President George W. Bush:
The Antithesis of George Washington
President George Washington’s rendition of America was “a Land of Promise… for the poor, the needy, & oppressed of the Earth.” This land possessed the most massive treasure trove for individual prosperity in the 18th century, of which its future brought atrocities upon the continent’s indigenous people, a legacy of massive cultural migration, a bloody civil war, women’s suffrage, civil rights, and economic depression; we as a nation have run riot to the brink of ruin, for better or worse.
Public opinion of a” long war to end terrorism” strategy has become steadfast in the minds of Americans, despite the cumulative body count of Iraqi men, women and children brutally murdered by US manufactured precision aerial bombing raids and over 250,000 rounds of bullets fired per Iraqi insurgent’s death, fabricated under false pretenses of imminent attack by Iraq.
Operation Iraqi Freedom’s overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime pales to the immediate threat of Bush acquiring the largest defense budget in the world, condones torture, illegally enacts unitary executive powers from the Oval Office, and plans to build civilian inmate labor camps in secret locations in America to quarantine the “undesirables.”
But the greatest mischief’s to befall American are yet to come. Unlike George Washington, immune to the seductions of dictatorial power after defending an invincible British military, George W. Bush has harbored no illusions about coercive unitary executive authority that abolishes the true “Spirit of ’76.”
As President Bush pushed through the Patriot Act by underhanded coercive means, namely one provision buried in its verbiage is his “fast-track” system to execute prisoners, guilty or not; as an “enemy of the state” Fifth Columnist will soon be incarcerated in Civilian Inmate Labor camps, under the control of the Army Corp of Engineers.
[1]We cannot know, at this time the fullest extent of what is afoot within the devious secrecy of the Oval Office, but it is clear that what measures the Bush-Cheney administration are openly pronouncing in strenuous efforts to expand and duplicate his “text-book” example of the Texas death row kill ratio of 152 executed, one pardoned; a protective indispensable status for a precarious cause of dictatorial-like ethos for “civilian control” by shredding the constitution’s Fourth Amendment under a limitless firsthand usurping to the right of a fair trial and appeal process before execution.
When Bush was governor in Texas, Alberto Gonzales provided a “no-brakes” “dumbed-down” process for death row executions, eliminating legal appeals under the arguments of “ineffective counsel, conflict of interest, mitigating evidence and even actual evidence of innocence,” reported by the Atlantic Monthly.
Logistically stripping the checks and balances of the three branches of government and the judiciary supervision of solitary interpretation of Congressional legislation; initiated by a Reagan-Bush agenda to cut all that red tape for societal delinquent executions, led by deceased Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist -- who claimed there are never any egregious errors in cases before the government flipped the electrocution switch -- the Bush-Cheney regime has realigned principles of state sovereignty by placing military jurisdiction over Congress, something that George Washington adamantly insisted upon being the reverse to preserve the civil rights of every American civilian.
Chris Floyd wrote in his Global Eye article, Bone Thugs
[2] The Patriot Act gives “Bush an agenda to kill a whole heap of”, what the Pentagon are calling Fifth Columnists, anti-Bushists. What’s next? The jack-boot Provisional Terrorist Act that can declare any American citizen and “enemy combatant” and imprison them without charges, trial or legal rights guaranteed under the Constitution, put them into forced labor or extermination?
SWARM OF LIES
In Dahr Jamail’s recent article, “Operation Swarm of Lies”, he lucidly pointed out that the news report was a distraction to US and UK military actions in Iran killing 21 civilians. Again the proficiency of the military’s reputation carries forward the chronic provision of “free-fire zone justice” directly in violation of international law.
What raises the red flag of fascism is when I read, “Most importantly, however, is the human tragedy, which Operation Swarm of Lies has both generated as well as diverted attention from” the hundreds of families displaced, fleeing the city of Samarra.
The tolerance for casualties of innocent Iraqis is in fact the American ideology hat squanders away the human value system, when its corporate “Daddy War Bucks” holding company, e.g. Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA)
[3] is acutely sensitive to their war profiteering bottom line, and not the split blood of children.
The relevant fact is not about whether US troops should pull out of Iraq, it is not about “victory” at all cost over “terrorism”, or quelling a civil war between Sunnis and Shiites, but in reality translates into the god-awful disgust of the capacities of an educated civilization, ruthlessly killing innocent people, a ratio well over 40 Iraqis to 1 US soldier in this case, that is building a militarized ghetto as future labor camps in the whole of Iraq; clear evidence of the Bush-Cheney regime’s malignant disposition towards the Iraqi people that is seeping into American legislation, i.e., The Patriot Act.
The great prize of victory, the military marching – flag waving, confetti showering victory parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, (which I witnessed after the Gulf War) is not intended for ending terrorism – but the triumph of keeping the Bush-Cheney regime from collapsing us into attainment of fast-track genocide; but before the “Daddy Warbucks” Congress has milked every last penny from humankind’s labor force; diverting attention from corporate personhood’s civil rights by generating the existence of a general fatalistic national security panic that Iran -- the center of terrorist banking -- is on the verge of starting a nuclear war.
American media has accomplished the poignant tone that the neo-con’s “war on terrorism” based on false intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed WMD’s and was preparing a terrorist attack upon American soil, now debates it as if they are reporting about the pros and cons of a tourist attraction.
But the fact remains; George Washington’s patriotism has been desecrated by purposeful designed under a the Bush-Cheney corporate personhood elitist’s neo-con fraternal unilateral pre-emptive strike for an Iraqi society to be lead to a speedy death, meticulously censored journalism, obscuring the documented framework of constructing modern day ghettos in Iraq.
TAL AFAR – THE NEW IRAQ GHETTOPresident Bush recently stood before the members of the City Club of Cleveland in his glorious tribute, claiming that Tal Afar, once a city gripped by terrorist oppression, is now free and undergoing a vibrant revitalization.
Bush proudly told the audience that in two weeks time US troops killed 150 terrorists and captured another 850, winning the citizen’s confidence of a US lead democracy. Bush said, “…we know it because the people of Tal Afar are showing their gratitude, adding a quote from the city’s mayor Najim Abdullah Abid Al-Jibouri calling the US soldier’s, “avenging angels sent by the god himself to fight the evil of terrorism.”
For a moment, let’s revisit Dahr’s “Operation Swarm of Lies” where he writes in contrast to Bush’s glossy patronage;
“The Director of the Monitoring Net of Human Rights in Iraq (MHRI), Muhamad al-Deraji, issued an appeal to the UN mission in Baghdad regarding violations committed by the US military operation near Samarra. Though the locations are separate, the actions are the same.
“We have received information from citizens and human rights activist in Samarra stating that the region, under American and Iraqi military operation… is witnessing dangerous human rights violations, which is confirmed by the following:
1) The Red Crescent aiding missions are not allowed to enter the region;
2) [Independent] Press and media are, as well, forbidden from entering the region;
3) Women and children are not allowed to leave the region of military operations;
4) Receipt of news indicates presence of violations and assaults for citizens aiming to terrorize the and forces them to emigrate from this region, through arresting the men and forcing women and their horrified children to escape later, on and leave the region aiming to build a military base there.”
Bush, who claims to be providing equal rights for women, religious freedom, and… hope, he condemns resistance fighters as not patriots but murderers at war with the Iraq people. It was the same message that King George promoted in the American colonies.
Bush reassures that he is disrupting militant conspiracies, and though there is the temptation, “in the middle of a long struggle to want peace and quiet,” he is on an incredible path of progress of spreading democracy around the world as “his” enemy goes weary.
Termed “The Long War” is just more than a military operation in Iraq or Afghanistan, as reported in the American Forces Press Service
[4] by Army Brig. General Robert L. Caslen Jr., the Joint Staff’s directory of strategy for the global war on terrorism.
“Defeating an ideology is tough and will require time and resources to win, Caslen said. Defeating the appeal of fascism took almost 25 years. The appeal of this “ism” began soon after WWI ended and was not defeated until the Allies defeated extremism, the general explained.”
[5]“The terrorists have a battle plan, just as Adolph Hitler did. And like Hitler did in “Mein Kampf,” al Qaeda and affiliated groups have published their strategic goals, Caslen said.”
Does this mean that Caslen is comparing the Quran to
Mein Kampf?
The advancement of the “Made In China” serves as the iconic power cluster of this administration’s scales of economic ambition, designed to entrap middle and lower class Americans, through the reduction of wage and social programs; pushing them into a spiraling network of debt by being forced to purchase offshore-made shoddy commodities, while working for paltry wages that keep them impoverished.
This was the same stark depiction of greedy power “emanating from London” by applying economic pressures upon the colonists that infuriated Washington to risk losing all his land, wealth, Mount Vernon, and his family’s security, by standing up against the corruption of English economic enslavement, even though he himself had served as an officer in the British Army.
When Washington instructed his currier, Cary & Company, in London to pay off his debt with a family inheritance, Cary refused, “correctly claiming that the two accounts were not transferable.” Such was the conniving character of the British government’s long-standing 18th century “Country Party” legislations enacted by Robert Walpole
[6].
Ironically, this was the very same climate that spurred George Washington, who had an acute appreciation for the bottom line, to revolt against Great Britain, realizing that the British monarchy had purposely enslaved colonists through the dichotomy of a consignment system of purchasing necessary commodities (shoddy spin offs) from England and Europe.
[7]The 18th century Age of Enlightenment was the arbiter of human rights spurring on the ill-equipped, under-fed (over a 100,000 died from smallpox) never compensated by the Continental Congress, Continental Army and militia that defeated the greatest monarchical superpower in the world that dominated the sea, in troop strength and global occupation.
Remarkably, as right-wing Christians claim a Christian God guided His Excellency, such vanity would never have been tolerated in Washington’s persona; he would have disputed any such Christian idolatry projected upon him as his saving grace to victory.
“Never a deeply religious man, at least in the tradition Christian sense of the term, Washington thought of God as a distant, impersonal force, the presumed well-spring for what he called destiny or providence. Whether or not there was a hereafter, or a heaven where one’s soul lived on, struck him as one of those unfathomable mysteries that Christians theologians wasted too much ink and energy trying to resolve.”
[8]Against these superior odds, “His Excellency” solemnly reminded his troops at Valley Forge that it was their choice; slavery under Great Britain or prestige of a free nation ruled by their own sovereignty. He spoke full well knowing that they were fighting a war nearly devoid of federal empowerment, monetary compensation or armament resources, in comparison to the well-stocked elite British military.
George Washington wrote to James Madison in 1785, “We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation; which have national objectives to promote, and a National character to support – If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.”
[9]Washington as adamant that no ‘self-created society’ should be allowed to carve out for themselves their own insurrections that represented tyranny, fouling the sensibilities of the Constitution. We have seen the wisdom of his words, as K Street lobbyists define American democracy, and insubordinate Swift Boat military veteran activists disgrace the sanctity of the “call to duty” military veterans, for political provocation.
Washington’s Newburgh Address, June 1783, inspired by an imminent American victory is poignant in defining America’s origin of purpose [the written record is indisputable in the manner of a statesman’s sentimental humility, characteristic of an American leader.]
It is crucial to make this point in accordance to Dahr Jamail’s recent dispatches of the “Swarm of Lies,” the contrast of American democracy against the harbinger of the Bush-Cheney totalitarianism.
In his characteristic humility, Washington warned,
“At this auspicious period, the United States came into an existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.”
[10]Critics of Bush’s global posturing of military dominance are accused of being trapped in 20th century thinking, according to the Department of Defense.
[11]The report goes on to say,
“One day, historians will look back at what is being done today and say that our actions helped to make the world more peaceful, our military more formidable, and our freedom more secure; that America proved again to be the engine of ingenuity, innovation, and progress that it always has been in the past.”
Bush’s legacy is already noted as a an immoral revulsion, ballot box stuffing; a conspicuous demonstration of war profiteering, and blatant wrongness of creating human bondage by annulling civil liberties.
As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “the earth belongs to the living” it was George Washington who put this into practice.
George W. Bush is willfully destroying it.
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[1] “Sources of civilian inmate labor are limited to on – and off-post Federal corrections camps facilities, State and/or local corrections facilities operating from on post-prison camps pursuant to leases under Section 2667, Title 10, United States Code (10 USC 2667), and off post State corrections facilities participating in the demonstration project authorized under Section 1065, Public Law (PL) 103-337.” Civilian Inmate Labor Program, 14 January, 2005 Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington DC
[2] March 17, 2006
[3] Senator Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, who holds over 111,000 shares of stock in URS Corporation, the top defense contractor in the US, has since banked on the US occupation of Iraq, making $600 million in a contract with EG&G, the leading provider of technical services and management of the US military, with direct connections to The Carlyle Group. URS stock price has more than tripled since the war began in March 2003, allowing Blum to cash in on $2 million on his venture and another $100 million for his investment firm.
[4]Jim Garamone, March 20, 2006
[5] Army Brig. Gen. Robert L. Caslen, Jr. forgot to mention that George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush assisted in building the Reich Bank’s fascist monetary funds.
[6] Ellis, Joseph J. His Excellency George Washington Vantage Press (New York), 2004
[7] Fairfax County Resolves, 18 July 1774, PWC 10:119-28, Donald M Zweig, “A New Found Washington Letter of 1774 and the Fairfax Revolves,” WMQ 20 (1983), 283-91. See also Washington to Bryan Fairfax, 20 July 1774, PWC 10:128-31
[8] Ellis, Joseph J., His Excellency, George Washington, Vintage Books, New York, 2004, p.151
[9] Washington to James Madison, 30 November 1785, PWCF 3:420
[10] Circular to the States 8, June 1783, WW 26:484-85; the “standing miracle” remark comes from Farewell Orders to Armies of the United States, 2, November 1783, WW 27:223
[11] http://www.dod.mil/home/articles/2004-09/a092304b.html
The whump whump of the CH-47 Chinook’s rotor blades was heard overhead by the surviving soldiers of a double-nickel A-team at the designated southern Afghanistan desert LZ. Corporal Audrey Kinsey, now the officer in command, lit a flare that sparked whitish red-hot, illuminating a barren clearing and the gritty-bearded bull-dog face of Delta Force Marcus Olmead, wearing a palko and chapan. They had retreated just in time to make their rendezvous after a fierce firefight with the Taliban. Casualty count was two KIA, three wounded.
