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THE IDEAS BELOW ARE ABOUT REAL ISSUES THAT TOUCH OUR LIVES, SHAPE OUR NATION AND CAN CHANGE OUR WORLD..
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False Intel used to start the war in Iraq: The Smoking Gun

 
     
 
     
 
     
   

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Introduction

WE THE PEOPLE

This wonderful sentiment stirred the hearts of the people when they were written by Thomas Jefferson, a great man.

But who are we kidding?

It's not 'the people,' who power or direct this government. It's Super-Rich People. It's Big Corporate Business. It's lawyers and insurance executives. It's a President and Vice President who say they are going to war and going to continue wars for generations, DESPITE ELECTIONS AND POLLS THAT SAY NO!

How do we make it fair again?

Good question.

In a Parliamentary system , this would already be over and done with: It's call: "A Vote of No Confidence,"
without any need to justify it by proving criminal acts; only needing to say: "Mr. President, we want another leader, now !"

If we had such a system Bush would be gone by now and the nation on a much better pathway.

This is important to realize because already there is talk of both Independent and Third-Party candidates and this would only help the Republicans right now.

NOTE: Every single other Democracy in the world is a 'parliamentary system.' Our 'winner-take-all,' system of democracy is more easily controlled by Big Bucks and has resulted in two parties that, for the most part, act the same.

A Parliamentary system gives more chances for average people to gain at least a foothold, a fair part of power and decision-making, so AFTER 2008, it would be good

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THE WAR IN IRAQ

One big problem with the War in Iraq is it was started for false reasons, reasons proved to be untrue.

You can't win a war based on a proven and well-documented lie.

If I understand the story straight, it went like this:

We went into Iraq to capture the Weapons of Mass Destruction.
(WMD's were not there). 
We also had to capture the leaders of 9/11 (who were actually in Afghanistan)
Then we were in Iraq to bring freedom and democracy.
Next, since we devastated the nation it was claimed we had a responsibility to fix it.
Now we have to stay because it wouldn't be good to lose.

It's impossible to force people to 'be free,' with a gun to their head.

Of course it's a joke in the first place to think we are 'spreading democracy.'

What we are really doing is acting like the Big Cops and Bullies of the world, pushing everyone around, making demands on all nations and really
all REALLY for stealing resources, mainly of oil.

The war in Iraq is all about stealing oil. (and expanding Israel). If you didn't know that, you've been fooled.

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POWER TO THE PEOPLE

There is a greater concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people than ever before in American history, greater that the Robber Barons, greater than the Railroad Tycoons, greater than every before: A small Super -Rich Select Few with more money than ever before.

Guess who controls public policy?

Guess who gets rich on the stock market?

Unfortunately Big Brother and Big Corporations have the power. This would be okay if their motive was to do nice things for people but their motive is the Profit Motive, not the benefit of people.

Big Corporations would rather have cheap labor then be wasting it's money on a living wage; the cheaper the labor the better.

And when they can't afford to pay their pension plans they can just get they wiped out by bankruptcy court or steal all the money directly, like Enron or steal it "legally" by giving themselves super-excessive bonuses, salaries, severance pay or pension plans.

An average American worker would have to work for one whole year to make what some corporate executive make in one day!

Not to mention most jobs are now going to India, or being out-sourced to other countries

Solution? We better think of some real fast.

Linking wealth of the
Super Rich to wealth of the minimum wage worker?
Closing the "income gap." in other ways?
Changing tax laws?

We definitely need something to restore a proud middle-class and stop this growing divide of a Super Rich and Super Poor, more commonly associated with Third World or South American countries.

 

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REAL FAMILY VALUES

Most people don't care about the Dow Jones Industrial Average, they care about the cost of food,the price of gas, how much they have to spend on clothes, educational expenses for their children, the high cost of health care for their families and hardly have any time to be together.

For just one example of our country's failure to offer help, how come other 'civilized Western nations' can provide medical care for their people and we can't?

We keep telling ourselves we're the Greatest Nation in the World ?

It would be nice if 'family values,' weren't about government laws trying to tell people how they should live their lives, but helping them to live their lives.

Everytime I heard the Dow Jones Industrial Average told to me every hour, I wonder how the price of milk and bread are doing and if I'm 'sick enough,' to feel I should pay for a doctor's visit.

 

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KEEPING THE WORLD ALIVE.

We're destroying the planet. We destroying our land, our cities. We're putting so much toxic chemicals into the air that we'll never survive even if we don't get wiped out by the disappearing ozone layer.

Apparently it's too expensive to keep our land, our cities and our planet clean .

We want cheap coal & cheap gas; we don't want clean coal or more expensive cleaner gas.

Pretty soon we'll be fighting over access to clean water.

For example, the Bush Administration has denied just the one problem of Global Warming for all six years of it's current term in office - a fact 95% of scientist proclaim as fact.

Can we turn this bad situation around? Maybe not. But at least we could begin to acknowledge the truth and begin to think about passing on a survivable world to future generations.

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WIND, WATER, SOLAR AND OTHER ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES.

If equal amounts of cash were given to companies and people to develop and provide incentives for renewable alternative energy we'd be building sources of endless lifetime clean power.

Who decided to put our energy future and our lives all 'into one basket?'

Why exactly are we not investing in alternative energy as much as we invest in coal or nukes?

ALTERNATIVE, NON-POLLUTING, RENEWABLE ENERGY IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO FORWARD.

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THE REAL DRUG WARS

We need to stop all drug advertising on radio and TV.
It's harmful to our individual health and the health of society.

If we're serious about not encouraging drugs this will be done.

Does anyone think we can actually stop all booze and drug advertising on television?

BUT > Until then we're not serious.

Drugs are just another part of making a profit at any cost and even more insidious, another excuse, another way to beat up other countries and people we don't like: To declare 'Drug Wars,' against other nations; to declare 'Drug Wars,' against our own citizens.

Illegal drugs are not the crime, by the way. Crime is the crime.

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IMMIGRATION

There should be no Government support for illegal immigrants
What, are we out of our minds?

We should stop providing federal and state benefits to non-citizens. Stop paying for their food, stop paying for their health care, stop giving them free education, stop providing support for housing.

No nation on the earth could do this. It's crazy. We're just going to go broke.

Plus becoming a citizen should mean more than simple getting both feet over the border. Other nations would routinely require learning the native language and some of the history.

Many people died in World War II who were not even USA citizens but they hoped by their service they would qualify for citizenship. It's insane.

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INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM IN LIFESTYLES

The bottom-line about government trying to control individual private behavior is the inevitable development of a fascist state.

So, whether we agree with abortion or not, whether we like homosexuals or not, or whether we think that pothead next door should be allowed to live another day the fact is that we are not God.

Churches and places like that are where an individual's private code of behavior is encouraged.

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PRISONS AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM.

We have more people in prison, per capita, than any other nation on the face of the earth. Prisons are hellholes.

One solution is to make a distinction between violent and non-violent crimes.

For long-range solutions the answer is the same as it has always been throughout the world: provide more access to jobs and education although there will always be people who turn bad and hurt others.

If it's proven someone deliberately killed someone else why don't we just take him outside after his conviction and put a bullet in his head. What's the problem?

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CALL FOR A UNITED NATIONS INVESTIGATION!

FACT: False Intel was deliberately fabricated and forced-fed to the American people to mislead us into war.
FACT: This same False Intel was given to the United Nations to falsely justify this war-so, not only should we impeach our bad leaders for pushing these lies on us, but the United Nations should investigate the lies that were presented to them on this significant world stage. It's just common sense and demand for truth.

It seems we like the United Nations one day and don't like it later on. We seem to like it when we get it to say what we want.

Either way, t he UN was established to help prevent war.

Yet the Bush Administration presented lies to the United Nations as an excuse to justify war.

In order to prevent the UN from now becoming a tool for making war the deliberate fabrications by the Bush Administration need to be investigated and civil or criminal charges considered.

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EDUCATION

We have to eliminate forced education beyond the seventh or eight grades.

On the other hand we have to provide the opportunity for education to all those who want it. If we want and need more doctors why don't we let people into doctor schools; let anyone try and try and learn and learn and when they finally make the grade: Let them enroll.

If we stopped paying money forcing others to stay in school we'd have more money to spend on those who really want to learn, and learn in the new tech way, not some 19th century boring methods that put most of us to sleep.

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IRAQ WAR CRIMES TRIALS FOR WHITE HOUSE CRIMINALS.

During the nightmare of the Bush-Cheney White House we advocated starting to clean out the evil by the impeachment of Vice-President Dick Cheney.

Info and links to a broad range of groups and actions but for the actual resolutions introduced for the impeachment of both President Bush and Vice-President Cheney:

We leave this information here because the exact same reasons to justify impeachment are now the reasons to justify war crime trials.

Now that the neocon war criminals are out of office impeachment is no longer necessary. Plus, too, other war criminals and war profiteers who violated laws are also subject to justice not just those who held elected office.

So the crimes of others at companies like Halliburton (and not just it's former boss, CEO Cheney) need to face justice; private mercenaries who violated laws need to face justice; inner circle political neocon insiders who manipulated the truth need to face justice.

The source of information on these Impeachments is the web site of the U.S. Congressional Representative who introduced both the Articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney in 2007 and the Article of Impeachment against George Bush in 2008, which was done by Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat, from Ohio. His web site is at: http://kucinich.us/

Our reasons are also given, below, and on our web page for the
5-Part Patriot Plan.

Sending a nation to war for false reasons is the primary reason those who did this should be held accountable.

When Bush/Cheney were still in the White House, seven (7) Congress people and 15 state Democratic Parties have passed resolutions urging their impeachment . 11 states introduced such resolutions which had been passed by at least 77 cities and towns and a growing list of labor unions and other organizations.

It wasn't like people weren't trying; but impeachments during war time are not easy, especially when it is BOTH the president and vice-president who are misleading the people.

For information still online about the impeachment efforts, see:
Impeach Cheney and Impeach Cheney Resolutions
Vice-President Dick Cheney, in fact, appears to be more criminal in his using false intelligence deliberately in order to start the War in Iraq.

Other groups, good activist group with information and actions for impeachment, at:

There are other significant reasons to focus on Cheney, for more complete information, on A.C.T.'s site, see : Reasons & Plan to Impeach Cheney - (part of the 5-Part Patriot Plan)

If this is allowed to be done now, what is to prevent it from being done in the future?

This White House has initiated a bloody, costly unending war on false premises, and approves covert policies of illegal detentions, kangaroo courts, extraordinary renditions, torture and warrant-less wire-tapings of thousands of Americans.

After all, Clinton got impeached for only personal and private behavior with a consenting adult woman, behavior that that had no direct impact on the nation or ourselves.

(In fact Clinton's efforts to get bin Laden were hindered by the Republican wolves who were practicing their tactic of personal destruction of opponents.)

Impeach Vice-President Cheney It's the best way to support our troops, save our nation from greater wastes of hundreds of billions of dollars, get us off this apparently never-ending path of hate and war, and cease the destruction of Iraq and the murder of hundred's of thousands of its people.

Being a patriot doesn't mean going along with every greedy misadventure corrupt leadership plans next. If we did that we'd just become like mindless Nazi's rather then the good German people who tried to stop Hitler.

 

 

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Real Reason for the War

Real Reasons for the Wars

All the politicians talk about the war avoid two essential facts.

1. Deliberate lies were used to mislead the nation into war.

2. The real reason for the current Middle East war(s), which are:

USA OIL FEVER AND BLOODY APARTHEID ZIONIST EXTREMISM .

 

THIS war has been led by Oil company lobbyist and AIPAC, AIJAC, Council of Presidents, JINCA, The American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute, etc. lobbying, that have HIJACKED American ideals to serve their own special interest.

Starting on November 8, 2005, ((Click Here), throughout 2006, a significant statement June 11, 2007, and again on July 6, 2007 in the Wall Street Journal, U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman has been a leading warmonger, defending the invasion of Iraq and going on to declared we should attack Iran.

Why should we attack Iran? Senator Lieberman claims it's because they are attacking us {Click Here)

How many lies can this White House and warmongers get away with. We travel thousands of miles from home and invade and are destroying Iraq, on Iran western border; invade and are destroying Afghanistan on Iran's easter border; and it is now claimed Iran is attack us. Really?

Or, even if true, would it be more like 'fighting back,' for national survival.

 

 

Here is the 'neo-political,' agenda,
a link to an Open Letter that was printed January 26, 1998, and covered in USA newspapers coast-to-coast, and can be found, at:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

This letter has become a well-known reference point not only for it's urging war against Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein because he is a “hazard” to “a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil.” but also urging the USA to take action without need to consult other nations or the United Nations.

More significantly, 10 out of the 18 people who signed this letter, printed as , later became significant members of the Bush Administration: A group now know as the "neo-cons." aka = zionist, such as: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, (and later, disgraced president of The World Band), Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage (involved in a complicated plot to cover up the lies used for war:'The CIA Leak Case'), Undersecretaries of State John Bolton and Paula Dobriansky, presidential adviser for the Middle East Elliott Abrams, and Bush’s special Iraq envoy Zalmay Khalilzad.

"If we continue along the present course," the letter to Bill Clinton stated, " the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil will all be put at hazard."

So, written in their own hands,still on their web site, the reasons for the Middle East wars are clear:
1. Oil
2. Israel.
3. A fabricated and proven false fear of WMD's.

Besides these "neo-con," becoming the core of warhawks in the Bush Administration[/b] with links and connections to near innumerable lobbying, money, and media interests is pervasive:

  • 1. Project for the New American Century
    2. American Enterprise Institute
    3. Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
    4. Council of Presidents
    5. The Hudson Institute
    6. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee

AIPAC members have also been directly implicated AND convicted in a couple of spy schemes to steal military and nuclear secrets

Details of five espionage related charges can be found here, at: http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6890 ; of Google AIPAC and SPY on the net and get a quarter-of-a-million hits.

The case that ended with the conviction of Jonathan Pollard, a convicted Israeli spy and a former United States Naval civilian intelligence analyst, is one of the big one.

There are tens of thousands of hits for his case, but Wikipedia sums it up well enough, at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard

 

It's estimated that nearly half of the funding for Democratic candidates comes from AIPAC and Republicans get 30-35% of their cash from these groups.

I sense in both your posts the difficultly in trying to present these well-published facts without racist accusing you of racism or people who are really blind, deaf or dumb falsely accusing you of being unpatriotic; when you are neither; in fact you are the best hope for you nations; you are the true patriots; the others only hide behind the flag.

7/7 in Great Britain !?
9/11 in the USA!?

All leads back to base camps, training camps, and headquarters in Afghanistan and/or Pakistan.

So, why Iraq??

Read the Jan. 16, 1998 letter. And on the web sites of these rich lobbying groups you can find other ideas, like:

  • 1. The 'global leadership,' (or world dominance or hegemony) of the United States.
    2.The need for the tactic of pre-emptive action.
    3. The 'constabulary duties,' or role of the USA as world cops.
    4. nuclear superiority
    5. Global missile defense
    6. A U.S. African Corp
    7. space and cyberspace control
    8. A larger army, military dominance.

I saved my favorite for last: A U.S. Space Force

All this info and these ideas, as mentioned, can be found on the web sites of these wealthy lobbying groups and all these ideas don't have to go back any further than 1998 to see clearly spelled out.

Most of my personal lobbying and political efforts are simply trying to counter-act these groups and encourage positive ideas to replace their 'Global War on Terror,' slogans.

Although it has taken us over here in the USA to work through the 'fog of war and lies,' pumped out everyday after day by our corrupt and lying leaders, it's clear as a bell now to the Vast Majority of the American people.

Our last elections were a massive defeat for Bush's warmongering Republican Party. Recently actions in Congress have made it clear that Bush has lost any ability to direct the country. Recent polls indicate 70% of the population thinks the nation is on the wrong course; and, as part of the many USA Independence Day stories on July 4, 2007, there was a poll about the:

Most Liked and Most Hated Presidents in all of American History.

In that poll, talked about today, July 4th -- George Bush actually came in as: The second most hated president in all of American History

Richard Nixon is the most hated

But in a few more years I'm sure Bush will top the list.

 

 

This view is not anti-Jewish racism. It is a profound disagreement with policies that effect our lives and our national resources.
It is a difference of opinion with these lobbying groups. It is a good choice to lobby for something else.

Since relationships with Israel and Jews is so fraught with accusations of racism it is important to clearly define and clearly focus on the political and international issues involved.

The international issues involved are the existence of the State of Israel, the issue of the State of Palestine, the amount of territory each of these states claim to control, compensation for seized or destroyed property, the 'right of return,' etc.

On a more fundamental level the question is raised by both parties involved if either of the states has a right to exist.

Despite claims of constantly being victims a balance view also has to consider Israeli aggression.

We are bombarded with relentless shrieks about the Intifada, jihad, islamic fascism, etc. but only a child would be naive enough to believe the conflicts are all caused by one side. There is also Israeli aggression and the reality of Palestine's being the victims.

A history of pogroms and WWII do document hideous treatment; although the Greater holocaust of WWII where tens of millions of others were also murdered often fails to mentioned and thus the history of these times is unbalanced, failing to consider, once again, the mention of other victims.

Since hundreds of thousands of USA troops, British troops, Canadian troops, etc. died in the war that defeated Hitler there is no need for any national shame in our response to the horrors caused by Germany during that time; in fact, these nations and all the others involved have a right to feel proud of their worthy achievements.

The German nation also has a right to move beyond it's past. Indeed, the current war in Iraq started by the USA clearly demonstrates how ruthless leaders can take control of a nation and lead it in directions the vast majority of people do not want to do, and do so for proven false reasons.

The Palestinian people also have no reason to feel guilt or suffer for actions of WWII that they had nothing to do with.

It is highly lamentable that now the Western world is embroiled in Middle East wars and the flames of religious war are being incited and yet it is difficult to even talk about the issues involved.

It is the opinion of A.C.T., that the primary issue involved is = OIL and Israel's desire to conquer more territories, all of Jerusalem, etc.
Zionism is a dead-end ideology doomed to fail because, while it's real goal was safety and security for Jews,
it's mistaken tactic was to attempt to re-conquer biblical lands, rather than building a 'New Zion," where they were welcome, like in the USA.
Thus, Zionism condemns Jews to eternal conflict. New Zion-ism would have worldwide support.

The primary reasons for war are grabbing resources or land.

Of course there are other energy and resources being fought over; and conflicts of power or ideologies or other causes.

There are interests of other major powers, like Russia and China; interest of significant nations like Japan; the members of the European Union, South America, etc.

There are interests of the USA.

There are interests of Israel.

There are interest of Palestine.

There are interests of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Africa, etc.

Yet, it is always important to remember that WAR=OIL (or other resources) and War also comes from invading and seeking other's land.


On February 18, 2007 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel finally gave words to the Israeli attitude and policies that must be challenged, challenged as much as the ideology that sent suicide plans into the World Trade Center on 9/11 - 2001m challenged as much as what might be appropriately called 'capitalistic imperialism.'

The time to identify and challenge the naivety, charades, one-sided propaganda, and Israel's attempts to impose guilt on the whole world in order to camouflage it's own actions (including even stewing it's WWII liberators in this vindictive and thankless myopic view of WWII suffering).

A.C.T. makes clear it opposes:

Bloody Zionist Extremist Hegemony

We oppose this like our fathers and grandfathers opposed the murderous crimes and abuses of the Nazi and Stalin regimes.

 

It's as simple as that. Stopping the nearly two-year long Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip would the the first requirement before any more Israeli pretenses of peace should be taken seriously. A.C.T. does not support the slow starvation and complete imprisonment of over a million and a half people in the Gaza Strip. It's as simple as that.

The next step is then facing the facts: Do we support the plans of Zionist extremist to subjugate or drive out all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, from the West Bank and from Jerusalem or do we support the often proposed: Two State Solution. Two equal states, we'd add; not like the apartheid phony states that were part of the old South Africa. It's as simple as that.

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Conclusion

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A powerful vote of the American people has dramatically change the direction, the tone, the reality of this nation. We rescued ourselves from one of the lowest points in all of our history: the point where we not only saw the nation mislead into false wars with deliberate lies, but the low point where we began to act fascist towards ourselves, towards all the people.

We can not change the past. We are not responsible for the past.

But we can change now.

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