True to Form: Estimating the Trajectory of the US Body Proper

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True to Form:

Estimating the Trajectory of the US Body Proper

June 10 , 2005

 

The Neo-conservative Administration which has taken over the White

House and the Pentagon, save Congress and the Judiciary - at least for

the moment - has made a slight miscalculation in their divisive plans

for a Pax Americana. Their major blunder - some might contend- was

poor planning for the Iraq war. Make no mistake, this was no mistake.

Too few Troops from the " Coalition of the Willing " were sent and a

stabilized Iraq was never the goal. The same could be said about an

exit strategy. If you do not plan on leaving the country you occupy

you do not need an exit strategy. Rather, you need enough cannon

fodder and media oversight to perpetuate the cultural, spiritual, and

blood-lust rape of a nation- the peoples of which understand

occupation all to well. The war planners understand this understanding

and fully intended to invoke both a huge resistance - to be pacified -

and a civil war. Yet the major flaw of the war planners was to make

the assumption that there would be no major resistance from the US

populace and any upsurgence which might occur could easily be contained.

 

It is most unfortunate that the US Congress bought into the war. One

would almost have to assume that US military and economic hegemony is

a principle accepted by the full spectrum of politicians - with total

disregard for life both inside and outside US borders. How else could

the authorization for the use of force against Iraq (PDF) be issued

and implemented - specifically when most of the major elements of this

Law proved to be untrue before military action was taken. The National

Intelligence Estimate of 2002 proved to show little support for the

contentions that the Bush Administration put forth as a means by which

to justify their illegal invasion of a sovereign nation- the supreme

international crime. Illegal because it is a violation of the US

Constitution, the War Powers Resolution, the UN Charter, The Geneva

Conventions, and so on down the list of internationally accepted

statutes which are intended to prevent such heinous actions of any

nation state against another.

 

If the Legislative and the Executionary branches of the US Government

were mutually complicit in a greedy and megalomaniacal grab for the

Iraq's resources - (as pointed out by Wolfowitz as well as implicitly

stated in Rebuilding America's Defenses (PDF) - the Neocon recipe book

for US Military hegemony (a.k.a. Full Spectrum Dominance) in the

passage " the need for a substantial American force presence in the

Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein " (i.e. if

Saddam was not in power the US would still have to invade Iraq)), they

must have assumed that they could get away with it. The key to this is

to suppress any resistance at home

 

From outside of the US it might appear as if there is no resistance in

the homeland. Even from inside the US one who assumes to understand

the Neocon agenda might be persuaded to believe this. However, this is

a poor and inaccurate interpretation of events. Those of us in the US

who understand what it means to be an American have remained true to

form and our voice is starting to resonate through the main stream

media and the chambers on Capitol Hill.

 

A solid foundation of independent journalists, legal scholars,

concerned citizens, and the like have firmly rooted themselves in the

notions by which this nation was founded, and it's Constitution

established. While it is true that the main stream media is totally

complicit in war crimes, it has been somewhat advantageous that this

resistance movement grew in relative silence. A silence by which an

informed and organized movement has formulated itself such that, at

the opportune moment, we could expose ourselves as a fully matured entity.

 

Well, that moment has come to pass. The leaking of the Downing Street

Memo has given Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of House

Judiciary Committee, the tool he - and other Democratic Members -

needs to hold a Democratic hearing to hear testimony concerning the

Downing Street Minutes and the efforts to cook the books on pre-war

intelligence - possibly leading to the impeachment of senior members

of the Bush Administration. This hearing would not be possible,

however, if there was not a tremendous response from concerned

citizens who understand the nature of the Bush Administration's

massacre in the middle east and the undermining - and effective

shredding- of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

 

While one can argue that the vast minority of Americans remain

clueless as to the nature of defending oneself against a tyrannical

regime - which is essentially the only thing the US Constitution was

written for (i.e. a balance of power so that not one person or branch

of government can concentrate power), this concerned citizen contends

that those brave and noble souls here in the US have remained true to

form and had only to work hard and move at the right moment - which

has now come to pass.

 

Whatever your political persuasion is, it is now high time for you to

demand that Bush, Cheney, et. al. answer the questions presented to

them by Conyers regarding the Downing Street Memo. If one allows their

disposition to impede the flow of logic they do no justice to the

system and are not acting out their responsibility required under the

US Constitution. To those afraid to acknowledge truth and admit their

own mistakes, it is high time you come to terms with the facts that

the ever shifting reasons for invading Iraq have proven to be complete

fabrications. The US was not greeted with candy and flowers and both

Iraq and Afghanistan are a bloody mess. Remember, the murder of tens

of thousands of Iraqi's and thousands of coalition casualties was done

in your name with your tax dollars.

 

It is time to demand justice. With no pre-determined conclusion, an

inquiry into the justification for an apparently premeditated war is

the minimal necessity which every single US citizen should demand.

Since every single citizen has not come to this conclusion and an

unreasonable percentage of Americans continue not to get any

information from the main stream media, the responsibility lies upon

those of us who have a clue. And there are many more of us than was

assumed.

 

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© 2005 NPInternational/ Adam Roufberg

 

Adam Roufberg is an educator, physicist and biologist. Founder of

Natural Philosophers International and editor and publisher of

www.orbstandard.com. He was born and raised on planet earth and hopes

not to be vaporized by megalomaniacs.

 

 

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