America's Albatross
AMERICA’S ALBATROSS
"Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks
Had I from old and young !
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
Part I. Documenting Dementia
Bush offers robust defence of Iraq policy
By Caroline Daniel in Washington - The Financial Times
8/22/05 8:30 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20050822/bs_ft/fto082220051913457044
George W. Bush on Monday issued a robust defence of his Iraq policy against mounting domestic criticism, vowing "nothing less than the total victory over the terrorists".
He acknowledged the deaths of 1,864 US soldiers in Iraq and the "grieving families and loved ones back home" but insisted that, rather than set a timetable for withdrawal, "we owe them something. We will finish the task that they gave their lives for."
The speech in Utah, to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, marked the president's first direct response to Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq and whose protest outside his ranch in Crawford, Texas, has galvanised opposition to the war. Opinion polls show that a majority of Americans now consider the war a mistake.
It came as Iraqi leaders finally submitted a draft constitution. However, a final vote would be delayed by a further three days amid disagreement on critical areas such as federalism and executive powers.
Zalmay Khalizad, US ambassador to Iraq, told CNN: "Iraqis have made a huge step forward and reached an agreement on a draft". But he acknowledged the need to get Sunni minority approval, in order to drain support from the insurgency. "The constitution needs to be a national compact."
With some Democrats more openly critical of the war and some Republicans growing uneasy about the ongoing insurgency, Mr Bush was under pressure to show the political strategy in Iraq was working, analysts said.
The tabular content relating to this article is not available to view. Apologies in advance for the inconvenience caused.The president said a democratic constitution would prove "a landmark event in the history of Iraq and the history of the Middle East", and reiterated his belief that Iraq was a "central front in the war on terror".
Senator Russell Feingold, a Democrat who last week called for US troops to withdraw by the end of 2006, said: "Continuing to pour a billion dollars a week into Iraq for an indefinite period of time is not the way to win the fight against terrorism."
Anthony Cordesman, an expert on the Middle East at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, also expressed concern. "Mr Bush stayed on message without any real innovation. He did not identify a single risk or major problem. It was a description of success, and at the end of it I knew precisely nothing that I did not know before."
Nevertheless, the case for immediate withdrawal was still being made by marginal voices, Mr Cordesman said. "There are those who make vague echoes to Vietnam, but they are uncoordinated and weak. It will be at least a year before you have any kind of stronger voice for withdrawal."
At the weekend two potential Republican candidates for president in 2008 marked out different positions on the war. Chuck Hagel, senator for Nebraska, spoke of "a bogged-down problem not unsimilar to where we were in Vietnam". George Allen, senator for Virginia, echoed Mr Bush, saying: "We cannot tuck tail and run. We have to prevail. If we lose, that will destabilise the Middle East."
Part II. Premises and Predications
*****/
Starting Point For Comment. – the position* taken from which the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) (From Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050801&s=falk )
“The WTI is self-consciously an organ of civil society, with its own potential enforcement by way of economic boycotts, civil disobedience and political campaigns. And on the substantive issues of legality, it is designed to confirm the truth of the widely held allegations about the Iraq War, not to discover the truth by way of political, legal and moral inquiry and debate. It proceeds from a presumption that the allegations of illegality and criminality are valid and that its job is to reinforce that conclusion as persuasively and vividly as possible.”
Comment:
This position predicates on the validity of “allegations of illegality and criminality” in re the Iraq War* (*asterisk indicates uses that will be followed on psychosemiotic grounds – communicating with the contextual intent). Currently chief among these allegations is leaking classified information to media snoops by/from inside high-up government insiders, to cause mischief and befuddle the public. And however often denied, it remains the fact that the entity leaked to in one case (L. Franklin) was, directly, Aipac, a political adjunct of Israel; and that the other case (Rove exposing Joseph Wilson’s undercover identity) involved neocons Libby, Feith, Bolton linked federal government operations to AEI, JINSA, ADL, and other Zionist two-flag worshippers (Perle, Wolfawich, Abrams, Kristols, Podwhoretzim, and the rest of the ;-(.) in mongering war for Israel.
JUSTIFICATION of specified Starting Point
This specification of the WTI’s starting point is neither conjecture, ‘conspiracy theory’ (token of Bush’s ‘transparency’ grammarpac), nor anti-semitic screed. It is a repetition of what they disclosed about themselves in the terms they used to disclose it.
Document 1.
The “Clean Break” fatwa issued by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, 7-8-1996, titled A Clean Break: a New Strategy for Securing the Realm (citing http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm) read, in part: Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000." The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated. The report, entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," is the framework for a series of follow-up reports on strategy.
“…..Israel has a large problem. Labor Zionism, which for 70 years has dominated the Zionist movement, has generated a stalled and shackled economy. Efforts to salvage Israel’s socialist institutions—which include pursuing supranational over national sovereignty and pursuing a peace process that embraces the slogan, "New Middle East"—undermine the legitimacy of the nation and lead Israel into strategic paralysis and the previous government’s "peace process." ….
(continued)
“….Benjamin Netanyahu’s government comes in with a new set of ideas. While there are those who will counsel continuity, Israel has the opportunity to make a clean break; it can forge a peace process and strategy based on an entirely new intellectual foundation, one that restores strategic initiative and provides the nation the room to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism…”
JUDGMENT:
It is this “new intellectual foundation” that osmosed through Bush’s Bible belt base, where the Dispos and (pathetic) SBC-ers congregated (Falwell, Robertson, Bauer, Swaggart, etc. – all those a cut or two below Koresh) to help the Zionists.
Document 2.
“Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy” by William Kristol and Robert Kagan, issued the same year from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is also vividly prescient.. Specifically, it calls for:
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=276&prog=zgp&proj=zusr
“Citizen involvement. A gap is growing, meanwhile, between America's professional military, uncomfortable with some of the missions that the new American role requires, and a civilian population increasingly unaware of or indifferent to the importance of its military's efforts abroad. U.S. military leaders harbor justifiable suspicions that while they serve as a kind of foreign legion, doing the hard work of American-style "empire management," American civilians at home, preoccupied with the distribution of tax breaks and government benefits, will not come to their support when the going gets tough. Weak political leadership and a poor job of educating the citizenry to the responsibilities of global hegemony have created an increasingly distinct and alienated military culture. Ask any mechanic or mess boy on an aircraft carrier why he is patrolling the oceans, and he can give a more sophisticated explanation of power projection than 99 percent of American college graduates. It is foolish to imagine that the United States can lead the world effectively while the overwhelming majority of the population neither understands nor is involved, in any real way, with its international mission.
The president and other political leaders can take steps to close the growing separation of civilian and military cultures in our society. They can remind civilians of the sacrifices being made by U.S. forces overseas and explain what those sacrifices are for. A clear statement of America's global mission can help the public understand why U.S. troops are deployed overseas and can help reassure military leaders of public support in difficult circumstances. It could also lay the groundwork for reasserting more comprehensive civilian control over the military.
There could be further efforts to involve more citizens in military service. Perhaps the United States has reached the point where a return to the draft is not feasible because of the high degree of professionalization of the military services. But there are other ways to lower the barriers between civilian and military life. Expanded forms of reserve service could give many more Americans experience of the military and an appreciation of military virtues..
COMMENT
Every one of these things has come to pass.
PART III. SEQUE TO GERMANY
“Mein Blondes Baby, fergeht me nicht …”
– Marlene Deitrich, l955
Meanwhile, Catholic heat is being turned up for Supreme Court nominee Roberts, big time. No Borking. No hi-tech “pubic hair on the Coke can” lynching of the black guy this time around. Straight-out ring kissing.
Great pics pouring in of The Pope benedicting over 1,000,000 youths in Germany (it was said). Where only yesterday, it seems, real Hitler Nazi youth had embraced Joe Ratzinger, the to-be Vicar of Christ on earth. What strange twists of fate. In how few years. How ultra-contrived (and doomed to crash, like Gorbachev, except he had class.)
As for his part, the world now knows Benedictus XVI as One calling openly and forcefully, just the way World Religious Leaders do, the Vatican’s PR man (Navarro-Valls --he’s Opus Dei) guesses, for reconciliation with Zionist Israel, and combating the wave of new anti-Semitism said to be on the rise. No more of this “Christ killers”, WWII holocaust blame-game nonsense. Grace doth abound. Amazing. With CNN showing that darling, darling Gibson boy-guy who nailed Him to the cross right up there on the Silver Screen. Made billion$. Drove huge virtual iron nails right through the de Jeezes oputstretched hands (acted out on the bag of human bones playing Jesus Christ in the movie “The Passion” last year). Man, I wouldn’t mess with that, as religion, would you? S-Wheee-ooo.
We’re Marching to Zion, folks. Hold on for dear life.
****
FOR PRESENTATION: (A Representation, in the sense of vorstellun, prepared to document and specify the WTI starting point as the Catholic-Jewish neocon cabal indicated above.)
"Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks
Had I from old and young !
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
Part I. Documenting Dementia
Bush offers robust defence of Iraq policy
By Caroline Daniel in Washington - The Financial Times
8/22/05 8:30 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20050822/bs_ft/fto082220051913457044
George W. Bush on Monday issued a robust defence of his Iraq policy against mounting domestic criticism, vowing "nothing less than the total victory over the terrorists".
He acknowledged the deaths of 1,864 US soldiers in Iraq and the "grieving families and loved ones back home" but insisted that, rather than set a timetable for withdrawal, "we owe them something. We will finish the task that they gave their lives for."
The speech in Utah, to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, marked the president's first direct response to Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq and whose protest outside his ranch in Crawford, Texas, has galvanised opposition to the war. Opinion polls show that a majority of Americans now consider the war a mistake.
It came as Iraqi leaders finally submitted a draft constitution. However, a final vote would be delayed by a further three days amid disagreement on critical areas such as federalism and executive powers.
Zalmay Khalizad, US ambassador to Iraq, told CNN: "Iraqis have made a huge step forward and reached an agreement on a draft". But he acknowledged the need to get Sunni minority approval, in order to drain support from the insurgency. "The constitution needs to be a national compact."
With some Democrats more openly critical of the war and some Republicans growing uneasy about the ongoing insurgency, Mr Bush was under pressure to show the political strategy in Iraq was working, analysts said.
The tabular content relating to this article is not available to view. Apologies in advance for the inconvenience caused.The president said a democratic constitution would prove "a landmark event in the history of Iraq and the history of the Middle East", and reiterated his belief that Iraq was a "central front in the war on terror".
Senator Russell Feingold, a Democrat who last week called for US troops to withdraw by the end of 2006, said: "Continuing to pour a billion dollars a week into Iraq for an indefinite period of time is not the way to win the fight against terrorism."
Anthony Cordesman, an expert on the Middle East at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, also expressed concern. "Mr Bush stayed on message without any real innovation. He did not identify a single risk or major problem. It was a description of success, and at the end of it I knew precisely nothing that I did not know before."
Nevertheless, the case for immediate withdrawal was still being made by marginal voices, Mr Cordesman said. "There are those who make vague echoes to Vietnam, but they are uncoordinated and weak. It will be at least a year before you have any kind of stronger voice for withdrawal."
At the weekend two potential Republican candidates for president in 2008 marked out different positions on the war. Chuck Hagel, senator for Nebraska, spoke of "a bogged-down problem not unsimilar to where we were in Vietnam". George Allen, senator for Virginia, echoed Mr Bush, saying: "We cannot tuck tail and run. We have to prevail. If we lose, that will destabilise the Middle East."
Part II. Premises and Predications
*****/
Starting Point For Comment. – the position* taken from which the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) (From Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050801&s=falk )
“The WTI is self-consciously an organ of civil society, with its own potential enforcement by way of economic boycotts, civil disobedience and political campaigns. And on the substantive issues of legality, it is designed to confirm the truth of the widely held allegations about the Iraq War, not to discover the truth by way of political, legal and moral inquiry and debate. It proceeds from a presumption that the allegations of illegality and criminality are valid and that its job is to reinforce that conclusion as persuasively and vividly as possible.”
Comment:
This position predicates on the validity of “allegations of illegality and criminality” in re the Iraq War* (*asterisk indicates uses that will be followed on psychosemiotic grounds – communicating with the contextual intent). Currently chief among these allegations is leaking classified information to media snoops by/from inside high-up government insiders, to cause mischief and befuddle the public. And however often denied, it remains the fact that the entity leaked to in one case (L. Franklin) was, directly, Aipac, a political adjunct of Israel; and that the other case (Rove exposing Joseph Wilson’s undercover identity) involved neocons Libby, Feith, Bolton linked federal government operations to AEI, JINSA, ADL, and other Zionist two-flag worshippers (Perle, Wolfawich, Abrams, Kristols, Podwhoretzim, and the rest of the ;-(.) in mongering war for Israel.
JUSTIFICATION of specified Starting Point
This specification of the WTI’s starting point is neither conjecture, ‘conspiracy theory’ (token of Bush’s ‘transparency’ grammarpac), nor anti-semitic screed. It is a repetition of what they disclosed about themselves in the terms they used to disclose it.
Document 1.
The “Clean Break” fatwa issued by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, 7-8-1996, titled A Clean Break: a New Strategy for Securing the Realm (citing http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm) read, in part: Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000." The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated. The report, entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," is the framework for a series of follow-up reports on strategy.
“…..Israel has a large problem. Labor Zionism, which for 70 years has dominated the Zionist movement, has generated a stalled and shackled economy. Efforts to salvage Israel’s socialist institutions—which include pursuing supranational over national sovereignty and pursuing a peace process that embraces the slogan, "New Middle East"—undermine the legitimacy of the nation and lead Israel into strategic paralysis and the previous government’s "peace process." ….
(continued)
“….Benjamin Netanyahu’s government comes in with a new set of ideas. While there are those who will counsel continuity, Israel has the opportunity to make a clean break; it can forge a peace process and strategy based on an entirely new intellectual foundation, one that restores strategic initiative and provides the nation the room to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism…”
JUDGMENT:
It is this “new intellectual foundation” that osmosed through Bush’s Bible belt base, where the Dispos and (pathetic) SBC-ers congregated (Falwell, Robertson, Bauer, Swaggart, etc. – all those a cut or two below Koresh) to help the Zionists.
Document 2.
“Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy” by William Kristol and Robert Kagan, issued the same year from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is also vividly prescient.. Specifically, it calls for:
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=276&prog=zgp&proj=zusr
“Citizen involvement. A gap is growing, meanwhile, between America's professional military, uncomfortable with some of the missions that the new American role requires, and a civilian population increasingly unaware of or indifferent to the importance of its military's efforts abroad. U.S. military leaders harbor justifiable suspicions that while they serve as a kind of foreign legion, doing the hard work of American-style "empire management," American civilians at home, preoccupied with the distribution of tax breaks and government benefits, will not come to their support when the going gets tough. Weak political leadership and a poor job of educating the citizenry to the responsibilities of global hegemony have created an increasingly distinct and alienated military culture. Ask any mechanic or mess boy on an aircraft carrier why he is patrolling the oceans, and he can give a more sophisticated explanation of power projection than 99 percent of American college graduates. It is foolish to imagine that the United States can lead the world effectively while the overwhelming majority of the population neither understands nor is involved, in any real way, with its international mission.
The president and other political leaders can take steps to close the growing separation of civilian and military cultures in our society. They can remind civilians of the sacrifices being made by U.S. forces overseas and explain what those sacrifices are for. A clear statement of America's global mission can help the public understand why U.S. troops are deployed overseas and can help reassure military leaders of public support in difficult circumstances. It could also lay the groundwork for reasserting more comprehensive civilian control over the military.
There could be further efforts to involve more citizens in military service. Perhaps the United States has reached the point where a return to the draft is not feasible because of the high degree of professionalization of the military services. But there are other ways to lower the barriers between civilian and military life. Expanded forms of reserve service could give many more Americans experience of the military and an appreciation of military virtues..
COMMENT
Every one of these things has come to pass.
PART III. SEQUE TO GERMANY
“Mein Blondes Baby, fergeht me nicht …”
– Marlene Deitrich, l955
Meanwhile, Catholic heat is being turned up for Supreme Court nominee Roberts, big time. No Borking. No hi-tech “pubic hair on the Coke can” lynching of the black guy this time around. Straight-out ring kissing.
Great pics pouring in of The Pope benedicting over 1,000,000 youths in Germany (it was said). Where only yesterday, it seems, real Hitler Nazi youth had embraced Joe Ratzinger, the to-be Vicar of Christ on earth. What strange twists of fate. In how few years. How ultra-contrived (and doomed to crash, like Gorbachev, except he had class.)
As for his part, the world now knows Benedictus XVI as One calling openly and forcefully, just the way World Religious Leaders do, the Vatican’s PR man (Navarro-Valls --he’s Opus Dei) guesses, for reconciliation with Zionist Israel, and combating the wave of new anti-Semitism said to be on the rise. No more of this “Christ killers”, WWII holocaust blame-game nonsense. Grace doth abound. Amazing. With CNN showing that darling, darling Gibson boy-guy who nailed Him to the cross right up there on the Silver Screen. Made billion$. Drove huge virtual iron nails right through the de Jeezes oputstretched hands (acted out on the bag of human bones playing Jesus Christ in the movie “The Passion” last year). Man, I wouldn’t mess with that, as religion, would you? S-Wheee-ooo.
We’re Marching to Zion, folks. Hold on for dear life.
****
FOR PRESENTATION: (A Representation, in the sense of vorstellun, prepared to document and specify the WTI starting point as the Catholic-Jewish neocon cabal indicated above.)
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