Thursday, October 19, 2006
Woodward 10-19-2006
Woodward’s latest book, State of Denial, portrays
the Bush administration as completely incompetent, obsessed with following
their neo-con agenda of total world dominance. Rice ignored repeated warnings
of the 9/11 attacks and for this alone she and her superiors, Bush and Cheney
must be held accountable. Woodward exposes Rumsfeld as a bully ignoring the
advice of his field commanders.
In spite of mounting opposition, Congress voted
100-0 to continue funding the war and granted US interrogators permission to
continue torturing detainees with complete impunity. This speaks volumes of the
complete lack of independent thinkers among our elected officials. The U.S.
military budget has now peaked at $447 billion. The sane voices of retired
generals are ignored. Even the ghost of Kissinger has reappeared urging the
administration to ‘stay the course’, repeating the advice which led to the
killings fields in Vietnam.
Money for critical domestic programs has all but
evaporated. Iraq (and Afghanistan) is awash in blood as searing testimony to
the failed policies of this administration. Drawing from the lessons of
history, a united mass movement at the grass roots level is the only way to
bring our troops home and bring an end to the sectarian violence in Iraq. The war
profiteers must be held accountable for the obscene profits and wholesale theft
as depicted in the documentary ‘Iraq for Sale.’
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