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Iraq's links to Terrorists proven on Tape by Secretary of Defense:





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Weapons of Mass Democracy

The United States of America is a Representative Republic with three branches of government, not a Democracy. The word democracy does not appear in the Constitution and the phrase, "...of the people, by the people and for the people" was just another piece of war propaganda spoken by another President in another war. Democracy can not exsist in a society where the government lies, withholds information and deliberately misleads the masses. Neither can a representative republic exsist when big money special interests and foreign entities dominate both houses of Congress.

America has always been ruled by the elite, from white male land owners, to wealthy bankers to multi-national corporations. They have learned to enrich themselves through government programs and return the special favor through campaign contributions, jobs and development for constituents, as well as other direct and indirect kick backs. Former Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham just happened to get caught.

One of these ruling elites is the Military Industrial Complex. They make the weapons of war and they rely on the government to make wars. Like any company in business to make money, they advertise to create a need and use their wealth to buy influence in every institution including schools, universities, the media and even churches. In my son's high school I saw a huge banner for Lockeed Martin or Northrup/Gruman and at my old church a man gave a speech about how we must never give up the will to fight the islamofacists. I 'googled' his name to find he is the president of a small military contracting firm that has an office in Israel. Were we not warned of this almost 50 years ago?

"...We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together..."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961

Way back then it was the communist threat. After the wall came down, the military industrial complex needed new enemies and turned its attention to Iraq. The real reasons for the invasion were Sadam's efforts to sell oil at prices that under cut the market, his attempt to change oil currency from dollars to euros, his reported financial support for the families of Arab suicide bombers and his proximity and threat to the security of the Jewish State. When all the other false reasons for invasion failed to support the continued occupation of Iraq, the elites' media spin doctors proposed a new one: Democracy.

But America never supports democracy! Whenever a new democracy rises up, our government sees red and sets out to destroy it. Let me give you a few examples: Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954 Indonesia 1958, 1965, Vietnam, Dominican Republic 1963, Chile 1975, Nicaragua 1980, Algeria 1991, Venezuela 2002, and recently Lebanon and Hamas. America's covert and overt actions against emerging democracies is killing hope for this form of government.

A true democracy perhaps would advocate equal rights for every citizen, the right to be heard and to be represented while leaving banks, corporations and other institutions with little or no voice. It would advocate equal access to education, health care and justice and the equal distribution of wealth, especially natural resources like water, land and oil. Bush promised Iraqis a share of oil wealth when he said,"Iraqi oil for Iraqi people."

Can you imagine anyone advocating American oil for the American people? They would be disappeared overnight like so many Che Guevaras, Salvador Allendes and Mohammad Mossadeqs.

Thomas Jefferson warned, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be... the people cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe." Eisenhower echoed this warning, "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together..."

It can be argued however that our press is not free, that the majority are without information and that security and liberty are not prospering together, certainly not in Iraq:

US paying Iraqi press to run favourable stories

Military Says It Paid Iraq Papers for News

Is Killing Part of Pentagon Press Policy?

U.S. Forces Implicated in the Killing of Iraqi Journalist

Journalist Urges Americans to search for truth, freedom

"Recent actions indicate that the U.S. military will detain and/or kill any journalist who happens to be caught covering the Iraqi side..."

Reuters seeks U.S. probe into killing of Iraqi staff

Corporate Media Ignores US Hypocrisy on War Crimes

"A growing number of Iraqi photojournalists have been detained for weeks, sometimes months, by U.S. military forces. 'Sometimes these journalists have been detained after soldiers look at the contents of their digital cameras or some of their video footage and decide these pictures give them reason to suspect the cameramen may be something more than just journalists...'"

Hijacking Democracy in Iraq

"American intervention, in the form of a 'secret vote count' conducted behind closed doors and away from public scutiny...

Iraq today is still governed under these conditions, which provide the U.S. occupiers in Iraq de facto control over what happens behind the scenes in the Iraqi Government."

Iraq and the failures of democracy

Bush's war is not about Democracy

How can Bush bring Democracy to Iraq when he brings tyranny to America?

"...disinformation is routinely reported without skepticism by the American media in the face of challenges from experts."

They Hate Our Freedom

Our freedoms are threatened by this war on terror. The President can designate you as an "enemy combatant" and violate every single right you were once garanteed by the U.S. Constitution. We are now afraid to speak, to write, to publish, to practice our religion, to assemble, to keep and bear arms and to even petition. We are no longer safe from unreasonable search and seizure, from cruel and unusual punishment nor safe from being threaten with torture and death if we do not incriminate ourselves. Yes, Americans have been tortured:

John Walker Lindh, captured in Afghanistan by Northern Alliance warlord Rashid Dostum and handed over to US forces. He spent weeks on the USS Bataan, a Navy warship in the North Arabian Sea, being interrogated by U.S. investigators before he was transferred to U.S. military post at Kandahar International Airport in Afghanistan. Lindh’s lawyers claim that Lindh was systematically brutalised and threatened with 'torture and death' after US troops seized him. He was denied all rights to due process as an American citizen. Lindh pleaded guilty to some of the charges against him as part of a deal to avoid a life sentence and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Lindh could have testify about his torture at a court scheduled evidence suppression hearing and the government's evidence against him may have been dissmissed having been forced under duress, but prosecuters offered him a plea bargain. Lindh would consent to a official gag order and not make any public statement about his torture, plead guilty to two of the charges and all other charges dropped.

Michael Chertoff, who was head of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice at the time, in fact directed the prosecution to offer the plea bargain fearing that the government's weak case for war and terrorism would be lost. Other Americans tortured by our government include Jose Padilla and Yasser Hamdi.

But it is not only the fear of torture that threatens our freedom, the lies and disinformation coming from our government and the media as well as the undue control that corporations and foreign entities have over these institutions.

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