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America’s amnesia: War? What war?

Election 2008

With eight weeks left in the race for the White House, America’s attention is focused on the most popular issues:

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s problems: pregnant unwed teen daughter, child with Down Syndrome left in the care of others, “Trooper-gate” scandal, allegations of abuse of power, charges of racist remarks and the list goes on.
The attacks between John McCain and Barack Obama over who will save the U.S. economy (even as the federal government prepares to swoop down and confiscate Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae).

Meanwhile, the damage to lives, communities and the environment in Iraq and Afghanistan go on with few paying attention. The Bush administration continues to hold aloft its so-called success in Iraq attributed primarily to the “surge” that it foisted upon Congress and the American people along with the invasion in 2003. That surge wasn’t responsible for this year’s sudden decrease in violence in Iraq, says Bob Woodward in his new book, “The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008.”

The SURGE of propaganda

As I have been saying for months, Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr played a major part in the efforts to quell the violence in Iraq, but the Bush administration has used a compliant press to promote its propaganda to influence the public that its “surge” in forces resulted in what it now claims as military success in Iraq. Indeed, anything can be described as a military success since the media and the American public are preoccupied with everything except the most significant issue of our lifetime — the U.S. involvement in the Middle East.

As we head down the final stretch toward choosing yet another Commander in Chief who will adhere to the status quo, the public has forgotten that there is a war going on. The Republican platform, which consists of 55 pages of issues, devotes a single paragraph to the Iraq war. Senator John McCain, who has experience serving in the military and is touted as a “war hero,” has been content to allow year after year pass by (including this one) without challenging the Bush administration on flagrant abuse of the military.

On the Democratic side of the aisle, Senator Barack Obama, who is charged with a lack of experience in foreign relations and commanding a military outfit, has stayed as far from the issue as he possibly can.

War? What war?

If we read the front pages of America’s newspapers over the past nine months, we would discover that nothing of any substance has taken place regarding the war in Iraq. The American public is woefully uninformed on the following issues:

The U.S. military conspired with its so-called enemies in Iraq to quell the violence. That included a deal with Muqtada al-Sadr and the hiring of thousands of those opposed to U.S. presence in Iraq.
The U.S. military has conducted strategic talks with Iran on security in Iraq.
The U.S. military has doubled its security force in Iraq through the hiring of high-paid civilian contractors.
The U.S. is secretly involved behind the scenes in manipulating the Iraqi Oil Ministry in order to achieve goals on an agenda for U.S. oil companies.
The U.S. has been accused by Iran and numerous other nations (including our own Senate Intelligence Committee) of invading Iraq under false pretenses and sustaining combat operations that have damaged the lives of more than one million families, destroyed entire infrastructures and polluted the land, air and water.
The U.S. has sought to force Iraq to use its own economic resources to assist in rebuilding the destruction set in motion by the U.S. invasion.
The U.S. is responsible for a protracted war that now expands across Afghanistan and into Pakistan.
The U.S. is responsible for the strength of the Pakistani dictator Gen. Musharraf, who sought to retain power despite a massive opposition against his leadership in the aftermath of the suspicious assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
The Bush administration has been under constant massive opposition from public demonstrations, protests, organized grassroots campaigns, congressional investigations, articles of impeachment, impeachment hearings, a barrage of books exposing the lies and deceptions of the White House and public exposure of the lies and deception propagated by the Pentagon.

American Idol election

While Americans wonder what part of Gov. Palin’s dirty laundry will be aired next, and Obama continues to stoke the fires of historical destiny and McCain keeps a low profile while muttering miniature sound bites handed to him by his increasingly desperate political handlers, the American people are almost clueless to the massive amount of life and death issues being ignored.

Though the public is vaguely aware there is a war going on somewhere, it has tuned into the American Idol of presidential elections, which brings together all the most popular garbage that litters the American landscape. Today, we see concert-style rallies, celebrity-like gossip, trash talk from both camps, attractive women diverting attention to their unattractive personal lives, allegations of racism, rich powerful people pointing accusatory elitist fingers at one another and the usual false promises of change.

Impacting the planet

Meanwhile, each day someone in Iraq and Afghanistan will be wounded or killed. Each day, our current corrupt leaders will seek to expand their power in eastern Europe. Each day the confrontation with Russia will be ratcheted. Each day the White House will seek to lay blame at Russia’s door for the conflict caused by U.S. covert relations with Georgia and the secret plan to get Georgia into the NATO regime in order that U.S. missiles could be placed in that country. The same policy was successful in Poland.

While we watch in earnest enjoyment of the trash tossed before us in the political pit of this presidential election, the White House, Pentagon and CIA are busy in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Georgia as well. The Black Sea is filling up with NATO warships while Russia prepares to answer.

Pakistan is angry over U.S. military incursions on its soil and Afghanistan is accusing the U.S. military of callously killing its civilians.

Media is AWOL: Absent without leave

Meanwhile, the the U.S. press is silent on these monumental issues. The ability of the White House to conduct illicit covert ops, spy on both our friends and enemies alike, wage clandestine wars and sacrifice our military troops on the basis of false pretenses and self-serving agendas is all predicated on the absence of knowledge in the American public. That void is created and maintained by a complicit press corps that long ago turned in its badge of honor and sold the Fourth Estate to the highest bidder.

Today, despite the crowd of sources available to authors and investigators, the media has found none. Despite the exposure of the executive branch by a mountain of books written by authors, the media has been unable to unearth anything wrong or illegal in government. And despite the willingness of ALL of the organizations, grassroots activists, investigators and authors (many of whom served in various positions in this administration), the media has been unable to put together any coherent storyline that sheds light upon the attempts to take over control of America by a corrupt dynasty … which now seeks to take over much of the world.