Hello all you wonderful people,
The war propaganda machine is back at, and new information is coming to light about an imminent attack on Iran. In October of 2007 I posted a blog in regards to this (read below), but the pressure and intensity has greatly increased in the last couple months. In this weeks edition of The New Yorker a wonderful, yet frightening, article was published entitled "Preparing the Battlefield." We strongly recommend reading the article at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh, and studying up on the similarities of what lead up to the attack on Vietnam and what is happening now. The time is NOW to stop being silent, the time is NOW to call/write/email/fax your elected representatives and petition them to NOT fund/support a war in Iran. Dissent is a gift, activate yourself, STOP BEING COMPLACENT, this does effect all of us!
PEACE!
Usurpations of the Bush Doctrine are remanifesting itself, only this time in Iran. In October 2007, the illegal occupier of this country, G.W. Bush, announced they were designating Iran's Revolutionary Guard (National Defense) a proliferator of WMDs and supporter of terrorism. So what does this mean? If you recall back to the events leading up to the invasion of Iraq, our government persuaded the American people that Iraq was harboring WMDs and was supporting terrorism. Prior to this, in June of 2002 Bush delivered a new course in U.S. Foreign Policy; known as the Bush Doctrine (see link below for the entire Doctrine). Under the Bush Doctrine, G.W. says "We must be prepared to stop rogue states and their terrorist clients before they are able to threaten or use weapons of mass destruction against the United States, our allies, and friends." This authority vested upon himself through executive privilege granted under the Constitution, gave the legal right, under the Bush Doctrine, to preemptively strike a "rouge state" (in this case Iraq) by any means necessary if they are believed to be an imminent threat to our national security. Immediately following the Bush Doctrine, the media persuasion blitz began to convince Americans and the World that Iraq was harboring terrorist and was in possession of WMDs. Then in March 2003 the invasion began and has come at the cost of an estimated one million Iraqi deaths. To date no WMDs have been found and because of this our government changed their language to the liberation of the people of Iraq. I'm not advocating Saddam Hussein was a great person, but the people of Iraq were in a much better position under the Saddam then they are since the illegal occupation of Iraq. So, is this a just war or just a war on black gold (oil)? Consider this: During WWII, WE the people were overwhelming behind the war and collectively rationed unnecessary goods like oil, rubber, etc . . . Do you think Americans today would be willing to ration this good? NO, because we are more dependent upon foreign oil then we were during WWII, thus it seems this is a war fueled by corporate greed to continue filling our overconsumption of oil. What does this all have to do with Iran? Because, of the new label given to them as harboring terrorist and being in possession of WMDs, G.W. now has the authority to preemptively strike Iran, so long as Congress continues to fund the War on Terror; which they just did with another $196 billion more in war appropriations. This doesn't necessarily imply we will be attacking Iran, but based on the events leading up to the invasion of Iraq it seems imminent. The problem is we do not have enough troops to fight our current wars let alone another un-just war. Thus is why there are private security firms like Blackwater fighting in Iraq. However, current troops and private security firms aside, another war will mean one of two things: privatization of the military or military conscription (the draft). The masses will hit the streets in a demonstration of our 1st Amendment Right dissenting the war(s), the draft, and continued calls for impeachment (hopefully Cheney first then Bush). The time is NOW to stop being silent, the time is NOW to call/write/email/fax your elected representatives to Defund the War (this can be done under the War Powers Act) and stop "Preparing the Battlefield" for an imminent attack on Iran. Dissent is a gift, activate yourself, STOP BEING COMPLACENT, this does effect all of us!
PEACE!
Ryan and the GHC
Click on links below for the Bush Doctrine and how to contact your elected representatives in Congress.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss5.html (Bush Doctrine)
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt
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