No sage advice or calming words from Bush the war monger this evening. No Peace offering. No arm twisting for Israel, or Lebanon, or Syria, or any other country to stop their bombing and ballistic killing of innocent life. No calls for a stop to the destruction. How can he when he won't call for an end to his own occupation of Iraq? And on what moral ground would he be able to call for any country to stop their bombing and killing of innocent life? He would first have to stop his own occupation of Iraq.
No setting of any examples from George Walker Bush that would lead to any semblance of striking any peace in the Middle East. No taking of any bull by the horns and saying this has got to stop. Instead, the war monger stands on a platform in Germany; sounding more like an 8 year old than a full grown man and a world leader, he says, "Every country has the right to defend itself from the killing of innocent life and terrorists who want to stop the progress of peace." (Was Bush referring to his invasion and occupation of Iraq here?)
Translation: Let power and munitions reign. Let dynamite be the law of the region. Let not, reason, or good will take a step forward. Let destruction loose.
What a foggy patch of quick sand to step on!
Bush's words can come back to haunt him. He is killing innocent life in Iraq. His insistence on invading Iraq and going after a man who was not interested in any sort of war with the world, unsettled much of the region and set the Middle East on fire, and if Bush can strut his supremacy, so can Israel. Why not?
Dangerous things happen to little boys who are allowed to play with fire and dynamite.
Dangerous things happen as a result of little boys being allowed to play with fire and dynamite.
World War I started with a single shot fired in Sarajevo. The kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers in Lebanon has ... triggered ... the kind of Israeli might which could be the start of WW-III and Bush's words have that unsavory ring, that same powder keg flavor of, "Bring it on," that they had on that destroyer off the coast of California when he declared Mission Accomplished and said, "Bring it on."
I did not hear Bush calling for sitting down at the round table of Peace to talk about bridging the differences of the Israeli, or Lebanese or Syrian people; nor did I hear Bush call for any cease fire. No.
Honor. Nationalism. Supremacy. Are all wrapped up in Bush's Glorification of War.
But, whose honor, nationalism, or supremacy does Bush uphold? That is a big question to which the sad answer is his' and that of Israel. No one else's.
Bush meets fire with fire--there is no need for logic, reason, or dialogue...but fire with fire for Bush is a thing of duality.
Bush meets fire with fire so long as he is not on the front lines, so long as there are people who can seal in advance the manholes of any American, or foreign city his feet happen to need to step on; so long as barb wire fences can separate him from the people who despise his wars, his policies, his invasion and occupation of an innocent country; so long as he does not have to listen to one single bomb dropping, one single shot being fired, so long as he doesn't have to look at the dead, Bush meets fire with fire-from the safety of his bubble, with his pork filled mouth and from his cake eating parties.
It is hard work, Bush like to say. Yes. It is hard work for those who have to live through the bombs, and the shots, and the loss, and the destruction.
For Bush it is easy, press the trigger from the moat that will start fire on the land, which will start the war that will bring the rapture.
Teresa Simon-Noble is a computer activist for peace. She is a former mental health clinician. A poet and a freelance writer. Her work has been published in several online publications.
Your article is misinformed and lacks understanding what is really going on. If terriost came and attacked your home personally, you would be the first to whine about protection and I bet you would be gun ho about taking out the people who attacked your home. You say were killing innocent people? Can you name one war where someone innocent doesnt get kill? I bet your are a animal activist who believes women should have rights to abort babies. Hmmm peacmaker huh? Was it a mistake to take out Hitler when he was killing millons of Jews? Is it a mistake to take out Saddam who is also killing his own people? You believe anything that CNN tells you. All you are is just a parrot repeating what every other liberal is saying. "sqawk" "sqawk".
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Gabriel Davis (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments)
on Friday, July 14, 2006 at 9:05:14 AM
Yes, I am a Peace Activist. Yes, I believe in Peace. Yes, I am a liberal, and unlike George Herbert Walker Bush and his sons, I hold the word liberal and its meaning to be a beautiful one. Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary describes the word LIBERAL as follows:
LIBERAL: 1. Holding, expressing, or following political views or policies that support civil liberties, democratic reforms, and use of governmental power to promote social progres. 2. Holding, expressing, or following views or policies that support the freedom of individuals to act or express themselves as they choose.
Poppy Bush (like his son) must have something of the dictator in him when, in 1988, he made the word, "liberal" a capital sin and made out of Michael Dukakis a sinner whose sin weighed, in Poppy's mind, greater than Judas' sin of treason.
Blessed are the Peacemakers. Peace to You.
TERESA SIMON-NOBLE
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teresa simon-noble (56 articles, 17 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 81 comments)
on Friday, July 14, 2006 at 10:04:34 AM
Here is what some of you liberal friends had to say about Iraq before and after 9/11. They had the same info (despite the lies the liberals says they didn't)as the conservatives.
are they war mongers too?
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003 | Source
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002 | Source
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998 | Source
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
- President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998 | Source
"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction."
- Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 1998 | Source
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998 | Source
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton.
- (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 9, 1998 | Source
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998 | Source
"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999 | Source
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and th! e means of delivering them."
- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002 | Source
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 | Source
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 | Source
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002 | Source
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
- Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002 | Source
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002 | Source
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002 | Source
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002 | Source
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Gabriel Davis (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments)
on Friday, July 14, 2006 at 10:40:11 AM
I am pleased that you call such a long list of people, whom I do not know personally, my "friends."
These "friends" of mine were duped by Bush's fear mongering, his lies, and his changing of the goal post.
Quite a few today say that had they known the truth, they would have never voted to INVADE AND OCCUPY Iraq.
Others are part of the military/industrial complex and as such do believe in that racket called war, as General Smedley Butler has so aptly called wars.
Truth is the first casualty of war. Many of my newfound friends let themselves be pulled by their emotions into Bush's cesspool of lies. It might have been better for the country and for the world if they had used their rational, facts verified, thinking.
Their NO vote on Bush's war might have chartered a different and better course for the world.
Blessed be to the Peace Makers. Peace to You.
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teresa simon-noble (56 articles, 17 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 81 comments)
on Friday, July 14, 2006 at 2:05:00 PM
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