Turning up the heat...   Organizing for Social Change and Civic Engagement

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So the game plan is to replace the "Axis of Evil" (Iran, Iraq, and North Korea) With government imposed on those nations and Syria....by a "Troika of Terror" (United States, Britain, and Israel)

This is beginning to sound more and more like a retro-colonial corporate sponsored fundamentalist crusade...   And a recipe for disaster.

Iraq, before we invaded, was functioning in spite of ten years of sanctions, had not invaded her neighbors in ten years, and posed no threat to the United States. Iran was marginalized
due to her over-the-top leader, and did not have the capacity to produce nuclear weapons, due to engagement by the west, and oversight by inspectors. North Korea was already a nuclear power
who we needed to engage in serious discussions.

Now, after six years of efforts by the Troika, Iraq is in chaos...
a breeding ground for terror and a failed state. Iran has become more powerful, due to our feckless invasion of Iraq. And North Korea is stronger, has more weapons, and eludes our damaged intelligence apparatus. And the middle classes in Iraq, Iran, and Korea, have fled from the onslaught of shock, awe, and fear-mongering... leaving those nations further at risk, and more vulnerable.

If Bush ignores the American people, his advisors, and the Pentagon, and Blair ignores the British public, his advisors, and his intelligence services, and Olmert ignores majority voices of moderation in Israel, we will then be plunged into the devastation of what could become World War Three.

What can prevent such surrender? In the USA, our no longer silent majority will have to bypass the corporate press and take it to the streets to wake up the halls of congress and remind the justice system of their constitutional obligations.  In Britain, Israel, and across Europe and the rest of the globe, grassroots organizers will help people take control of their nations so we can end this mindless corporate push for an unwinnable war.

The most potent enemy we face is not the straw man of Islamic fundamentalists. Nor do any nations pose serious military threats to our country. The enemy we face is corporate seizures of government, which have undermined democracy and threaten to globally disinherit hard-working, good-hearted citizens.

We can allow Bush to surge more troops into a Vietnamization of Iraq, and learn to live with surging body counts and deficits....  or we can demand that our leaders move to stop the madness.

"Duty, honor, and country" do not mean you turn a blind eye to the corruption and depravity of an unwinnable war with no defined goals. Waiting until you retire to speak the truth is an abdication of responsibility unbecoming an officer, a gentleman, or any honest man of good faith.

We cannot continue to watch the spiraling disaster of Iraq's unraveling, deeper divisions in an uncontainable civil war, and rampant lawlessness in the chaos which is now Iraq.

Responsible military officers will not wait until retirement to be truthful with our civilian leadership and the American people. The day of reckoning will not wait until Mr. Bush wakes up. There is a glaring truth beyond the horizon.

Seven hours of electricity per day in Baghdad is not "success." Rudderless responses to events is not leadership. We must stand up to these pretenders before they take us down a path of no return.

This is not about winning or victory. This is about accountabity, democracy, and the rule of law. We
can re-bid the no-bid, cost-plus contracts which are an affront to the American people. We can engage the Iraqi people and their neighbors in rebuilding their own nation, by ending the overreaching corporate ambitions of "privatizing their oil" and selling off their natural resources to the best-connected corporate cartel. The elephant of corporate hegemony is trampling freedom, democracy,
self-determination, peace, and security. Not just in Iraq and America, but around the globe.

Studied ignorance is no solution.  Civic-engagement is the only answer.

We voted, and now it is time to turn up the heat.

best regards, Tim
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