Setelah baca topik ini soal si Bush yang dengan jalan menipu, memanipulir
keterangan intel yang tidak jelas, aku tidak habis pikir kenapa pemerintah
Indonesia mengundang si penipu Bush ya?
Apabila ada yang sudah membaca buku Bob Woodward dengan judul "State of
Denial" dalam Bab 2, senior Bush pun sudah punya intuisi bahwa menyerang Iraq
yang bisa dia lakukan dalam perang versus Iraq dalam operasi Desert Storm, tapi
Bush senior tidak sampai melakukan tindakan cerobah ini.
" February 28,1999 dalam menghadiri temu muka dengan 200 Gulf War veteran di
Fort Myer Army base Bush senior ber-ujar:......." had we gone into
Baghdad....we could have done it....you could have been there in 48 hours. And
then what? Which sergeant, private, whose life would be at stake in perhaps a
fruitless hunt in an urban guerrilla war to find the most-secure dictator in
the world? Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I,
unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated
mission, and said we're going to show our macho? We're going into Baghdad.
We're going to be an occupying power...America in an Arab land...with no allies
at our side. It would have been disastrous"
Buku yang sangat menarik karya Woodward yang menerangkan dengan rinci tentang
blunder US karena si Bush Junior yang gebleg. Bush Junior ini di sebut sebagai
apkiran dalam masa dinas milisi, orang buas dimasa remaja-nya dan orang goblog
dalam masa studinya.. Boro2 anak orang kaya dan anak seorang mantan presiden,
maka dia berhasil meraih kursi kepresidenan dengan penuh cela.
Jadi jadinya aku hanya bisa ngelus dada, kenapa dan apa hasilnya mengundang
Bush junior dengan menghabiskan duit 6 mil ya? Lebih baik duit itu buat nunjang
korban lumpur panasnya hasil ciptaannya si buto cakil Bakrie.
Harry Adinegara
Subject: Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do ...a letter from Michael Moore
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:34:29 +0000
Subject: Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do ...a letter from Michael Moore
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:49:22 -0500
Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Friends,
Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in
all of World War II.
That's right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the
entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it's taken the world's only superpower
to secure the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad.
And we haven't even done THAT. After 1,347 days, in the same time it took us to
took us to sweep across North Africa, storm the beaches of Italy, conquer the
South Pacific, and liberate all of Western Europe, we cannot, after over 3 and
1/2 years, even take over a single highway and protect ourselves from a
homemade device of two tin cans placed in a pothole. No wonder the cab fare
from the airport into Baghdad is now running around $35,000 for the 25-minute
ride. And that doesn't even include a friggin' helmet.
Is this utter failure the fault of our troops? Hardly. That's because no amount
of troops or choppers or democracy shot out of the barrel of a gun is ever
going to "win" the war in Iraq. It is a lost war, lost because it never had a
right to be won, lost because it was started by men who have never been to war,
men who hide behind others sent to fight and die.
Let's listen to what the Iraqi people are saying, according to a recent poll
conducted by the University of Maryland:
** 71% of all Iraqis now want the U.S. out of Iraq.
** 61% of all Iraqis SUPPORT insurgent attacks on U.S. troops.
Yes, the vast majority of Iraqi citizens believe that our soldiers should be
killed and maimed! So what the hell are we still doing there? Talk about not
getting the hint.
There are many ways to liberate a country. Usually the residents of that
country rise up and liberate themselves. That's how we did it. You can also do
it through nonviolent, mass civil disobedience. That's how India did it. You
can get the world to boycott a regime until they are so ostracized they
capitulate. That's how South Africa did it. Or you can just wait them out and,
sooner or later, the king's legions simply leave (sometimes just because
they're too cold). That's how Canada did it.
The one way that DOESN'T work is to invade a country and tell the people, "We
are here to liberate you!" -- when they have done NOTHING to liberate
themselves. Where were all the suicide bombers when Saddam was oppressing them?
Where were the insurgents planting bombs along the roadside as the evildoer
Saddam's convoy passed them by? I guess ol' Saddam was a cruel despot -- but
not cruel enough for thousands to risk their necks. "Oh no, Mike, they couldn't
do that! Saddam would have had them killed!" Really? You don't think King
George had any of the colonial insurgents killed? You don't think Patrick Henry
or Tom Paine were afraid? That didn't stop them. When tens of thousands aren't
willing to shed their own blood to remove a dictator, that should be the first
clue that they aren't going to be willing participants when you decide you're
going to do the liberating for them.
A country can HELP another people overthrow a tyrant (that's what the French
did for us in our revolution), but after you help them, you leave. Immediately.
The French didn't stay and tell us how to set up our government. They didn't
say, "we're not leaving because we want your natural resources." They left us
to our own devices and it took us six years before we had an election. And then
we had a bloody civil war. That's what happens, and history is full of these
examples. The French didn't say, "Oh, we better stay in America, otherwise
they're going to kill each other over that slavery issue!"
The only way a war of liberation has a chance of succeeding is if the oppressed
people being liberated have their own citizens behind them -- and a group of
Washingtons, Jeffersons, Franklins, Ghandis and Mandellas leading them. Where
are these beacons of liberty in Iraq? This is a joke and it's been a joke since
the beginning. Yes, the joke's been on us, but with 655,000 Iraqis now dead as
a result of our invasion (source: Johns Hopkins University), I guess the cruel
joke is on them. At least they've been liberated, permanently.
So I don't want to hear another word about sending more troops (wake up,
America, John McCain is bonkers), or "redeploying" them, or waiting four months
to begin the "phase-out." There is only one solution and it is this: Leave.
Now. Start tonight. Get out of there as fast as we can. As much as people of
good heart and conscience don't want to believe this, as much as it kills us to
accept defeat, there is nothing we can do to undo the damage we have done.
What's happened has happened. If you were to drive drunk down the road and you
killed a child, there would be nothing you could do to bring that child back to
life. If you invade and destroy a country, plunging it into a civil war, there
isn't much you can do 'til the smoke settles and blood is mopped up. Then maybe
you can atone for the atrocity you have committed and help the living come back
to a better life.
The Soviet Union got out of Afghanistan in 36 weeks. They did so and suffered
hardly any losses as they left. They realized the mistake they had made and
removed their troops. A civil war ensued. The bad guys won. Later, we overthrew
the bad guys and everybody lived happily ever after. See! It all works out in
the end!
The responsibility to end this war now falls upon the Democrats. Congress
controls the purse strings and the Constitution says only Congress can declare
war. Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi now hold the power to put an end to this madness.
Failure to do so will bring the wrath of the voters. We aren't kidding around,
Democrats, and if you don't believe us, just go ahead and continue this war
another month. We will fight you harder than we did the Republicans. The
opening page of my website has a photo of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, each
made up by a collage of photos of the American soldiers who have died in Bush's
War. But it is now about to become the Bush/Democratic Party War unless swift
action is taken.
This is what we demand:
1. Bring the troops home now. Not six months from now. NOW. Quit looking for a
way to win. We can't win. We've lost. Sometimes you lose. This is one of those
times. Be brave and admit it.
2. Apologize to our soldiers and make amends. Tell them we are sorry they were
used to fight a war that had NOTHING to do with our national security. We must
commit to taking care of them so that they suffer as little as possible. The
mentally and physically maimed must get the best care and significant financial
compensation. The families of the deceased deserve the biggest apology and they
must be taken care of for the rest of their lives.
3. We must atone for the atrocity we have perpetuated on the people of Iraq.
There are few evils worse than waging a war based on a lie, invading another
country because you want what they have buried under the ground. Now many more
will die. Their blood is on our hands, regardless for whom we voted. If you pay
taxes, you have contributed to the three billion dollars a week now being spent
to drive Iraq into the hellhole it's become. When the civil war is over, we
will have to help rebuild Iraq. We can receive no redemption until we have
atoned.
In closing, there is one final thing I know. We Americans are better than what
has been done in our name. A majority of us were upset and angry after 9/11 and
we lost our minds. We didn't think straight and we never looked at a map.
Because we are kept stupid through our pathetic education system and our lazy
media, we knew nothing of history. We didn't know that WE were the ones funding
and arming Saddam for many years, including those when he massacred the Kurds.
He was our guy. We didn't know what a Sunni or a Shiite was, never even heard
the words. Eighty percent of our young adults (according to National
Geographic) were not able to find Iraq on the map. Our leaders played off our
stupidity, manipulated us with lies, and scared us to death.
But at our core we are a good people. We may be slow learners, but that
"Mission Accomplished" banner struck us as odd, and soon we began to ask some
questions. Then we began to get smart. By this past November 7th, we got mad
and tried to right our wrongs. The majority now know the truth. The majority
now feel a deep sadness and guilt and a hope that somehow we can make make it
all right again.
Unfortunately, we can't. So we will accept the consequences of our actions and
do our best to be there should the Iraqi people ever dare to seek our help in
the future. We ask for their forgiveness.
We demand the Democrats listen to us and get out of Iraq now.
Yours,
Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://go.netatlantic.com/u?id=37608867Y&l=michaelmoore
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