the Manichean discomfort

[Carolyn Garner Siscoe]

I think the Iraqi Parliament was very brave to vote no on compliance with=
 the UN resolution.  It had a poison pill in it, it gives the US the righ=
t put US troops in Iraq.  It is the beginning of the invasion and I bet i=
t will be over some little thing or some manufactured incident.  No count=
ry would ever willing let foreign troops on its soil.  The Serbs were giv=
en the same deal right before W.W.I and they refused knowing their refusa=
l would lead to invasion which it did.  I hope the Iraqi Parl.'s vote wil=
l give some anxious moments to Bush and company about the Iraqi people su=
pporting our invasion.  Bush, Cheney and Rumsfield are just a bunch of bu=
llies wanting to beat up on someone they think they can win easily.  They=
 believe it will be easy pickens all that nice oil,  but I wonder how eas=
y it will be to protect the oil fields from sabotage?
 Anyway I hope Mike is right..manichean or no manicheans (i always though=
t they ran around in little feathers with claws on the end?)
 am listening to Janos Starker's complete bach complete suites solo cello=
, recorded in the mid 60's
carolyn

Stephen Porterfield wrote:

> "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster@hotmail.com> wrote:
> World history tells usnbsp;that stupid andnbsp;unbalanced leaders, part=
icularly those with near-dictatorial powers , often get their countries i=
nto wars.nbsp; Of course, there are other factors at play in each case,nb=
sp; multiple causation to be sure,nbsp;nbsp; but ask yourself: Whose fing=
er is on the button?nbsp; Do you trust that finger? End of story.
> >
> >
> >
> >Jon
> >
> > Jon's point here is very well put. However, since the 2000 Judicial C=
oup I have never thought that GW's intelligence, or sanity, or lack there=
of was very relevant. Those of us with a passable knowledge of world hist=
ory also know that it is common for those who wield the actual power to o=
perate behind the stealth curtain of a puppet figurehead. Consider Cardin=
al Richelieu, Grigori Rasputin, and many other similar examples. In the e=
arly 1990's Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz began to assemble the plan for=
 a world of "Pax Americana", a world controlled by imperial might abroad =
and ruthless totalitarianism at home. The inner members of the cabal now =
in control of the government have never veered from this agenda. The busi=
ness about Saddam and Osama is (in my opinion) as transparently meretrici=
ous as the hysterical claims that Hitler made about the Jews and the Comm=
unists in Germany in the early 1930's. The real agenda is total military =
control of the Middle East. Iraq is only the
> jumping off point.
>
> Steve Porterfield
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