Category: World News & Politics

Now what the hell is that?!

“I Want to Be the Peace President”…
“Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president… The next four years will be peaceful years.” — George W. Bush

Yeah right!
After waging two wars and obviously starting to get things ready for the next ones, this is a really stupid thing to say.
I’d laugh if I weren’t so disgusted.

Peace President my ass!

[Via Je Blog]

So George W. Bush has promised that if re-elected in November he will make regime change in Iran his new target.

And he says that his administration is investigating possible links between Iran and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, although CIA Director John McLaughlin said there was no connection and that Iran did not support the attacks.

So here they go again, trying to build false links between a country and Al Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks, even though their intelligence people tell them there are none, all in an attempt to set the stage for a possible new war.

Soon, we’ll start hearing that whole thing about the so-called Irani nuclear program and it’s weapons of mass destruction again.

Meanwhile, Israel’s ‘first strike’ plan against Iran is ready.
Israel has completed military rehearsals for a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nuclear power facility at Bushehr, Israeli officials said.

They noted that the strike could also be accompanied by an attack on other targets, including a facility at Natanz and a plant at Arak.

Of course such an attack would start a war (or would be part of an already ongoing one) and Israel wouldn’t dare do it alone, so guess who’ll be doing the dirty work for them. The US of course.

More war, more blood, more chaos and more death.
It’s unbelievable what this world has come to.

George W. Bush has promised that if re-elected in November he will make regime change in Iran his new target.

A US government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that military action would not be overt in changing Iran, but rather that the US would work to stir revolts in the country and hope to topple the current conservative religious leadership.

The official said: “If George Bush is re-elected there will be much more intervention in the internal affairs of Iran.”

So, they’re still in the middle of all the mess they created in Iraq, but they’re still thirsty for more war, more blood, more chaos and more death. And they’ve already got their sights set on Iran.

As long as presidents like this rule the U.S. and the hawks remain to control the government, the US will continue to wage war after war and the world will never live in peace.

Americans’ first and only concern for the time being should be regime change in the US itself. They have a lot cleaning up to do in their government, and the upcoming elections are a good chance to kickstart this effort.

[Via Je Blog]

“I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn

Could someone please remind me in what ways this new government is better than Saddam’s?
I can’t quite find the difference.

[Source: SMH]

Yesterday the International Court of Justice (I.C.J.) at the Hague published its Advisory Opinion on Israel’s West Bank Wall. The court ruled in favor of the Palestinians, condemning those parts of the barrier that effectively annex Palestinian land, and calling for its dismantling in the Occupied Territories.

The opinion also found that Israel was obligated to return confiscated land or make reparations for any destruction or damage to homes, businesses and farms caused by the barrier’s construction.

The ruling was the second against the barrier in the past two weeks. Israel’s high court ruled June 30 that a section of the barrier under construction must be rerouted to avoid infringing on the lives of 35,000 Palestinians.

Of course Israel is refusing this ruling and saying that it’s non-binding and that they don’t have to comply with it even though it indicates that Israel is in violation of international law and of international legitimacy.

Israel is claiming that the wall was built to bring them security and that since the barrier was built less and less attacks were happening against their people.
But wait, shouldn’t a wall built for Israel’s security actually have been built between Israeli and Palestinian land, not between Palestinians and their fields, schools, jobs, medical service, and family members?!

There is talk that sanctions could be seeked against Israel to force it to comply with this ruling. But obviously, the US would veto that without thinking.

Anyway, even though this ruling won’t really mean that the wall will be brought down, it still is an important step for the Palestinians. It will help put pressure on the people who defened Israel no matter what it does and it will give Palestinians more international support, something they really need.
It also comes an important expression of solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are suffering the effects of the illegal barrier, and with the thousands of Palestinians and Israelis who have been peacefully protesting against it over the past months.

Seventeen months after the Anglo-American invasion in which President George Bush promised to bring democracy to Iraq, the country’s American-approved Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, yesterday introduced legislation allowing the Iraqi authorities to impose martial law, curfews, a ban on demonstrations, the restriction of movement, phone-tapping, the opening of mail and the freezing of bank accounts.

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Iraq therefore entered into another fatal chapter of its history yesterday, and it didn’t look much like democracy.

Robert Fisk

[Via Je Blog]

If the goal were security, Israel would have built the fence a few km inside its borders. It could then be a mile high, patrolled on both sides by the IDF, mined with nuclear weapons, utterly impenetrable. Perfect security.

The problem would be that it would not take valuable Palestinian land and resources (including control of water), drive out the population, and lay the basis for still further expansion as Palestinians flee from the dungeons that are left, like the town of Qalqilya. So to interpret as a land grab seems appropriate.

Noam Chomsky

So, after keeping the media buzzing and speculating for months about who he will select as a VP candidate and keeping his whole selection process top secret, it’s finally out that Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, has chosen his colleague Sen. John Edwards as his running mate for the 2004 presidential election.

Even though I don’t really believe that the choice of Vice President really affects the voting that much, I think it’s different this time.
The choice of Edwards is a really good and smart one.

I think that Edwards fills in the gaps and weaknesses that Kerry has. He’s more social, closer to the people, has a better sense of humour, spreads more enthusiasm and activity.
He somehow reminds me of Bill Clinton a bit.

And so, I think that while campaigning he’ll fill up the void in Kerry and make a stronger connection with the people and help get Kerry more votes to kick Bush out.