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Parsing Lethal Words, This Administration Must Go. Now!
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BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
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Suzanne
Dear BuzzFlash,
The Bush Administration knowingly misled the nation into war. 10,000 innocent Iraqi civilians have been killed. The Iraqi environment has been contaminated with depleted uranium, and unexploded cluster bombs.
The Administration rained down an unprovoked blitz of over 1,400 Tomahawk missiles alone, at a cost of a million dollars each, on one of the poorest countries in the world the size of California, with a population that is 50% children.
The administration ignored international law. The voices of 40 Nobel Peace prize winners. The pleas of heads of all the world's main religions. The leaders of 90% of the planet's countries. Tens of millions of world citizens who marched against the war. The UN and a roster of prominent international environmental and humanitarian organizations who predicted the quagmire that the US faces today. The administration bragged, "It'll be a cakewalk."
In May, after the administration destroyed the Iraqi infrastructure, homes, livelihoods, and the health of innocent Iraqi civilian, Bush landed in a flight suit on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln for a one million dollar photo-op and declared "Mission Accomplished." The Iraqis remain without water or electricity, adequate medical facilities, incomes, adequate foods, medicines, or shelters.
The Administration's estimate for the Iraqi deployment alone has doubled to $4 billion a month. The Administration said it would be a deployment of short duration, that they knew "exactly where the WMDs were located." None have been found. The Administration has taunted Iraqi militants to "Bring it On." When US soldiers just want to come home, and are existing on severely cut rations, and a small bottle of water a day each in 115 degree heat, while being shot at by snipers. Reservists who are losing jobs and homes back home, say they are underutilized in Iraq. While our soldiers continue to be at risk, the administration has cut their benefits and pay, including "hazard duty pay, from $250. to $150. a month.
The Administration has bankrupted the US treasury, US cities and states. It slashed education, social programs and needed services and infrastructure that benefit its 260 million citizens, to borrow funds to give multiple tax cuts to the nation' s 200,000 richest citizens. The Administration forked over billions in open-ended no-bid sweetheart deals to its corporate supporters to rebuild Iraq.
The Administration's PNAC blueprint was signed years in advance of Bush assuming office. It states the agenda for control of the Caspian Sea region and resources and for Eurasian geopolitical positioning. And openly pronounced that a "Pearl Harbor" was needed to start the game plan. The Administration has subsequently stonewalled the 911 investigation, to the further suffering of families of the 3,000 victims.
The Administration has hijacked the US Constitution, the US Bill of Rights, the government "of, for and by the people," while consolidating the "free press" necessary to democracy under control of a few corporations.
The Administration is the ground zero of corruption. It must go. Now.
Suzanne, San Francisco
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