Bush's war has become confused, and his call for winning Middle Eastern hearts and minds is becoming increasingly incomprehensible.
In Iraq, Bush's brutal policies have been antagonistic and uncompromising. As a result, the fragile social and political systems are splintering before our eyes.
The human networks that provide the fabric of society are ripping and tearing under the weight of Bush's incompetent bungling.
External influences, once only our military, now our corporations and their hired security forces, are inexorably seeping and spilling into the Middle East through Iraq, eating, corroding, decomposing, dissolving. "Creative Destruction," they call it.
The fog generated by the administration has become an example of the politics of incoherence. Halpern wrote: "Incoherence is that form of encounter in which self and other face each other in the same place and at the same time but are unwilling or unable to agree upon how, simultaneously, to manage continuity and change, collaboration and conflict, and the achievement of justice..."
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, incoherence means want of cohesion;" "want of connexion; incompatibility; incongruity of subjects or matters."
Bush's incoherence is the midwife to violence, and Iraq is giving birth. Those who live with incoherence often resort to violence as they seek to improve their lives, and throw off strangling occupation. As time goes on, their religion, as well as their social networks, begin to reflect their frustration.
And they are not alone. Other Middle Eastern governments and states resonating in sympathy will also promote violence as they struggle to maintain their way of life, and their conscience in relation to cultural and religious values.
Bush, in his timorous brutality, antagonizes this tumultuous world by reciting the alphabet of incoherence. Bombing residential neighborhoods, machine-gunning civilians in cemeteries and holy places. All without the slightest hint of parliamentary dialogue or diplomacy.
And so, while guns are blazing, and incoherence is at its peak, a holy man of another culture, motivated solely by love of his G-d and country, enters the situation and barters the peace. In exchange for the US removing itself as occupiers from the holy places - the violence will stop.
The next day, Bush began bombing neighborhoods in Fallujah, killing people, and "removing armed men."
In Iraq, Bush's brutal policies have been antagonistic and uncompromising. As a result, the fragile social and political systems are splintering before our eyes.
The human networks that provide the fabric of society are ripping and tearing under the weight of Bush's incompetent bungling.
External influences, once only our military, now our corporations and their hired security forces, are inexorably seeping and spilling into the Middle East through Iraq, eating, corroding, decomposing, dissolving. "Creative Destruction," they call it.
The fog generated by the administration has become an example of the politics of incoherence. Halpern wrote: "Incoherence is that form of encounter in which self and other face each other in the same place and at the same time but are unwilling or unable to agree upon how, simultaneously, to manage continuity and change, collaboration and conflict, and the achievement of justice..."
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, incoherence means want of cohesion;" "want of connexion; incompatibility; incongruity of subjects or matters."
Bush's incoherence is the midwife to violence, and Iraq is giving birth. Those who live with incoherence often resort to violence as they seek to improve their lives, and throw off strangling occupation. As time goes on, their religion, as well as their social networks, begin to reflect their frustration.
And they are not alone. Other Middle Eastern governments and states resonating in sympathy will also promote violence as they struggle to maintain their way of life, and their conscience in relation to cultural and religious values.
Bush, in his timorous brutality, antagonizes this tumultuous world by reciting the alphabet of incoherence. Bombing residential neighborhoods, machine-gunning civilians in cemeteries and holy places. All without the slightest hint of parliamentary dialogue or diplomacy.
And so, while guns are blazing, and incoherence is at its peak, a holy man of another culture, motivated solely by love of his G-d and country, enters the situation and barters the peace. In exchange for the US removing itself as occupiers from the holy places - the violence will stop.
The next day, Bush began bombing neighborhoods in Fallujah, killing people, and "removing armed men."
Yeah, this sociopath might have bagged a bunch more cops with bigger magazines on something that can penetrate body armor.- Bez
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Most of the guns banned by the AWB were .223 caliber, which is nothing more than a souped up .22 and not more powerful than a .22 magnum. 123wavokas, village idiot
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Most of the guns banned by the AWB were .223 caliber, which is nothing more than a souped up .22 and not more powerful than a .22 magnum. 123wavokas, village idiot
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(1) "Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in Pursuit of a Neocon Utopia," by Naomi Klein, in the latest issue of Harpers Magazine.
(2) "America Alone: the Neoconservatives and the Global Order", by Halper and Clarke.
(2) "America Alone: the Neoconservatives and the Global Order", by Halper and Clarke.
...."as we know there are known knowns, there things we know we know, we also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But, there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know."
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"We know where they (the Iraqi wmd's are. They are in an area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east and west, south and north somewhat."
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"We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." - Vice President Dick Cheney on NBC's Meet the Press, March 16, 2003 "I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons." - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at a hearing of the Senate's appropriations subcommittee on defense, May 14, 2003
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The British claim, repeated by Bush, that Saddam Hussein's forces could deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes made headlines around the world after Blair levelled it in a 55-page "white paper" presented to the House of Commons in September 2002. The dossier said Iraq had military plans to use chemical and biological weapons and "some of these weapons could be deployed within 45 minutes of an order to use them."
"I don't remember the [45 minute] statement being made, to be perfectly honest." - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at a Pentagon Briefing, February 11, 2004
"I'd have to see the statement. And to have an opinion, I would have to go ask the intelligence community as to what they thought at that time," he said.
"Because what it is they thought very likely would be what it is I thought. And I'd have to go back and I don't know when the statement was made," he said.
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Don Rumsfeld said in the memo that leaked from the Pentagon, "I'm afraid that they're generating more ideological radicals against us than we are arresting them and killing them. They're producing more faster than we are."
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"You and a few.. other... critics are the only people I've heard use the phrase "immediate threat." I didn't, the President didn't. It's become a kind of folklore that that's what happened.." - Donald Rumsfeld, Face the Nation
"Some have argued that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent, that Saddam is at least five to seven years away from having nuclear weapons. I would not be so certain." - Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 18, 2002"
No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq." - Donald Rumsfeld Sept. 18, 2002
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"We know where they (the Iraqi wmd's are. They are in an area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east and west, south and north somewhat."
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"We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." - Vice President Dick Cheney on NBC's Meet the Press, March 16, 2003 "I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons." - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at a hearing of the Senate's appropriations subcommittee on defense, May 14, 2003
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The British claim, repeated by Bush, that Saddam Hussein's forces could deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes made headlines around the world after Blair levelled it in a 55-page "white paper" presented to the House of Commons in September 2002. The dossier said Iraq had military plans to use chemical and biological weapons and "some of these weapons could be deployed within 45 minutes of an order to use them."
"I don't remember the [45 minute] statement being made, to be perfectly honest." - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at a Pentagon Briefing, February 11, 2004
"I'd have to see the statement. And to have an opinion, I would have to go ask the intelligence community as to what they thought at that time," he said.
"Because what it is they thought very likely would be what it is I thought. And I'd have to go back and I don't know when the statement was made," he said.
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Don Rumsfeld said in the memo that leaked from the Pentagon, "I'm afraid that they're generating more ideological radicals against us than we are arresting them and killing them. They're producing more faster than we are."
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"You and a few.. other... critics are the only people I've heard use the phrase "immediate threat." I didn't, the President didn't. It's become a kind of folklore that that's what happened.." - Donald Rumsfeld, Face the Nation
"Some have argued that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent, that Saddam is at least five to seven years away from having nuclear weapons. I would not be so certain." - Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 18, 2002"
No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq." - Donald Rumsfeld Sept. 18, 2002
