Bush Re-Elect Would Leave Path Open to Imperial Dreams/ Great Read

[KoKo]

BUSH RE-ELECTION WOULD LEAVE PATH OPEN TO IMPERIAL DREAMS

Thu Oct 14,12:02 AM ET

By Georgie Anne Geyer
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The ideas being bandied around from Washington to Jerusalem involve Iran's growing nuclear capacity, which would be the target of an air attack by Israeli forces with the complicity of the United States. Indeed, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations (news - web sites) said publicly at this fall's General Assembly opening that the terrorist threat was not to be found in Iraq but in Iran (an old fear).

Even more important, the Iranians say that if Israelis attack them, they are ready to send three Iranian divisions across the border into Iraq to attack American and coalition forces -- who would then be fighting wars on three fronts, if you include Afghanistan (news - web sites).

There are those in the neocon camp making policy around President Bush (news - web sites) who talk of "eternal war," supposedly as a way to transform the world. With the perceived national approval of re-election -- at the same time that the American military has said it will wage an all-out attack to reclaim the cities of Iraq -- it would be expected that an inflated President Bush would march deeper into conflicts he has identified from the beginning.

But Iran is far from the only next stop for the neocons, with their intimate relationship with the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites). Besides Iran, in a second term their intentions are to oust Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) and overthrow the Syrian Baathist regime.

If the United States is to have another four years of this kind of foreign policy, it will come to be considered an outlaw in the world, most of its historical standards and principles in tatters and its future unknown.
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[Catfight]

1. Why isn't there trials going on right now for high crimes? I don't

get why we stand by and allow this to go on? Do we not love our country and our Constitution? Do the Right love one failure alcoholic nut case more than our country?

[KoKo]

2. Congress is controlled by the Repugs...they won't start hearings.

That's why we have to change the balance in Congress...We are desperate to change the balance.

This article is good, though, in that it points out the real differences in a Bush II Regime and a Kerry/Edwards Presidency.

[oly]

3. Ain't it great? War all over the world and a police state at home.

God help us.

[paulk]

4. it's important to note that Georgie Anne Geyer is a conservative

columnist. More from the Libertarian school than Republican - but that she sees this so clearly is a good sign!

A Bush election means eternal war - right up to Armageddon. I wish the Democrats would use a little fear mongering of their own, and attack Bush this way.

[KoKo]

5. Yes, I've been surprised that she's had many Anti-Bush articles recently.

She's an "old school" journalist..and as you say conservative, so this is important.

Why can't we Dems articulate this? It's almost as if they don't want to go at the NeoCons. But, how do you explain what has happened with Iraq and the lies unless the NeoCon policy is exposed with it's vision of "unending war."

Bush makes it sound like it's some "utopian dream" of his to bring "Freedom to the World" when in fact he wants to bring "War to the World" and domination by us. :shrug: If only someone would get out there and start to say it!

[paulk]

6. it's hard to articulate

to the people who need to hear it - the undecided voters who will turn this election. You can read the PNAC agenda right off the website to them and they won't believe it. "Bush and his cabal want to take over the world! You're nuts!"

Have you read Paul Krugman's "The Great Unraveling" ? The preface addresses that quite well. It's too big, people just can't get their heads around it. So political campaigns become sound bite wars, where Mary Cheney is more important than WW3.

I always used to wonder how nations like Germany, Italy, and Japan, nations of such great culture and learning, could turn to fascism. I don't wonder anymore - I'm watching it happen.

I still believe we can, at least, stem the tide here in the US. I have to believe it.

Though some days more than others...
:)

[KoKo]

7. It's "preaching to the choir" here...but still a good read, especially

since many "oldtime" conservatives read her. She might get some votes amongst the Beltway Crowd with this one.