Bush and Cheney’s Neo-Con cabal must own up America’s onrushing oblivion - By Ghulam Muhammed

Monday, November 01, 2010

Bush and Cheney’s Neo-Con cabal must own up America’s onrushing oblivion

America’s is a mere 200-year history of success when compared to history’s many longish reigning civilizations.

The decline and oblivion of the US that till yesterday was projected as the lone superpower of the world, can most factually be traced to the role played by US President Bush, his Vice-President Dick Cheney and the Neo-Con cabal, who acutely suffered from a pathological hatred of Islam, Muslims and Islamic civilization --- thanks to the Jewish Historian Bernard Lewis’s theorizing of clash of civilizations.

Their megalomaniac doctrine of The American Century, unleashing America's immense military resources on weak defenseless Muslim world, could not be sustained to fully destroy the two Muslim countries, Iraq and Afghanistan.  

This sad chapter in the developing historical perspective, the world is suffering silently, is directly resulting from Bush/Cheney and Jewish Neo-Con cabal’s relentless obsession to defeat, destroy and dismantle the Muslim and Arab world.

Just as Great Britain’s three centuries old colonial empire disintegrated after its war with the Nazis, irrespective of who was right or wrong, who won and who was defeated, America whose own economy with 75% of its GDP comprising of its consumerism supported by unbridled credit creation, had already become a shell of its peak economic heyday.

The trillion dollar wars on Iraq and Afghanistan virtually forced its economy into a state of bankruptcy, from which it is impossible for it to resurrect itself again, given the present state of its basic deficit in productivity and ingenuity assets that were the powerhouse of its economic, financial and armed supremacy. That deficit cannot be filled in a hurry and with new power centers looming large on Eastern horizons, the shift away from the West and its warmongering and credit-profligacy going hand in hand, the future for America is very bleak.

President Obama is sailing against the tide by trying to reform the financial and fiscal system as well as resorting to populist measures, as patch-work Band-Aid jobs. He will need 20 years to find safe shores. He has at best only two years.

However, if the Tea Party and the Republicans take over from him, they are sure to hasten the doomsday that they are inadvertently or deliberately planning for their country. It will be a very bleak prospect for the rest of the world to see such a promising nation, so foolishly destroyed by a cabal of rogue elements that can perpetuate their stranglehold on power through media brainwashing of its own people.

Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai

ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com

<http://www.ghulammuhammed.blogspot.com>

DR. A. Clare Brandabur writes to US President Barack Obama

Aby Clare Brandabur




June 24th, 2010


Dear President Obama,


I have been composing this letter in my mind for a long time, and now I must put it on paper. Though my father voted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the dustbowl in Nebraksa, though I voted for JFK, and though my children all worked for your election full of optimism and hope, and though I cast an absentee ballot for you from here in Istanbul, I have decided to leave the Democratic Party.You promised change, and you were fond of saying “Change has come to America.” Your rhetorically promising speech in Cairo was completely undercut by your speech to AIPAC. I believe that extreme right-wing elements within the Bush administration manipulated the tragic events of 9/11 for the purpose of stampeding US citizens into voting billions for new wars to gain control of shrinking fossil fuels. I believe the same interests hedged their bets by pushing into law the so-called Patriot Act whose hundreds of pages had been prepared months before the Twin Towers and Building Number 7 collapsed, vaporised by high tech explosives for which nineteen Saudi kids with box cutters were only window dressing.You have continued the most diabolical error of the foreign policy of George W. Bush, namely the deceitfully named “war on terror.” In truth, the US (with the shameful cooperation of the UK and others), launched a campaign of sheer terror – “shock and awe” – against a huge swath of the Middle East with the pretense that it was in revenge for a “terrorist” attack on the US. Contrary to your denials, since a great part of the remaining fossil fuels plus such valuable substances as lithium, gold, plutonium, etc, happen to be secreted under ground in predominantly Muslim countries, this shock and awe directly impinges on Muslim people.The recent announcement that a variety of such rare and valuable resources have just been discovered in Afghanistan (surprise!), makes clear that you will continue the commitment of billions of tax dollars to further the ghastly wars still ranging in Iraq, speeding up in Afghanistan, and (a poorly kept secret) Pakistan, as well as the continued arming of Israel in its genocidal conflict with the Palestinian people. The US “war against terror” was masked under the guise of spreading democracy, over-throwing tyrants, and destroying “terrorists,” though its real aim is to destroy any person or organization courageous enough to resist: the real terror, first George W. Bush and now, I regret to say, your administration.With the secret drone program, your administration carries out the liquidation of anyone you choose to label “terrorist.” Hamas was an Islamist group encouraged by Israel as a counter to secular nationalist Palestinian organizations, which has gained popular adherence because it has not yet been brought into collusion with Israeli/US policy as other Palestinian parties who have been beaten into submission. Hamas opposes the Occupation and ethnic cleansing of its people, and therefore is seen by you as a terrorist organization who will be given the great privilege of coming to the table in a non-existent peace process if they will only “recognize Israel” which is equivalent to demanding that they give up resistance.The Murder of Fadel Shana’aBut there is one particular instance of the working of this vicious policy that I would like to bring to your attention. Because the US supports unconditionally everything done by Israel, including classifying their enemies as our enemies, their terrorists as our terrorists, any person, Palestinian or otherwise who opposes Israeli Occupation and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, is fair game to be shot on sight or run-over by bulldozers, whether or not they are armed, and whether or not they pose any real threat to the “security” of Israel.Fadel Shana’a was a twenty-three year old Palestinian journalist who was working as a camera-man for Reuters. On April 16, 2008, after an Israeli assault on Gaza which left sixteen other Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers dead, Fadel steped out of his plainly marked Press car to photograph an Israeli tank which was dug in several hundred meters away. The last frames of his camera caught the tank firing at him just before his camera went blank – and seconds before the tank shell killed Fadel and two youths who happened to be passing his location. Of course the Israeli Army declined immediate comment about what caused Fadel’s death, for which they expressed sorrow, but also said journalists were putting their lives at risk in areas of combat.From his photographs, Fadel was a handsome young man who had said, after surviving an earlier serious injury from a missile launched from an Israeli aircraft, “I love my work, and I will only give it up if they cut off my legs or kill me.” How his family and friends must still grieve over his loss. His deliberate murder is a crime against humanity and against all laws of Occupation and the laws of war.But having wed American morality to that of Israel, having accepted “your terrorists are our terrorists,” your administration has nothing to say when Palestinians are murdered by Israel. There was no expression of grief or sympathy for the more than 1400 Gazan Palestinians murdered by Israel in the winter of 2009, using tanks, napalm, experimental ordinances that ripped up the insides of victims. After all, Hamas and its people do not accede to an illegal and immoral Occupation, nor to the siege by which they can be systematically starved and brutalized into submission.Had I taught in Birzeit University more recently, Fadel could have been one of my students. Of course, Rachel Corrie was also twenty-three years old when she was murdered by the same Israelis a few years earlier – March 16, 2003. And I am among those who still grieve over her death as I do Fadel’s and the deaths of the nine brave Turkish human rights activists who were murdered by the same Israeli forces only a few days ago.Mr. President, I want to find a party led by a person who will be free to criticize Israel or any other country that practices the deliberate cold-blooded murder of young people whose only crime is to witness and protest when crimes against humanity are committed. Or maybe I will just stay an Independent. Voting for change has given us just more of the same.Clare BrandaburDr. A. Clare Brandabur teaches American Culture & Literature at Fatih University in Hadımköy, Istanbul, Turkey. Read other articles by Clare.This article was posted on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 7:59am and is filed under Afghanistan, Crimes against Humanity, Disinformation,Israel/Palestine, Obama, Propaganda, Resistance, Turkey, War Crimes.

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Fwd: Thank you, Ghulam --- From: Barack Obama

A CIRCULAR EMAIL SENT TO WELL WISHERS OF THE WELFARE MEASURE TO MARK A HISTORICAL DAY IN AMERICA'S HISTORY. 

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From: Barack Obama <info@barackobama.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Subject: Thank you, Ghulam
To: Ghulam Muhammed <ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com>

Ghulam -- For the first time in our nation's history, Congress has passed comprehensive health care reform. America waited a hundred years and fought for decades to reach this moment. Tonight, thanks to you, we are finally here. Consider the staggering scope of what you have just accomplished: Because of you, every American will finally be guaranteed high quality, affordable health care coverage. Every American will be covered under the toughest patient protections in history. Arbitrary premium hikes, insurance cancellations, and discrimination against pre-existing conditions will now be gone forever. And we'll finally start reducing the cost of care -- creating millions of jobs, preventing families and businesses from plunging into bankruptcy, and removing over a trillion dollars of debt from the backs of our children. But the victory that matters most tonight goes beyond the laws and far past the numbers. It is the peace of mind enjoyed by every American, no longer one injury or illness away from catastrophe. It is the workers and entrepreneurs who are now freed to pursue their slice of the American dream without fear of losing coverage or facing a crippling bill. And it is the immeasurable joy of families in every part of this great nation, living happier, healthier lives together because they can finally receive the vital care they need. This is what change looks like. My gratitude tonight is profound. I am thankful for those in past generations whose heroic efforts brought this great goal within reach for our times. I am thankful for the members of Congress whose months of effort and brave votes made it possible to take this final step. But most of all, I am thankful for you. This day is not the end of this journey. Much hard work remains, and we have a solemn responsibility to do it right. But we can face that work together with the confidence of those who have moved mountains. Our journey began three years ago, driven by a shared belief that fundamental change is indeed still possible. We have worked hard together every day since to deliver on that belief. We have shared moments of tremendous hope, and we've faced setbacks and doubt. We have all been forced to ask if our politics had simply become too polarized and too short-sighted to meet the pressing challenges of our time. This struggle became a test of whether the American people could still rally together when the cause was right -- and actually create the change we believe in. Tonight, thanks to your mighty efforts, the answer is indisputable: Yes we can. Thank you, President Barack Obama

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House Approves Landmark Bill to Extend Health Care to Millions

Congress gave final approval on Sunday to legislation that
would provide medical coverage to tens of millions of
uninsured Americans and remake the nation's health care
system along the lines proposed by President Obama.

By a vote of 219 to 212, the House passed the bill after a
day of tumultuous debate that echoed the epic struggle of the
last year. The action sent the bill to President Obama, whose
crusade for such legislation has been a hallmark of his
presidency.

Democrats hailed the votes as historic, comparable to the
establishment of Medicare and Social Security and a long
overdue step forward in social justice.

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