Subject: WASHINGTON'S WARS: THE RECORD SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

Panama:

* One strongman, formerly on the CIA-payroll (Noriega) replaced by
another dictator (Endara, who used CIA funds to rig elections) to
replace dictatorship with ... dictatorship!

Plus:

* The drug trade we were told would "stop" just "as soon
as Noriega was removed" continues (thanks to other Washington
policies)

Plus, on top of that:

* Thousands of Civilians Killed (Around 3,000 by the way, a familiar
number. Those civilians, those women, men, children, and babies, yes
babies, had JUST AS MUCH as right to live as those brutally murdered
on 9/11). They too were innocents brutally sent to an early grave.

Kuwait:

* "Liberated" from Iraqi troops to put...another oil dictator,
another regime with horrible human rights violations,
the Emir of Kuwait, back in power. So much for "liberating" Kuwait.
But oil profits run healthy again, of course.

* Washington didn't even have to "force" or install a new leadership
in Kuwait. It could have said, look "Emir" we helped save your
"regime" now kindly show at least some gratitude by holding elections,
sometime soon.

More than 12 years later, Kuwait is still an
oil dictatorship (only a "cooperating" one the way Saddam's was in his
earlier days when he was loved, though he committed his worst crimes
during that long "US-supported" period) -- which speaks volumes, very
loudly about how much "democracy" is a priority, or indeed even a
goal, for our "leaders" in Washington (the Establishment or
"both" parties we have).

Afghanistan:

* Formerly CIA-funded brutal dictatorship (Taleban) overthrown and
  replaced with...CIA-funded brutal dictatorship (with a figurehead of
  "democracy" to not embarrass Washington too much) led by the
  Northern Alliance whom Afghani villagers know and fear as much or
  more than the Taliban: the Northern Alliance who rape, murder
  civilians, torture, burn, destroy...

On top of that:

* The drug trade (the only good thing the Taleban were doing is
  stopping it) explodes under Afghanistans new "leaders"

Plus:

* Big recruitment for Al Qaeda results (unlike police
and detective work all over the world which BUSTS Al Qaeda
cells in several high-profile cases, all without killing
civilians, and without creating more recruits for Al Qaeda
by spilling civilian blood)

On top of that:

* Thousands of immediate civilian men, women, children, and babies
sent to an early grave by Washington's bombs. Those men, women,
children and babies had just as much as right to live as those
brutally murdered on 9/11 did.

We don't combat terrorism by committing terrorism, which is
what these wars are. "We didn't mean to kill" doesn't cut it.
It's easy to say "But the terrorists MEANT to kill, so we
aren't that bad". Not we, but Washington, is "that bad". It
doesn't cut it to say "but Washington didn't mean to do it"

If you run you car at 60 miles per hour through a street you can
see if filled with infants and children, in pursuit of a criminal
in theory, the perfectly predictable result follows, and piles
of dead children are left on the road; it doesn't cut it to say
to plead, "ah, but I didn't MEAN to kill those children, I was
intending to get that other fellow. Yes, I knew, I saw that
the road was filled with children, but I chose to drive through
it at 60mph, but I didn't MEAN to kill them" just doesn't cut it.

Those men, women, children and
babies had just as much as right to live as those brutally murdered
on 9/11 did.

We don't combat terrorism by committing terrorism, which is
what these wars are.

The other question to ask, which is never raised, because it has no
answer:

"if Saddam wasn't suicidal in 1992 or 1993 or 1994 or... or 2001
or 2002, what evidence is there that he is suicidal today?"

All those years,, that long list of years, are years with no use of
WMD, because Saddam knows that would be the end and he's not
suicidal.

More dramatically, Saddam didn't use WMD in the Gulf War when before
the inspections he is not probably but KNOWN to have had WMD. Why
didn't he use any? Because he's not suicidal.

Nor is he today, though pro-war propaganda attempt to portray an
immediate threat from this desperately poor 5th-rate military power at
the edge of economic survival, with far weaker military than when Bush
the 1st found Iraq not only not a threat, but in Bed with Saddam as an
"ally". For shame on Bush for that, and for same on Bush today for an
oil-grab that subject the 23,999,999 Iraqis who are NOT Saddam
Hussein, the women, men, children, and infants in their mother's arms,
to being subjected to bombs. They have no less a right to live than
those who were so brutally murdered on 9/11.

It is spitting on the memory of those murdered
on 9/11 to "respond" by subjecting other civilians women,
men, children, and infants to the terror of bombs,
or cut off water supplies leading to infants dying
from disease, and other luminary aspects of Washington's
past wars.

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