<strong>Written By:</strong> FurGaia
<strong>Date:</strong> 2006-08-14 14:40:00
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<a href="http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=406">Getting ready for the upcoming battle</a></p> <p>The forces and resources at Israel's disposal are formidable. And yet they must be <a href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/527/op2.htm">faced and countered</a>. In <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5508.shtml">a recent column</a> comparing the current zionist regime in Israel to the former apartheid regime of South Africa, authors Jeff Handmaker and Bangani Ngeleza aptly remind us that this is a struggle that concerns all of us and that we can no longer shirk our responsibility towards our brothers and sisters in distress. We can no longer afford the luxury of sitting on the fence, "nuancing" ourselves to death and into apathy and indifference. <blockquote>We all have a role to play in the search for a more dignified world and in our solidarity with those who have been brutalised, who have lost their homes, their friends and their family. <p>One doesn't pretend that all situations are directly comparable, although it can be a source of inspiration to reflect on other regimes that have been held accountable and their brutality contained. In this respect, surely, the search for accountability and a sense of dignity and humanity is something universal. <p>In the 1970s and 80s, South Africa was embroiled in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and repression, which the world was unwilling to acknowledge, even as children were shot in their backs by the apartheid security forces. However, as the freedom fighter Stephen Biko wrote at the time, it was still possible to find hope in the midst of desperate circumstances. <p><em><strong>"We have set on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize. Let us march forth with courage and determination, drawing strength from our common plight and brotherhood. In time we shall be in a position to bestow upon South Africa the greatest gift possible - a more human face."</strong></em></blockquote> ----------<br> <em>[Cross-blogged @ <a href="http://thecylinder.wordpress.com/">The Cylinder</a>]</em> [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on August 15, 2006]

   

I think Haliburton and other corporations has profitted handsomely from the war in Iraq. I was recently told that the idea was to stop the flow of oil from Iraq and therefore reduce the supply which would increase the price. Getting more for less, sounds disgustingly capitalistic to me.
I have no doubt that those who run Israel wanted the war and pushed for the war but I don't think they were alone. I think they had all sorts of Bilderberger company.

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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
(Albert Einstein)

   

Here is an excerpt from a Chris Floyd article call “Neo-Cons, Nabobs and Empire” on CounterPunch’s website, which I think is a pretty accurate view on who benefits and therefore who wanted these wars.

“Under Bush II, the neo-cons were brought in as shock troops; their mindless zealotry was a perfect tool for implementing the plans drawn up by the real players in the new regime: Cheney's notorious "Energy Task Force" and the much lesser-known "Joint Task Force on Petroleum" formed by the Council on Foreign Relations and--who else?--the James Baker Institute at Rice University. It was here that the final solution for Iraq was hammered out: regime change with the aim of locking up--not unleashing--Iraq's massive oil reserves, to keep energy prices high and steady (Saddam was mischievously bouncing them all over the place) and to preserve the power of OPEC under the leadership of those time-honored pals and business partners of the American Establishment, the Saudi royals.
These are dark days, serious times. The whiff of apocalypse is in the air. For it will be virtually impossible for the Gamesters to carry off their next immediate goal, subduing Iran--much less their long-range aim of dominating the world throughout a "new American century"--without the use of nuclear weapons. So let's be done with baby talk and comic books, with the comforting fairy tale that the vast crimes we are witnessing are the work of a few cranks who have somehow hijacked the noble U.S. government and are using it for their own purposes, or Israel's purposes, or whatever.
The reality is that Iraq was invaded because a powerful faction of the old-line American Establishment wanted to do it and the rest of the Establishment--the Democrats, the media, the "respectable" intelligentsia--countenanced the crime. The belligerence and oppression of the hardline Israeli government in Lebanon and Palestine are receiving unquestioned--and armed--support from the United States because this suits the larger strategic purposes of the "global dominance" faction of the Establishment, and the domestic political purposes both of the Democrats, heavily reliant on Jewish-American backing, and the Republicans, dependent on their rabidly pro-Israel evangelical base.
It is the American elite-- pursuing, as always, the enhancement of its own power and privilege, heedless of the consent of the governed or the genuine interests of the American people (or the Palestinian people or the Israeli people or the Lebanese people or the Iraqi people)--that bedevils us. The emergence of the cretinous neo-conservative cult is just a symptom of a deeper moral corruption coursing through the dominant institutions and structures of American society. The body politic is rotting from the head.”

Mike
Winnipeg

   

"The emergence of the cretinous neo-conservative cult is just a symptom of a deeper moral corruption coursing through the dominant institutions and structures of American society. The body politic is rotting from the head."

I'd like to know when corruption was NOT a byproduct of the human race? Morality is just an illusion used by those in power to suppress those who have no power. Usually, those who preach the value of morality, are those who don't possess an ounce of it. In effect, they're saying, "be honest and kind so we can screw you over some more."