Wednesday July 10, 2002
4:40a
For a month or so I've been feeling like writing about current issues, mostly political. I couldn't decide where to put them in an existing webpage so I've started this new section of the website.
I really don't understand this current interest in the same old political and same old issues. It must be another sign of post middle age. In the past I've just accepted the status quo of bad politics and bad news.
Then again the discussion and message boards never seem to work out for me either. Too many posts of the same old debate - arguement points by the same people or same class of people.
Maybe that means this will be my own private discussion and message board.
Wednesday July 10, 2002
POTUS
There's just something irritating about the current POTUS. Clinton, Bush I, Reagen, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, ... they were all just another politician and just another POTUS. Except for Carter he was more common folk type.
It's his talk, phrases, words and that smirk he gets when he's come to the "punch" words and phrases. It's also the predictablity of what he's going to say. Just another "feel good America" speech.
The latest is the lecture about morales and honorable business practices among the corporate leaders. Or rather the lack there of in some cases. It's the usual case of proposing new legislation and commissions and regulations and such. But ...
He just doesn't realize all the same things can be said of most political leaders, congress people and government officials. There's more government waste, fraud, special interest funding (pork barrel), and the like than in the corporate and business world.
There's a sense and feeling that he believes, realling and truely believes, that if he, the President of the United States, says it then it is truely so.
It's either that or then the general public can be as easily led around with a fancy "feel good America" speech as ... it's always been from the beginning.
Thursday July 11, 2002
Common Citizen Investigation Committee
Congressional Investigation Hearings.
I wonder if there will ever be a committee of common citizens grilling, questioning, investigating Senators and Representatives the same way those before the current hearings are being grilled?
Senator, what did you know? When did you know it? You're on the oversight committee it's your responsiblity to know what's going on.
Congressman, why were you more interested in the airline industry's on time performance instead of security and safety?
Senator, what partisan politics have you devoted your time and efforts on the past 5, 10, 15 years? Why didn't you pay more attention to the terrorist attacks on this country during that same period?
Congressman, what do you expect to gain personally from this new Homeland Security Department? Another seat on another oversight committee?
Senator, Congressman ... don't give me no bs crappy politic speak either. What did you know? When? Why didn't you know? What did you do about? Why didn't you do something? Why are these hearings secret? What are you trying to hide? ... National security my butt ... where was your concern for national security before September 11, 2001? before USS Cole? before the embassies got blown up? Don't you read newspapers, watch tv news? Couldn't you see what was going on?
Oh well ... A person can dream a little dream.
Monday July 15, 2002
Traitors and Treason
Traitors and Treason are usually thought of as being related to spying and warring. It may mean actual fighting against one's country or selling secrets to other countries. But bascially it's doing anything that does serious harm to one's country. So ....
What about these crooked, dishonest corporate types who've cooked the books as they say? They've done some really serious harm to the States economy. Are they traitors and have they done serious harm to the country?
What about these crooked, dishonest political types who've sold out their votes and legislation to the special interest lobbies? And those who've sponsored and passed funding legislation for their own special interest projects? Are they traitors and have they done serious harm to the country?
What about these news media types who hype up all the bad news, bad events? They have worked on the public psychic for decades to sell more and more of the same old issues with the same old points. Are they traitors and have they done serious harm to the country?
Of course they are and have. But that poor Walker-Lindh kid will get more punishment than they will.
Time Line
It's the feel and sense of the past 21 months that makes me think the internal failures have been accelerated. I use to think it would be in another 50 - 75 years when the reall decline and collapes would begin. But now I think I've already begun to see the beginning of the end. That's now instead of closer to the end of my days.
Wednesday July 17, 2002
The Plan Already In Progess
It was during the Winter months, December feels right, that Omar the Taliban made a comment about a plan already in progress that would destroy the States. With their (alqadea, hamas, militant Islamics, etal) image of the States being capatilism that would be a financial destruction.
So what's the connection with the market trend, book cooking, corporate greed, ...? Extortion? Blackmail? Threats? to make the individuals involved do what they did?
More likely it was just suttle knudges and whispered words of encouragement to continue doing what they would have done anyway. Probably began during the mid 90s too, or whenever the book cooking started.
But in capitalism there's ways to make profit in a declining market too. It's that promising a fixed price on stocks at a future date thing with the expectation of the price being lower then when it's time for delivery.
That's something that the investigative reporter types are not investigating. Who's making profit on the collapsing stock market? Knowing the greed of the really rich and powerful, it's the same ones who did the book cooking. And ... alqaeda, hamas, Islamic militants and other terrorism investors.
With the markets dropping to post World Trade Center attack lows, it'll be a good time for there to be another one. It'll happen before the end of the year now, instead of Spring next year. That would be about the average interval between recent major hits.
It's still amazing though how the terrorist types are so blinded by their hatred of the States. In their obession to destroy the States (the government, forgein policy aspect) they are destroying individual lives all around the world. And Muslims make up about a third or more of the world's individuals. Destroying their Islamic brothers whom they claim to be defending from Western influences.
Such stupidity.
Sunday July 21, 2002
It Was Planned
This is more about Terrorism than the Decline and Collapse of the US. Or maybe it's a bit of both. It does provide some indication of the way politicans and government officials think though.
In one of the ABC message boards, which is now archived, one of the posters wrote about how the post World Trade Center attack had a sense or feel of it all being planned. I should have posted one that he wasn't alone in that thinking, but I never did and they closed the board later anyway.
As the days passed during that first week I did get the sense and feel that things were moving along too fast. I guess it was more so in that there was too much talk about the firefighters and other emergency workers being made into superheros. And there was a lot of fund raising going on also with too much emphasis on the heros and too little for the common folk victims and their families.
The commercial and other types of adverstiments with some form of memorial or WTC connection really did come on line too soon. It's been months ago now but it seems like those started before the first week was finished. They may have gone on too long afterwards too. I don't know.
And then there was that official memorial ceremony on the Friday afterwards. Maybe the first of two or three. For such an unexcepted and catasrophic event I thought that happened too soon. I would have thought another week should have passed before those kinds of services would take place.
I guess overall there was the thoughts and feelings that the government people really just wanted to get the disaster over and done with.
In the discussion board the poster was making a point that the government knew there was going to be such an attack. I had always thought that was probably true. It's just that they didn't suspect it was going to be of such a great magnitude.
But then again if the government was doing its job would they not have contingency plans for such a disaster? There was such planning for nuclear war during the 1950s and 1960s. There has always been some sort of planning for natural disasters when ever and where ever they might occur. So would they have not planned for a large and devastating terrorist attack?
Yes they knew such an event was possible and probable ... and they made general plans for it. Make super heros out of whoever the particular circumstances dictate. Build up the patritism. Use the mass media as a psycologist to heal the American public mental health. Have national memorial services in the plan. Kind like a family member's death and the funeral 2 or 3 days later.
So what does all this have to do with the Decline and Collapse of the United States?
Basic deception on the part of the government. Not being upfront and forthright with the general public about the possiblity and probablity of such a terrorist attack. Smoothing over the public's psychic with pre-planned memorials and hero worship. A lack of trust by the government in the public's ability to handle such an event.
It's bad business when the government deceives the public for any reason.
Tuesday July 23, 2002
Greatest ...
"It's the greatest nation on the Earth." "It's the sole superpower in the world." "It's freedom, it's democracy, it's ... " Superlative this superlative that. Yeah sure, just keep on repeating such if it helps your peace of mind. Still don't make it true.
Just what does it really mean when there's one man who's supposedly holding the most power office in the most power nation in the world? Doesn't Hussein of Iraq hold the same position in his part of the world?
It's really dangerous business when individuals have such power and control. It's doubly dangerous when that person really and truely and deep down inside himself believes it true.
It's all about greed, corruption, lobbyism politics, fraud, waste and individual power lusts. It's these types of things that have brought down nations and empires. The States will be no different.
It's in the attitude of the general public too. Egotistical arrogance. Everytime potus or someone says, "the United States is the greatest country" there's some few terrorist types mumbling to themselves, "yeah we'll see".
And just what are the people in the rest of the world thinking? They are allies of the States mumbling to themselves as well, "So you don't think much of my country either? And I thought we were suppose to be friends."
It seems like the States are isolating themselves from the rest of the world. And that's what the bin Laden and alqadea wanted to accomplish.
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Oh well, this isn't going anywhere.
Wednesday July 24, 2002
Lawyers
They're doing their part to take down the States.
There was a bit of news last evening. It was about a couple of doctors who have had to close their practice because of a 500% increase in insurance coverage. They are/were natal and baby care doctors. So now that community will have to do with proper health care for the young.
All that was in the news a few months ago too. Some other doctors getting forced out of health care service because of increasing insurance costs.
It's because of all the law suits over the decades. Sue the doctors and hospitals for most any perceived fault. Get rewarded with outrageous amounts of money for ... most any little thing. The lawyers get too large of a cut of the money and the individual who suffered the injury gets too little.
It's the same deal in other forms of injury suits. Those rigged accidents with real live crash dummies come to mind. The people in the vehicle get a small fixed amount for their acting. The lawyers and the crooked doctor types get everything else.
So now it has gotten to the point where doctors just have to give up and shut down their services to society.
Saturday August 3, 2002
Times, they have been a changing.
I was cruising Main Street Pickens during the first years after the Navy. I guess it could have been on into the early 1980s. But anyway, I got tried of burning gas and getting nowhere. That's getting getting nowhere except from one end of town to the other and back. It was also getting nowhere with meeting any one either, male or female. So I parked on S Lewis St next to the church. I was going to watch everyone else burn gas for a while.
This was evening, early night time. I sitting there for a while when the police car pulled up behind me. I guess I saw he was going to get out and walk up to my van. So I go ahead and get my license out and then I put my hands on the steering wheel so he could see them when he got there.
Nothing much happened. He asked what I was doing there. I told him what I just wrote up above. He said I was parked across from the bank and he was just checking things out. I really hadn't paid any attention to what was across the street. I must have looked there and then said something like ,"Oh. OK." And then he went out about his business.
So what's the deal about all that? I can't remember for sure but I think there had been some recent news back then about a policeman or deputy or patrolman getting killed when they walked up to a vehicle. I just wanted to make sure he saw where my hands were, up high and in plain sight.
Then there's a couple of times recently when I was moving money from one account to another. Actually one time was a few years back and the other time was this year. I was all just opening some investment account somewhere and writing a check for the money I wanted in it.
"Mr Hughes where did you get this money?" "Mr Hughes how did you acquire this money?" It was really an odd sounding question the first time I heard it. But I told them it's savings from my job. Where else would I be getting moeny from.
There's a threshold amount that triggers that question when someone makes a deposit like that. Actually I had thought it was intended for someone making a 10s of thousands of dollars in cash.
But anyway. All us average, common citizens who write a $10,000+ check from a banking account in our name to open an investment account in our name are suspicious and suspected drug dealers.
I stopped by the pharmacy after work a few weeks ago to get some of Mom's prescriptions refilled. I've been doing that for years. There was two or three to get refilled. They all don't run out exactly at the same time anymore so she would take the few that's left out and then I would just get them all at the same time.
The pharmacist came back out and told me it was too early to get this one refilled. And he handed the bottle back. "Oh. OK." I think that may have been about 3 or 4 days early. And it's probably some State rule or law or something.
Some crooked doctor and/or person was writting and/or getting too many prescriptions and then getting them refilled every few days. Abusing the system. And I get nailed for suspcious again while getting my 80 something year old, ailing, failing health mother her medicine.
There's lots of other similar things that happen every day to everyday, common people. Show your picture ID. Walk through a metal detector. What's your reason for being here, going there.
It's all really been going down hill for 30 or 40 years. Maybe even longer like 300 or 400 years. The last really free people in the States where here a long time before there were the "liberty", "freedom" and "democracy" words every arrived.
Monday August 12, 2002
Futures
You are not alone. Even though the silence given your post here may indicate otherwise you are not alone. Take it as unspoken agreement and that none could find fault in your thoughts and feelings. It will be your concern about your child's future, and concern from the billions of other individual parents, that eventually must win over the political - ethnical - idealogical hate. It is even more than that, it is concern for the future of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
As for the possible/probable war with Hussein, the current personfication of evil, it must be approached and done with more unity among the "good" against the "bad". Till the Husseins, Bin Ladens, alqaeda, hamas, militants, extremists (both inter- and intra-national) and their kind see, truly understand and feel, that it is they who stand alone in and against the world, war is one evil versus another evil.
That unity against Hussein has not happened yet. It won't happen till the European, North African, Mideastern and other regional leadership realize they have citizens with your same concerns.
Tuesday August 20, 2002
Don't Blink You Might Miss It
An old fashion face off on Main Street from America's Wild West era, how appropriate.
Alqaeda draws and shoots first with another major attack on the States. Another demonstration of their ruthlessness and blind hatred toward the States and its citizens. Done again as an Islamic jihad with expectations that Islamic extremists will fall in behind their lead. But also further defouling a religion of peace for billions muslims.
The States draws and returns fire. It's been attacked again. It gains waning support back from it's allies lurking in store fronts and side allies. Uses the attack as justification for invading Iraq to eliminate Hussein. Hussein retailiates by taking shots at Israel.
The States draws and shoots first with an invasion of Iraq, aiming past alqaeda toward Hussein. Support from it's allies retreats further back into the shadows of stores and allies. Hussein draws and fires shots at Israel. Hamas joins the shoot out against Israel.
Alqaeda draws and returns fire with more attacks against the States. More Islamic militants join the shoot out against the States. They gain the support for their Islamic jihad that they lost or never had from the first attack.
Don't blink, you might miss it.
Tuesday August 27, 2002
Done Deal and Sure Thing
It is a done deal and sure thing now. There's no way to stop it. It has passed the point of no return.
Support from the allies never materialized. Internal support from the general public and political entities is shrinking. Real concern for the full consequences of war, moral and ethical justifications, apparently neglected. Alternative solutions no longer pursued and ignored.
And being a legalistic culture it has moved on to being strickly a check to make sure it is within its own law. More important that it is a legal move rather than a moral, ethical or otherwise justifiable move.
It is a dangerous way to do business.
The States's Vietnam war began small, grew into a long, drawn out, unpopular war. It's justification being containment of Communism. The Gulf War began with Hussein's aggression into Kuwait, had the support and common effort from the world community. Over and done with quickly. The same is true for the war against the alqueda terrorists in Afganistan. Their aggression first, justification, followed by world support or at least non-objection and the over and done with quickly.
Now it is the current president of the States looking to make the first aggressive move with lessening internal, public support and no external world support. There is effectively no justification. Nations in the Eastern Mediterrean, Europe and elsewhere are willing to take their own chances with Hussein and his potential capibilities and threats. The majority wants to pursue alternative methods toward a solution. That leaves the States standing alone, a nation where the majority is suppose to rule.
But in the final analysis, it is a strictly legal move ... and that is a dangerous way to do business.
Monday September 2, 2002
WeOfMaDest-iny
Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD
WeMaD, WeOfMaDest-iny
It has become a political rethoric phrase to be used in slogans and campaigns of the same political world. What it is intended to mean and what it practically means are not necessarily the same thing.
Have there not always been weapons of mass destruction? It's all relative in time and scale. At each stage of development the newest, latest, greatest in weapontry has been the weapon of mass destruction.
Clubs of bone and wood, spears and swords, seige and catapult machines, cannons, pistols, muskets, guns, rifles, explosive bombs, machine guns, gas, flame throwers, everything developed and used in the Great War and the Second World War, rockets and missles with nuclear bombs, more and better bio-chem weapons.
From whelding clubs of bone and wood to tossing multi-megaton, multi-warhead missles, they've all been weapons of mass destruction.
If a beginners development of nuclear, bio-chem weapons are of mass destruction then what are those of the world's superpowers? During the past 50 plus years we've all lived, and still live, with weapons of planetary destruction.
Is it the efficiency of the killing and destruction that is so fightening?
I'm sure some of the most deadly battles in human history were done with swords, spears, rifes, machine guns, gas. Millions killed during the course of wars over periods of years. If not battles during wars then there's genocide, purges, holocausts of all descrptions. Hundreds of thousands, millions slaughtered and butchered with swords, machettes and guns over periods of months and years.
Weapons of mass destruction ... mass destruction ... also known as wars.
Wars *are* mass destruction caused by all kinds of weapons.
The Most Dangerous Person On Earth
I'm sure if one were to review human history one would learn that the most evil individuals were also the most influencial and powerful of their times.
Now there is that most powerful nation on Earth which has the most powerful office in the world and which possesses the most powerful collection of weapons in human history at the ever changing current occupant's command.
A person who applys for employment at a school or day care or nuclear electrical power plant or some other job receives more scrutiny, more compentency and more psychological evaluation for that job than the person put in that most powerful position.
It's really spooky. One never hears of any fail-safe system to protect the world from some individual going ballistic in that office.
September 30, 2002
CIA, FBI, NSA
And we are supposed to accept the intelligence that justifies a war with Iraq???
It is a dilemma.
And then the intelligence passes through the Senate and House committees which are suppose to make politically impartial decisions/recommendations to the full Congress and the President as to national security polices and actions.
Or maybe it all goes directly to the President and then he makes the decisions/recommendations back to Congress for approval/disapproval.
Either way, politics and politicians are in the loop.
September 19, 2002
New Civil Rights / Liberites
How are you personally measuring the American Muslim community's response? Also, how are we, the general public, suppose to measure their response?
I have only four sources: the news media, the internet, the public library, and personal/local observations. The news media has its usual problems. I think they're more apt to promote the negative aspects of an event or issue. On the internet I've found websites that counter Bin Laden's claim on Muslim thinking, condemning him and terrorism. I've also found websites condemning and blaming Islam, Mideastern cultures, all religions. Which means you can find most anything you want to look for on the internet. But at least I get judge for myself which or what combination makes the most sense.
If something positive, constructive, uplifting happens (or has happened) in the Muslim community, I don't expect it to be measured.
It's also a compound problem. What's been the non-Muslim community's response toward Islam, American Muslims, Mideastern cultures and ethnic heritage? That has been measured. And it does not look good to me.
Wednesday December 18, 2002
Politics, Hype it up.
The election is over and shift to another focus is so apparent. Before it was all talk about security, Hussein, weapons and war. Now it's back to the internal economy, at least a little.
Politicans have only two real agendas: 1) get their party members and themselves elected and 2) get their contributers and themselves rich. Both at the expense of the common people.
The man spent the most time flying hether and sketer for his political party's election. Nothing else seem to matter to him. But he, and the others, are politicans first and that's all that matters within their mind.
The speeches and talk is always what they think the public wants to hear. Say and do whatever it takes to get the election won.
It's all really disgustingly depressive. Talk up the war, force down the people's prospects for their future all for sake of the party.
January 7, 2003
Puzzle Pieces in Place, Mostly
The official UN report is due January 27th, no illegal or unauthorized weapons will have found. There will be a few days for the review and then some sort of declaration that the report is invalid and Hussein still has weapons. The war hostilities will break out in full force about the 2nd or 3rd week in February.
After the attack on Iraq begins, probably within 30 days, there will be another major terrorist attack in the States. They, the terrorists, will wait till after the States makes their agressive move. It will provide them with the pretext of defending Islam and Muslims.
The target will be on some infrastructure, oil refiners, energy producing, airports or airplanes. Another attack on the general civilian and financial targets aren't likely. But that may be dependant upon how many Iraqi civilians are killed.
The anti-Islam, anti-Muslum sentiment in the States has continuiously been building. That will erupt after the terrorist attacks, if not from the causalities in Iraq. There will be Americans attacking and killing those of Mideastern decent with most of them being Americans themselves.
The States government has already expended much of its monies on the so-called homeland security. The smallpox vaccine and preparedness will have been useless, that kind of terrorism will not happen. The airports and airplane security has been another major drain. In the end the States will have spent their resources and planning on the wrong things. Defense wise anyway, the government contracts went to political favorites.
Some of the weapons that Hussein has developed have already been distributed among the terrorists for their use. It's been part of their plan from the beginning to leave Iraq with no weapons of mass destruction. The UN inspectors would find nothing, the States would have been emabarassed and made the fool. A nation with Muslums attacked unjustifiably.
And then there is North Korea who reacted as expected from the axis of evil declaration. From their, or their leader's perspect it is they who feel the threats from the States. Much the same as the States feels threatened by terrorism.
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Oh well, enough fantising for this morning.
Friday January 10, 2003
5:45a
One of the news media's expert consultants said it will be early March when the full war hostilities begin. So I'm wrong, again, missed it by 30 days too soon.
Omar the Taliban, "The States will be utterly destroyed. The plan is already in progress." I've often wondered what he really had in mind?
A long term plan, decades maybe. Force the States to spend themselves into self destruction like the States did to the Soviet Union. Bring into play its own internal failures. Exploit some American's greed for wealth and power at the expense of their fellow Americans. Ten, twenty, thirty years of terrorism like has happened in other countries around the world. Fire up the mistrust, suspicion of one ethnic, religious, immigrant group into full scale hatred by traditional born in the USA groups. Lead them into wars with other nations, preferrably Mideast, Asian, Islamic peoples. Lead other nations into conflict and battles with the States. Depend on the States own leaders and news media to terrorize its own population with rumours of wars and weapons and terrorist attacks. Exploit the bickering and infighting between and among its political groups.
Wednesday February 12, 2003
EOTCT
It is implied in the decision to pursue war with Hussein that the risks of and fallout from increased terrorist attacks within the States will be manageable. Now, 30 or so days before the hostilities begin in full force, is there an official recognition of this. The terrorism alert level has been increased.
This aspect of the war has been little discussed in public forums. Partly because the attention has been too focused on the official rational for the war. That, the usual politicial issues and everything else contained within the posted messages. Or is there another reason?
In recent decades the general public's attention has become more and more focused on any one issue. Too many have a single or only a few issues of interest to them. There appears to be too few who see the interconnectivity of all the aspects of a problem.
What are the risks? A few bombings with a few hundred dead and wounded? That's the implied manageable. One major attack with another 3,000 dead, tens of thousands wounded, hundreds of thousands forced into refugee status? Maybe even that is manageable. What of two, three or more major attacks? Hundreds of minor ones?
Back again the official reasons for the war, those bio-chem-dirty nuclear weapons. Hussein expelled the inspectors 4 years ago. Was because they were interfering with developement? Or was it to hide production and distribution?
There's not only Hussein's weapons but also those which alqaeda has acquired. Whatever became of that 'watermelon' (I think that was the term) from the New York state terrorist cell? They've been making terrorist plans since mid 1990s. Would not they have waited till most all their planning was in place before opening with their initial major attack?
What to do? If - when, the frontline battles against Hussein and the terrorism fallout arrive in your own hometown.
Indeed. What to do? If - when, this war against terrorism does indeed become a modern era Hundred Years war.
Forecasting
The storm that's been developing over the eastern Mediterrain for servaral decades is expected to reach super-saturation levels in 21 or 23 days. The down pour of destruction should be brief, a few days to a fortnight, as the intitial brust of energy is released. The center of the storm will be over Iraq.
The pressure wave radiating outward from the epicenter will trigger additional intense storms in the region. These are expected to engulf most of Euro-Asia, the northern parts of Africa and with the southeastern edge reaching Afganistan, Pakistan and India during the Summer.
There the remanents of last year's storms will be re-engerized by the compression front and redevelop into major fire fighting. Some forecasting models are predicting the nuclear materials in that region will reach critical mass this time after numerous false starts.
The underground shock wave from the Iraqi epicenter will make multitudes of unstable cells that are scattered around the Earth to also go critical. These are also expected to brief but local brusts of energy. The largest concentration of micro-brusts are forecasted for the North American continent with lesser ones in Western Europe. These should subside into on-again and off-again storms for the foreseeable decades to come.
The energy vaccum left over the States from fueling the initial storm over Iraq will be resupplied by the micro-brusts. The latest electrostatic pre-cursor measurements indicate the discharge path leads to the Korean pennisular.
The known nuclear materials there and in China to the north ....
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About as accurate as weather forecasts by ones who spent hours studying the data and computer models then predict fair skies but forgot to look out the office window where it was already raining.
Bad Year
It is ... going to be really, really bad this year.
Really Bad
When the split between the States and other NATO members becomes wider, as the States becomes more and more isolated from the rest of the world community, the terrorists will attack again. There will be little sympathy from the world for the States.
The legislative part of the States government could negate any perceived bias toward fanacial interests in a war against Hussein and rebuilding Iraq by passing laws forbidding corporations doing business in a post war Iraq.
After the States establishes its pressence in Iraq, the truth of whether or not it was for oil and other financial interests will be proven by whose corporations and whose personal wealth is increased.
The UN inspectors will have to be allowed time to leave Iraq along with other non-Iraqi nationals want to do so. If the the moonless darkness is really a factor that will have to be done before the first week in March.
The so-called short war, a few days, will be only the next major battle. The terrorists will make attacks against the States, its overseas interests, this Summer. They will have the advantage of justifing them as retialiaton against agression.
Terrorist attacks will continue into decades. They will find other sources of powerful and massively deadly weapons. Eliminating Hussein and his weapons programs will have made little difference.
Sunday November 9, 2003
Pre - Post Morteum Analysis
Nine months on .... So what happened? Besides a few more hits on this page than normal during the last couple of months. Besides being #1 on the Google search for "Decline and Collapse of the United States".
Where are those illusive, terror-able weapons? Apparently non-existant except in the minds of those making the war plans. Illusions created in the general public's mind for motivating the populace into battle stations mentality. Not even a stray cannister of bad gas has been used in the resistance against the occupying foreign forces. Oh dear, the States has declined into the depths of its own deception.
That would be a major creditability gap for the States.
The United Nations withdraw their officials. The Red Cresent - Red Cross withdraw their non-resident people. Turkey withholds their soldiers pending specific request from the Iraqis. Poland and a few, very few others still remain but that will probably change once they start to take more hits. The States asked for a bit of help ... the request basically denied. "We are irrelivant, remember those words. You wanted to go it alone if need be. So go it alone." More isolation of the States from the rest of the world.
Internal fighting, there has been more than enough of that. The republicans and democracts, liberals and conservatives fight each other like ... like some sects of Islam whom many in the States claim are the roots of terrorism. Well that is about as close to being correct as anything else. The States' internal politics is a root of evil.
The greatest decline of the United States is the belief that the individual who is the president is the sole definition of the States' greatness. Which is to say the actions of the States is totally dependant upon the actions of the president. Bush is the greatest ... Bush is the worst. Clinton was the worst ... Clinton was the greatest. It is as if nothing else matters in the States expect who is the leader and the good-bad things he has done.
The continuing war .... it has been 1, 2, 3, ... 6, ... 19 Americans killed every couple or three days or sometimes every day for a week or two. And the Iraqis still die in larger numbers. Where is the real end of major combat operations? More aptly where was the straight forward warnings that the killing would continue on for months and possibly years?
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I'm just not getting the thoughts out for writing ... might as well quite again.