and for others the Internet, at least until the gang moves to control it. Is this enough? We're sure going to find out. Bill _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
