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Ron Paul pointed out on Jay Leno's show the other night (the Tonight
show, not the classic car show) that <br>
Amerikans elected GWBush because they were tired of the war in
Yugoslavia, and because W. had promised<br>
a humble foreign policy and no nation building. <br>
<br>
Bush was indeed sincere whether he actually meant it or not, and the
popularity of Clinton's war <br>
having reached a nadir, the ox of war was gored for awhile it seemed.<br>
<br>
Of course that Hopium wore off too.<br>
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On 9/7/2012 2:23 AM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
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Hillarious it is.<br>
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On 9/7/2012 12:06 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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Neither Clinton nor Obama seem to want to talk about how they kill
people for the profits of the American elite.
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<div>More than a dozen years ago, then-President Clinton attacked
Yugoslavia for that purpose - not to deter Serbian attacks against
Kosovo, as he said. (As the bombing campaign began, U.S.-NATO
Commanding General Wesley Clark informed the press that it was
“entirely predictable” that Serb terror would intensify as a result.)
The real purpose of the bombing campaign, months in the planning, was
to curb Serbia's economic independence. At the war’s end, the business
press described “the real winners” as Western military industry,
meaning high-tech industry generally.</div>
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<div>Here's Clinton's typically mendacious speech from March 1999
in
defense of his killing spree, most of the victims of which were
civilians. Since the historical events have receded from memory, I've
tried to make Clinton's argument clearer by substituting Japan for the
United Staes, New Mexico for Kosovo, etc. --CGE</div>
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<div>JAPAN BOMBS NEW MEXICO<br>
<br>
TOKYO, JAPAN: March 24, 1999 - The following is a translation of last
night's speech by the Prime Minister of Japan, explaining why the
Japanese air force bombed military bases and command-and-control
installations in the American Southwest: <br>
<br>
"My fellow citizens:<br>
<br>
Today our armed forces joined our allies in the Pacific Rim
Organization for National Treaty Observance in air strikes against
American forces responsible for the brutality in New Mexico. We have
acted with resolve for several reasons. We act to protect thousands of
innocent people in New Mexico from a mounting military offensive by
the 'border patrol.' We act to defuse a powder keg at the heart of
North America that has exploded twice before in the last century and a
half with catastrophic results, when the US invaded Mexico in 1846 and
1916. We act to stand united with our allies for peace. By acting now,
we are upholding our values, protecting our interests, and
advancing the cause of peace.<br>
<br>
Tonight I want to speak with you about the tragedy in New Mexico and
why it matters to Japan that we work with our allies <img
alt="New Mexico"
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width="219" height="219">to end it. First, let me explain what it is
we are responding to. New Mexico is a state of the United States, in
the middle of southwestern North America, about 1500 miles west of Cuba
-- that's less than the distance from Hokkaido to Okinawa -- and only
about 1000 miles north of Mexico City. Its people are mostly ethnic
Latino and mostly Catholic. In recent years America's leader, Bill
Clinton, the same leader who started the wars in Iraq and Colombia
and attacked Sudan and Afghanistan in the last decade, increased the
authority of the federal secret police, the "INS"; Mexicans are denied
their right to speak their language, run their schools, shape their
daily lives. For years, Latinos struggled peacefully to get their
rights back. When President Clinton sent his troops and police to crush
them, the struggle grew violent. The American leaders refuse even to
discuss key elements of the Japanese peace proposal.<br>
<br>
America has stationed Marines along the border in preparation for a
major offensive. We've seen innocent people taken from their homes,
forced to kneel in the dirt and sprayed with bullets; Mexican men
dragged from their families, fathers and sons together lined up and
shot in cold blood. This is not war in the traditional sense. It is
an attack by armored vehicles and high-tech weapons on a largely
defenseless people whose leaders speak only of peace.<br>
<br>
Ending this tragedy is a moral imperative. It is also important to
Japan's national interests. Take a look at the map. New Mexico is a
small place, but it sits on a major fault line between North America,
Latin America, and the Pacific, at the meeting place of Catholicism and
both the liberal and evangelical branches of Protestantism. To
the South are our allies, Peru (whose president is of Japanese descent)
and Venezuela (which produces oil); to the north our increasingly
important trading partner, Canada.<br>
<br>
And all around New Mexico there are other states struggling with their
own economic and political challenges, states that could be overwhelmed
by a large new wave of refugees from New Mexico -- California, Texas,
Arizona. All the ingredients for a major war are there: ancient
grievances, struggling democracies, and in the center of it all, a
president in America of highly questionable personal character who has
done nothing since the Cold War ended but start new wars and pour
gasoline on the flames of ethnic and religious division.<br>
<br>
In neighboring Guatemala President Clinton recently acknowledged that
American support for torture and murder cost 200,000 lives. Earlier,
World War II engulfed the Pacific. In both wars, the world was slow to
recognize the dangers, and Japan held back from entering these
conflicts. Just imagine if leaders back then had acted wisely and early
enough. How many lives could have been saved? How many Japanese would
not have had to die?<br>
<br>
We learned some of the same lessons in Nicaragua and El Salvador a
decade ago. The world did not act early enough to stop those wars,
either. And let's not forget what happened: innocent people herded into
concentration camps; children gunned down by snipers on their way to
school; soccer fields and parks turned into cemeteries; a quarter of a
million people killed not because of anything they had done but because
of who they were. Two million Central Americans became refugees. This
was genocide in the heart of the Americas, not in 1945 but in 1985, not
in some grainy newsreel from our parents' and grandparents' time, but
in our own time, testing our humanity and our resolve. At the time,
many people believed nothing could be done to end the bloodshed in
Central America: they said, 'Well, that's just the way those people in
the Americas are.' But when we and our allies in the UN joined with
courageous Central Americans to stand up to the aggressors, we helped
end the wars. We learned that in the Americas inaction in the face of
brutality simply invites more brutality, but firmness can stop armies
and save lives. We must apply that lesson in New Mexico, before
what happened in Central America happens there too.<br>
<br>
Today we and our PRONTO allies agreed to do what we must do to restore
the peace. Our mission is clear: to demonstrate the seriousness of
PRONTO's purpose so that the American leaders understand the imperative
of reversing course; to deter an even bloodier offensive against
innocent civilians in New Mexico; and if necessary, to seriously damage
the American military's capacity to harm the people of New Mexico. In
short, if President Clinton will not make peace, we will limit his
ability to make war.<br>
<br>
Now, I want to be clear with you, there are risks in this military
action -- risk to our pilots and the people on the ground. America's
air defenses are strong. It could decide to intensify its assault on
New Mexico or to seek to harm us or our allies elsewhere. If it does,
we will deliver a forceful response. Hopefully Mr. Clinton will realize
his present course is self-destructive and unsustainable.<br>
<br>
If he decides to accept our peace proposal and demilitarize New Mexico,
PRONTO has agreed to help to implement it with a peacekeeping force. If
PRONTO is invited to do so, our troops should take part in that mission
to keep the peace. But I do not intend to put our troops in New Mexico
to fight a war.<br>
<br>
Do our interests in New Mexico justify the dangers to our armed forces?
I thought long and hard about that question. I am convinced that the
dangers of acting are far outweighed by the dangers of not acting --
dangers to defenseless people and to our national interests. If we and
our allies were to allow this war to continue with no response,
President Clinton would read our hesitation as a license to kill. There
would be many more massacres -- tens of thousands more refugees, more
victims crying out for revenge. Right now our firmness is the only hope
the people of New Mexico have to be able to live in their own country
without having to fear for their own lives.<br>
<br>
Imagine what would happen if we and our allies decided just to look the
other way as these people were massacred on PRONTO's doorstep. That
would discredit PRONTO, the cornerstone on which our Pacific security
rests.<br>
<br>
We must also remember that this is a conflict with no natural national
boundaries. Let me ask you to look again at a map. The arrows show the
movement of refugees -- north, east, and west. Already this movement is
threatening the unstable democracy in Texas, which has its own Mexican
minority and an Indian minority. Already American forces have made
forays into Mexico, from which New Mexicans have drawn support. Mexico
has a Mayan minority. Let a fire burn here in this area, and the flames
will spread. Eventually key Japanese allies could be drawn into a wider
conflict, which we would be forced to confront later only at far
greater risk and greater cost.<br>
<br>
I have a responsibility as Prime Minister to deal with problems such as
this before they do permanent harm to out national interests. Japan has
a responsibility to stand with our allies when they are trying to save
innocent lives and preserve peace, freedom, and stability in North
America. That is what we are doing in New Mexico.<br>
<br>
If we have learned anything form the century drawing to a close, it is
that if Japan is going to be prosperous and secure we need a North
America that is prosperous, secure, united, and free. We need a North
America that is coming together, not falling apart, a North America
that shares our values and shares the burdens of leadership. That is
the foundation on which the security or our children will depend. That
is why I have supported NAFTA and the economic unification of North
America. Now, what are the challenges to that vision of a peaceful,
secure, united, stable North America? The challenge of strengthening a
three-way partnership with the EU, that despite our disagreements is a
constructive partner in the work of building peace. The challenge of
resolving the tension between Latin and indigenous peoples, and
building bridges with the Christian world. And finally the challenge of
ending instability in the United States so that these bitter ethnic
problems are resolved by the force of argument, not the force of arms,
so that future generations of Japanese do not have to cross the Pacific
to fight another terrible war. It is this challenge that we and our
allies are facing in New Mexico. That is why we have acted now, because
we care about saving innocent lives, because we have an interest in
avoiding an even crueler and costlier war, and because our children
need and deserve a peaceful, stable, free North America.<br>
<br>
Our thoughts and prayers tonight must be with the men and women of our
armed forces who are undertaking this mission for the sake of our
values and our children's future. May God bless them, and may God bless
Japan."</div>
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