FirmhandKY
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ORIGINAL: SugarMyChurro
http://www.roncan.com/iranwar.html
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Sounds about right to me. I've been ranting about the PNAC for some time now. It's all very worrying.
I don't really know who this Estanislao Carter guy is. This is the first I've seen of his commentary.
Personally, I like everything about Ron Paul except his stand on abortion. I just don't know that our country can function under the Constitution any longer - it's all gone too far I fear.
The Constitutional republic is the comforting lie they tell us in order to get us to accept a de facto plutocracy. That's reality.
There is so much idiocy on that link, that it bogles the mind.
Just two examples:
First we have the PNAC agenda
This clearly calls for a 3 - 4 front war. It calls for domination of resources and it calls for military oversight of those resources indefinitely. This has been the neocon controlling agenda even before Bush's Presidency.
He links to the "Rebuilding America's Defenses" white paper put out by a non-governmental think tank that discusses the US's strategic miitary doctrine. The "3-4 front war" as he calls it, is little more than a call to return to a previous (i.e. Cold War era) level of military preparedness. For decades, it was US strategic doctrine to be able to fight two full war theatres, along with one or two, or three small conflicts all at the same time.
Far from calling for war, it simply is calling for a return to that level of military capability.
But it sounds so much more alarming to say "the neocons want a 3-4 front war". An emotional appeal to those already convinced of the "evilness of 'neocons'" and Bush. In other words, he is using fear to cloud your mind, and get you to agree to his arguments that any clear minded, intelligent person wouldn't.
Manipulation.
Sixth we have Bush's Executive Order outlawing war protest
This EO is written so generally, that it essentially kills the 5th Amendment
Ok, here is the full EO: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq (for those few of you who actually want to make your own minds up).
Here are excerpts from the article he relies on to make the claim that it "outlaws" war protest:
Bush Outlaws All War Protest In United States
According to Russian legal experts, the greatest concern to the American people are the underlying provisions of this new law, and which, they state, are written 'so broadly' as to outlaw all forms of protest against the war. These provisions state:
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To the subsection of this new US law, according to these legal experts, that says "...the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit...", the insertion of the word 'services' has broad, and catastrophic, consequences for the American people in that any act deemed by their government to be against the Iraqi war is, in fact, supporting the 'enemy' and therefore threatens the 'stabilization of Iraq'.
In an even greater affront to the American people are the provisions of a law called The Patriot Act, and that should they run afoul of this new law they are forbidden to allow anyone to know about it, and as we can read as reported by the Seattle Times News Service:
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It is interesting to note, too, that this is not the first time that the United States has unleashed the brutal power of their government against its citizens to further their war aims and stifle domestic dissent,
Today, as the United States faces an imminent economic collapse, while at the same time its war bill has reached the staggering amount of $648 billion, one of the last freedoms the American people have had to protest their leaders actions against them, and other peoples in the World, has now been taken away from them, the freedom to speak and write in opposition to what is being done to them. [emphasis added]
If you want to know anything about the crediblity of the site this comes from, just glance over the hompage: http://rense.com/
Again, he is using a manipulation tactic commonly used in propaganda - generating fear in order to cloud the mind, and cause a stampede to go the way the propagandists wishs.
Fear mongering. Manipulation.
And you guys claim Bush does this?
FirmKY
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