Questions

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Questions

by Timothy V. Gatto

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The United States is not the nation it once was. The bastion of Democracy that fought against totalitarianism in the last century has become more and more like the nations it fought. We are a nation that sees itself first among nations. Our citizens believe us to be the natural leader of the world for no other reason but for the military power that we wield. This is the supreme example of “Might makes right”, and no different than Rome during its preeminence. The facts are that power doesn’t make one nation or group right; it just makes them the most powerful. Unless you believe that a Supreme Being will only give power to the righteous, than power is just that…power.

Now we have two points on which this regime that is in Washington grows more and more sinister. We have the Operation Northwood and the President claiming his righteousness comes from a “higher power”. This belief, although not directly stated, has been hinted at since Bush has claimed the Presidency. Once God has been thrown into the political mix, you then breed the righteous elite, and now the people that disagree with them are branded “heretics”. Politics becomes less of a way to view ideas, and more of a religion. There are those that can’t understand why Bush still has his “base” and those that support him even when he is proven wrong, as in the case for war in Iraq. Perhaps this is the reason? There has to be something besides reason to continue to back and support this kind of politics. If it isn’t God, than it must be money.

The Iraqi people will vote on their 30 year bill to transfer 75% of their oil fields to the multi-national oil cartels. Was this a good reason to send American men and women that signed up to protect their nation to their deaths? The American people don’t seem to think so, as almost 70% of the people polled do not support this war. The Iraqi people don’t seem to believe that the government that was installed by the United States is doing the right thing, no matter what kind of “spin” our government puts on it. So why are we still there?

This is the trillion dollar question. The very idea that the Congress of the United States cannot stop the executive branch from doing as it pleases does not bode well for our democracy or republic, or whatever you wish to call our government. As it stands our government is supposed to be a representative republic. It is now hardly that. When 70% of the people are demanding that we pull out and end this war and Congress and the President do not bend to the will of the people, you can hardly say we are represented at the Federal level at all.

So who is running this country? It certainly is not the people. If it is not the people that determines what our nation does than who does? Some say corporate interests. Others say that it is a “shadow” government of bankers and international cartels that the Bush family is involved with. Others just brand it “The Military-Industrial Complex”. The truth may be that it is all of these entities, but it is certainly not the American people that are calling the shots. If the American people were being represented in Washington, we would be out of Iraq, the oil companies would be under investigation for price-fixing and anti-trust issues and we would be repealing the Patriot Act, the new improved Insurrection Act, and The Military Commissions Act of 2006 while closing down Guantanamo. This is not happening, so what is really happening?

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