DeBurca, I thank you for this, and God Bless the irish. Long may they wave!

De B- The world was with us. Chirac said “We’re all New Yorkers now.” The news coverage of people in major capitals in long lines as you described. I remember all the scary rhectoric, the deliberate use of fear “You’re with us or against us….we’ll smoke ‘em out of their caves.” All the two-bit phony cowboyism from someone who is afraid of horses. In that time of super-heated fear and patriotism Obama made his speech in public, on tape against going to war—stating why and all the repercussions that would ensue and which subsequently happened as he predicted. On Feb 15th 2003 I was part of the global wide 80 million people marching in capital streets all over the world, millions in Rome, Madrid, throughout the Middle East, Oceania, the US….San Francisco was wall to wall with marchers. It barely made the MSM. It was exciting because I believed we would stop this inhumane, illegal, and immoral ‘Halliburton-Exxon War’ from happening. Then on Mar 18, 2003 that sickening ‘Shock and Awe.’ How collectively deranged and sick does a group of men have to be to sit around and plan an overwhelming attack on an urban city of 5M, 50% under 15, and call it “rolling out a new product in the fall and KNOWING as the Bush administration KNEW [as did those of us with working brains] that Saddam [Rumsfelds former goody buddy and Halliburton’s good customer] had nothing to do with 911. They programmatically stired up the fervor. All of this done by calculate design and in writing that anyone could read [i.e. news organizations] in the Project for the New American Century signed by Cheney, and all of the Neocons in 1998 stating exactly what would happen. Going into Iraq, removing Saddam, installing 14 permanent US bases [we also built the largest US Embassy in the history of the world] and in the PNAC the words that this could not happen, the American public would not go for it, without a “New Pearl Harbor.’ When golfer Patrick Stewart’s Lear Jet went off course over rural western America and did not respond to air traffic control calls, within minutes US jets were alongside, filming, the film exists. Hundreds of times a year US military jets deploy anytime a plane goes 15% off it’s vector and does not respond to air traffic control. WDC and NYC are the most guarded airspace in the world. My husband was a naval pilot before he completed grad school and eventually became a CEO, his brother was in charge of training all United airline pilots, I’ve seen in real time just how effective the US military at that when once sitting at lunch at a oceanside restaurant in Salem, MA I saw a strange looking black jet in an otherwise bright and empty blue vista and then suddenly two US military jets appearing out of nowhere flying alongside the strange jet, criss crossing in front of it and waving their wings. This was the day Anwar Sadat was killed and the 4 male stockbrokers I was with from the local EF Hutton office said “happens all the time…its a Russian MIG straffing the coast.” To believe the offical story, one needs to believe that a regular action that happens hundreds of times a year, in the most technologically advanced military in history, with jets parked on the tarmac within minutes of the Pentagon, with the Bush administration knowing there were hijacked air craft menandering in our skies in a circuitous route for over an hour—no jets were deployed. Cheney was in charge at that time of military excercises that precisely duplicated what was happening in real time. The “Commander in Chief’ of our US forces sat reading ‘My Pet Goat’ to schoolchildren knowing that our main cities were under attack, that our national iconic buildings had been hit, that our citizens were roasting to death. He did nothing. Hitler burned the Reichstag as a pretext for declaring himself all powerful, to stir up fear [the most blinding force there is] and to start a phony war that eventually killed 70 million people, most of them innocent civilians. Republicans are ‘fall in line people.” They do not question; when questioning is the basic duty of every citizen. We have no real news, we have attractive puppets working ultimately for multinationals like GE that builds bombs and also owns NBC. This phony war and been a gusher for folks like them. McCain is even more of a gun happy war mongering thoughtless fool than Bush, as if that were possible.—he voted with him 90% of the time. Exxon et al will say “do this” and his response will effectively be ‘yessire.’ Republicans have an opportunity to really think, to really investigate and try to draw connections, to care more about the planet and the people and the real America that was great because she was good and was turned into a terrorist, rogue nation by GWB/Cheney and the NeoCons not just to get control of Iraq, but to establish geopolitical control of the entire Middle East, ie look at a map of what countries ring the Caspian Sea that has 33% more oil than Alaska. The US has puppets in most Middle East nations and want them in Iran and Syria too. This does not make us secure, it makes us hated. Former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler, one of 19 to be twice awarded the Medal of Honor wrote ‘War is a Racket.” He wrote how he was nothing but a muscle man for US coporations and that there is nothing as profitable to them as war. None are so blind that will not see, there are consequences to hedgemony and they will be for our children and grandchildren. Imperialist nations have always been the source of their own demise. From 9/11 onward observing the programmed hysteria, the ripping away of everything I’ve loved about America and what has made us great, the unquestioning allegiance of Republicans for their pResident instead of their country and their Constitution, has been like watching the slow and agonizing deathe of the greatest experiment in the history of the world. And now, Republicans are going to vote to continue the horrow show for the rest of us and the rest of the world. And for that they have my total contempt. You vote for it, you’re part of it. The blood is on your hands. Haven’t you destroyed enough? Ever hear of unintended consequences? Blowback? For pete’s sake wake up instead of being a tool of the GOP and making America more a corporatocracy. http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Pearl_Harbor http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&ei=nEnJSLSnJ… http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm