If Iran is nuked, do NOTHING. - Democratic Underground

CanuckAmok

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Mon Apr-17-06 07:06 PM
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If Iran is nuked, do NOTHING.

I have no doubt in my mind that George W. Bush wants to be the man who pushes the button; in his deluded, messianic mindset, it’s his way of leaving his mark, literally, upon the world.

I have no doubt in my mind that George W. Bush intends to attack Iran with tactical nuclear weapons, regardless of the concerns raised by his advisors and the world community. I believe this because I believe George W. Bush is insane.

George W. Bush and his consorts want to undue fifty years of Cold War detente, of the work done by every advocate of peace since the atom was first split. He wants to use a nuclear bomb because God gave it to the USA, so it must be used.

The newest super-bombs being built as we speak are named "Divine". The "Divine Hellcat". The "Divine Fury". The "Divine sword". As if God himself forged these obscene devices in His own kiln and handed them directly to George W. Bush.

It is insane.

George W. Bush is either a sociopathic serial liar, or a deluded zealot, or both. In either case, George W. Bush is dictating foreign and domestic policy because a distorted belief in Christianity based on citing gospels of convenience to further his agenda.

The Bush Crime Family, along with their cronies in the corporate class, have successfully hijacked the media, and fooled the stupid and some of the intelligent alike. They have rigged elections, destroyed the sacred system of governmental checks and balances, and intimidated or blackmailed many who would otherwise oppose their activities.

This agenda is further advanced by successfully polarizing the American public into believing that any complex issue can be boiled-down to what George H.W. Bush called “…a simple matter of good and evil, right and wrong…”. On the right, blind fanatics who can successfully delude themselves into believing that the figure they supposedly worship, Jesus Christ (the “Prince of Peace”), would advocate the violence and destruction which has become a fixture of Western foreign policy. These people adopt sanctimonious ideas like the Rapture as if they were part of the Sermon on the Mount, when they're not even mentioned in the Bibles a majority of these zealots clearly have not or cannot read.

They hold an irrational, blind hatred of the people of the Middle East when their own supposed Savior was born there. What they are waging ideological war against is the Cradle of Civilization. These people decry the destruction of the ancient Buddha by the Taliban, while the US Army destroys the ancient scriptures in the Iraqi National Archives; artifacts that have survived five thousand years, and are the key to the understanding of our history.

On the left, the rulers of the left are divided, and those few in positions of real power and influence are convinced that speaking out against the barbarism of the PNAC is political suicide. What they fail to understand, just as the rank and file of the religious right fail to understand, is that the PNAC agenda is global suicide. The left, the secular humanists, must unite against this madness. We must stop infighting and arguing about the vaidity of Nader over Gore. We must get someone who holds our core values into a position of authority, and pronto. The tweaking and fine-tuning of the ideology can come later.

PNAC is a policy to reap the world of its riches, but, just as is the case in Iraq, there is no exit plan. Yes, the PNAC will result in the United States becoming a global empire, but at the expense of our fragile, irreparable biosphere.

It is insane.

The figurehead of the Republican Party is insane. The party does not resemble in any way the Republican Party of Eisenhower, Roosevelt, or even Nixon. It has been infiltrated by people who are either religious extremists, or who do an excellent job of pretending to be religious extremists. It is another Taliban.

The hypocrisy of the religious right’s support of an endless “War on Terror” is obvious. It’s not just the sons and daughters of liberals who are being blown to bits in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s also the children of the fundies. And yet they continue to support this ideological, infinite war.

They are under the spell of a group of madmen who actively support the dumbing-down of the citizenry by undermining science and art, and allowing the insane to teach future generations that the earth was slapped together in five days by a benevolent but strict old man in the sky, and that the same old man in the sky is actively supporting the genocide of half his creation by the other half.

It is insane. .

Meanwhile, at home, the United States of America, the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, cannot afford to run its schools and hospitals, pave its roads, pay its police officers, fire fighters, librarians and other civil servants a wage that reflects the importance of their duties. It eliminates public transit at a time when it’s apparent to everyone with a fourth grade education that the world’s petroleum is running out.

The Age of the Automobile is coming to an end. You and I will see it in our lifetime.

The America of the Founding Fathers, of Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and Kennedy no longer exists. That America was a nation of inventors, explorers and free-thinkers. That America would have produced a generation of men and women who would have seen the end of oil as just another adversity to overcome in the building of a successful nation. The America of today, George W. Bush’s America, is a nation of corporate whiners, who decry the welfare state while pocketing subsidies and tax relief from the same system. They do not search for a solution to the end of oil, because, quite frankly, it’s cheaper and easier to simply invade other countries and take their oil. The corporations have become so adept at this practice, which has been refined and adapted since Columbus set sail for the New World, that they have managed to make these wars profitable for themselves.

The current administration is waging a war to protect a way of life that simply no longer exists. The guaranteed pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is no longer possible.

You aren’t living if you can’t afford somewhere to live.

You aren’t free if you are under constant surveillance.

You cannot be happy when your happiness is contingent on the suffering of others.

America, as we’ve known it, is over. There has been a second American Revolution, and it happened right under our noses. What becomes of this society depends on us, particularly over the next five years. A third Revolution is needed if you and the rest of the shrinking middle class are to bring dignity and respect back to the United States. You need to address and fix flaws in the government which allow one party, left or right, to possess unchecked power. You need to demand that your tax dollars not be spent on weapons of mass destruction, but on a social network which elevated the standard of living for all Americans. You need to demand that international debt be erased, and that some of America’s vast wealth be spent in making life better for the people of exploited nations, which will win you more friends than enemies, more supporters than terrorists. And you need to stop buying the Cadillac Escalade when your own children are filling the tank with their blood.

George W. Bush will drop the bomb. Of this I have no doubt.

But what can you do? Nothing.

On the day the bomb drops. Do nothing.

Don’t buy anything.

Don’t go to work.

Don’t drive your car.

Put an end to this insane sick society by paralyzing it.

Call it a General Strike if you must, but the only power we little people have left is the power of our wallets.

Imagine a day when no planes fly because no crew show up for work.

Imagine a day when no shiploads of Chinese prison labor goods are unloaded because the dockworkers refuse to do it.

Imagine a day when the airwaves are practically silent, and the lying, blow-dried cheerleaders at FoxNews can only broadcast if they can figure out how to work all that equipment, because the broadcast engineers don'’ show up.

Imagine cellphones, land-lines, and the precious Blackberry being rendered useless.

Imagine a day where the economy stalls because nobody buys anything.

Imagine the streets of New York, Washington, Chicago, and LA choked with empty taxis.

Imagine a National Guard who will not fire on unarmed civilians, and will understand that they are accountable to the people, not to the government.

Imagine the message that will send; that “We, the People” are putting an end of this obsolete, oligarchic system and starting anew, on our own, humanist terms, and that we will not be made wealthy at the price of the planet or its less-fortunate.

The corporatists need you. They need your money and your labor to survive.

Tell everyone you know: When the madman drops the bomb, do nothing.

That is your power.