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Americans Conditioned For War Comment by Larry Ross, December 22, 2006
Americans have had four years of unjustified, illegal war for no legitimate reason or excuse. Constantly they have been bombarded by a litany of lies, war propaganda, and pro-war commentators, and democratic politicians repeating these lies. War is the new neocon -generated reality for many Americans. Bush and his cronies usually embrace as revealed truth, that which is the opposite of the truth. This is very evident in Robert Gates call for more troops for Iraq. Nothing could be more dangerous and against US interests, than escalating the war in Iraq. Yet with great fervour, Gates claims the opposite and calls for escalation of the war as the way to get out. The situation will continue to spiral out of control with greater rapidity, as the US escalates the violence. Is it according to the real neocon plans to foment ever-greater civil war and a weakening of the US puppet government? Will that supply some of the excuses they need to begin a sudden pre-emptive war on Iran and continue the escalation process throughout the Middle East until they have achieved a general state of war with the Islamic world? More war means overseas more fascist-style legislation to suppress dissent among the captive population at home. Americans are not only being robbed of their wealth by the escalating war and Pentagon budgets. Their democracy is being taken away as Bush trumpets slogans about peace, freedom and democracy.
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Military Escalation: Bush Can't Kick the Habit by Robert Scheer, AlterNet, December 21, 2006
Here we go again: A new secretary of defense and yet another call for ending the war in Iraq by escalating it. What are they smoking in the Bush White House? Even as government statistics now show marijuana is America's No. 1 cash crop, it is important to remember that militarism is the most dangerous drug threatening our sanity. Yet even formerly sober folks -- first Colin Powell and now new Secretary of Defense Robert Gates -- get a contact high from cozying up to the walking hallucinogen that is our president. Succumbing to the Bush fantasy that freedom is fertilized by firepower, a vision that has mucked up Iraq beyond recognition, Gates told CBS that "as the president has made clear, we simply cannot afford to fail in the Middle East. Failure in Iraq at this juncture would be a calamity that would haunt our nation, impair our credibility, and endanger Americans for generations to come." This from a man who recently made sense, during his confirmation hearings, when he told members of Congress that we are not winning this war, despite having committed, proportionally, as many troops as we did in Vietnam. But now, as a rising chorus of obsessed hawks calls for a "surge" in U.S. troop deployment in Iraq -- a call echoed even by some prominent Democrats -- Gates endorses the staying-the-course strategy for compounding the Iraq failure rejected by the voters. A member of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG) who had apparently supported its unanimous findings that the military strategy was bankrupt is suddenly blinded by Bush's Iraq victory myopia. Stories by Robert Scheer
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