It's a shame. You'll never see the work of Robert Greenwald on the so-called "main stream", "liberal" media. That this suburb and gifted documentarian is not a household name shows a lot about what we've become as a nation. Thank goodness for home video technology.

Please, if you've never seen any of his work, do so at once. Trust me on this one, campers, you won't be dissappointed. His latest film, Iraq For Sale is a devisating expose` on the out-right theft that the corporations connected with the disgusting administration of George W. Bush have been able to pull off in the illegal war on Iraq.

When Bush is finally brought to trial for his crimes against humantiy, they'll be able to use any of Greenwald's films as exhibit A.

God bless you, Mr. Greenwald.

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

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After countless lost opportunities and after enormous costs to the elites a major direction of theirs was lost because Osama did not want to play the corruption game that his family and the family of Bu$hCo were invovlved in. Very big under the table deals all gone wrong and double cross was the deal. Big, very big corporate monies had been lost. These costs are retreived by manipulation of a media to allow the Bu$hCo elites to engage the Iraqi elites and launch an un sanctioned action to get back that lost investment. Call it what you like but it is a way to punish big business in another country by using your own peoples resources to fund a money making enterprise (warfare) and use it unfortunately against an unsuspecting Iraqi peoples."collateral"... Bingo we have got our money back and we have a prize with which to make more and they won't try that again will they....Enter the poor bastards that have to wear such a process....at the hands of nothing more than a pariah nation.

We watch, we see, we wonder....sorry is not going to cut it George....

Just a snippet to the Alternet crew.. Cheaney was visiting my fair land some time ago and gave a stiring rousing speach to 200 selected persons from the upper echelons of corporate power in my country and at the end of this blusterous speach against terrorism and ..hint hint Iran, there was a pregnant pause followed by at least a half dozen sporadic almost clapping individuals.... That showed me thankfully, that all is well in my country. You don't get more of a F@#Koff in my country than that.....Cheers!!

Regards Captain

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From Wikipedia on Philippine-American War

Mark Twain famously opposed the war by using his influence in the press. He felt it betrayed the ideals of American democracy by not allowing the Filipino people to choose their own destiny.
“There is the case of the Philippines. I have tried hard, and yet I cannot for the life of me comprehend how we got into that mess. Perhaps we could not have avoided it — perhaps it was inevitable that we should come to be fighting the natives of those islands — but I cannot understand it, and have never been able to get at the bottom of the origin of our antagonism to the natives. I thought we should act as their protector — not try to get them under our heel. We were to relieve them from Spanish tyranny to enable them to set up a government of their own, and we were to stand by and see that it got a fair trial. It was not to be a government according to our ideas, but a government that represented the feeling of the majority of the Filipinos, a government according to Filipino ideas. That would have been a worthy mission for the United States. But now — why, we have got into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater. I'm sure I wish I could see what we were getting out of it, and all it means to us as a nation.”

Election of 1900 Wikipedia

The triumph of the American army and navy in the war against Spain was a decisive factor in building Republican support. Democrats tried to argue that the war was not over because of the insurgency in the Philippines, which became their major issue. A perception that the Philippine War was coming to an end would be an electoral asset for the Republicans, and the McKinley administration stated that there were reductions of troops there. Republicans pledged that the fighting in the Philippines would die down of its own accord within sixty days of McKinley's reelection.
However, as one lieutenant explained in a letter to his wife, “It looks good on paper, but there really has been no reduction of the force here. These battalions [being sent home] are made up on men…about to be discharged.”

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I posted my “common sense” solution today below another AlterNet article, “Iraqis Blame U.S. for ‘Bloody Wednesday.’” Check it out, fellow bloggers, then fire away.

As a heads-up, I’m saying our troops should get out of Baghdad NOW!

Hugh E. Scott, editor of King-George.biz -- the only website with hardcopy proof of White House corruption.

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FROM AN ANGRY SOLDIER Date: 2007-04-10, 1:00PM PDT

WARNING: contains a few scattered four-letter words. The following can be found HERE . I cannot vouch for its authenticity:

I'm having the worst damn week of my whole damn life so I'm going to write this while I'm pissed off enough to do it right.

I am SICK of all this bullshit people are writing about the Iraq war. I am abso-fucking-lutely sick to death of it. What the fuck do most of you know about it? You watch it on TV and read the commentaries in the newspaper or Newsweek or whatever god damn yuppie news rag you subscribe to and think you're all such fucking experts that you can scream at each other like five year old about whether you're right or not. Let me tell you something: unless you've been there, you don't know a god damn thing about it. It you haven't been shot at in that fucking hell hole, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

How do I dare say this to you moronic war supporters who are "Supporting our Troops" and waving the flag and all that happy horse shit? I'll tell you why. I'm a Marine and I served my tour in Iraq. My husband, also a Marine, served several. I left the service six months ago because I got pregnant while he was home on leave and three days ago I get a visit from two men in uniform who hand me a letter and tell me my husband died in that fucking festering sand-pit. He should have been home a month ago but they extended his tour and now he's coming home in a box.

You fuckers and that god-damn lying sack of shit they call a president are the reason my husband will never see his baby and my kid will never meet his dad.

And you know what the most fucked up thing about this Iraq shit is? They don't want us there. They're not happy we came and they want us out NOW. We fucked up their lives even worse than they already were and they're pissed off. We didn't help them and we're not helping them now. That's what our soldiers are dying for.

Oh while I'm good and worked up, the government doesn't even have the decency to help out the soldiers whos lives they ruined. If you really believe the military and the government had no idea the veterans' hospitals were so fucked up, you are a god-damn retard. They don't care about us. We're disposable. We're numbers on a page and they'd rather forget we exist so they don't have to be reminded about the families and lives they ruined while they're sipping their cocktails at another fund raiser dinner. If they were really concerned about supporting the troops, they'd bring them home so their families wouldn't have to cry at a graveside and explain to their children why mommy or daddy isn't coming home. Because you can't explain it. We're not fighting for our country, we're not fighting for the good of Iraq's people, we're fighting for Bush's personal agenda. Patriotism my ass. You know what? My dad served in Vietnam and NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

So I'm pissed. I'm beyond pissed. And I'm going to go to my husband funeral and recieve that flag and hang it up on the wall for my baby to see when he's older. But I'm not going to tell him that his father died for the stupidty of the American government. I'm going to tell him that his father was a hero and the best man I ever met and that he loved his country enough to die for it, because that's all true and nothing will be solved by telling my son that his father was sent to die by people who didn't care about him at all.

Fuck you, war supporters, George W. Bush, and all the god damn mother fuckers who made the war possible. I hope you burn in hell.

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No way,
Far worse, for Iraq, for the world, and for America.
Stop it now.

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The rapper above used some religious terms. This evil war can only be comprehended as a spiritual, karmic struggle which of course includes its sordid economic players. Love is the power to heel/heal this monster. The Lover Government is the Beauty that tames the patriarchic Beast.

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The issue of U.S. fighting a war in Iraq for Israel must be addressed by American people. Unless and until this issue is addressed, this war will continue for ad infinitum. Millions of innocent people will be tortured and die. Israel seeks hegemony + control of assets/resources in Iraq (as well as entire Middle East). The war in Iraq is for Israel.

When trying to decipher the myriad of reasons/rationale for the unethical Iraq War,
look to people such as Zakheim, Wolfowitz, Perle et al (as well as the neocon Bu$h Cheney Inc. cabal). All signed PNAC - PNAC is a precursor to Iraq war. And remember our duplicitous mainstream media reiterating: 911 reason for Iraq war.

We in U.S. are so unbelievably socially conditioned (brainwashed) through our deceptive mind controlling mainstream media that the Iraq War is brought to us by: Bu$h Cheney Inc. Ah contraire: This is Israel’s war that U.S. is fighting….however, U.S. shares full complicity and culpability.

Americans, please wake up and smell the deception and lies. We must stop this illegal/unethical war in Iraq, but first we must address the masterminds: Israel

Google:
9/11, Iraq, PNAC, All Roads Lead to Israel
by Ryan Dawson

Follow these links for more information:
www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?t=1388

http://www.iamthewitness.com

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/columnist.asp?ID=6

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We should all shut the fuck up. I can only imagine how painful what you're going through is. And listening to all this bullshit, and all this debate from people to whom this war is an abstraction, when you and your family are the ones actually paying this horrible price, has got to be beyond anger. Dying for a good cause is one thing, but dying for an idiot like Bush's lies is tragic.

Good luck to you.

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The "mission actually WAS accomplished. The neocons through their stooges in Washington have control over Iraq's oil, and are preparing to divvy it up and screw Iraq. They have also established a beachhead from which they can intimidate the whole region into submision to the neocon agenda.

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Unlike all the useless culture-destroying bastards who just give a damn about their drugs, their guns, their "hos", their rides, and their cribs.

If you know of any more, feel free to post them in response.

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Name a world figure who has helped Osama more in his war against Western civilization than George W. Bush.

When you come up with an answer, email me from my website. King-George.biz -- the only on with hardcopy proof of White House corruption (irrefutable impeachment evidence).

Hugh E. Scott

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After I saw kids run up to my HMMWV as if it had Mr. Frosty painted on the side and was playing Pop Goes the weasal, and after the first sets of filthy people came up and made demands with their . I knew it was a lost cause.

I was sent to a country filled with illiterate people that smell like shit and have festering craters in their mouths where teeth used to be. I am expected to help manage their cities.

They rocketed us last night. One of the rockets fell short. It hit a house and killed 17 people, mostly children. There were no US KIAs. Arabs cann't do anything right.
1LT L

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How dare any one judge the Iraqi people for the conditions they are living under. We created those conditions by helping Sadaam stay in power, then playing Iraq and Iran off against each other selling weapons to both sides during the Iraq-Iran war, then the first Gulf War, then placing sanctions against Iraq that killed millions of people and finally the coup de grace the present war. Do you expect them to look like they just stepped out of a fund raiser for the Republican party? What any American should feel is shame for we are Dorian Grey and our portrait is Iraq.

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A good John Pilger article is here: (you might have to patch the link together)

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2007-04/12pilger.cfm

A short excerpt: "Brown (the British chancellor) is no different from Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and the other warmongering Democrats he admires and who support an unprovoked attack on Iran and the subjugation of the Middle East to "our interests" - and Israel's, of course. Nothing has changed since the US and Britain destroyed Iran's democratic government in 1953 and installed Reza Shah Pahlavi, whose regime had "the highest rate of death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts and a history of torture" that was "beyond belief" (Amnesty)."

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So this guy thinks Bin Laden bombed the WTC and launched us into war. Elements within your government, with assistance from foreign governments, attacked America - they made it happen on purpose. Of course the "people" were only too happy to kill someone, anyone, on that basis.

I also heard him complaining about the 3000 American "holy" dead - not a word about the Afghans or the Iraqis - as usual the "darkies" don't count in America. No wonder you keep killing people, you just don't get it, even the so called "liberals". 650k dead in Iraq. Millions and millions more around the world since WWII (which you did NOT "win"). Rap all you like, but until you realise that any mans death is just as important as an American, you will keep killing and killing until the sickest society on earth collapses on itself.

Rap? What a joke! Let's rap against Hitler, let's sing about Saddam! March on the White House, that's what it will take, the problem is you think only 3000 people are dead, nothing to get too excited about. Democracy has been dead in your benighted country for decades. I don't hate America, just it's leaders and it's sheeple.

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