NO BUT'S, NO WHAT IF'S ~ IT'S TIME TO GO !

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May 8, 2007 at 17:33:16

NO BUT'S, NO WHAT IF'S ~ IT'S TIME TO GO !

by Allen L Roland Page 1 of 2 page(s)

http://www.robkall.com

There comes a time when the answer becomes so obvious that it is impossible to ignore. No more denial, no more wishful thinking, no more patriotic blather, no more but's and no more what if's regarding our illegal occupation of Iraq ~ quite simply, it's time to go ! Allen L Roland

Bush will not take his hand out of the Iraq Monkey trap ~ holding onto the black gold inside with his greedy clinched fist and ignoring that his party is disintegrating, the country and the world have turned against him and his own soldiers are now openly saying that his war is lost ~ http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=21844

Make no mistake about it ~ when Bush signed Executive order # 13303 in May of 2003 it was truly Mission Accomplished by Cheney & Co ~ for it declares that Iraqi oil is the unassailable province of U.S. oil companies. Read THE SMOKING GUN / EXECUTIVE ORDER # 13303

What was the only ministry we protected when we invaded Iraq ? The oil ministry .

What was the first priority to protect when we invaded Iraq ? The oil wells.

Why was their virtually no post war plan after we occupied Iraq ? Because the primary objective was the oil .

There is a device in India known as south Indian monkey trap. It is a coconut shell, tethered to a pole and with a hole in the centre. A small fruit or nut is put in it. A Monkey will put its hand through the hole, grab hold of the fruit or nut. The hole is small enough that the monkey cannot take its hand out with the closed fist. The monkey is trapped, simply because it is not smart enough to release the nut so that it can escape, usually from certain death. Letting go of the fruit can save their life ~ and they usually don't..

Since Bush won't voluntarily remove his hand from the Iraq Monkey trap ~ it's time to sever it by de-authorizing the war immediately and Congress has the authority to do just that ~ as Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico continues to demand ~ " Congress should de-authorize the war today and demand that the President begin redeploying our troops.There would be no need to negotiate the withdrawal with the President, and he could not veto the resolution."

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/05/08.html

De-Authorize the War Now, No Residual Troops

By Gov. Bill Richardson http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17658.htm

05/05/07 "HP" --- I first called for de-authorization of the war in Iraq in January, and I have repeated that call all around the country -- because I believe immediate de-authorization and removing all of our troops from Iraq this year is the only way to end Bush's war.

Congress should de-authorize the war today and demand that the President begin redeploying our troops.

There would be no need to negotiate the withdrawal with the President, and he could not veto the resolution.

The time has has come for Congress to stand up to this President who refuses to recognize that his war is bleeding our military and weakening our country. He believes mere stubbornness is a foreign policy and that he can just ignore the will of the American people. In the interest of our national security, he must be stopped.

Congress has the ability to end this war under the War Powers Act -- let's not wait or waver while more people die. And de-authorizing the war should mean removing all our troops. Every last one.

This is essential, because our presence in Iraq worsens the violence and enables our enemies to portray us as imperialist occupiers. If we announce that we are getting out completely, we undercut this propaganda. We need to get all our troops out of the crossfire of this civil war.

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Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on Conscious talk radio www.conscioustalk.net

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4 comments

Jai Daemion

Pulling out can be an act of lover, too...

Allen - I hope this message 'gets out.' When I read it, I thought of your several posts on love as the experiential center of humankind, consciousness, etc. Thinking of withdrawing troops as an act of conserving love and drawing pain and suffering away from the people of Iraq. Thinking of bringing our children and older soldiers home for healing from their ordeals of violence. I wish there was more profit in compassion, so our country could (once again) afford to have some. Thank you for demanding change! - jai

by Jaed (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 comments) on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 3:27:27 PM

Teilhard

REPLY TO JAED

And thank you, Jaed ~ for seeing the obvious.

Allen L Roland

by teilhard (459 articles, 0 quicklinks, 84 comments) on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 4:02:01 PM

carl

Insanity

Our citizens say get out of Iraq. Iraq citizens say get out now. Iraq government want us out. Majority of US Congress want out. Government appointed panel say leave now. Bush administration answer: If Iraq doesn't live up to certain goals/benchmarks, etc we are going to leave at some open-ended date in the future. This doesn't even make enough rational sense to have an intelligent conversation. This never was a "war". It was an imperialistic invasion leading to massacre and occupation by a dictatorship. The dictator appointed a puppet government just as in Afghanistan and many other places and is building permanent military bases to further the imperialism. This dictator (terrorist) is currently holding over 150,000 US troups hostage in Iraq. How long will the people of Iraq and the United States continue to negotiate with this terrorist?

by aloha (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 96 comments) on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 5:36:32 PM

Teilhard

REPLY TO ALOHA

It was an imperialistic invasion leading to massacre and occupation by a dictatorship. The dictator appointed a puppet government just as in Afghanistan and many other places and is building permanent military bases to further the imperialism.

Right on, Aloha ~ this is a Cheney/Bush war and occupation and the ultimate dictator Dick ' Last Throes ' Cheney just visited his puppet Government today to maintain the charade of legitimacy ~ it's time to pull the plug on this travesty !

Allen L Roland

by teilhard (459 articles, 0 quicklinks, 84 comments) on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 8:33:18 PM

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