this is the future "they"-"we" embrace: War, War, War, War and more War

[G_j]

beyond Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran...

The vision of the inevitable wars from here to eternity is being presented as a 'given' by our 'leaders' and parroted without question by the media.
The military industrial complex is geared up for our future and raking in the bucks like never before.

Into the new millennium worshiping the gods of war, ready and thrilled to offer endless human sacrifice at the alter. We are told this is the way it is.

Who questions this suicidal path?
Even among the Democrats there is but a handful such as Dennis Kucinich or Cythia McKinney. Only a few dare to even think about rocking the big war boat. This is unacceptable!!
We are dragging our children into a future that raises up and accepts as a given the absolute worst in humanity.

Look at the Pentagon's future aspirations for trillions of dollars of new weapons, space weapons, mini-nukes...

If we can't change the mindset and challenge the very premise of war even being an option in the 21th century, we are heading into deeper and deeper trouble.

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http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2004/nr20040202-0301.html

Fiscal 2005 Department of Defense Budget Release

President George W. Bush today sent Congress his fiscal 2005 defense budget. The budget requests $401.7 billion in discretionary budget authority for the Department of Defense (DoD). This represents a seven percent increase over fiscal 2004 funding levels, after taking into account Congressionally directed rescissions.

The budget maintains implementation of the Bush Administration defense strategy and continues the transformation of the U.S. military to ensure that it has the capabilities needed to counter 21st century security threats most effectively and efficiently. The budget balances support for this long-term transformation with resources for current global operations and requirements.

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Pentagon's plans to militarize space have definitely emerged
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GH18Aa01.html

Aug 18, 2005

Star Wars: Empires strike back
By Giuseppe Anzera

<snip>

Turn toward space militarization

The Pentagon's plans to militarize space have definitely emerged. In mid-May, the US Air Force formally asked President George W Bush to issue a presidential directive that allows Washington to deploy defensive and offensive weapons into orbit. Formally, the new directive was necessary to replace a precedent decree (PDD-NSC-49 - National Space Policy) issued by the Bill Clinton administration, which forbids the indiscriminate militarization of space. While the decree has not yet been issued, speculation over the Pentagon's move already hit the news.

After the 2002 unilateral US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, worries were raised about Washington's possible start of such a program, for it could transform space into a new battlefield. The US Air Force request, coupled with the April launch of the XSS-11 orbital micro-satellite, increased the concerns of observers and world powers. XSS-11 is specifically designed to disturb other states' military/reconnaissance or communication satellites.

A discontinuance of US traditional policy about the restricted (eg peaceful) use of space could engender a new arms race - which appears economically and technologically challenging and way beyond many states' reach.

Rods from God
On the technological level, the Pentagon's planning is in the advanced stage: some projects - aimed at space weaponization - have already been in place for some time. Among the (partially known) Pentagon's new plans, the two most interesting projects are the "Global Strike" program and the "Rods from God" program. Global Strike involves the employment of military space planes capable of carrying about 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of high-precision weapons (with a circular error probability less than three meters) with the primary use of striking enemy military bases and command and control facilities in any point of the world.


..more..more...& more..

[leesa]

1. Well, until we run out of fuel anyway

[G_j]

2. just may be our salvation?

& I didn't even go into global warming.. :-(

[anarch]

8. nah...then they'll just go back to massed infantry

and perhaps eventually drunken mobs going at each other with pikes and broadswords.

Don't worry, once the remaining oil isn't worth fighting over anymore, we'll find something else. Probably potable water.

(sorry, not feeling real optimistic today)

[rainy]

3. you are so right. It is maddening that in our time we aren't any

smarter that this. We have been duped at every turn and continue to fall for all of the BS. The truth is out there but no one knows enough to look for it or where to find it. They would have to know that they don't know.

I think the second poster is right, when the oil runs out, if there are any humans left, maybe our would will change for the best as all things will have to be local again. Grow our own food etc...

[G_j]

4. it is heartbreaking

to think that with a different 'vision' we might have entered the new millennium embracing peace and exploring nonviolent ways to approach the world's problems. Bush & Co have made sure we didn't take that fork in the road, cementing the bloodletting, suffering and misery for the future.

[H2O Man]

5. "Until the philosophy

which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned .... and until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation .... and until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes .... and until their basic human rights are equally guarenteed to all, without regard to race .... until that day, the dream of everlasting peace, world citizenship, and the rule of international morality ... will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained ..."
--Haile Selassie, Lion of the Tribe of Judah; 2-28-1968 in California

[G_j]

6. a traipse of Marley's version

of this speech came to me as I was writing my rant.

true dat..

military empire is all about maintaining first class and second class citizens on the planet

[G_j]

9. Second-Class Citizens

Iraq's Second-Class Citizens
by Yifat Susskind, TomPaine.com

The constitution that supposedly enshrines democracy in Iraq threatens to set women's rights back decades.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050818/iraqs_secondclass_citizens.php

[G_j]

7. ==

[donkeyotay]

10. It's like we've taken a swan dive off the high board

into a morass of hatred and stupidity. Theoretically, we won WWII, but really we lost. We lost our freedom to the Military-Industrial Complex. We lost our free speech. We lost our representational government. For all practical purposes, we are now slaves.

It could be different. The peoples of the world could really demand the next evolutionary step towards real democracy, real freedom. Instead all we have are the empty words.

[G_j]

11. it appeared that the peoples of the world rejected war as we desperately

tried to send the message before the Iraq occupation.
Most of the people on this planet want peace. Some "leaders" however, especially in the US, seem to view things quite differently.