Blood on Our Hands

"Threats of law suits against journalists have become the hallmark of the Bush administration in their not-too-clever tactic to silence the independent media in the United States." --Wayne Madsen

Readers' comments:

:: If one would try to persuade the US army to rebel, and have it hang the gangsters that have taken over the US government, one would fail, I am almost sure of that. Nevertheless, the US army might rebel of its own. Anyway. Spontaneously?

Such a rebellion could temporarily save Iran. It would almost certainly mean the end of the USA as we know them. But America can not stay the way it is -- wheather there will be one more war or not does not change much.

A war has already started. The war against Iran, we are told, has already started. But I am thinking about another war. The war of everybody against everybody. New alliances will be sought. For a start, people of the world have to unite against the gangsters that rule the West. They are the most urgent ennemy. Our common ennemy.

The gangsters control the US army, the US budget, and the US public. While the dollar might crash or the public wake up it seems that the bosses have plans of their own on how to deal with these problems, should they ever be. Their weakness? The US army. The gangsters do not expect it to rebel.

What if it did? What if is soldiers, its officers, its generals suddenly remembered about their kids, about the Constitution, about Humanity? The US army must have some good rope, don't you think? I dream that Mr. Winters' hope come true. But then what? My guess is that we will never know.

:: To say that you hope the guilty will be tried before a world court is not enough. It is only you, the American people, who can hold them accountable for the crimes they have committed in your name. Wake up, America, it is time to storm the White House, before it is too late.
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Blood on Our Hands
By Craig Winters

This country, my country, has already become a ... police state. Our government lies to the people, spies on citizens, kidnaps, imprisons without trial, engages in torture, and is leading the country to ruin. Incredibly, all of this is done with the support of its citizens. How is this possible? How can a democratic government abandon the people it serves and squander blood, treasure, and traditions in an irrational pursuit of global domination?

First, realize that the government no longer serves the people. It has been bought by the transnational corporate power structure and serves them, and is now simply the military arm of the corporations. Meanwhile, the corporate media fulfills the propaganda role – they control what the people experience as reality and therefore control how the people think. They have the public so filled with fear that they will agree to anything.

The ruling class knows, of course, that the USA is headed for ruin, but it does not care because it is transnational, by which I mean the corporate structure transcends the nation-state structure. The have no allegiance to any nation or people; their only allegiance is to profit and power. Gary Alan Scott notes, "a steady transformation from manufacturing to capital management," a significant observation because money is the most transnational of assets. He goes on to write

The disappearance of union jobs, outsourcing and downsizing has been the crowning achievement of American business relations over the past 30 years or so. The other factors contributing to what Bigioni calls "the fascist trajectory" includes low taxes, various forms of corporate welfare, the decimation of small businesses, and the ability of corporations to discharge obligations to employees, to the environment, and to the country as a whole.

By the prosecution of war the corporations plunder the riches of this nation while simultaneously intent on gaining control of the entire Middle East region’s oil reserves so that they can continue to dominate the world for decades to come.

On the other side of this equation is an American population that resembles spoiled rich children. They are lazy, feel entitled to whatever they want, and have no sense of responsibility to the world community. They are not evil by their own design, but are willfully blind to evil so long as it does not interfere with their comfortable existence. They do not seek out truth, but accept as truth the corporate propaganda stream because it is easy and because it tells them what they want to hear which is that they are the victims, the righteous victims of a terrible outside evil. If they will just surrender their individual rights, their money, their children, their freedom, then the government will make them safe to go on with their empty lives of mass consumption.

I think it will take outside intervention to counter the force of the western corporate military machine, to contain and reverse their belligerent ambitions, to destroy their war making powers, and ultimately to hold them accountable for what they have done. My hope is that one day Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Pearle, Rice, Feith, Bolton, and the rest of the war making administration will be tried at the international court in the Hague, just as the Nazi war makers were tried in Nuremberg, and I hope that a good number of them will be hanged for what they have done. And we American people will see that we all have blood on our hands and will be shamed by what we have let happen. Our economy will sink and China will rise as the new economic leader, and the world will get on about its business. +++

Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War?
As Many As 250,000
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War 2376 Cost of America's War in Iraq $273,900,088,786