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26, 2004
Patrick
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Crossing the Shia Line: US Troops
Prepare to Enter Najaf
Grover
Furr
Protest, Rebellion, Commitment
Elaine
Cassel
Lies About the Patriot Act
Uri
Avnery
Vanunu and the Terrible Secret
April 24 / 25, 2004
William
A. Cook
Tweedledee and Tweedledum: Kerry
and Bush Melt into One
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Stryking Out: a General, GM and the Army's Latest Tank
Brandy
Baker
A Revitalized Women's Movement? Let's Hope So
Robert
Fisk
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Ben
Tripp
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Nelson
Valdés
"Submit or Die": Iraq and the American Borg
Lucson
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Haiti's Return to the Future
Kurt
Nimmo
The CIA Killed Pat Tillman
Mark
Scaramella
Does Anybody Know Anything?
Patrick
Cockburn
The Return of Saddam's Generals
Gary
Engler
Welcome to La Paz: a Vacation in Tear Gas
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Dan Smith
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Greg
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Iraq is Utterly Unlike Vietnam...
Elaine
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Life on the Outside: a Review
Vanessa
Jones
Letter from Australia: Why an Independent Won Sydney
Jim
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Agriculture's Bullied Market
Hammond
Guthrie
Al Aronowitz, Bob Dylan and The Beatles
Poets'
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Jones, Holt, Albert, LaMorticella
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Ron
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The Only Solution is Immediate Withdrawal
Dave
Lindorff
Imagination Deficit Disorder
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Contractors and Mercenaries: the Rising Corporate Military Monster
Norman
Solomon
Country Joe Band, 2004: "What Are We Fighting For?"
Cynthia
McKinney
All Things Are Not Equal: the Perils of Globalization
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A Bitch Called Wanda
Karyn
Strickler
Sierra Club, Inc.
Hammond
Guthrie
Yellow Caked in the Face
Paul
de Rooij
Graveyard of Justifications: Glossary
of the Iraqi Occupation
April 22, 2004
Patrick
Cockburn
When Terror Came to Basra: "I
Saw a Minibus of Children on Fire"
Tanya
Reinhart
The Wall Behind Disengagement
Lance
Selfa
Why is Kucinich Still in the Race?
Josh
Frank
Street Fighting Man? Kucinich's Pulled Punches
Sen.
Robert Byrd
Bush Owes America Answers on Iraq
William
S. Lind
Why We Get It Wrong
Mickey
Z.
Undoing the Latches
Robert
Jensen
Why They Fast: Remembering the Victims of the World Bank
John
L. Hess
The New York Times from 30,000 Feet
April
21, 2004
Gary
Leupp
Yeats on Iraq
Alfredo
Castro
Colombia's Forgotten Prisoners
Dr.
Susan Block
Bush's Taliban Drug Deal
William
A. Cook
George 1 to George 2
Jack
Random
Iraq and Vietnam
Jean-Guy
Allard
Alarcon Meets the Editors
Mike
Whitney
Charade in the Desert
Bill
Christison
Only Major Policies Changes Can
Help Washington Now
April 20, 2004
Dave
Lindorff
Bush and Kerry Share a Problem
Stan
Cox
Wal-Mart's Magic Numbers
Bruce
Anderson
On Listening to Air America
Joseph
Kalvoda
Czech Mate for Condi
Greg
Moses
Yesterday's Intelligence
Stan
Goff
The Democrats and Iraq
Website
of the Day
Santorum Happens
April 19, 2004
Kurt
Nimmo
The "Central Hand" of the
Resistance
Mike
Whitney
Bob Woodward's Imperial Trifles
Douglas
Valentine
52 Pick-Up and the 100-to-1
Rule
John
Chuckman
The Sharon Annex: Evil Does Often
Triumph
Doug
Giebel
Welcome to the Club
Rahul
Mahajan
Hospital Closings and War Crimes
April
16 / 18, 2004
Robert
Fisk
Bush Legitimizes Terror
Saul
Landau
Subverting Brazil and Cuba
Dave
Lindorff
Paying for War: $2,150 per Family
and Counting
Brandy
Baker
Fallujah's Collateral Damage
Mickey
Z.
The Left Attacks from the Right
Bruce
Jackson
The Bush Press Conference: Gott Mit
Uns
Norman
Solomon
How the "NewsHour" Changed
History
Alexander
Cockburn
Bush, Kerry and Empire
April
15, 2004
Greg
Moses
Follow the Families, Not the Script
Virginia
Tilley
The Carnage According to Gen. Kimmitt:
Just Change the Channel
Ron
Jacobs
They Coulda Been Champions of the
World: Hurricane Carter and Ron Kovic
Michael
Neumann
A Happy Compromise: Hate Crimes
Reporting in the Toronto Globe and Mail
April
14, 2004
Tom
Reeves
Return to Haiti: an American Learning
Zone
Reza
Fiyouzat
Japan and Iraq
Ron
Jacobs
What Bush Really Said
Diane
Christian
The Real Passion
April 10 /
12, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Greatest Radical Journalist of His Age
Patrick Cockburn
Ambush, Kidnap, Murder: Another Day in "Post War" Iraq
Ellen Cantarow
Health Under Siege on the West Bank
Tariq Ali
Iraqi
Resistance: a New Phase
Werther
Pseudoconservatism Revisited: When God is Pro War & Other
Delicacies
Robert Fisk
Bush's War Lords to Their Critics: "Just Shut Up"
Gary Leupp
Indian Wars, Vietnam and Orientalist Fantasy
Ron Jacobs
The Iranian Revolution, Cont.
Jorge Mariscal
Perils of the Bootstrap
Phil Gasper
Defying Stereotypes About Death Row
Dave Zirin
Bringing the Black Freedom Struggle Into Sports: an Interview
with Lee Evans
Brandy Baker
The Revolution is Playing at a Theater Near You
Mickey Z.
Underground Music is Free Media: an Interview with Twiin
Ali Tonak
Get Ready for the Million Worker March
Harry Browne
Asking the Wrong Question About Richard Clarke & 9/11
Gideon Samet
The Sharonizing of America
Conn Hallinan
Remote Control Warriors
Website of
the Weekend
Taboo
Tunes
April 9, 2004
Robert Fisk
This
War's Simple Truth: Iraqis Do Not Want Us
John L. Hess
The
Non-Confessions of a Warrior Princess: Condi on the Stand
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Condoleezza's Condescensions
Christopher Brauchli
Holes in the Sky: Bush's Crazed Missile Defense Plan
Don Santina
Forget the Alamo!: Glorifying the Fight for Slavery in Texas
William S. Lind
The 4G Warfare Seminar, Cont.
Bill Christison
9/11
Commission is Bush's New Lapdog
Website of the Day
What We've Done to Fallujah
April 8,
2004
Wayne Madsen
Rice
(and the Record) Proves It: Bush Knew, But Failed to Act
Kurt Nimmo
Will
Bush Flatten Fallajuh?
Patrick Cockburn
Guided
Missile; Misguided War
Laura Flanders
Steamed
Rice
Larry Everest
What Condi Rice is Hiding
Adam Federman
Sacred Capitalism Hits Russia
M. Junaid Alam
The Iraqi Intifada Begins
Norman Solomon
The Quest for a Monopoly on Violence
Douglas Valentine
Echoes
of Vietnam: Phoenix, Assassination and Blowback in Iraq
Website of the Day
Xispas: Chicano Art, Culture and Politics
April 7, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Those
Pulitzers!
Sen. Robert
Byrd
Deeper
into the Mouth of Hell: We Must Find the Exit from Iraq
Ron Jacobs
Tet
in Iraq: Closer to the Cosmic Disaster?
Patrick Cockburn
Battles
Across Iraq: US Death Toll Mounts
Kathy Kelly
Pacification: Worth the Price?
Sonali Kolhatkar
What Are You Doing About Afghanistan?
Rahul Mahajan
Report from Baghdad: Opening the Gates of Hell
Robert Fisk
US Airlifts Saddam to Qatar
Mike Whitney
America Out of Iraq, Now!
Sam Hamod
Bush, Pandora's Box and the Tiger
April 6,
2004
C.G. Estabrook
Mercenaries
and Occupiers
William Blum
The
Anti-Empire Report: the Israel Lobby
Col. Dan Smith
The
Language of Disbelief: 1.3 Billion Still Live in War Zones
Dr. Bulent Gokay
The Coming Islamic Republic of Iraq?
Lynn Landes
Faking Democracy: Americans Don't Vote; Machines Do
Sheila Samples
What Would Royko Write?
Jason Leopold
Condi's Blind Spot: Rice Never Mentioned al-Qaeda
Mickey Z.
A Reality Show with No End in Sight
Robert Fisk
Iraq on the Brink of Anarchy
April 5, 2004
John Farrell
Lessons
from El Salvador and Iraq
Robert Fisk
Bloodbath
a Bad Omen for Bush
Gary Leupp
Shiites Say No: Another "Nightmare
Scenario"
April 3 / 4, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
Anti-Depressants
a Problem? We're Shocked
Jeffrey St. Clair
How Neil Bush Succeeded in Business
Without Really Trying
Gary Leupp
On Jefferson, Diderot and the Political Uses of God
Lawrence Davidson
Orwell and Kafka in Israel / Palestine
Frederick B.
Hudson
Condi Rice: the Family Retainer
Phillip Cryan
The Magic of Coca-Cola: Colombian Workers, Civil Rights and Advertising
Dave Zirin
Lester Speaks: an Interview with Lester "Red" Rodney
Ben Tripp
Talking Dirty: Obscene But Not Heard
Bruce Anderson
Phony Liberals and Fake Concern for the Homeless
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Justice and Legitimacy in Haiti
Mark Scaramella
Do You Have What It Takes to Be Sec. of Defense? Take the Rumsfeld
Quiz
Sharon Smith
Do Most Iraqis Really Want the US to Stay?
Rick Giombetti
Melissa Ann Rowland: a Witch for Our Time
Nader/Kerry
Quandary
Stephen Gowans
Communists
for Capitalism?
Frank Bardacke / Doug Lummis
Support Nader; Dump Bush: an Election Manifesto
Mickey Z
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Kerry: a Less Dangerous Imperialist?
Richard Oxman
Nader and/or Death?
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April 2, 2004
Dave Lindorff
Barbaric
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Wherever
Bush Goes, Osama is Bound to Follow
Emma Miller
The
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Dr. Susan Block
Same
Sex Marriages: Just Say "No" to Prohibition
Norman Solomon
Media Strategy Memo for George & Dick
Sacha Guney
The Meaning of the Elections in Turkey
Christopher
Brauchli
The
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Website of the Day
Mercenaries, Inc.
April 1, 2004
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Dying in Vain in Iraq
Harry Browne
No Smoke, Plenty of Fire: Ireland's Pubs Go Smokefree
Chris Floyd
Towel Boy: Bush Hits Workers with Chemical Weapons
Nicole Colson
Inside America's Concentration Camp: Tortured at Guantanamo
Charles Arthur
Haiti's Army Cracks Down on Workers
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Chao: a First Daughter for the First Son
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Israel:
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Sofia Perez
Spain's
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Stick 'Em Up: Put Cheney and Bush Under Oath
Tanya Reinhart
As in Tiannamen Square: Justice and the Yassin Assassination
Mike Whitney
Time to Dump the Pledge
Donald Kaul
Martha Stewart's Lesson: Never Talk to the FBI
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April
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Trading Places
The US May Take
the Place of the USSR as the Latest Failed Superpower
By WAYNE MADSEN
Consider the following highly-classified
report about the situation on the Afghan front:
"Judging by the most recent communications that we have
received from Afghanistan in the form of encrypted cables, as
well as by telephone conferences with our chief military adviser
. . . the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated sharply .
. . Bands of saboteurs and terrorists, having infiltrated from
the territory of Pakistan . . . are committing atrocities . .
."
This dispatch could have come in the last two weeks from the
U.S. Central Command, which is facing a renewed surge in Taliban
and Al Qaeda activity in Afghanistan. It is now estimated that
the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies now control one-third of
the battle-torn nation. The battlefield killing in Afghanistan
by Al Qaeda units of former National Football League player Pat
Tillman, who volunteered for the U.S. Army Rangers in the aftermath
of 9-11, points to the precarious position of the United States
in Afghanistan. The Taliban and Al Qaeda are far from out of
commission. And to make matters worse, President Bush secretly
diverted a $750 million budget supplemental appropriated by Congress
for the Afghan operation in order to build up for his pre-911-planned
war against Iraq.
The above classified report, however, did not emanate from the
U.S. Central Command or the Pentagon. It is a declassified Top
Secret [Only Copy] Working Transcript of a meeting of the Politburo
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, dated March 17, 1979. The words are those of Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko to his colleagues, who included General
Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, his eventual successors Konstantin
Chernenko and Yuri Andropov, Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov,
and a junior Politburo member named Mikhail Gorbachev.
In many respects, the Soviet Union's attempt to suppress an Islamic
insurgency in Afghanistan led to the downfall of the world's
"second superpower." The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan
helped to trigger anti-Soviet restlessness in its own Central
Asian Soviet Republics, which are now all independent of Moscow.
What goes around eventually comes around. The United States,
which built up the Islamic guerrilla groups in Afghanistan, eventually
was attacked by some of their more radical offshoots. It now
faces an Islamic rebellion not only in Afghanistan but also in
Iraq. Eventually, if Israel does pull out of the Gaza Strip,
Hamas will likely emerge as the governing power in that territory.
Hamas has now declared war on the United States for supporting
Ariel Sharon's intention to annex parts of the West Bank in violation
of international law.
Other passages from the Soviet archives are almost a carbon copy
of what the United States not only faces in Afghanistan but also
Iraq. The words of the Soviet military, political, and intelligence
leadership are as important for the Bush administration today
as they were for the Kremlin political elite in 1979 and throughout
the 1980s.
We are constantly told by the Bush administration and its ambassador
to Kabul, the Afghan-American neo-conservative Zalmay Khalilzad,
that the regime of Hamid Karzai is firmly in control of much
of Afghanistan. That is as laughable as the Soviets being told
by their clients in Kabul that they, also, were firmly in control.
From the March 17, 1979, transcript, the words of Central Committee
Secretary Andrei Kirilenko, who saw potential problems for the
Red Army in Afghanistan, could easily be applied to U.S. forces
in Afghanistan and Iraq today:
"The question arises, whom will our troops be fighting against
if we send them there? Against the insurgents? Or have they been
joined by a large number of religious fundamentalists, that is,
Muslims, and among them large numbers of ordinary people? Thus,
we will be required to wage war in significant part against the
people."
Kirilenko also raised the problem of Soviet support for its client
in Kabul, Nur Mohammed Taraki, who was committing major human
rights violations against Islamic religious leaders:
" . . . Taraki must be instructed to change his tactics.
Executions, torture, and so forth cannot be applied on a massive
scale. Religious questions, the relationship with religious communities,
with religion generally and with religious leaders take on special
meaning for them. This is a major policy issue. And here Taraki
must ensure, with all decisiveness, that no illicit measures
whatsoever are undertaken by them."
Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet Premier, also raised misgivings about
going into Afghanistan.
He said about sending Soviet arms to the Afghan army:
"If [the Afghan army] collapses, then it follows that those
arms will be claimed by the insurgents."
The next day, March 18, 1979, Kosygin reported an amazing revelation
from his phone conversation with Taraki, "almost without
realizing it, Comrade Taraki responded that almost nobody supports
the government." According to a formerly Top Secret phone
transcript, Taraki told Kosygin, "there is no active support
on the part of the population [in Herat] . It is almost wholly
under the influence of Shi'ite slogans -- follow not the heathens,
but follow us. The propaganda is underpinned by this."
Kirilenko then reported that the 17th Afghan Army Division in
Herat, numbering 9000 men, had gone over to the side of the insurgents.
Kosygin added that an anti-aircraft battalion had also joind
the rebels. Compare what the Soviets discussed with what George
W. Bush must be hearing from his Iraqi viceroy, Paul Bremer,
about Iraqi support for the U.S. occupation, what the Iraqi people
think about the neo-conservative stooge Ahmad Chalabi, the Shi'ite
uprising in southern and central Iraq, the U.S. winning the "hearts
and minds" of the Iraqi people, and mass defections by U.S.-trained
Iraqi army and police personnel to the insurgents. The old Soviet
Politburo members must be spinning in their graves about the
U.S. predicament in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
The head of the Soviet KGB, Yuri Andropov, presented a stark
warning to his colleagues about what the Soviets would encounter
in their Afghan occupation,
"Comrades, I have considered all the these issues in depth
and arrived at the conclusion that we must consider very, very
seriously, the question of whose cause we will be supporting
if we deploy forces into Afghanistan. It's completely clear to
me us that Afghanistan is not ready at this time to resolve all
the issues it faces through socialism. The economy is backward,
the Islamic religion predominates, and nearly all the rural population
is illiterate. We know Lenin's teachings about a revolutionary
situation. Whatever situation we are talking about in Afghanistan,
it is not that type of situation. Therefore, I believe that we
can suppress a revolution in Afghanistan only with the aid of
our bayonets, and that is entirely inadmissible. We cannot take
such a risk."
Gromyko supported Andropov,
"I completely support Comrade Andropov's proposal to rule
out such a measure as the deployment of our troops into Afghanistan.
The army there is unreliable. Thus our army, when it arrives,
will be the aggressor. Against whom will it fight? Against the
Afghan people first of all, and it will have to shoot at them
. . . we must keep in mind that from a legal point of view too
we would not be justified in sending troops. According to the
UN Charter a country can appeal for assistance, and we could
send troops, in case it is subject to external aggression. Afghanistan
has not been subject to any aggression. This is its internal
affair . . . a battle of one group of the population against
another."
Kirilenko added, ". . . there is no basis whatsoever for
the deployment of troops."
The following day, March 19, Gromyko laid on the table, with
Brezhnev present, what the Soviets would lose by an invasion
of Afghanistan, "we would be throwing away everything we
achieved with such difficulty, particularly détente, the
SALT-II negotiations would fly by the wayside, there would be
no signing of an agreement (and however you look at it that is
for us the greatest political priority), there would be no meeting
between of Leonid Ilyich with Carter, and it would be very doubtful
that Giscard d'Estaing would come to visit us, and our relations
with Western countries, particularly the Federal Republic of
Germany, would be spoiled."
After Taraki was killed by his deputy, Hafizullah Amin, in October
1979, Brezhnev pushed for his doctrine that no socialist country
could revert to capitalism. The Soviet military prevailed and
a decision was made to launch an invasion of Afghanistan in December
1979. All the protestations of some of the leading members of
the Soviet old guard were swept aside. The Soviets faced a 10-year
costly battle in terms of lives and money and were eventually
forced to withdraw, leaving Afghanistan in the hands of radicals
who would one day launch and nurture the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
It is noteworthy what an October 2, 1980 formerly Secret Soviet
Communist Party report said about U.S. support for the mujaheddin.
"American instructors are taking an active part in the training
of the rebels on the territory of Pakistan. These instructors
have come mainly from the Washington-based "International
Police Academy" and the Texas-based school of subversion."
And in what would help lay the groundwork for the establishment
of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the Soviet leadership was warned,
"The American CIA has devised special recommendations 'for
the use of religious movements and groups in the struggle against
the spread of Communist influence.' In accordance with these
recommendations, agents from the American special services in
Pakistan are carrying out various work among the Pushtun and
Baluchi tribes . . ."
By 1986, it was clear to the new Soviet leader, Gorbachev, that
the occupation of Afghanistan was a disaster. In talking about
the Soviet client in Kabul, Babrak Karmal, Gorbachev stated in
a Top Secret Draft transcript, "B. Karmal is very much down
in terms of health and in terms of psychological disposition.
He began to pit leaders against each other." (Take note
of what Ahmad Chalabi is now doing in Iraq now that Bremer has
given a green light to restoring former Baathist leaders to power.
Chalabi is talking about conspiracies by Iraqi Sunnis and Lakhdar
Brahimi, the UN chief envoy. Chalabi refers to Brahimi being
in league with Arab nationalists and socialists because he is
an Algerian and a Sunni). In 1986, Babrak Karmal was replaced
by the Soviets by Mohammed Najibullah. Karmal fled to Moscow
where he remained in exile until his death in 1996 (take note
Mr. Chalabi). Eventually, after the Taliban government captured
Kabul, they grabbed Najibullah and tortured and hanged him. (An
event that Chalabi and Karzai should both take note of. In fact,
Karzai has announced his willingness to allow middle and low-ranking
Taliban members back into the government -- Baathists back in
power in Iraq and Taliban back in government in Afghanistan!
What the hell was the purpose of these wars anyway?).
From the Soviet archives we may see the future for the United
States. Like Brezhnev and the hard line Soviet military leaders,
Bush ignored his Secretary of State, geographical area experts,
and Republican "grey beards" and launched an invasion
of Iraq. Bush also failed to understand that no invader has ever
been able to make Afghanistan into a version of itself. Alexander
the Great failed (even though the Afghan city of Kandahar is
named for him in a phonetically corrupt fashion); the Russians
and their successors, the Soviets, failed; Britain failed; and
most assuredly, the United States will never be able to turn
Afghanistan into a democracy.
The Soviet Union believed it could transform Afghanistan into
a secular-oriented socialist state (not a bad goal when considering
the alternative: that Afghanistan instead became a radical Islamist
breeding ground for the people who would fly airliners into the
World Trade Center and Pentagon).
The Soviet defeat in Afghanistan eventually helped create the
climate for its ultimate collapse. We now read Top Secret transcripts
and cables from the Soviet archives. Most members of the old
Soviet Politburo, many of whom warned against the Afghan adventure,
are now dead. Nothing remains of the Soviet Union, which once
boasted the largest nuclear Navy in the world, a huge Army, a
huge space program, and a worldwide political ideology for which
it was the nominal head.
As the neo-conservatives lead the United States into deeper involvement
in Iraq and Afghanistan, possible future military forays into
Iran, Gaza, Syria, and North Korea, withdrawal of the United
States from the United Nations system, and a policy of ruthless
assassination of its enemies, how long will it take for future
historians to be scanning documents from the CIA, National Security
Council, and the Republican Party documenting the in-fighting
within the last American presidency a second term -- of
George W. Bush? The Soviet Union collapsed practically overnight.
The Roman Empire took a number of years to fall, but it was inevitable.
Nazi Germany's fate became known in a matter of a few years.
The United States will not last forever, but the Bush administration
may be speeding up the process for its ultimate fall. How long
will it be before U.S. twenty and fifty dollar bills are sold
as cheap souvenirs at street bazaars in the former United States
like Soviet ruble notes are sold today on the streets of Moscow?
The Soviet leaders were unable to stop their country's march
to war in Afghanistan. Recent revelations from Bush administration
officials show that several key players were unable to stop Bush
and Cheney's determined march to war in Iraq. One world superpower
went down in flames in 1990. Will the other last until 2010?
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist
and columnist. He served in the National Security Agency (NSA)
during the Reagan administration and wrote the introduction to
Forbidden
Truth. He is the co-author, with John Stanton, of "America's
Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II." His
forthcoming book is titled: "Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black
Ops, and Brass Plates."
Madsen can be reached at: WMadsen777@aol.com
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