Explaining A New American Traitor:
Dick Cheney
"Who do we bomb now? Why not Cambodia?"
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld asked Henry Kissinger January 1969
Answer: Blowback in the form of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and the deaths of two million Cambodians.
Question: Who stopped the Killing Fields of Cambodia?
Fact: Blowback is synonymous with consequence.
Fact: If you kill people in some secret operation there almost certainly will be unforeseen consequences.
Fact: Dick Cheney spent no time in any branch of the Armed services, Intelligence services, or any other government service ever requiring him to be in harm's way as a consequence of volunteering.
Fact: Huey Long once said, "Fascism will come to America in the name of antifascism."
Fact: The great actor and precise intellectual Raul Julia once said, "America's the greatest country. You can do anything you want here, but if you really start to make a difference they will kill you."
Fact: Dick Cheney learned about the world through some parochial dark lens of the paranoid, John Birch Society cold war chess games of the 1950s and the nuclear tête-à-têtes of the 1960s.
Fact: This background transformed Dick Cheney into a reactionary of the worst kind. Cheney believed that our nuclear armed nation needed to react to any threat with overwhelming force in a timeline of five minutes or less because the "Ruskies" are attacking us with the same stuff on the same timeline.
Fact: Reagan, Cheney and Rumsfeld did not end the Cold War and tear down the Berlin Wall.
Question: What Blowback is coming our way from Cheney and his gang of Know-Nothing republicans?
Later, when Democrats voted to support more war rather than take care of the needs of the people, I declared my independence from them and all national leadership.
The Green Party nominated me to run for President, which I did on a platform of truth, justice, peace, and dignity.
I watched as Candidate Barack Obama came here to Germany to speak. I saw tears on the faces of many in the crowd who believed that, finally, there was something worth believing in again.
That America had turned a page from its evil playbook that had so outraged and disappointed the world.
That good was finally about to triumph over evil.
I know that beleaguered people all over the world, victims of cruel and deadly military, economic, imperial policies finally could believe in hope and change.
And America could be believed in again.
Everywhere I went all over the world there were pictures of Barack Obama, slogans “Yes, We Can,” and the words “Hope” and “Change” plastered everywhere.
And after eight years of George W. Bush, Barack Obama seemed to be the man the world was waiting for.
So when the Candidate became the President, we held our breath in anticipation.
That torture and rendition; spying on innocent, dissenting Americans; war and occupation; crimes against the U.S. Constitution and crimes against the peace would end and that the United States would finally join the community of nations.
Sadly, one year into the Presidency of Barack Obama, that is not the case.
So what are we to do? Let us work together on behalf of truth, justice, peace, and dignity. I will struggle in the U.S. and I will struggle with you:
Not one more dime for war.
We can’t give in and we can’t give up. We must take our countries back."
Martinshushu,
Question: Who stopped the Killing Fields of Cambodia?
Answer: Most reviled by the above gang of Know-Nothing republicans, Ho Chi Minh sent the Vietnamese army into Cambodia to stop the murders.
Fact: Blowback is synonymous with consequence.
Fact: If you kill people in some secret operation there almost certainly will be unforeseen consequences.
Fact: Dick Cheney spent no time in any branch of the Armed services, Intelligence services, or any other government service ever requiring him to be in harm's way as a consequence of volunteering.
Fact: Huey Long once said, "Fascism will come to America in the name of antifascism."
Based on my own experience, fascism may come to America in the name of national security.
Fact: The great actor and precise intellectual Raul Julia once said, "America's the greatest country. You can do anything you want here, but if you really start to make a difference they will kill you."
They certainly killed Huey Long and John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy.
Fact: Dick Cheney learned about the world through some parochial dark lens of the paranoid, John Birch Society cold war chess games of the 1950s and the nuclear tête-à-têtes of the 1960s.
Fact: This background transformed Dick Cheney into a reactionary of the worst kind. Cheney believed that our nuclear armed nation needed to react to any threat with overwhelming force in a timeline of five minutes or less because the "Ruskies" are attacking us with the same stuff on the same timeline.
The Mutually Assured Destruction of strategic (read nuclear) weapons warfare.
Fact: Reagan, Cheney and Rumsfeld did not end the Cold War and tear down the Berlin Wall.
Fact: Mikhail Gorbachev ended the Cold War and tore down the Berlin Wall.
Fact: Read some of the Marxist theory that Gorbachev certainly studied in elementary school. To a good Marxist change is inevitable. To a USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev revolutionary change is your duty to your society.
Fact: To a good Know-Nothing republican change is something you get in the derivatives market.
Question: What Blowback is coming our way from Cheney and his gang of Know-Nothing republicans?
Answer: We citizens of a democratic USA need to find new ways of dealing with our adversaries across the planet.
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To that here are some excerpts from a speech by
US Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney
at a recent Munich, Germany Peace Rally.
Thanks to Victor Muh for the following translation from the original German language
"Thank you for allowing me to come from the United States and participate in this rally for peace.
My country has been hijacked by a criminal cabal intent on using the hard-earned dollars of the American people for war, occupation, and empire.
As a result, the national leadership of my country, both Democratic and Republican, became complicit in war crimes, torture, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the peace.
As a Member of Congress from the Democratic Party, I drafted Articles of Impeachment against George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice.
My country has been hijacked by a criminal cabal intent on using the hard-earned dollars of the American people for war, occupation, and empire.
As a result, the national leadership of my country, both Democratic and Republican, became complicit in war crimes, torture, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the peace.
As a Member of Congress from the Democratic Party, I drafted Articles of Impeachment against George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice.
Later, when Democrats voted to support more war rather than take care of the needs of the people, I declared my independence from them and all national leadership.
The Green Party nominated me to run for President, which I did on a platform of truth, justice, peace, and dignity.
I watched as Candidate Barack Obama came here to Germany to speak. I saw tears on the faces of many in the crowd who believed that, finally, there was something worth believing in again.
That America had turned a page from its evil playbook that had so outraged and disappointed the world.
That good was finally about to triumph over evil.
I know that beleaguered people all over the world, victims of cruel and deadly military, economic, imperial policies finally could believe in hope and change.
And America could be believed in again.
Everywhere I went all over the world there were pictures of Barack Obama, slogans “Yes, We Can,” and the words “Hope” and “Change” plastered everywhere.
And after eight years of George W. Bush, Barack Obama seemed to be the man the world was waiting for.
So when the Candidate became the President, we held our breath in anticipation.
That torture and rendition; spying on innocent, dissenting Americans; war and occupation; crimes against the U.S. Constitution and crimes against the peace would end and that the United States would finally join the community of nations.
Sadly, one year into the Presidency of Barack Obama, that is not the case.
. . .
So what are we to do? Let us work together on behalf of truth, justice, peace, and dignity. I will struggle in the U.S. and I will struggle with you:
Not one more dime for war.
We can’t give in and we can’t give up. We must take our countries back."
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A notable comment about the 1969 Cambodia Bombing
Martinshushu,
Henry Kissinger gave the order for this mission stating essentially:
"Use anything that flies to bomb anything that moves"
"Use anything that flies to bomb anything that moves"
Clearly, that is advocating genocide.
What if Slobodan Milosevic had said the same thing during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia?
Why was Kissinger not prosecuted for war-crimes?
Why was Kissinger not prosecuted for war-crimes?
Joey King
Member, National Board of Directors
Veterans for Peace
www.veteransforpeace.org
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Posted For Joey King:
Henry Kissinger gave the order for this mission stating essentially:
"Use anything that flies to bomb anything that moves"
Clearly, that is advocating genocide. What if Slobodan Milosevic had said the same thing during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia? Why was Kissinger not prosecuted for war-crimes?
Joey King
Member, National Board of Directors
Veterans for Peace
www.veteransforpeace.org
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