Comment by Larry Ross, March 16, 2006

That Bush has stepped up his air raids in Iraq, doesn't care who he kills and maims and that Iraqis testify that this increases the level of Iraqi hate and resistance indicates Bush's real strategy.

Bush wants chaos and civil war in Iraq - as much as he can generate - before he attacks his next target which is Iran.
The more violence and civil war in Iraq, and the weaker the new Iraqi government is, the more Americans can claim to be needed, must stay and "help build the new democracy" and build more permanent military bases. Also, more violence means easier pickings for those systematically stripping Iraq of its assets, and more ' evidence' that Iran can be blamed for the increasing resistance. The more war, the more Bush's cronies in the U.S. military/industrial complex prosper.

Inevitably after Bush attacks Iran, and perhaps uses nuclear weapons, the war will spread.
By attacking a prison in Palestine, Israel has added more flames to Arab anger across the middle east and triggered probable Arab reprisals. That coincides with American strategy. Bush (and Israel) will claim more Arab "terrorism" and use it as justification to widen their attacks and work to help defend America's "friends and allies".
The middle east will be in flames just as Bush's neocons planned.

Then we may see more US use of nuclear weapons, as planned with new US nuclear war doctrines.
Claiming to have heavenly sanction, and God whispering in his ear, Bush will resort to any crime.
What I'm not sure about is: Does Bush just want to expand American domination and his growing oil Empire?
Or is Bush nutty enough to really believe in the Christian Fundamentalist garbage about Armageddon, End Times and being raptured to heaven while us unbelievers burn in his nuclear hell.?

In other words is he really determined to bring on a nuclear armageddon, which he claims to believe is prophesied in the Bible? If God calls for it, he and millions of others think it must be divine and a good thing. Millions of American fundamentalists believe this and they are a very,very powerful, wealthy and focused force in American politics.

What Americans don't seem to be able to understand is that when they make a mediocre, born again, ex-alcoholic person with a very bad record - the most powerful man in history, you have to expect the worse.

As has been said and demonstrated many times before: " Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

It is very, very difficult for Americans to recognise and face this obvious reality. Too many of them still want to worship their great leader, just as Serbs worshipped their deceitful, assassin war criminal leader - Milosovich. And like Germans worshipped their lying, deceitful dictator Adolph Hitler, whose wars and death camps killed 50 million people.

Extremely few Americans, especially top level Democrats, Republicans, Senators, Congressmen, Government employees, and the very rich want to lift a finger to oppose Bush.

The consequences of this mass insanity and deeply embedded selfishness, may very well allow Bush to continue, and trigger events that will result in a runaway nuclear war that will end humanity.

A huge, really big educational campaign is needed to counter the propaganda and turn around this bandwagon leading toward a Bush Armageddon.

What is obvious is that the American public can be fooled repeatedly, and the more foul Bush's crimes are - like staging a terrorist attack on the U.S. like 9/11, - the more people will believe that he is a nice, honest born again, Christian Fundamentalist who would never, ever do anything really that bad. Not our upstanding moral President.
Another painfully obvious fact, is that the opposition to Bushism is so little and ineffectual, especially in Congress and the Senate, that he can continue to lie and cheat and commit the most dastardly of crimes, and get away with it.

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U.S. military airstrikes significantly increased in Iraq

By Tom Lasseter, Knight Ridder Newspapers, March, 14, 2006

A review of military data shows that daily bombing runs and jet-missile launches have increased by more than 50 percent in the past five months, compared with the same period last year. Knight Ridder's statistical findings were reviewed and confirmed by American Air Force officials in the region.

The numbers also show that U.S. forces dropped bombs on more cities during the last five months than they did during the same period a year ago. Air strikes a year ago struck at least nine cities, but were mostly concentrated in and around the western city of Fallujah. This year, U.S. warplanes have struck at least 18 cities.

The spike in bombings comes at a crucial time for American diplomatic efforts in Iraq. Officials in Washington have said that the situation in Iraq is improving, creating expectations that at least some American troops might be able to withdraw over the next year.

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