Columnist – John Sammon
We committed what amounts to a genocide in Iraq. I’m ashamed of this country for its role in Iraq.

A foreign head of state participating with the president in laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?

Let me get this straight. We invade Iraq based on false weapons of mass destruction that weren’t there, destroy much of the country and kill a million Iraqis. And Obama has the puppet Iraqi leader we set up in power in Baghdad lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington. [ READ: THE WAR CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE UNITED STATES IN IRAQ ] [ MORE CRIMES ]

How would you like to be the puppet? A country that invaded your country and killed a million of your citizens. You’re forced (or invited?) to come to that country and honor the soldiers of a foreign army that attacked your country and killed a million of your own citizens (bad citizens and innocent citizens for alleged reasons good and bad) based on false, concocted premises.

The leader of Iraq is a good puppet ruler.

America can hold its head high because it’s walking away from this fiasco with no remorse. We can do anything and it doesn’t matter because even if it’s wrong we’re still right. If there’s only one person left in this country who says morality is not determined by who wins or who’s powerful then I have to stand up and demand that the American people hear it.

Even if they never hear.

Asking a foreign ruler we set up in power by force after concocting false reasons for going to war to come to Washington D.C. and pay homage to the foreign power that invaded his country is wrong, immoral, and obscene.

Here are some suggested ways we can have the puppet ruler we set up in Iraq pay homage to the United States in a way that will remove even the slightest pretense of the sovereignty of Iraq.

1.   Have the puppet of Iraq serve as Obama’s chauffer complete with uniform.

2.   Have the puppet sweep out the Washington Monument.

3.   Have the puppet engage in campaigning for Obama during the 2012 election.

4.   Declare Iraq a new American state and down-grade the puppet to a governor with a foreign accent.

5.   We got their oil, we killed a million of their citizens based on falsehoods. It’s a win-win.

6.   Instead of “War,” we can re-label this a “Humanitarian Project.”

7.   Of course, other Arab countries overthrew their dictators without the help of U.S. troops.

8.   I think the Founding Fathers envisioned America only going to war when its national security was directly threatened and without the bogus weapons of mass destruction it wasn’t threatened, but the Founding Fathers were out of touch. They had no understanding of the new Roman Empire-style America and its “ends-justify-means” mentality.

9.   If Obama wants to promote good relations with Vietnam he could go to Hanoi and lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Vietcong.

I DO NOT ASK, I DEMAND, A COUNTRY THAT IS WILLING TO FACE THE TRUTH. A COUNTRY THAT IS HONEST. Once again, Obama disappoints me.

Obama before he became president called Iraq a “dumb war.”

It was also dishonest, wrong and immoral.

We’re not right just because we’re America. I won’t let this country hide behind the shield of its power. Somebody has to have the courage to say it.

The war in Iraq was engineered based on lies by George Bush and Dick Cheney. We had equipped, supplied and encouraged the dictator of Iraq (look at the picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking the no-good bastard’s hand). We thought he was our puppet. When he acted too big for his britches, we attacked his country in a false effort to tie it to 9-11. Bush and Cheney needed to sell the war to the American people so they created the false weapons of mass destruction scam.

Americans want to feel good and the president has to justify what happened. He can’t admit wrong or risk being called a traitor. The system has built-in protections to safeguard it from the truth. Obama, as good a man as he is, is a pawn of the system.

No one will ever discuss what we did or learn from the mistakes. [ SPECIAL READ: BUSH'S MIDEAST DISHONOR ]

Iraq War Crimes

George W. Bush — A War Criminal

   Columnist – John Sammon
Oh no, not that! The American people are going to find out what’s been going on in the Afghanistan War. Because of the leaked formerly top-secret leaks by the website WiKiLeaks. The American people will be able to see for themselves what’s been going on for the past nine years.

In Baghdad, capitol of the American oil monopoly of Iraq, Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters he was “appalled” at the leaks, and that the leaks put American lives at risk. Don’t you love it when a military mind attempts logic. He can’t even see the ironic tragic-comic ludicrousness of his own statement.

WAR PUTS PEOPLE’S LIVES AT RISK YOU IDIOT!

It also amuses me when the government reacts to people in an alleged democracy finding out about what’s been happening as some kind of national disaster. It’s clear, we need to imitate a dictatorship more so that we can all be safe and win the war.

George Bombs Bush said that. He said it would have been much easier for him to rule if he’d been a dictator rather than having to put up with disagreement. Obama should tell the American people, I want your support, but don’t ask what’s going on. Just leave it to us.

There has been a real development in the growth of both The Tea Party movement in this country, and the surge of the, “You don’t need to know, because you’re not intelligent enough to understand these things for yourself” credo. Alexander Hamilton must be smiling from the grave. Hamilton once said “The public? The public’s an ass.”

Let’s conduct secret wars with secret weapons and eventually we can have secret elections with secret ballots and secret meetings of the conglomerate cartels to carve up the earth’s resources.

Dwight Eisenhower in a famous prophetic speech right before he left office warned about the growth in this country of the Military Industrial Complex colossus, but did we listen? No. American Idol is more important.

What’s really amazing is how fearful government bureaucrats and military officers are of the truth. War is messy. Innocent people get killed. They don’t want you to know that because if you know that, you might not support their war. The one you didn’t vote to hold. The one you’re against. They don’t want you to know what they know. If you know what they know, you might not support the war.

THEY KNOW THAT!

I’ll tell you what. Let’s do a complete blackout of the war. That way, nobody except those few chosen insiders, the ones promoting the war and who are for it, will know anything. If fact, we can all be happy, because for all us so-called “average” people, there will be no war. War? What war? I don’t see any war? Do you see a war?
Shuffle the body bags home in secret. Have funerals in secret.

This is a secret democracy, or a secret republic if you’re a right-wing nut-job.

Can you keep a secret? I hope so. You promise not to tell anybody if I tell you. Okay, you ready for this?

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan has gone according to plan.

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Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets today(12/15/2008) to demand the release of the journalist who threw his shoes at George Bush.

Arabs throughout the Middle East hailed Muntadhar Al-Zeidi as a hero and praised his insult as a proper sendoff to the reviled U.S. president, who was paying a farewell visit to the country his forces invaded.

Mr Zeidi had yelled: ‘This is a farewell kiss, you dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq,‘ as he hurled the footwear during a press conference in Baghdad on Sunday. …[MORE]

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References:

1. In Iraqi’s Shoe-Hurling Protest, Arabs Find a Hero — The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at President Bush has stirred emotions across the Arab world.

2. Flying Shoes Create a Hero In Arab World — After the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Zaidi was distraught over the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. He interviewed widows and orphans in his work as a journalist, once telling an editor that he hoped to meet Bush “and hit him with my shoes.” Earlier this year, Zaidi was arrested during an American raid in his neighborhood and released a day later. And in March he covered a U.S. airstrike in which children were trapped under the rubble. “This incident made him very angry against the American forces,” recalled Maithan al-Zaidi, 28, his brother.

 Columnist – John Sammon
John McCain said Obama doesn’t seem to understand the price of failure in Iraq.

The price of failure in Iraq?

Let’s dissect this one statement. The price of failure? That means we can still fail. I thought McCain said the surge was a success. If we can still fail in Iraq, that means it (the surge) wasn’t very much of a success. Not a decisive success. It was a success, but not decisive. If it wasn’t decisive, how good was it? Let’s be generous to McCain and his philosophical mentor Bush and say the surge (flooding Baghdad with more troops) temporarily tamped down violence. In that one area.

A kind of band aid, it gives one the allusion temporarily that things are better, in one area of the country. Temporarily, it makes Bush and McCain look good. Or at least, better. The bad guys either lay low, or move their act somewhere else until the surge goes away.

If we can still fail in Iraq, if Obama is elected as McCain suggests, then how on the other hand can we achieve success? Though he hasn’t spelled anything out specifically because he doesn’t know himself, let’s once again be generous and assume McCain means “success” to mean a happy and prosperous and peaceful Iraq with a stable government.

When will that happen and how will it happen? Nobody knows.

McCain’s answer clearly is to achieve the middle. At least for the future. Keep troops in the country for the next fifty years. If we keep troops there, we haven’t succeeded, but we haven’t failed either. We’re still supposedly in control.
It’s the middle option. Neither success or failure. The status quo.

Like the surge, avoidance of failure gives the false impression we’re in control of the country, though not in compete control.

It’s an allusion, smoke and mirrors.

• McCain says he is the candidate for “change” (the new in-word).

• McCain is for offshore oil drilling in scenic areas (so is oil man Bush).

• McCain is the candidate for change.

• McCain is for a permanent occupation of Iraq (so is Bush).

• McCain is the candidate for change.

• McCain wants to let the free market somehow take care of global warming (so does Bush).Bush ignored global warming for eight years and finally last week admitted it’s a reality.

McCain is for change?

Where’s the change? Maybe McCain means pocket change.

McCain speaks in that humorless low monotone that hints he’s a determined man’s man (if you’re a hero singled out by destiny, you talk in a very serious manner). He drones on endlessly about how he was right in the very beginning and knew all the time the surge in Iraq would work even though Iraq was originally launched as a war to take out false weapons of mass destruction and is now explained as a war to end violence (the truth is whatever McCain says it is).

To McCain and Bush, change is to do nothing different, and success is simply to avoid failure, by failing from the very beginning and saying it isn’t (failure).

McCain is the candidate for no change.

Copyright 2008 Sammonsays.

   Image – Courtesy: Gary Varvel