Suzanne
Parsing Lethal Words, This Administration Must Go. Now!
Mon Jul 14 02:26:12 2003
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Parsing Lethal Words, This Administration Must Go. Now!

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
by Suzanne

Dear BuzzFlash,

The Bush Administration knowingly misled the nation into war. 10,000 innocent Iraqi civilians have been killed. The Iraqi environment has been contaminated with depleted uranium, and unexploded cluster bombs.

The Administration rained down an unprovoked blitz of over 14,000 Tomahawk missiles alone, at a cost of a million dollars each, on one of the poorest countries in the world the size of California, with a population that is 50% children.

The administration ignored international law. The voices of 40 Nobel Peace prize winners. The pleas of heads of all the world's main religions. The leaders of 90% of the planet's countries. Tens of millions of world citizens who marched against the war. The UN and a roster of prominent international environmental and humanitarian organizations who predicted the quagmire that the US faces today. The administration bragged, "It'll be a cakewalk."

In May, after the administration destroyed the Iraqi infrastructure, homes, livelihoods, and the health of innocent Iraqi civilian, Bush landed in a flight suit on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln for a one million dollar photo-op and declared "Mission Accomplished." The Iraqis remain without water or electricity, adequate medical facilities, incomes, adequate foods, medicines, or shelters.

The Administration's estimate for the Iraqi deployment alone has doubled to $4 billion a month. The Administration said it would be a deployment of short duration, that they knew "exactly where the WMDs were located." None have been found. The Administration has taunted Iraqi militants to "Bring it On." When US soldiers just want to come home, and are existing on severely cut rations, and a small bottle of water a day each in 115 degree heat, while being shot at by snipers. Reservists who are losing jobs and homes back home, say they are underutilized in Iraq. While our soldiers continue to be at risk, the administration has cut their benefits and pay, including "hazard duty pay, from $250. to $150. a month.

The Administration has bankrupted the US treasury, US cities and states. It slashed education, social programs and needed services and infrastructure that benefit its 260 million citizens, to borrow funds to give multiple tax cuts to the nation' s 200,000 richest citizens. The Administration forked over billions in open-ended no-bid sweetheart deals to its corporate supporters to rebuild Iraq.

The Administration's PNAC blueprint was signed years in advance of Bush assuming office. It states the agenda for control of the Caspian Sea region and resources and for Eurasian geopolitical positioning. And openly pronounced that a "Pearl Harbor" was needed to start the game plan. The Administration has subsequently stonewalled the 911 investigation, to the further suffering of families of the 3,000 victims.

The Administration has hijacked the US Constitution, the US Bill of Rights, the government "of, for and by the people," while consolidating the "free press" necessary to democracy under control of a few corporations.

The Administration is the ground zero of corruption. It must go. Now.

Suzanne, San Francisco

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/07/11_lethal.html
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Bring it on, Mr. President!
By DOUG PATTON
Published: Jul 11, 2003

'Bring 'em on!'

With that one little phrase, President George W. Bush has set liberals clucking their tongues
like they haven't clucked since Ronald Reagan called the former Soviet Union an evil
empire.

Was this really an appropriate remark for the leader of the free world? Didn't this amount to a
taunt of America's enemies to attack our troops? One Democrat presidential candidate even
said that it sounded more like a comment from a gang leader than the President of the
United States.

Of course, the term "cowboy" is again being heard across the land. Well, cowboys are
quintessentially American, and like most Americans, I love it when my president talks like
that. It gives me confidence that he is not playing games with those who would do harm to
my country. We know exactly where he stands, and so do our enemies, just as they did with
Reagan. Also, like most Americans, I have not forgotten Sept. 11 of two years ago.

Let us consider the full text of the president's remarks. Facing an increasingly hostile media,
all wanting to know why our personnel are still being killed in Iraq, Bush said:

"Anybody who wants to harm American troops will be found and brought to justice," Bush
said. "There are some who feel like that if they attack us, that we may decide to leave
prematurely. They don't understand what they're talking about, if that's the case. My answer
is, 'Bring 'em on.' We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation."

That sounds reasonable to me. But to the erudite snobs of the privileged left, who sip their
cocktails at their east and west coast parties and lament the loss of civility toward America's
enemies, I'm just a Midwestern male with more testosterone than brains. They, of course,
long for the appeasement of Bill Clinton and the malaise of Jimmy Carter, so I leave it to you,
the reader, to decide whose thinking is more rational.

There is a scene in the 1970s film, "Billy Jack," where the hero, a martial arts expert, tells
one of the bad guys, "I'm going to take my right foot and I'm going to hit you on the left side
of your head, and there isn't a thing you can do about it."

That is how men like Reagan and Bush have always addressed tyrants. Reagan took Nikita
Khrushchev's "we will bury you" threat and turned it upside down. The Gipper made no
secret of his desire to see the Soviet Union out of business. And then he made it happen.
Can you imagine that would have happened under Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale and
Michael Dukakis?

Similarly, Bush has never wavered in his determination to stamp out the forces of terrorism in
the world. He even called three nations an "axis of evil." What liberals can't seem to
comprehend, just as they didn't with Reagan, is that George Bush means it.

Throughout history, when the Neville Chamberlains, Jimmy Carters and Howard Deans of the
world have tried in vain, just one more time, to compromise with evil, it is men of courage like
Churchill, Reagan and Bush who finally had to step forward and say, "enough!"

If the United States of America does not stamp out terrorism around the world, which nation
is going to do it? France? Germany? Russia? China? Hardly. Even Great Britain is turning on
their courageous prime minister, Tony Blair.

When the history of the early 21st Century is written, it will be clear that when it came time to
fight global terrorism, George W. Bush assumed the mantle of leadership as head of the last
remaining superpower, and as such, also assumed the awesome responsibility for preserving
liberty on planet earth.

Bring it on, Mr. President!

Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public
policy advisor at the federal, state and local levels. His weekly columns can be read in
newspapers across the country, and on www.GOPUSA.com , where he serves as the
Nebraska Editor. He also writes for Talon News Service ( www.TalonNews.com  ). Readers
can e-mail him at dpatton@neonamp.com .

http://www.hernandotoday.com/columnists/MGASWCB8ZHD.html 

• Dear Suzanne — eauxx, Tue Jul 15 06:56
• Whose administration? — Michael Donovan, Mon Jul 14 03:43
• kind of hard to have an underground bunker — Pat the Patriot, Mon Jul 14 15:24
• Bunkers. — Michael Donovan, Tue Jul 15 00:16