A busy weekend:
- Berated Philippine Govt. Backtracks on U.S. Troops Smart move. I’m not sure what I would be scared of more. Living under US rule or living in a country where the US has decided it has an interest.
- Pentagon makes new plans for US control to go global
- “We are interested in a lot more than al-Qaeda,” the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, said. …
That new focus is expected to shift US military strength away from its large standing armies in Europe and East Asia to near-permanent bases in Central and South-East Asia and other regions where the military has had few recent ties. …
While Washington is asking its European allies to do more, it has also been lobbying Japan to play a larger security role in Asia. Tokyo has recently changed its pacifist Constitution to allow its forces to operate further from Japan’s shores. “
- Rumsfeld hints at much broader military mission Let global destabilization begin. Rumsfeld is a real slime. I was with my father once and he was agog with admiration for Rumsfeld when he came on tv. It was freaky.
- US to do a frame-up on Saddam Hussein since there has been no apparent connection between Iraq and Al-Quaeda. Man, our government is so despicable. It makes me sick the Machiavellian way in which they behave.
- “I expect Saddam Hussein to let inspectors back into the country. We want to know whether he’s developing weapons of mass destruction. He claims he’s not; let the world in to see,” Bush said.
“And if he doesn’t, we’ll have to deal with that at the appropriate time,” Bush added.
Asked what the U.S. would do if Saddam Hussein defied the inspectors, Bush replied: “If he doesn’t let them in? He’ll find out.”
In reality, the US is the largest manufacturer of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ in the world. They would never support inspections of US facilities. The United States has a real credibility problem. It doesn’t help that they take every opportunity to lie and mislead and manipulate their own people.
- U.S. throws wrench into Russia ties More and more and more lies and shadiness. The US made some deals with Russia but now that they’ve gotten what they wanted they’re backing out.
- First it was the unilateral U.S. withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty over sharp Russian objections. Then came indications that Washington is contemplating establishment of long-term military bases in formerly Soviet Central Asia. Last week the administration revealed it is planning to retain nuclear weapons that the Russians thought would be destroyed as part of a mutual arms reduction agreement the former Cold War rivals are negotiating.
- Even though the United States wants to oust Hussein they won’t support Kurdish independence. Their big ally Turkey has been fighting Kurdish separatists for many years. Kurds make up one sixth of the population of Turkey. In fact, the US spooks helped find Kurdish rebel Abdullah Ocalan in Nigeria and helped Turkey abduct him. In an all to familiar scenario with rebels, he was sent back to Turkey and sentenced to execution. One wonders which side the American government would support if the American War for Independence were fought somewhere else today.
- Who are the real terrorists? America’s best friend, Turkey, and their human rights record:
- According to international observers like Amnesty International, in many cases, people who have dared to speak out against the government, even peacefully, have been imprisoned, or have disappeared.