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Guest · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 12:27 am Post subject:

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DEC. 23, 2002 (COL. 1)

ANTI-WAR NOT THE SAME AS ANTI-DEFENSE

BY CHARLEY REESE

People should make a distinction between someone being anti-war and being anti-defense. The best way, as George Washington said, to preserve the peace is to be prepared for war. The

worst thing politicians can do is to squander the nation's resources in unnecessary wars.

Look at Vietnam. We know in retrospect that it doesn't make one iota's difference to us

that Vietnam is communist. American politicians and businessmen have flocked to do business

with the communists. Yet politicians wasted 57,000 American lives presumably to prevent

Vietnam from going communist. Another 40,000 were wasted in Korea, as if the politics of the

Korea peninsula mattered to us one way or another. I hasten to add, of course, that in both

instances it matters a great deal to the Vietnamese and the Korean people.

But that's the point. They are Vietnamese and Koreans, not Americans. Who governs their

countries is up to them, not to us. God did not put us on this earth to run around the globe

deciding which government is appropriate for which country. We are responsible for only one

government and one country … ours. We are not doing a very good job at taking care of it,

either. Our borders are being overrun, our natural resources are being exploited, and our

government is inefficient and corrupt.

There is no need for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was designed to defend

Europe against an invasion by the Soviet Union. There is no Soviet Union. There is no reason

whatsoever for 91,000 American soldiers to be permanently stationed in Germany. There are no

military threats to Germany, or to any other European country. There are more people in the

European Union than there are in the United States. I imagine that they would field whatever

military forces they felt were necessary if we quit being such a sucker as to ``protect''

people who don't need any protection.

There is no reason to keep 36,000 Americans in South Korea or thousands more on the

Japanese island of Okinawa. We have no legitimate interest in the Far East except for trade,

and military forces are not required for trade. The only country in the Far East that is

supposedly an enemy is China, and we're trading with China like mad. Japan is the

second-largest economy in the world and can certainly defend itself. It has a warlike

tradition 3,000 years old, whereas ours is barely 400 years old. Japan already spends more on

its ``self-defense'' forces than Great Britain and France combined.

It might be of interest to know that at the end of World War I, Great Britain's military

planners figured the next war Great Britain would have to fight would be against the United

States. They saw Germany as having been taken out of the picture, and they saw us as the only

threat to Great Britain's dominance. That historical tidbit is a reminder of the wisdom of

another thing George Washington said: There is no such thing as friendship between nations. No

nation can be trusted beyond its perceived self-interest.

The fact that American politicians today routinely refer to this country or that one as

``friend'' is just more evidence of our intellectual decline. We are powerful today because in

the past we've been lucky as hell, and because in the past we had leaders with brains and

backbones. We are spending the seed corn of the past, and the American people need to wake up

and find something more substantial to rely on than dumb leaders and dumb luck.

If I sound grumpy, it's because I am. If I wanted my grandchildren to live in a Third World

country, I would move them to one. I have no desire whatsoever to stand silent while cheap

politicians reduce this, the greatest country in the world, to just another Third World

has-been.

(Write to Charley Reese at P.O. Box 2446, Orlando, FL 32802)

Guest · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 1:41 am Post subject:

Right, Charley. And there is no need for a US military either. After all, we are protected by 2 big oceans, aren't we?

Guest · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 2:36 am Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 6:26 am Post subject: Sharon's war?

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/printrn20021226.shtml

Robert Novak

December 26, 2002

Sharon's war?

WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, having just returned from a week-long fact-finding trip to the Middle East, addressed the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations Dec. 16 and said out loud what is whispered on Capitol Hill: "The road to Arab-Israeli peace will not likely go through Baghdad, as some may claim." The "some" are led by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. In private conversation with Hagel and many other members of Congress, the former general leaves no doubt that the greatest U.S. assistance to Israel would be to overthrow Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. That view is widely shared inside the Bush administration, and is a major reason why U.S. forces today are assembling for war. "Military force alone," Hagel told his Chicago audience, "will neither assure a democratic transition in Iraq, bring peace to Israelis and Palestinians, nor assure stability in the Middle East." Indeed, the senator returned from the Mideast more concerned than his prepared speech indicates. As the U.S. gets ready for war, its standing in Islam -- even among longtime allies -- stands low. Yet, the Bush administration has tied itself firmly to Gen. Sharon and his policies. Gen. Amran Mitzna, the new Labor Party leader challenging the heavily favored Sharon in the Jan. 28 election, is denied access to senior U.S. officials. In private conversation, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has insisted that Hezbollah -- not al Qaeda -- is the world's most dangerous terrorist organization. How could that be, considering al Qaeda's global record of mass carnage? In truth, Hezbollah is the world's most dangerous terrorist organization from Israel's standpoint. While viciously anti-American in rhetoric, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah is focused on the destruction of Israel. "Outside this fight (against Israel), we have done nothing," Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the organization's secretary general, said in a recent New York Times interview. Thus, Rice's comments suggest that the U.S. war against terrorism, accused of being Iraq-centric, actually is Israel-centric. That ties George W. Bush to Arik Sharon. The prime minister says astonishing things to U.S. visitors. He once rejected hope for negotiations, contending that Arabs and Jews will kill each other for a hundred years. More recently, he promised to put a Jewish settlement on top of any high ground. What is widely perceived as an indissoluble Bush-Sharon bond creates tension throughout Islam -- including Turkey, long a faithful U.S. ally and even longer a secularized state. A poll of Turks by Pew Global Attitudes released Dec. 4 shows 83 percent opposition to permission for U.S. use of bases in their country. Furthermore, a 53 percent Turkish majority asserted that the U.S. wants to oust Saddam Hussein as part of an anti-Muslim crusade rather than because he is a threat to peace. Turkish cooperation in the war must be approved by Turkey's newly elected parliament, consisting of about 90 percent new members with an Islamic party in a heavy majority. The parliament's mood did not improve when the European Union on Dec. 12 rebuffed both the Turkish and the U.S. governments by rejecting Turkey's application for membership. Abdullah Gul, the new prime minister, accused European leaders of "discrimination" and "prejudice" -- reflecting Islam's current view of the West. That is the background for an attack on Iraq by a coalition of English-speaking countries. "We should refrain from a rush to declare a 'material breach' because of the gaps in Iraq's 12,000-page document," Hagel advised in Chicago, calling on the U.S. to "marshal our own evidence." Nevertheless, Hagel's close associate, Secretary of State Colin Powell, declared a material breach three days after the senator's advice. Powell's uncharacteristic bellicosity may have been necessary for him to stay in the complicated game played within the Bush administration. Without Powell, President Bush may not have gone to Congress and the United Nations or delivered his masterful speech to the U.N. General Assembly. Day to day, only the secretary of state stands up to the forceful Vice President Dick Cheney. On balance, war with Iraq may not be inevitable but is highly probable. That it looks like Sharon's war disturbs Americans such as Chuck Hagel, who have no use for Saddam Hussein but worry about the background of an attack against him.

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Billions to Israel with US going Bankrupt:

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Guest · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 11:26 am Post subject: Mega Afghan pipeline deal signed

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jack Garcia · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 5:16 pm Post subject: Who Owns The Oil?

The oil is owned by the Rothchilds. They, and a small handful other bankers, are the controlling interest. London England is the international banking capitol of the world, with financial, occultic/Masonic connections to New York city, Washington D.C., and the Middle East. The Washington monument is a Masonic/occultic, Middle eastern symbol of man's creative(God-like), power.

The end of all of this worldwide international geopolitical grab for the planet Earth's resources is going to be a one world government which lasts for three and a half years, and ends in a nuclear holocaust.

Try to stay out of the cities; they will be the first to go.

# holocaust: an offering to God, the whole of which is burned; burnt offering

*Mutt American · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 7:16 pm Post subject:

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