We Were Warned!
Earl J. Prignitz
July 14, 2005
One would think that it would become obvious, even to President Bush and his cohorts, that the war on terror is failing. This is not to suggest that the terrorists are winning! It just becomes a stalemate. Certainly there is no way for those who would hope to reconstruct an Islamic caliphate of their dreams, is as out of the picture, as it was before 9/11. But their ability to bring violence and destruction to our streets is just as viable today as it was and is unlikely to diminish. We may capture those who plan and or carry out their evil schemes, but there will be others to take their place almost immediately. The actions of our leaders guarantee it.
The very idea of a war on terrorism was misconceived from day one. Only the President’s war lord cabinet could come up with such a hair brained idea. Of course, it is not Bush and his band of neocons who are fighting and dying, but rather raw recruits, hard working career military officers and impoverished or unlucky Iraqis. And everyone but Bush knows that foreign terrorists are in Iraq because it is a field that is ripe with opportunities and not because it is their last stand.
Almost immediately following the 9/11 attacks, the President shifted the public’s shock over one, although devastating terrorist assault by a small group of extremists into what amounted to a call for World War III against his supposed “axis of evil” forces that are supposed to be against us. However, ever since the Downing Street memos surfaced, the world knows that this War was planned months before 9/11 by President Bush and Prime Minister Blair and the 9/11 catastrophe was simply used as an excuse to kick it off.
It is so sad, but also so true, that the war on terrorism has been misused as a political opportunity by George W. Bush, Halliburton and the Pentagon in a way that President Eisenhower warned in his final speech as President when he referred to the “military industrial complex.” Do you remember the words of the former general, who led us in World War II, when he warned of the dangers of an unbridled militarism. "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex," said Eisenhower, a Republican, in 1961. "The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
Yes, we have been warned!
The very idea of a war on terrorism was misconceived from day one. Only the President’s war lord cabinet could come up with such a hair brained idea. Of course, it is not Bush and his band of neocons who are fighting and dying, but rather raw recruits, hard working career military officers and impoverished or unlucky Iraqis. And everyone but Bush knows that foreign terrorists are in Iraq because it is a field that is ripe with opportunities and not because it is their last stand.
Almost immediately following the 9/11 attacks, the President shifted the public’s shock over one, although devastating terrorist assault by a small group of extremists into what amounted to a call for World War III against his supposed “axis of evil” forces that are supposed to be against us. However, ever since the Downing Street memos surfaced, the world knows that this War was planned months before 9/11 by President Bush and Prime Minister Blair and the 9/11 catastrophe was simply used as an excuse to kick it off.
It is so sad, but also so true, that the war on terrorism has been misused as a political opportunity by George W. Bush, Halliburton and the Pentagon in a way that President Eisenhower warned in his final speech as President when he referred to the “military industrial complex.” Do you remember the words of the former general, who led us in World War II, when he warned of the dangers of an unbridled militarism. "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex," said Eisenhower, a Republican, in 1961. "The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
Yes, we have been warned!
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