the 10th year anniversary of the iraq war

7/30/2019 The 10th Year Anniversary of the Iraq War

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The 10th Year Anniversary of the Iraq War

It has been almost 10 years after the beginning of the Iraq War from March of 2003. Time is going fastsince I remember 2003 like it was yesterday. I was in college as a Sophomore when theIraq War came about. I was 100 percent opposed to the Iraq War in June of 2003. OnFebruary 15-16, 2003, that time was the largest antiwar protests in human history. Morethan 10 million human beings marched in over 600 cities, with demonstrations including3 million people in Rome. That was the single largest antiwar rally in history. One-and-a-half million people attended a rally in Madrid, and 1 million took to the streets of London. In theUnited States, at least 225 separate demonstrations took place, with 400,000 marching in NewYork City. The vast majority of the American public agreed with the execution of the

Western Iraqi War (in the beginning. Later, most Americans opposed the Iraq War). Back inthose days, we still were in the vibe of experiencing the aftermath of 9/11 more psychologically thantoday. The mainstream media was mostly attuned with desiring the war to take place. There was a strongdebate in America about the Iraq War. Society back then was much more conservative in America thantoday obviously. Back in those days, it was still taboo to do some of the things that we witness in our timeof 2013. Fashion was much different and cell phones were much larger back in 2003. There were no I-Phones or other such technologies. I-Pods were just invented. I was changing too and during thebeginning of the Iraq War, I was 19 years old. My political consciousness grew into another level. Iunderstand more about history, politics, culture, economics, and things of that nature in a higher level. Mymind expanded. What do I think of the Barack Obama administration? My views are clear. The currentWhite House is neither God nor Satan. It is a fallible institution who is right on some issues and deadwrong on other issues (from civil liberties to war mongering imperialism). We need the Audacity of Hopenot the Audacity of Empire. The war in Iraq is personal with me, because I know one human being (who

was a nice, down to Earth, pleasant, and real person) I knew from high school who were involved in thatconflict. One of my older brothers was in the Iraq War. My brother was an Army soldier in the conflict ofthe Iraq War. He was there for many months.

Before coming into Iraq, he was stationed in various military bases like Fort Lee and Fort Hood. Helearned hand to hand combat, shooting, sleeping outside in the elements, and other activities. To furtherin the Army, you have to run a mile consistently and he did that. He called me to tell about the stories thathe dealt with as a member of the military. There were commander officers there and if youre in themilitary with the rank above an E-4, then you had a lot of power politically. His job was to transport


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supplies from base to base. He told me a lot stories about the Iraqi people, restaurants, and so forth. Hetalked about the climate being very warm, even during the Winter. He never told me whether he sawattacks, because that is personal for a lot of military folks. You have to make up your mind on that issue.He received many medals. He got out and my family had to literally fight for economic or job opportunitiesfor him since even veterans suffer lax job opportunities. His military ID is now labeled retired since onceyou leave the Army, you have to renew your military license. He did it at the Navy Exchange place inHampton Roads. In the Navy Exchange, there are stores, restaurants, and folks in the military can havediscounts in buying merchandise. Ive been there a couple of times. In Hampton Roads, we see militaryhuman beings all of the time. So, we know about the military culture from the Army, Navy, Air force,Marines, etc. It is a part of American culture in fact. It is what it is as they say. Now, he or my older brotheris in great spirits today. We have similarities and differences. We say more politically incorrect statementsprivately. We know about politics and we love debate. The difference is that on some issues, I am moreprogressive and on other issues, he is more progressive.

Regardless of our views of this war, all human beings including veterans should be treated with dignity

and respect. All human beings regardless of their background are created equal anddeserve justice (we have a fight against the military industrial complex, the prisonindustrial complex, and the mainstream media corporate multiplex. There are Brothers

and Sisters of every color that want to do what is right and sincerely want genuine libertythroughout the world. I have known them all of my life). So, it is important for me to know aboutthe Iraq situation in a pristine, accurate fashion. I know about the history of Iraq from the ancientcivilizations, cultures, and religions. Also, veterans should be treated fairly and the same as any humanbeing should be. Suffering veterans in the road of life ought to be treated with compassion. Yet, thatreality still will make me opposed to war and opposed to imperialism.

A lot of us know about the poor and poverty. The elite of society readily scapegoats the poorin trying to advance a sick society. The system of oppression and inequality has beenadvanced by a select few not everyone in the government even. Racial, gender, and classoppression have been a scourge inside of Western society and other lands in the globe. Not eventhe concessions that we received from the 1960's have fully ended discrimination and racism

from our society. Many of our educational system lack funds, which causes some students tolack the tools to receive a fair, just educational experience. I am brought to the realization thateducation like health care is a human right. These are necessary, cogent functions of any trulyfree civilization. Our situation has been caused by many things like the deindustrialization ofthe economy from the mid 1970's. The victims of oppression are not to be blamed for their ownoppression at all. We need to careful too. Some of the respectable bourgeois middle classmake it a pastime to not only distance themselves from the poor (but blame the poorcollectively for their own oppression). The enemy loves to bash the poor, but they try to

justify capitalistic excess as found in the corruption of society. In other words, some of theupper middle class, not the just the rich, want to separate from the poor. They later turn theirback on the social devastation of the poor. Extremists like David Horowitz refuse to know thatthe evil neoliberal economic system has harmed society. Now, we live in a new era of classoppression. That means that we should use our talents, our intellect, and our strength to battlepoverty and class discrimination. The enemy may use a left face or a right face, but the results ofevil are still the same. One example is that Bush Jr. made huge destructive errors in our nationfrom his response to the disaster of Hurricane Katrina to the Iraq War. Yet, Bill Clinton alsothrew thousands of poor off welfare into homelessness. He also caused an unprecedentednumbers of black youth into prison. The Republicans and Democrats even refuse to have a livingwage for all American workers. They love the status quo. That is why a revolutionary solution isneeded to end the evil conditions that plague the ghettoes of the world and other communities.


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There is a social solution to these issues beyond just individual. If we want solutions, then wemust address the social conditions that harm us and that means we should fight racial and classoppression. The concessions made in society were allowed by the ruling class in the West as ameans to prevent a comprehensive revolution in American society. We must continue to wagean unconditional war on poverty. The harm done to the social safety net has nothing to do with

individual responsibility run amok. It has to do with evil bureaucrats wanting to end thegenuine rights that our ancestors fought for in this country. If we want change, then we have tostruggle and confront the powers that be.

We know about the many lies that were created as a justification to start the war in the first place. Themassive genocide in Iraq lasted for over two decades with sanctions, war crimes, and bombings by theWest including others in the nation of Iraq. The truth is that Iraq never had tons of fully functionalweapons of mass destruction that could have threatened neighboring nations let alone the nation ofAmerica. The Iraq War was illegal and immoral. It was an unique pre-emptive war. Col. LawrenceWilkerson said that they were wrong on the politicized information. It was bigger than that. The neo-cons wanted an Iraq War years before 2003 via their PNAC document Then Secretary ofState James Baker's vow to: "reduce Iraq to a pre-industrial age" was being minutelyexecuted over what was to become a forty three day blitz, which morphed in to a thirteen

year, vicious, murderous, one sided war of attrition and ultimately illegal invasion andoccupation. The Iraqi Holocaust massively began in 1990 with the advent of the PersianGulf War.

Dr. Polya, who has filed a Formal Complaint with the International Criminal Court, stated that:

"The Iraqi Genocide still continuing under Nobel Peace Laureate Obama is of a similar

magnitude to the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from

deprivation)"

They or the neo-cons fabricated specific information like the Yellow cake from Niger document Thatdocument was forged. Much of the information shown by Wilkerson and Colin Powell was fabricated as amean to create buzz for the preemptive Western war in Iraq. America did not just participate in thisimperialism alone, but the UK and other nations as well. Millions of Iraqis have died by the UN approvedsanctions and the war itself against the human beings of Iraq. We know the truth now more than ever.This war of aggression included many war crimes and crimes against humanity in general. We wastedbillions of dollars in the war when alternatives can be made in order for the Iraqi situation to be resolved.Even the Japanese exposed the names of their major criminals. A lot of folks in America sit back and actlike nothing occurred when men, women, and children died needlessly as a result of imperial aggression.Tenet, Powell, and others knew what they were doing when they expressed their distorted testimonies inthe United Nations. Then Secretary of State Colin Powell was wrong to assume that Saddam Husseinwas in possession of weapons of mass destruction and that he wanted to make more of them. ColinPowell now wants to make regrets about the situation. Whether you agree with his sincerity or not, theIraq War was an evil endeavor indeed.

The decimation of Afghanistan existed too. Many soldiers like Joshua Key from his 2007 book entitled,"The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War inIraq" wrote that he apologized to the people of Iraq because of the injustices that transpired against thehuman beings of Iraq. Joshua was from Guthrie, Oklahoma. He joined the U.S. Army in 2002. He wantedto make enough income to support his young wife and children. He at first believed in the Bushadministration's claim that Saddam Hussein was threatening America with terrorism and WMDs. In the


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first nine months of the war, he changed his mind. He deserted the military and soon returned to America.He went into Canada since that was a sanctuary for many deserters. Other deserters came to America toface lengthy prison sentences and dishonorable discharges. He co-wrote the book with Lawrence Hill ashis memoir. Ex-President George W. Bush wanted to invade Iraq explicitly immediately after 9/11 in 2001.Bush Jr. ordered the CIA and his senior military commanders to draw up detailed military plans for theinvasion of Iraq immediately after 9/11. This is ironic since the Americans and the Saudis

actually backed Iraq during its eight year war against Iran from 1980 to 1988. Americaalone sold Iraq fifty billion dollars worth of weapons when Bush Sr. was President.Margie Burns writes that the U.S. Department of Commerce licensed 70 biologicalexports to Iraq between 1985 and 1989, including at least 21 batches of lethal strains ofanthrax. Under President H. W. Bush, shipments continued four more years, after theIran-Iraq war ended in 1988. So, some of the WMDs in Iraq came from the Westernnations.Today, the Iraqi nation is exploited by corporate interests, terrorists, and other nefariousinterests. After Iraq, we have Western attacks in Libya, Mali, Somalia, Yemen, and other nations sufferingoccupation, imperialism, drone attacks, or other nefarious activities done to them (by the military industrialcomplex).

When you use war as a way of settling disputes, you only cause more warIn the long run, the only way to have peace is to use peaceful means

-Coretta Scott King

"Iraq was not involved in 9-11, Iraq was not a terrorist state. But now thatwe have decimated the country, the borders are open, freedom fighters from

other countries are going in and they have created more terrorism by going toan Islamic country, devastating the country and killing innocent people inthat country." - Cindy Sheehan

The Iraq War was evil for numerous reasons indeed. The Iraq War was wrong. It was a war ofaggression. There were no WMDs in Iraq that could threaten American soil and there was no firmcollaborative link between Iraq and al-Qaeda in an extensive fashion at all. We know that the Bushadministration wanted to invade Iraq long before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. We know


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that this invasion even violates the UN Charter. The U.S. signed this Charter back in 1945 after WWII.The Charter allows nations to use military force against another nation only in self-defense or withSecurity Council permission. Yet, the U.S. led invasion was neither satisfying some condition of the UNCharter. It was a war of aggression, which makes it a crime against peace that the Charter wanted toprevent. Bush Jr. said that the war in Iraq was needed as a means to protection Americans from SaddamHussein's weapons of mass destruction or WMDs. The neo cons wanted to further politically dominate theoil rich Middle East. This is easily documented in the September 2000 report prepared by theneoconservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC). The report, commissioned by DickCheney, outlines a plan "to maintain American military preeminence that is consistent with therequirements of a strategy of American global leadership." It notes that while "the unresolved conflict withIraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulftranscends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." There was another document, which wasproduced for Vice President Dick Cheney's secret Energy Task Force. The document had a map of Iraqioilfields, refineries, pipelines, and terminals including charts (that described Iraqi oil and gas projects).The "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts" was another document that was dated on March2001, which was six months before 9/11 and 2 years before Bush invaded Iraq. By early 2003, the Bushadministration attacked Afghanistan and removed the Taliban from power. Yet, they wanted to also attackIraq all along. So, they sold the war on the lies of weapons of mass destruction, ties to al-Qaeda in ahardcore level, and its complicity indirectly with 9/11. An August 2006 report prepared at the direction ofRep. John Conyers, Jr. found that "members of the Bush Administration misstated, overstated, and

manipulated intelligence with regards to linkages between Iraq and Al Qaeda; the acquisition of nuclearweapons by Iraq; the acquisition of aluminum tubes to be used as uranium centrifuges; and theacquisition of uranium from Niger." The report also noted that "[b]eyond making false and misleadingstatements about Iraq's attempt to acquire nuclear weapons, the record shows the Bush Administrationmust have known these statements conflicted with known international and domestic intelligence at thetime." So, it is known that the Bush administration overstated or misstated intelligence information aboutchemical including biological weapons. The report concluded that "these misstatements were incontradiction of known countervailing intelligence information, and were the result of political pressureand manipulation." In other words, the Bush regime misused the information about the WMD threat as anexcuse to invade Iraq.

On 9/11, the Bush administration was told in the President's Daily Brief that the intelligence communityhad no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime has anything to do with 9/11. There was scant evidence

that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties to al-Qaeda. The reason is that Hussein ran a seculargovernment that suppressed religious activity while al-Qaeda was made up of religious extremists. TheBush administration still said that Iraq aided al-Qaeda members. Although the Defense IntelligenceAgency (DIA) determined in February 2002 that "Iraq is unlikely to have provided bin Laden any useful[chemical or biological weapons] knowledge or assistance." A February 2002 DIA memo said that al-Libigave American interrogators false material about Iraq training al-Qaeda to use weapons of massdestruction. al-Libi's false testimony was one major part of Colin Powell's now discredited February 2003claim before the United Nations that Iraq had developed WMD programs. Bush and Donald Rumsfeldwanted plans to attack Iraq as early as 2001. Former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz arguedthat war against Iraq might be "easier than against Afghanistan." The 9-11 Commission Report noted thatas early as September 20, 2001, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith suggested attackingIraq in response to the 9/11 attacks. In late November 2001, Bush instructed Rumsfeld to develop an Iraqwar plan. "What have you got in terms of plans for Iraq?" Bush asked. "What is the status of the war plan?

I want you to get on it. I want you to keep it secret." The Security Council never authorized the war in Iraq.The Western use of cluster bombs, depleted uranium, and white phosphorous gas were real weapons ofmass destruction. Children have been injured and killed by these weapons. The Geneva ConventionRelative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in time of War (Geneva IV) classifies"willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health" as a grave breach.The US War Crimes Act punishes grave breaches of Geneva as war crimes. The Bushadministration has committed war crimes with its use of these weapons . The NurembergCharter defines "Crimes against Peace" as "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war ofaggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a


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common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing." Bush's war on Iraq is a warof aggression, and thus constitutes a Crime Against Peace. So, a war of aggression is still immoral andwrong as said by U.S Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson.

The United Kingdoms Role in the Iraq War

Far too often, we ignore the UK responsibility in the immoral war in Iraq. We know about the Americaninvolvement in the Iraq War, but not the British involvement in striking detail in a lot of cases. There are aseries of intelligence dossiers. Blair put these dossiers out and it showed dire claims of saying thatSaddam Hussein had sought uranium from Niger for possible nuclear weapons and that he could deployWMDs with 45. Of course, these accusations were proven to be false.

We have folks like Foreign Secretary William Hague. He has an arrogant mentality, because he hasmade it a career of talking down to human beings. According to the Guardian, with the 10 yearanniversary of the invasion of Iraq coming up, he has written to his fellow Ministers and asked them not todiscuss the case or the legality of the Iraq War. According to a source close to Hague: 'The foreignsecretary has written to colleagues to remind them that the agreed position of the coalition government isnot to comment on the case or justification for the war until Chilcot has reported. This is about allowingthe inquiry to reach its conclusion, not having the government prejudge them. Hague might have forgottenthat the long awaited Chilcot Inquiry cannot deliver its report. Once, it has been told in November of 2011that the report will be delayed until the summer of 2012. The reason is that the Whitehall departmentswere continuing to block the disclosure of documents about the events relating to the invasion of Iraq.Chilcot's panel read all of the classified documents. They knew that it was vital that these documentsmust be revealed to the public. Without that intrepid action, the public wouldn't learn fully about the lessonabout the error of the invasion of Iraq. The report would be delayed again as told on July of 2012. The

inquiry panel was frustrated by Whitehall's refusal to release papers still being held in secret. Thesepapers involved the MI6 and the government's eavesdropping center called GCHQ. Chilcot's letter toDavid Cameron referred to the sharp exchanges with the former cabinet secretary Gus O'Donnell overdisclosing details about the correspondence and conversations between Blair and Bush. This wouldilluminate Blair's position at critical points in the run-up to war. By late 2012, news about a further delay asthe issue about showing the documents was still being fought over by the Inquiry and the Cabinet Office.So, the documents are postponed for publication until late 2013 or even in 2014. It is unknown to thewider public. The evidence given to the Chilcot Inquiry document about how legal advice was ignored andvital human beings were excluded from discussions. Chilcot and his panel had to recall many folks likeTony Blair. The reason is that much of their previous evidence has been rubbished by other witnesses.


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Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary, told the inquiry that the cabinet should have been told of theAttorney General's doubts about the legality of invading Iraq before Blair went to war.

Sir Gus, before he retired, was the one blocking the much sought after publication of the classifieddocuments. Diss Blair with one hand and protect with the other is the of same. Hague desired to block allmeaningful discussion on the justification or the legal basis for invading Iraq until Chilcot has delivered hisreport. The government including Hague's own Ministry though was blocking the very action Chilcotneeds from them in order to finalize the report. Hague wrote a letter to the cabinet to make it clear that'not prejudging Chilcot should not prevent [ministers] acknowledging the sacrifices of the armed forces.'On the other hand, it is true that the illegality of the invasion of Iraq will lead into the exploitation themilitary. The military was sacrificed on the altar of Blair's delusional ambitions not in the defense of theUnited Kingdom at all. Many Conservatives in the UK political system advanced gender inequality andvoted to go into war. Some Labour MPs voted against the invasion. Yet, even some Labour memberskept their heads down. The LibDems found one MP guilt of harming the course of justice and facingprison. Nick Clegg or the deputy Prime Minister discussed about the accusation of the former chief

executive being accused of sexual harassment. If someone wants to support the troops, then don'tlie to the troops about an unjust, illegal, and immoral war.


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The Fruits of the Iraq War

The fruits of Iraq War are not fresh. They have been rotten to the core. History has found thatout so far. Many anti-war activists have consistently opposed this war and the war onterror in general. The war on terror benefits the neoliberal globalization agenda. That

agenda contributes to exploitation of nations by the IMF and World Bank. An economic systemthat enslaved my ancestors, which murdered those in the Gilded Age, and conquered wholenations is an economic system that I will never respect at all. The imperialists allowed a puppetregime to presently persist in Iraq where national and sectarian divisions are exploited. Thereare many sincere Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, and other backgrounds of humanbeings who really desire peace, security, and a true, freedom filled Iraq. When the shockand awe bombing campaign came against Baghdad, folks realize that this was a unique type ofoccupation. This occupation revolved around the turning of Fallujah into a free fire zone.


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Fallujah is a city with 350,000 human beings. The bombarding included white phosphorusshells, which is banned by international law. There has been the summary executed of woundedprisoners. The Abu Ghraib photographs document the torture against innocent human beings.Death squads, sectarian massacres, and torture still plague Iraq to this very day. Theorchestrators of the war in the first place live their lives in luxury. The Bush administration andthe Blair administration has not been legally made accountable for their actions at all. So, we

see the fruit of the Iraq War and it is not of God or of morality at all. That is plain to see.

Iraq can be a massively better nation, but that will take time. The products of the Iraq Warinclude the following tragic realities:

*There have been about 4.2 million Iraqis injured from the result of the Iraqi War.

*There have been 4.5 million Iraqi human beings driven from their homes.

*As of 2012, 4,486 U.S. military personnel died as a result of the Iraq War.

*There have been no investigations made by the U.S. military, government, or media

concerning the number of Iraqis killed, wounded, displaced, or died as a result of war andoccupation.

*About 2 million Iraqi women are now widows.

*The legal status of women is worse now than under Saddam Hussein. For example, Iraqssecular constitution has been replaced with a more reactionary Sharia Law with separate,unequal rights for women. Womens rights advocates have documented the growth of honorkillings, forced veiling, beating women, and violence against women. Reactionary regimes arealways like this.

*Torture, illegal detentions, and execution are widely executed by the Iraqi government that the

U.S. backs. According to Al Jazeera, prisoners are regularly tortured and raped by Iraqi securityforces with: fingernails pulled out, hung upside down, beaten with pipes, kicked and beatenand insulted and spit upon. This stuff is worse than a horror movie.

*There have been zero U.S. officials or military commanders prosecuted for these crimes underBush and Obama. The highest ranking official punished was Lewis Libby, Vice President DickCheneys chief of staff; Libby was convicted of harming the CIA by revealing the name of one ofits operatives.

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We like under an unique time in American society. We still have huge, record poverty.There has been millions of Americans on food stamps and below the poverty line now. That iswhy in our generation, we must continue to be dedicated to the eradication of poverty in theworld. We have to give working people and the homeless the right to their destinies in


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their lives. Both major parties are tied to Wall Street and the interests of the elite. Bothparties love drone attacks indeed. There were war crimes done during the years of Johnson,Nixon and Kissinger, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., and the current administration ofPresident Barack Obama. We are not just fighting against poverty. We are fighting againstinnocent men, women, and children being carpet bombed by drones, cluster bombs, and other

instruments of real mass destruction. When you have a Kill List and the TSA molesting humanbeings in airports nationwide, then we have a serious civil liberty including foreign policyproblem here in the States. We are fighting against ignorance, against prejudice, and againstenvironmental degradation also. There is an economic catastrophe continuing against poor andworking human beings in the world. The homeowners are not being bailed out massively inAmerica. We have the new Jim Crow of the prison industrial complex, which has jailed a lot ofblack and brown youth. This system has existed long before President Barack Obama was elected,so it is bigger than one man. Yet, any man should have no license to whatever he wants to. Noman on this Earth now is the Messiah. Now, the enemy is not just the reactionaries. We knowthat the reactionaries in the Tea Party are dead wrong on numerous issues. Some of them hateforeigners, which is highly xenophobic. Some of them claim to love liberty, but many in the TeaParty omit the love for collective power too not just individual power. They refuse to advocate aliving wage or an end to imperialism. The Tea Party loves laissez faire, free marketfundamentalism, which is definitely a false Gospel. It is the neoliberal crowd too that using slickeuphemisms as a means to carry forward their agenda. We know that the federal governmentworks with biotech companies that advance dangerous GMO products for years. We know howsome Democrats want corporate America to dominate public education via quasi-privatizationand their Charter schools as well. We know who God is and we know who the Devil is.Get it. LOL.

Some in the mainstream media are complicit in the lies advanced about the Iraq War as well.

When the Iraq War came about, hospitals, schools, power facilities, water and sewage services,trash collection, and other infrastructure in Iraq were destroyed. Cholera and other diseasesspread all over the nation. When you have cluster bombs and depleted uranium weapons usedagainst the Iraqi population, then you have an issue here. We know that the West is fundingterrorists in Syria. Insurgent terrorists are cutting out a soldier's heart and liver. This is sickstuff. Now, you have the fake liberal Bill Maher calling for the censorship of the Internet sine hefeels that conspiracy related information is bad for democracy.He omits the truth that thefreedom of thought is the essence of a free and open society. An open and free Internetis a great idea that the enemy indeed hates. Ultimately, we are battling against whitesupremacy on many fronts additionally. White supremacists (as found in the 1 percent not just alocal bigot in the street) know exactly what they are doing. They advance the lie of the inferiority

of blacks. So, it is our job to advance the truth that black human beings have great value in theUniverse and black independence including black liberation are superior to Jim Crow includingall forms of deception. Black humanity is real and it ought to be respected. All of humanity oughtto be treated with dignity and respected too. The Iraq War will never be forgotten.

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The Keystone XL Pipeline

The Keystone XL pipeline is about enriching the oil giants. It can threaten water and environmental

areas also from oil spills. The Keystone is an export pipeline that would transport toxic tar sands

Alberta down to a tax free zone in Texas and out to foreign markets. That means that the EU, China,

and Latin America get the oil while the foreign owned oil companies get the profits. North

Americans are left cleaning up the oil spills and shouldering the pollution burden (from extracting

and refining the dirty tar sands). The issue is complicated. You have to deal with data from the U.S.

and global oil markets to get a further gauge of the issue. The Texas refineries processing the

diluted bitumen is apparent. There is the commitment of oil companies to sell their product for thebest price internationally. Now, the proponents of this pipeline claim that Keystone XL offers

greater energy security and economic growth, but just not in America. The pipeline can give more

energy security to Europe, China, and Latin America since there is a massive fuel pipeline they can

tap (as long they're willing to pay). Oil companies can have a new bounty of profit to play with the

pipeline. The refineries can be found in a foreign trade zone. There is the promise of new jobs, but

the estimates mention that there will only be about 35 permanent jobs over the long term. There is

a short term influx of cash from constructing the pipeline. Very little maintenance can come when

the pipelines are built. The White House will decide whether it wants to enrich big oil companies

that are already the wealthiest companies in the world, for the long-term pay off of 35 permanent

jobs and the oil spills that will inevitably occur. It can also not approve of this plan too. The XL

Pipeline can harm American public health. It can cause refinery pollution, threats to water suppliesfrom oil spills, and there are implications that tar sands expansion has for global climate disruption.

We do not need this plan at all. Valero, Motiva, Phillips 66, Total, and LyondellBasell are the five

companies that have plans to take heavy crude from Keystone XL. So, the pipeline is an export

pipeline that could send oil heavily overseas. That is why more and more Americans seek

alternatives to the Republicans and the Democrats as Margaret Kimberley have mentioned. For

even the White House has been influenced by corporate interests. The system of mainstream

capitalism is near the end. There are so many human beings that the oligarchs can exploit and so

much products that can be commercialized. The lie of the mainstream system rewards the super-

rich.

Whereas, the elite try to extract wealth from the world's people of color illegally masquerading aseconomic development and freedom. It is not freedom to bomb civilian targets. It not a part of

freedom to kill folks and use mass exploitation and claim that is really great. It is not a part of the

momentous, great concept of freedom to aid murderous theocrats. American Exceptionalism is

nothing more than a slick form of imperialism and consumerism. A thief is a thief and the modern

American state has been created by the theft of millions of square miles of the Americas (the

enemy even broke treaties among the Native Americans as a justification for them to execute a

policy of extermination. Most of the Native Americans died from that evil, wicked policy). Western


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imperialism for centuries is all about thievery, genocide, and a superiority complex possessed by the

enemy. We know who the enemy is. We have to always remember Africa since Africa is our home.

Africaness is in our consciousness and in our soul. We can never support a racist Empire. I do not

want the extension of the Empire. I am working for the defeat of the American Empire via all

legitimate means necessary and for America to reach for its true potential (as I wish for all nations

of the world). We must permanently love Africa and love our heritage. I wish for the defeat ofpoverty, for the end of neo colonialism, for the defeat of imperialism, and for the defeat of

mainstream laissez faire capitalism completely. We must be connected with Africa completely. We

will continue to fight for justice.

A Special Note in Closing: We are not children anymore and our eyes are open. We know thatunfettered capitalism has been a totally failed system that must be replaced. We have tried tinkering withthe system. It has not worked as a means to end hunger or poverty in America at all. We realize that bothmajor parties are ruled in their leadership by the same Western oligarchs. Elections have been exploitedfor years as a means for political agenda. It should be clear from anyone that the election coup d'tat ofthe 2000 election documents how the political process has been subverted via plutocrats, oligarchs, and

reactionaries. You have to win the Electoral College to win Presidential elections irrespective of thepopular vote. There are legitimate activists in the world that want change. Also, there are also fakerevolutions and contrived riots as a means to cause regime change or violate human civil liberties(resulting in a more authoritarian, police state like society). We know that the President Barack Obama isnot to be blamed for all evils in America, but he is a puppet of this cabal system. The system of whitesupremacy use Obama as a means to make him a scapegoat of all of our oppression when ouroppression existed long before he was in office (yet, the President is accountable on issues of civilliberties, foreign policy, economics, health, and other important issues in the globe though. Obama isused as a means for the elite to carry out their agenda under left wing cover. In other words, things arehappening now that Bush Jr. could only dream of). We know about cartel capitalists using economicterrorism before too. Goldman Sachs has been caught robbing and thieving resources from the Americanpeople. Zombie banks have looted taxpayer money for thousands of years. Their crimes go unpunished.That is why the American economy has been heavily harmed via the criminal financial miscreancy. The

events of dead workers in Bangladesh, the unemployment, the income inequality, tax doges, globalism,fascism, and other bailouts for the super-rich, then we know that we have a problem here in the world.Domestically, we have the further militarization of American society and the evil Patriot Act continuingforth in America. Change can only come via alternative political and economic systems like a cooperativecommonwealth communities, etc. We see evil wars, torture, and other evils in the world. The governmentwith an economy that promotes the general welfare of all citizens is better than reactionary lies anddeception. Also, we should fight for better health. We should oppose GMOs in our food supplies withoutlabels, dangerous chemicals in our water supply, and austerity in the world. We know that the New Dealsaved America from potentially leading America into fascism. Yet, it also saved vulture capitalism from itsown excesses. It was still left alive enough to continue to pillage the poor not only the working class. Thehomeless and all of the poor should have justice in the world not just the working class.


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This is one issue that I wanted to write about for a long time. There are those who claim to beIndependent, but they are really closet reactionaries. They use or exploit the errors of the White House asa means to go beyond strong, dissent against the White House. They use emotionally charged andsometimes bigoted ad hominem attacks against not only the President Barack Obama, but his family.That is truly disgraceful and cowardly. The reality is that we can disagree with each other without unjusthatreds at all. Even some of my own people claim to be Independent (from the Internet, publicly, and inother arenas), but they love the bigotry against the poor, they believe in harming or expressing bigotryagainst those of another background, and they believe in an economic philosophy that enslavedhumankind (and it exploited and harmed the rights of workers all over the world). Many of the so-calledIndependents follow well known personalities like we know his name. He is Ron Paul, whose allies andhimself have been filled with racist, sexist, and classist accusations. It is true that Ron Paul believesfalsely that corporate power is equivalent to people power. Ron Paul is the ideological grandfather of theTea Party movement. Folks like Ron Paul are slick in having support from reactionaries, free marketenthusiasts, and those from the left as well. He holds the view of an unrestrained market when such amarket has caused disaster in our world. When these so-called Independents want to shut down all U.S.military bases, some of them do not wish to have peace in the world necessarily or form real trade(including compassionate foreign aid). Some of them are just isolationist or try exploiting those who aresincerely against U.S. imperialism as a means to crush much of the social safety net (or advance aperverse form of nationalism). They still want American hegemonic dominance in the world without usingU.S. resources to be used as a world police. We have too many military bases in the world, but we should

have withdrawals and disbanding excluding the militarization of the borders in the States. Why the so-called populist Independents would want to end the war on Drugs and legalize nearly about any drug, butmany of them want to end all public funding for health care. If we want to solve this public health issuethen we must have affordable health care here. We need funding of publicly funded emergency roomsand health clinics. When you hear a reactionary (hiding under the Independent label) talking about an endto the war on Drugs (which I have no issue with at all), some of them want only private companies to dealwith heroin and meth issues (while those facing addiction problems would be left to die in the streets ifthey can't get private help). We never need some Gilded Age mindset where the robber barons rule theland. I also notice that some of the faux Independents have a hatred of immigrants (of wanting to endeven birthright citizenship. These faux Independents lie and collectively blame immigrants for crime,disease, and other social problems in America when the system of white supremacy have caused moredestruction than indigenous Americans or our black brothers and black sisters at all), and a hatred ofthose of certain background. Some of them hate to support love among human beings. Don Black,

founder of the white supremacist group Stormfront, who donated $500 to Pauls campaign. Folks like Paulwant to eliminate any regulations on corporations. Many of them hate equality. Some want to shred thesocial safety net. The attacks on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are a part of the agenda of theestablishment and their Independent allies (who unknowingly follow elite talking points). The Bush taxcuts were regressive and I have the right to reject them. We also have the right to a free public education.Therefore, there is nothing wrong with being an Independent politically, but not everyone who claims tobe one is one though. It is what it is.


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It is very important to note that there are millions ofIraqi activists in Iraq that are still fighting for

equality and real solutions in Iraq. We cant ignore

the veterans of the war as well. Their voices ought tobe never forgotten, omitted, or ignored.

By Timothy

the 10th year anniversary of the iraq war

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