It is now common knowledge that significant evidence exists that the Bush Regime took America to war based on what it knew to be false information. To date, at least 250,000 Iraqis and 2,400 Americans have died as a result of the lies of a failed state.
How many more Americans will die as a result of the hatred and furor ignited by US foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East? What will be the extent of the backlash for the US invasion of Iraq and its ongoing support of Israel's genocidal acts against the Palestinians?
Consider Chomsky's take on the obscene hypocrisy of American foreign policy:
"There is a straightforward single standard: Their terror against us and our clients is the ultimate evil, while our terror against them does not exist""or, if it does, it is entirely appropriate."
It is well-documented that the United States has slaughtered millions of innocent civilians (3 million in Vietnam alone) in wars of imperial conquest waged under the guise of "protecting" the American people from grossly overstated threats like Communism. America's elite rulers are so intent on their short-term power and money grab that they fail to realize (or more likely do not care) that they are putting many of their own people in grave danger by severely abusing the rest of humanity.
Want more evidence that the US government lacks the desire or capacity to protect the American people?
Contemplate the refusal to acknowledge the reality of global warming or to participate in the Kyoto Treaty, the perpetuation and expansion of its nuclear arsenal, tax cuts for the wealthy, deep cuts in social programs coupled with increased military spending at an insane clip, the creation of $27,000 worth of debt for each American, increased privatization, and further deregulation of corporations. In the United States, policies and laws hostile to the environment, consumers, the working class, and minorities have become the status quo.
Sadly, Katrina and New Orleans provide a glimpse of the future for the majority of Americans if current social and political trends continue. Such is life in a failed state for the those who do not rest comfortably atop the pyramid of wealth and power.
A strong argument exists that global warming is causing increasingly severe hurricanes, like Katrina. Meanwhile, America's elites decided they had better uses for taxpayer money than to strengthen the levees or stop the erosion of the wetlands which buffered New Orleans from severe hurricanes. This despite eerily prescient warnings of a Katrina-like disaster in a 2001 article in National Geographic.
Rendering FEMA impotent, robbing National Guard resources to conquer Iraq, abandoning thousands of poor Blacks to suffer and die, patrolling the streets with heavily armed Blackwater mercenaries, and suspending federal wage protections during reconstruction are clear indications of a state which has failed a majority its people miserably.
Rogue Nation
There is little room for doubt that the Bush Regime places itself above both domestic and international law. A few illustrations include:
1. wiretapping of US citizens without seeking FISA court approval (the FISA court has granted approval to virtually every request it has considered)
2. passing and renewing the Orwellian Patriot Act which seriously violates four of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights
3. the invasion and occupation of Iraq, a sovereign nation which had not attacked the United States and had posed no imminent threat
4. suspending habeas corpus and posse comitatus
How many more Americans will die as a result of the hatred and furor ignited by US foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East? What will be the extent of the backlash for the US invasion of Iraq and its ongoing support of Israel's genocidal acts against the Palestinians?
Consider Chomsky's take on the obscene hypocrisy of American foreign policy:
"There is a straightforward single standard: Their terror against us and our clients is the ultimate evil, while our terror against them does not exist""or, if it does, it is entirely appropriate."
Want more evidence that the US government lacks the desire or capacity to protect the American people?
Contemplate the refusal to acknowledge the reality of global warming or to participate in the Kyoto Treaty, the perpetuation and expansion of its nuclear arsenal, tax cuts for the wealthy, deep cuts in social programs coupled with increased military spending at an insane clip, the creation of $27,000 worth of debt for each American, increased privatization, and further deregulation of corporations. In the United States, policies and laws hostile to the environment, consumers, the working class, and minorities have become the status quo.
Sadly, Katrina and New Orleans provide a glimpse of the future for the majority of Americans if current social and political trends continue. Such is life in a failed state for the those who do not rest comfortably atop the pyramid of wealth and power.
A strong argument exists that global warming is causing increasingly severe hurricanes, like Katrina. Meanwhile, America's elites decided they had better uses for taxpayer money than to strengthen the levees or stop the erosion of the wetlands which buffered New Orleans from severe hurricanes. This despite eerily prescient warnings of a Katrina-like disaster in a 2001 article in National Geographic.
Rendering FEMA impotent, robbing National Guard resources to conquer Iraq, abandoning thousands of poor Blacks to suffer and die, patrolling the streets with heavily armed Blackwater mercenaries, and suspending federal wage protections during reconstruction are clear indications of a state which has failed a majority its people miserably.
Rogue Nation
There is little room for doubt that the Bush Regime places itself above both domestic and international law. A few illustrations include:
1. wiretapping of US citizens without seeking FISA court approval (the FISA court has granted approval to virtually every request it has considered)
2. passing and renewing the Orwellian Patriot Act which seriously violates four of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights
3. the invasion and occupation of Iraq, a sovereign nation which had not attacked the United States and had posed no imminent threat
4. suspending habeas corpus and posse comitatus
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