Tuesday, September 04, 2007

THIS JUST IN! WHEN THE PEOPLE GET SCREWED IT'S "BI-PARTISAN"

 
DEMOCRATIC TRAITORS BILLED AS 'BI-PARTISAN'?  IT'S A FACT, AS THEY SAY ON KIDS ON THE HALL.
 
AP CALLS THEM "BIPARTISAN," THE HILL CALLS THEM "BIPARTISAN," BUT THE REALITY IS THEY ARE CRAPPY LITTLE WAR HAWKS.  ALLEN BOYD, FOR INSTANCE, VOTED IN FAVOR OF THE ILLEGAL WAR ON IRAQ. 
 
THE TRAITORS JOINED WITH REPUBLICAN WAR HAWKS TO CALL FOR MORE ILLEGAL WAR WRITING, "IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL THAT WE STABILIZE AND TRANSITION THE COMBAT MISSION TO THE IRAQIS".  TRANSLATION, THE TROOPS WILL STAY THERE.
 
THEY ARE THE "WE" THAT WILL FIGHT FOR THE SICKOS WITH BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS.  ALL DEMOCRATS SIGNING ARE KNOWN AS "BLUE DOGS" AND IT IS A SIGN OF NANCY PELOSI'S INCOMPETENCE AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE THAT NOT ONLY CAN THEY ISSUE THIS PUBLIC LETTER TO HER BUT ALSO THAT THEY SIT ON VARIOUS COMMITTEES. 
 
THEY ARE TOMORROW'S JOE LIEBERMANS TODAY.
 
AND THEY WILL PROLONG THE ILLEGAL WAR BECAUSE THE HOUSE LEADERSHIP IS INEFFECTIVE AND THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS DO NOT TRULY WANT TO END THE ILLEGAL WAR.
 
THE LESSON THE PRESS TEACHES TODAY IS WHEN TWO CONSERVATIVE GROUPS GROPE ONE ANOTHER IN PUBLIC IT IS CALLED "BI-PARTISANSHIP."  FAR FILTHIER THAN ANY BATHROOM SEX REVELEAD LAST WEEK OR EARLIER.  THE ONES SCREWING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE JOHN S. TANNER, TIM MAHONEY, ALLEN BOYD, DENNIS CARDOZA AND BOB BRADY.
 
 
 
 
Starting with war resisters, but with a twist.  As noted yesterday in "The Nation ignores war resisters even as it publishes the child of one," Rebecca's "the nation magazine ignores war resisters while publishing the child of one," Cedric's "The Nation refuses to cover war resisters while publishing the child of one," The Third Estate Sunday Review's "The Nation ignores war resisters even while publishing the child of one," Trina's "The Nation ignores war resisters while publishing the child of one," Betty's "The Nation refuses to cover war resisters while publishing the child of one," Elaine's "The Nation refuses to cover war resisters while publishing the child of one," Mike's "The Nation ignores war resisters while publishing the child of one" and Wally's "The Nation ignores war resisters even while publishing the child of one" (Ruth worked on the report as well) political theorist and writer Naomi Klein is the child of war resisters.  Her father could not serve in an illegal war and the family went to Canada.  The story isn't that uncommon in Canada (then or now) but it is worth noting at a time when some 'helpful' scolds want to insist that war resisters going to Canada today are 'destroying' their lives.  Many made that claim during Vietnam, well before and well after Pierre Trudeau's 1969 decision that Canada would welcome war resisters.  Klein, an internationally known author, activist and filmaker, is hardly toiling away in obscurity.  Her life was not destroyed by her parents' decision.  In fact, her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, comes out in the United States later this month.  This is her follow up to her best selling No Logo (Fences and Windows was a collection of her previously published columns).  Joshua and Brandi Key have four children (Adam, Anna, Philip and Zackary), Jeremy Hinzman and Nga Nguyen have a son (Liam), Patrick and Jill Hart have a son (Rian), Kimberly and Mario Rivera have two children and those are just some of the war resisters in Canada with children.  They don't need lectures from 'well meaning' and 'helpful' types telling them it's "DOOM!  DOOM!  DOOM! I TELL YOU DOOM!"  Reality is Naomi Klein's life was not harmed or short changed because her parents went to Canada to avoid an illegal war.  It's bad enough when the BBC's War Hawk and John McCain lovin' Kathy Kay (subbing on NPR) tries that tactic with Joshua Key, it's even worse when this 'cautionary' note comes from those who are supposed to be supporting war resistance within the military.
 
 
There is a growing movement of resistance within the US military which includes Timothy Richard, Robert Weiss, Phil McDowell, Steve Yoczik, Ross Spears, Zamesha Dominique, Jared Hood, James Burmeister, Eli Israel, Joshua Key, Ehren Watada, Terri Johnson, Carla Gomez, Luke Kamunen, Leif Kamunen, Leo Kamunen, Camilo Mejia, Kimberly Rivera, Dean Walcott, Linjamin Mull, Agustin Aguayo, Justin Colby, Marc Train, Abdullah Webster, Robert Zabala, Darrell Anderson, Kyle Snyder, Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman, Kevin Lee, Mark Wilkerson, Patrick Hart, Ricky Clousing, Ivan Brobeck, Aidan Delgado, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, Clifton Hicks, David Sanders, Dan Felushko,Brandon Hughey, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Joshua Casteel, Katherine Jashinski, Dale Bartell, Chris Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey, Chris Capps, Tim Richard, Hart Viges, Michael Blake, Christopher Mogwai, Christian Kjar, Kyle Huwer, Vincent La Volpa, DeShawn Reed and Kevin Benderman. In total, forty-one US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.

Information on war resistance within the military can be found at The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline, Iraq Veterans Against the War and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters. Tom Joad maintains a list of known war resisters.  The G.I. Rights Hotline link has been included in the snapshots forever now, but please note that this is a new website.  The new website is still being upgarded (but working) and with the new website comes a new phone number (877) 4474487 which is "GI RGHTS" the name but missing the second "I".  To make sure everyone's aware that there is a new number and a new (toll free) number, we'll included this notice in the snapshot all week.  Again, The G.I. Rights Hotline is a new and improved (and new and improving) website that will begin replacing the old site.
 
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Staying on reality, today  KPFK's Uprising aired the latest radio commentary of Rahul Mahajan (not yet posted at his site Empire Notes) where he took on the piece of illegal war trash that is No End In Sight.  "Over the weekend, I had the dubious pleasure of watching No End in Sight, a documentary about the war on iraq made by Charles Ferguson, a political scientist, former consultant for the Brookings Institute and internet millionaire.  Although the film has been garnering excellent reviews, it has a must feel to it.  Ferguson prides himself on the fact that this film is neither a Republican nor a Democratic one.  The upshot is that it's a film about a reasonable foreign policy establishment, a reasonable invasion, and a bunch of reasonable people being sabotaged and undercut by a small handful of jackasses -- Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Bremer and the only onscreen villain -- a Washington bureaucrat named Walter Slocombe who first developed the military demobilization plan.  There is no examination of the sense of the larger project, of an establishment that mostly supported the war, or even of what the real motives of the invasion might have been.  George Packer and Samantha Power as outside critics are not the people to do this job . . .  What the film really brings home is that the story of this war is already written and heavily promoted and, unlike the case of Vietnam, it's a script for restoring the status quo ante.  It's a story told by members of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York Times journalists, Congresspeople, retired generals and mildly dissident members of the military-intelligence establishment -- a group not exactly noted for ever getting anything right.  So far, the antiwar movement has not made any headway in telling its own story -- insofar as it even has one." Or as we put it last month at The Third Estate Sunday Review, "No End In Sight when the peace movement gets behind crap."  And sadly, some are.  Some are plugging this hideous film that avoids the issue of the illegal war to 'teach' a better illegal war, one with better planning.  How stupid is the alleged peace movement?  Including one 'name' who included the public e-mail address for this site to pass on, "I agrfee [sic] completely with ____.  it is VERY powerful....with administration and high army officials 'playing themselves,' so to speak."  No, it's not a film for the peace movement to support (and why I was placed on this forward along with a hundred others, I have no idea).  To return to Naomi Klein, her  "Baghdad Year Zero" (Harper's magazine) outlined (in 2004) that the chaos in Iraq wasn't an accident, it was planned by the US administration.  Now either you support Klein's reporting (and Greg Palast's and Antonia Juhasz . . . ) or you support this 'filmmaker' (first time) with the Council for/of Foreign Relations and Brookings Institute to his 'credits,' this filmmaker who stated that the problem with "the war" (he doesn't call it illegal" was that there were not enough "boots on the ground" -- sell that 'surge,' Charlie, sell it!  And, sadly, he'll get a lot of help from that from people -- from 'names' -- that should know better -- that should damn well know better.  His fictional film (passed as a documentary) sells illegal wars by accepting them (and Charlie was for the illegal war and still is) as evidenced by public statements such as "if this had been done competently, it could have turned out much, much differently." (Those are his words when he appeared on Uprising July 31, 2007.)
 
In other news of get serious quick, Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas a rally was a failure.  It was a failure for multiple reasons including poor planning, location choice, time (you don't do a march or rally in the mid-day Texas heat), and just about every thing else that could have been done wrong.  Click here for our report at The Third Estate Sunday Review. And here for our report on the trip to Dallas: "The party was a big success. People talked about Iraq, had some great food (and drinks -- Jim's become an expert at mixing drinks), told jokes, shared, caught up, great tunes, you name it. Did it end the illegal war?  No. Neither did the crappy event in Fort Worth. But at least our spur of the moment party had attendance.  Comments by members (and my own) can be found here.  It was a 'leadership' failure where 'leadership' sent a message people picked up on: You aren't wanted.  And so they rightly stayed away.  There's a big lesson there.
 
 
RECOMMENDED: "Iraq snapshot"

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