Hello Tom >So what am I missing?
Maybe that you think it's a war, but the rest of the world sees it as an illegal invasion and criminal occupation. How could destroying an independent news agency in a friendly country and killing its journalists and staff possibly be "considered an option"??? Millions and millions of people worldwide have and are protesting very loudly against your "war", they're giving you an even worse press than Al Jazeera, should bombing them too also be considered an option? Or should it avoided on the grounds that it would be a "very bad decision"? There's a lot of material in the Biofuel list archives, from very early on, that Americans who think it's a war object to probably just as much as they object to Al Jazeera (their objections are also in the archives) (and so is Al Jazeera), and it hasn't stopped yet. I hope you'll see the option of bombing us as a very bad decision too. How about this: "The war dead". Who did you think of - 2,000 of "our boys"? Most other people think that means the 100,000-odd Iraqis killed, and your boys are the killers. There might be some sympathy for them, everyone knows they're just dupes, cheap cannon fodder, discard-after-use, but more likely it would be "We told you so, you didn't want to listen." And meanwhile everybody forgets about Afghanistan. (Your government even forgot to include it in the budget after promising not to just walk away this time like they did last time.) It's not that it's exactly anything new, any of this, it's been going on for 60 years now and more, while Americans turned a blind eye to what Washington did abroad with their tax money. >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg45962.html >Re: [Biofuel] Confessions of an Economic Hit Man > >http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/41438/ >An Interview with William Blum > >http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm >Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, by William Blum > >http://members.aol.com/bblum6/American_holocaust.htm >Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, >by William Blum > >http://members.aol.com/bblum6/American_holocaust.htm >The American Holocaust Time to stop. Best wishes Keith >[Massive Snip] > >>>>>>>>>>Exclusive: Bush Plot To Bomb His Arab Ally > >>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>Madness of war memo > >>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>By Kevin Maguire And Andy Lines > >>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>11/22/05 "The Mirror" -- -- PRESIDENT Bush >planned to bomb Arab TV > >>>>>>>>>>station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a "Top >Secret" No 10 memo > >>>>>>>>>>reveals > >I'm angry that Bush is rolling back environmental >policy in favor of an extract and consume policy. I'm >angry that we have made a hash of the war in Iraq and >alieniated the US from the world community in the >process. I'm livid about our energy "policy". > >But I don't understand what is wrong with considering >all options in war. This one was (wisely) discarded. >Maybe it should not have made it up the to the >president (ie been shot down at a lower level). Had he >gone through with it, then yes, very bad decision. But >in the context of how can we win/be successful with >Bush'es Iraq adventure, I am all for creative and >comprehensive thinking. And I am all for eliminating >bone headed ideas from that list. To a casual >observer, it looks like that is exactly what happened. > >So what am I missing? > >thanks >Tom > >Radiance Heating and Plumbing, Inc. (ROC 204149,204150) >Tom Scheel >928-380-6294 _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
