"Charmed circle of American capitalism, where Tomahawk and cruise
missiles will destroy Iraq, while Bechtel Corporation [which once
employed US Vice President Dick Cheney] will rebuild the country. And
stolen Iraqi oil will pay for it."�
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/
When there is no accountability for warding off the strike on the
Pentagon with 20 minutes warning and no accountability for repeated lies
to the press and congress,(mainly by Rumpfuck) There exists a profound
corruption and abuse of power.
"Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting
taxes." � House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, Congressional Record,
March 12, 2003
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens suggested yesterday that New York's
cops and firefighters should work overtime without pay as a wartime
sacrifice.
"I really feel strongly that we ought to find some way to convince
the people that there ought to be some volunteerism at home," said
Stevens, a Republican who's chairman of the Senate Appropriations
Committee.
Now they want to give Bush EVEN MORE dictatorial powers. Pretty soon
we can just disband the Reichstag�er, uh, I mean the Congress.
Demonizing dissenters has become the favorite tactic of the most
vociferous supporters of the war in Iraq. At the same time, they are
stifling debate, manipulating public opinion, distorting the facts about
the loss of lives, betraying our troops, and defiling the Constitution.
Gott mit uns: in the name of God, people have tortured, murdered,
subjugated their consciences and destroyed countries.
Baltimore IndyMedia
John Ashcroft Guest of Honor at Zionist Meeting
Where Palestinians Declared "The Enemy"
by Cheryl Seal
03 Apr 2003
Well, folks, it's been another surrealistic day in Lake Bush Begone
(don't we wish!). This morning, heard a report that stunned and appalled
me - and I thought nothing about this administration could do that any
longer.
JOHN ASHCROFT, in essence, just provided strong evidence that the Bush
administration is playing out an apocolyptic religious delusion. Ashcroft
appeared at a meeting of the militant fundie group "STAND FOR
ISRAEL". This is a Zionist Christian organization dedicated to
supporting Israel - not because of its open-minded embrace of Judaism,
but because Zionist are a subgroup of the "Rapturists," who all
believe that the end times are here and that for them to all be beamed
successfully up to heaven in the Rapture, certain "prescribed"
events must first happen. Among these events is the securing of Israel by
the Jews (none of whom will be included in the Rapture!), the battle of
Babylon (ie. modern Baghdad) and Armageddon (when Bush uses nukes?). At
this meeting, where Ashcroft - a Pentecostal, another Rapturist sect -
was given a long and thunderous applause, the lead speaker declared the
Palestinians "the enemy."
Here's the NPR link:
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1218227
So we have Ashcroft, whose nomination was approved SOLELY
on his reassurance that his religious issues would not enter into
anything, all but officially declaring that he is a Zionist and
anti-Palestinian - and by extension, anti-Muslim�
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