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John Kerry must (again) make love, not war
September 20, 2004
By Harvey Wasserman
Senior Analyst for Greenpeace USA
This presidential campaign is stuck in the sixties and seventies, right where it belongs.
That's when the preppy draft dodger George W. Bush thought the Beatles were "weird," possibly because, as Kitty Kelly says, he heard them too often on cocaine. He was also the quintessential Chickenhawk, content to see others die in a war he backed but ducked.
That was Vietnam. Now---Oops, he did it again---it's Iraq.
Nixon and Henry Kissinger knew full well in 1972 that the Vietnam war was unwinnable. They looked into calling off the election, broke into Democratic Party headquarters, dirty tricked George McGovern, then drunk drove the nation right into a jungle quagmire.
In the age of oil and global warming, that fever swamp has become desert quicksand. But the catastrophe's the same, except now we're also burdened with the last one.
Bush seems morally and mentally incapable of doing anything but plunging deeper, not only into Iraq but into fiscal, ecological, moral and spiritual psychosis.
Bush's Foxist media calls this "resolute leadership." But Iraq is exactly as unwinnable as Vietnam.
There's only one possible outcome---the Americans will leave. Off the rooftop of an embassy. In unphotographed body bags. With terror bombs exploding. With pipelines in flames. With the economy in tatters. With fundamentalists in charge in both Baghdad and Washington.
The only question in Iraq---like Vietnam---is how many people will die and how many billions squandered before the defeat can no longer be air brushed or blamed on peace activists.
John Kerry could have avoided Vietnam. But he went, earned his medals, then came home and became a true hero. The incredibly brave, painful work of those Vietnam Vets Against the War ranks amongst the greatest American acts of patriotic valor and service.
Today the realest human drama in this sorry presidential campaign is a nation---and world---desperate to see John Kerry's inner anti-warrior fight again.
Kerry's Senate vote authorizing Bush to attack Iraq was a terrible mistake. When will he finally fling it over the White House fence?
The Democrats' criticisms have sharpened as this psychotic war's illegality, arrogance and unwinnability have become as overwhelmingly obvious as Vietnam after Tet.
So has the fact that George W. Bush is the worst president this nation has ever seen, from civil rights and liberties to the ecology, economy, military, security, global relations, global warming...you name it. The laws of nature and karma may ultimately bring him down, as they did Richard Nixon. But who will give the definitive push?
John Kerry became a hero correctly renouncing a war that poisoned America's soul and drove this nation to the brink of ruin.
Iraq is about to finish the job. And once again, John Kerry has a line he must cross.
Time is running out. And the whole world is watching.
September 20, 2004
By Harvey Wasserman
Senior Analyst for Greenpeace USA
This presidential campaign is stuck in the sixties and seventies, right where it belongs.
That's when the preppy draft dodger George W. Bush thought the Beatles were "weird," possibly because, as Kitty Kelly says, he heard them too often on cocaine. He was also the quintessential Chickenhawk, content to see others die in a war he backed but ducked.
That was Vietnam. Now---Oops, he did it again---it's Iraq.
Nixon and Henry Kissinger knew full well in 1972 that the Vietnam war was unwinnable. They looked into calling off the election, broke into Democratic Party headquarters, dirty tricked George McGovern, then drunk drove the nation right into a jungle quagmire.
In the age of oil and global warming, that fever swamp has become desert quicksand. But the catastrophe's the same, except now we're also burdened with the last one.
Bush seems morally and mentally incapable of doing anything but plunging deeper, not only into Iraq but into fiscal, ecological, moral and spiritual psychosis.
Bush's Foxist media calls this "resolute leadership." But Iraq is exactly as unwinnable as Vietnam.
There's only one possible outcome---the Americans will leave. Off the rooftop of an embassy. In unphotographed body bags. With terror bombs exploding. With pipelines in flames. With the economy in tatters. With fundamentalists in charge in both Baghdad and Washington.
The only question in Iraq---like Vietnam---is how many people will die and how many billions squandered before the defeat can no longer be air brushed or blamed on peace activists.
John Kerry could have avoided Vietnam. But he went, earned his medals, then came home and became a true hero. The incredibly brave, painful work of those Vietnam Vets Against the War ranks amongst the greatest American acts of patriotic valor and service.
Today the realest human drama in this sorry presidential campaign is a nation---and world---desperate to see John Kerry's inner anti-warrior fight again.
Kerry's Senate vote authorizing Bush to attack Iraq was a terrible mistake. When will he finally fling it over the White House fence?
The Democrats' criticisms have sharpened as this psychotic war's illegality, arrogance and unwinnability have become as overwhelmingly obvious as Vietnam after Tet.
So has the fact that George W. Bush is the worst president this nation has ever seen, from civil rights and liberties to the ecology, economy, military, security, global relations, global warming...you name it. The laws of nature and karma may ultimately bring him down, as they did Richard Nixon. But who will give the definitive push?
John Kerry became a hero correctly renouncing a war that poisoned America's soul and drove this nation to the brink of ruin.
Iraq is about to finish the job. And once again, John Kerry has a line he must cross.
Time is running out. And the whole world is watching.
Make love, not war . . . .
Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell
Guests: Richard Hoagland and Harvey Wasserman
Thursday, May 30, 2003
Harvey Wasserman is author of The Last Energy War: The Battle over Utility Deregulation (Seven Stories Press) is senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and the Nuclear Information & Resource Service. He has been active on energy issues since 1973 and is known as one of the world's leading advocates for renewable power.
coasttocoastam.com
Art Bell interviewed Harvey Wasserman on Coast to Coast AM
last year.
Make love, not war . . . .
. . . . and John Kerry is my hero
for what he did.
Gotta run, LOL!
cherry
for what he did.
Gotta run, LOL!
cherry
Make love, not war . . . .
Lt. Colonel John Kerry may very well have saved my father's life -- a MAC Captain who flew cargo in and out of Saigon during the Vietnam War.
He is my Hero.
He is my Hero.
Make love, not war . . . .
How does the majority hold the government accountable to the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights? The purpose of government is to secure our individual rights.
The President sends an Iraq resolution on Oct. 2, 2002 to Congress. This resolution drafted by the White House was debated in Congress. The War Powers clause was overtaken by the President of the United States. Here is an example of Congress deciding to change the U. S. Constitution.
People who ought to know better let it happen. We are getting ourselves into trouble, moving our country away from the Rule of the Constitution.
It says what it means and means what it says -- We the People.
The U.S. Constitution is all that stands between us and tyranny.
What does a free society do when government is not accountable?
The key to our future is your decision.
cherry
The President sends an Iraq resolution on Oct. 2, 2002 to Congress. This resolution drafted by the White House was debated in Congress. The War Powers clause was overtaken by the President of the United States. Here is an example of Congress deciding to change the U. S. Constitution.
People who ought to know better let it happen. We are getting ourselves into trouble, moving our country away from the Rule of the Constitution.
It says what it means and means what it says -- We the People.
The U.S. Constitution is all that stands between us and tyranny.
What does a free society do when government is not accountable?
The key to our future is your decision.
cherry
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Nixon and Henry Kissinger knew full well in 1972 that the Vietnam war was unwinnable. They looked into calling off the election, broke into Democratic Party headquarters, dirty tricked George McGovern, then drunk drove the nation right into a jungle quagmire.
Can you explain what you are saying here? I'm not sure get what your saying.
Can you explain what you are saying here? I'm not sure get what your saying.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been The champion of the world.
Make love, not war . . . .
Originally posted by BenSlain
Can you explain what you are saying here? I'm not sure get what your saying.
What does Harvey's analysis mean to you, Ben?
Make love, not war . . . .
It's well established that prior to the 1972 election, President Richard Nixon & Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were fully briefed on the fact that the Vietnam war was unwinnable and that the National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese Army would eventually overrun the south. But they concealed this from the American public in order to defeat George McGovern in the 1972 election.
During that campaign Nixon ordered the failed break-in at the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington. With Karl Rove and Dick Cheney as young trainees, Nixon's dirty tricksters sabotaged the McGovern campaign at every turn.
Upon reelection they proceeded to pummel Vietnam with unprecedented quantities of bombs and poisons for three more years, until Nixon was finally thrown out of office.
Harvey Wasserman
freepress.org