Where there is no vision, the people perish!

On April 30, the New York Daily News commented that, "except for the final body count, the war in Iraq is over. We lost." Our soldiers sacrificed life and limb, so that "Ahmed Chalabi, who while on the CIA payroll, fed us that BS about WMD, could get richer as the new oil minister of Iraq."

A few days ago, the most powerful hurricane in many years has devastated a large American city more completely than a major terrorist stike could possibly have done, and the Bush regime approach in providing help has been weak to non-existent, and FEMA, whose sole purpose is to respond to such a crisis, has been entirely indecisive and ineffective.

This very appropriate picture is courtesy of a German web site "gegen Bush", or "against Bush", at http://lustich.de/lustich/specials_gegenbushbilder-specials-2.html
Beware that some adult material is linked to that site, so minors should NOT visit.

Slow death for Iraqis and our Army

Guardsman Gerard Darren Matthew has tested positive for uranium contamination, but five weeks later, he was told by officials in Fort Dix, that there was no record of any urine specimen from him. Because of his exposure to depleted uranium, his baby girl Victoria Claudette, born June 29, is missing three fingers, and most of her right hand. There had been no history of birth defects in either his, or his wife's family. Matthew still has constant migraine headaches, blurred vision, blackouts, and a burning sensation whenever he urinates.

Ammunition manufactured with depleted uranium emits toxic gases, when passing through a gun barrel. There is no apparent or logical reason for the use of depleted uranium ammunition, unless it is the convenient disposal of a toxic substance. It's slight advantage in armor penetration is a very poor reason for the certain contamination of our soldiers' internal organs.

I was in charge of the tank gunnery range 45 in Grafenwoehr, Germany in 1966, and can vouch that the standard armor pentrating ammuniion, even then, was more than adequate.

Deceiving Ourselves is Not New

Does the Bush Administration Want Nuclear War?

The August 1 issue of Pat Buchanan's "The American Conservative" states: "In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people who brought you Iraq are prepared to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM)with drawing up contingency plans to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical NUCLEAR weapons.

Our administration has finally gone COMPLETELY insane!

The Big Battle

As we celebrate our 4th of July in the United States, let us reach out to those whom some of our idiotic leaders call our enemy, though they have not fired a single shot against anyone in the continental United States. A few years ago, Johnny Cash performed this song, which makes us realize the bonds of humanity, which unite all nationalities, races, and creeds, and expose the idiocy of war:

The Big Battle: An anti-war song by Johnny Cash. (Available as an MP-3 on the web)

I think, sir, the battle is over, and the young soldier laid down his gun.
I'm tired of running for cover, I'm certain the battle is done.
For, see overe there, where we fought them. it's quiet, for they've all gone away.
All left is the dead and the dying, the blue lying long side the grey.

So you think the battle is over, and you even lay down your gun.
You carelessly rise from your cover, for you think the battle is done.
Now boy hit the dirt, listen to me, for I'm still the one in command,
get flat on the ground here beside me, and lay your heart to the sand:

Can you hear the deafening rumble, can you feel the trembling ground?
It's not just the horses and wagons, that make such a deafening sound.
For every shot fired has an echo and every man killed wanted life.
There lies your friend Jim McKinney. Can you take the news to his wife?

Europe wants Peace

The rumors of discord between France and Germany are greatly exaggerated: See the leaders of both countries in this photo, and tell me with a straight face that they don't like each other! (Comments from Republican politicians excepted).

Europe has now become truly a sovereign entity, and even George Bush, with all of his sophisticated weapons and barely camouflaged bullshit has very little influence here. "Old" Europe is what George the adolescent imitator of truly great men, who have brought respect and even awe to the presidency, calls it. It may be old, though not quite as old as the Gospels, to which George pays lip service, while he violates all of the teachings of Jesus, whom he falsely claims to follow.

Time to drink a toast to peace with some fine "Moet White Star", produced entirely in "old" Europe, not the undeveloped shitholes which our boy George mistakenly calls "new" Europe.

U.S. Senate Crimes

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong, and 100,000 people paid with their lives. If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded ...., we would not be in the disaster that we are in today... You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth." Read the full story about the crimes of our government's leaders here.