Don't Forget
As the Christmas spirit is upon us, this article by Dennis Rahkonen, While we celebrate the birth of Jesus, mass murder is being planned, should also be kept in mind:
Incredibly, the Bush administration is using a holiday season devoted to the Prince of Peace to prepare a bloodbath in Iraq.
Rather than comply with the American and Iraqi people's clear, polled desire for a swift end to the U.S. occupation, just the opposite will likely transpire.
According to widely reported accounts, the initial stage of a new American troop "surge" in Iraq will probably entail Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ouster, followed by a fierce attack on militant Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi militia, some 60,000 fighters strong.
That militia, located mainly in Baghdad's teeming Sadr City slum, would be engaged not only with infantry, but by artillery fire and air attacks as well.
Ensuing civilian casualties would consequently be horrendously high.
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Despite almost everyone else on the planet wanting a prompt, total halt to America's occupation, Bush and his imperial-minded enablers are hell bent on staying in Iraq, for the selfish reason that there's so much money to be made by controlling „their‰ oil lying under Iraqi sand.
Never mind how many weeping mothers' precious children get blown to bits.
That their diabolical scheme couldn't possibly succeed is obvious.
It's only in animated cartoons that painting an exit door on a cul-de-sac's rock wall will allow a trapped character to escape impending doom.
We're not dealing with the Roadrunner, but George W. Bush, and he's completely delusional.
His fate can't be avoided. He's about to suffer a crushing defeat.
That's what happens when facts are ignored and a wayward President attempts to revive neo-colonial policy more than fifty years after the age of imperialism was ended by rebellious Third World people unwilling to remain forever oppressed.
Nothing can pull America's chestnuts out of burning Iraq's fire. History simply won't allow it.
That's why cutting our losses and withdrawing fully while we still can is the only option.
We, the people, must make our peace sentiments absolutely and powerfully clear. . . . Do anything you can think of that's productive and nonviolent.
Just don't do nothing at all.
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