You Are Being Lied To, There Is No War On Terror

[babylonsister]

http://deadlyhaiku.com/2007/09/11/of-you-are-being-lied-to-there-is-no-war-on-terror.aspx

Of You Are Being Lied To, There Is No War On Terror

You're Being Lied To
There Is No War On Terror
Perpetual Lie

A Nasty Shell Game
Meant Just To Enrich A Few
Screw Every One Else

You Can't Have A War
On An Abstract Idea
Useless Bushism

Politics Of Fear
A Rove, Cheney Production
Performed By Puppet

Bush Dog Democrats
Compliant And Complicit
Grow A F*cking Spine

Lap Dog Media
Fluffy Local T V News
Utterly Worthless

Bushtard Dead Enders
The Worst Of The Enablers
Go Cheney Yourselves

On Nine Eleven
You Saw Planes Hit The Towers
Then Demolitions

The Patriot Act
Hot Off The Press, Went Into
Law Without Review

Condi Said She Had
Proof, She Lied, And Since Then, There
Has Been Two Wars Launched

Bush Lied Us Into
Iraq And Continues To
Hold Soldiers Hostage

There's No End In Sight
Bush Will Keep This Going To
Avoid Impeachment

War Is Bushtard's Shield
He's Not Dropping It Until
He Leaves The Office

Until He Leaves His
Mess Behind For The Next Guy
Ultimate Coward

[BridgeTheGap]

1. If bush still has his war going strong in '08

the g.o.p. will pay through the nose!

[Demeter]

2. If the Democrats Don't Start Showing Some Spine and Oppose Bush

There won't be either party in office.

[BridgeTheGap]

3. And who will replace them?

??????????

[Demeter]

4. Nobody

I expect civil war will break out by 2010, if not sooner. I don't see anybody trying to head it off or offer an alternative.

And then there will be two Iraqs, both slowly self-destructing.

[harun]

5. When reading your post I thought you meant civil war in the U.S.

and it made sense. So maybe it will happen in both countries.

[ladjf]

6. At the present time, there is simply no way there could be

a meaningful, significant physical challenge to the U.S. government from within. At least, not that I am able to imagine.

[Demeter]

7. What Government?

We have no government. We have a bunch of robbers too busy looting to do much of anything else.
They have created a generation of real poverty--as in no food, no shelter, no jobs; not the middle class version of no college, no name brands, no shiny new car. It's going to be so bad and so ugly, the Great Depression is going to be ramped down.

[ladjf]

9. We certainly don't have a good government. But what we do

have that calls itself the government is in charge of all the mechanisms of power. That's why it seems impossible to take them on in any physical combat.

[Demeter]

8. You Are Right; That's Exactly What I Meant

and I'm praying to be proved wrong.

[LibertyorDeath]

10. There is no "war on terror."

http://www.rwor.org/a/039/there-is-no-war-on-terror.htm

There is no "war on terror." The invasion and occupation of Iraq are not part of a "war on terror." Neither are the current threats and war preparations against Iran. The "war on terror" doesn't exist—no matter how many times the Bush administration cites it to justify its aggressions, no matter how often Republicans and Democrats debate how to best carry it out, and no matter how frequently it's referenced in the U.S. bourgeois media.

What does exist is a horrific and criminal U.S. war OF terror against the people of the world for greater empire. The attacks of Sept. 11 gave the U.S. rulers an opening to launch this war, but it has nothing to do with halting unjust violence or "terror," nor is it fundamentally aimed at stopping future Sept. 11's (and the full truth about the U.S. government's role that day is still not known—see "9/11: New Doubts on the 'Official Story'" in Revolution #13, or at revcom.us) or "protecting" those living in the U.S. or anywhere else. Instead, it has everything to do with waging unbounded war to solidify and extend the U.S. imperialist system's killing grip on the planet and its people.

The evidence is abundant and clear. For instance, this plan for "reshuffling the whole deck and reordering the whole situation," as Bob Avakian puts it, was openly discussed by imperial strategists for over a decade before Sept. 11, including most blatantly by the Project for a New American Century, and openly articulated at the highest levels afterward, particularly in the 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy.

Second, neither Iraq nor Iran had anything to do with Sept. 11 (and the U.S. rulers have known this all along). So why have they become focal points in a war supposedly springing from Sept. 11? This doesn't prove Iraq is a "diversion" from a "war on terror," it proves that the "war on terror" is a fraud. In fact, Iraq shows what this war is really all about. The Bush regime saw conquering this ancient land as a key step in unfolding its broader global agenda: "shocking and awing" the world, strengthening the U.S. grip on the Middle East, turning Iraq into a military and political platform for further aggression, gaining tighter control of international energy supplies, controlling and reshaping the entire arc from North Africa to Central Asia, and strengthening the U.S. hand against rivals—current and future.

more http://www.rwor.org/a/039/there-is-no-war-on-terror.htm

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