Robert Parry: Election 2006 & World War III "Consortium News"

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This is our "official notice" in legal terms. We've been warned on the direction * is taking us and now we're all responsible for doing something about it. What a total mess.

Election 2006 & World War III

By Robert Parry
September 7, 2006

As Americans go to the polls in two months, they should have one thought fixed in their minds: they will be voting on whether to commit the nation to fighting World War III against large segments of the world’s one billion Muslims. Beyond the cost in blood and treasure, this war will mean the end of the United States as a democratic Republic.

Those are the stakes that were made clear by George W. Bush in an alarmist speech to an association of U.S. military officers on Sept. 5. He declared that the United States must battle not only likely or even possible threats from terrorists, but the most fantastical dreams of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda about a mystical global “caliphate.”

Adopting some of the most extreme rhetoric favored by his neoconservative advisers, Bush also broadened the “war on terror” beyond al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists and the Sunni-dominated Iraqi insurgency to include the Shiite-run Hezbollah movement in Lebanon and the Shiite government of Iran.

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World War III'

Bush’s virtual declaration of war on the Islamic world ranks as possibly the most ambitious military plan in American history – and without doubt the most reckless. This so-called “long war,” which Bush’s followers hail as “World War III,” would mean fighting large portions of a religious movement that has the allegiance of about one-sixth of the planet’s population.

[acmejack]

1. Link

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/090606.html

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3. Thanks thanks for the LINK acmejack, much appreciated....

I got a little excited after reading the story. Parry is at his best!

[DemReadingDU]

2. Yikes!

From the article...Bush talked bravely about how confident he is that the United States will win this war. “America will not bow down to tyrants,” he declared to applause.



Our country doesn't have enough troops to fight Bush's wars. He is crazy. Democrats have got to vote in 2006, and get these Repubs out of office.

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4. America is not bowing down to tyrants...we're getting rid of Bush...

Amazing article isn't it...

[bleever]

5. Juliette Kayyam of Harvard was on Countdown the other night,

and she dissected this false concept of "Islamofascism" as being a unified movement between these disparate actors with very different backgrounds and motives.

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7. Really, they are getting so 1984...not very original...

..but I guess it works well enough for them. Forget the truth, right.

Thankfully, we've got Robert Parry.

:hi:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

8. I agree, not very original

It makes me wonder what other books/movies/tv shows/past govt plots they're using to cobble together is scary mess.
And yes, thanks for Robert Parry.
K&R

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6. K&R n/t