Subj: [CCCC-USA] [P] War is Hell except to the Ruling Elites
Date: 3/12/2003 9:07:07 AM Eastern Standard Time
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BLOOD FOR OIL WAR IS HELL for the poor and the victims War is NOT Hell for the ruling elite......
"War is hell to the poor, to the weak, to women, children, and the elderly. It is often hell to the young men who wage wars, who see and experience the inhuan horrors of war, and have to carry the physical and psychological scars of battle to their last days..To the wealthy, to the elites, to the business class, war is not only not hell, it's opportunity. Indeed war is big business." [Mumia Abu-Jamal - "The Road to Iraq"]
War is hell for the military who must fight it. War is also very one-sided. It is not a fair fight. The intent of making a war is not to give your enemy a fair chance to fight back. The intent is to kill your opposition and the more barbaric the better. War is a weapon of mass destruction of the strong against the weak. To balance out the one-sided nature of war the weak enemy sometimes cheats and doesn't play by the rules; it may resort to using so-called "weapons of mass destruction" which ironically it procures from the strongest powers which yell foul if used against them - while the strongest power in the world, the United States uses carpet bombs, cluster bombs, depleted uranium and it's own arsenal of weapons of mass destruction with impunity.
"To the US, war is profitable simply because it is the top arms dealer on earth. The US military well knows Iraqi military capability, in part because the bulk of their war material came from the united States..." [Abu-Jamal]
INGRATITUDE OF THOSE WHO DISAGREE WITH US
"Actually, the issues of peace or war against Iraq, and of having a decent job, health insurance, housing, and secure human rights, are matters of deep concern to people, not only in this country but the world over. The President and his preemptive war strategists must know that. Accordingly, they continue to camouflage their threatened use of force, including the use of weapons of mass destruction, behind the rhetoric of morality. Take their retaliatory verbal attacks on France as an example. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice implies moral indignation at France's ingratitude as she reminds the American public (with plenty of `pro-active' help from the mass media) that it was United States troops that liberated France from Nazi Germany in World War II. Not mentioned is the fact that America long resisted joining the military struggle against Nazism, coming in only after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war against the U.S. The war hawk critics of France are equally silent about how the French helped America's fight for independence against George III (of course for their own geopolitical reasons)." [John J. Neumaier <Neuluther@AOL.COM> - Daily Freeman, Kingston, N.Y. Sunday, March 2, 2003 - "Commentary: War or peace? The struggle continues"]
HOW DID OUR OIL GET UNDER THEIR SAND?
Our weapons have to be more lethal than their weapons. Their weapons are a violation of humanity but our weapons are all right because they do bad things and they are not democratic. Our democracy is seriously in question since as Michael Parenti and others have written about, which is a "Democracy for the Few" which essentially is a dictatorship under the guise of democracy. It is a republic, not a democracy. There are representatives who represent those who paid for their elections. People are influenced by money spent to spread their propaganda no less so than the corporate owned media which spreads their propaganda of a ruling elite which pays for it.
What is different between them and us, between others and the U.S. is the size of our military and the technology we create with our money - the money which would be better spent on health care and improved working conditions and jobs.
"...What is different today is the far greater destructive force of military weapons, as first dramatically illustrated by the American use of atomic weapons of mass destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This year the U.S.- planned military expenditure of over $400 billion exceeds the combined total of its NATO allies, and Russia, China, Japan and all its perceived enemy states." [Neumaier]
John Neumaier writes:
"In a 14-page section "Blood for Oil", the German news magazine DER SPIEGEL(1/13/03) gives historical background to the rise of Saddam Hussein and the threatened war against Iraq, including how the U.S. government backed Hussein in the Iraqi war against Iran, in spite of his appalling human rights record. The article features a 1983 photo of a smiling Donald Rumsfeld (then President Reagan's emissary - now Secretary of Defense) shaking the hand of our then ally Saddam Hussein. It shows how geopolitical interests win out over any moral consideration. DER SPIEGEL also reminds us of that day in August, 1990, when American ambassador April Glaspie let Hussein believe that his planned invasion of Kuwait would not be of interest to the United States. He thought he had a free hand to attack Kuwait, as had been the case when he had the U.S. blessing in his war against Iran." [Neumaier]
Hank Roth
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