April 06, 2008

IMPEACH BUSH

IMPEACH CHENEY

BUSH'S WAR MACHINE

In the Bible's Book of Isaiah it says that people will one day beat their swords into plowshares and the lion will lie down with the lamb. We seem to be as far away from that prophecy now as when Isaiah wrote it. We had decades of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and when the Soviet Union dissolved we were told about a "peace dividend." That also hasn't worked out. The fact is that war and preparation for war is big business. As the quality of our lives declines in the United States, more and more money goes to defense contractors. It parallels the spending that dictators like Hitler and Stalin invested in their war machines. This article by Sherwood Ross is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

Under Bush, U.S. military spending is now roughly equal to the combined total of all other nations. What's more, Uncle Sam is the world's Number One arms peddler, selling about half of all weapons bought by the developing nations, and showing few scruples about sales to dictators. The Center for Defense Information reported last year that U.S. arms sales to 25 countries it studied increased 400 percent over 9/11.

Of course, the two criminal 20th Century dictators didn't build their war machines for sport, and neither has Mr. Bush. By mutual agreement in 1939, the "CommuNazis," as they were known, carved up Poland, Hitler invading from the West and Stalin from the East. In the summer of 1941, Overy writes, Hitler remarked "what one needs and does not have, one must conquer." That's not much different from Bush's view of Middle East oil. Having made war on Iraq based on lies and having subjugated that small country by force, Bush is pushing its cabinet to put through a giveaway law to profit the oil companies. And he's threatening oil-rich Iran with an attack.