The endless war for empire....

Stop the Beast
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2006-06-05 18:48. Activism
By Marjorie Cohn, t r u t h o u t | www.truthout.org

To date, the Iraq War represents the fullest and most relentless application of the Bush Agenda. The "freer and safer world" envisioned by Bush and his administration is ultimately one of an ever-expanding American empire driven forward by the growing powers of the nation's largest multinational corporations and unrivaled military.
-Antonia Juhasz, The Bu$h Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time

In an annual security conference on Saturday, Donald Rumsfeld assured the audience, "We don't intend to occupy for any period of time. Our troops would like to go home and they will go home."

Why, then, would the United States be building an enormous embassy in Baghdad and a base so large it eclipses Kosovo's Camp Bondsteel, which had been the largest foreign US military base built since Vietnam?

The new embassy, which occupies a space two-thirds the area of the national mall in Washington DC, comprises 21 buildings that will house over 8,000 government officials. It has a huge pool, gym, theater, beauty salon, school, and six apartment buildings.

The rest is at: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/11552

I think that the Republicans are going to have to take a time out. It has been an icredible demonstration of ineptitude. I just get sick when I think of the opportunity that we wasted when the neocons usurped power in the White House. I think (and I'm an Independant) that Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz have set our foreign policy and international relations back twenty years. And I'm not a Bush hater. But, reality is what it is. An opportunity after 9/11 was tragically presented to us to gain and keep the high morale ground. I just can't imagine what they were thinking....or weren't.

... and welcome to DU! :hi:

I really think the other countries of the area should be sweating.