Three reasons - How come regime change is needed, Now!

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The following photos were contributed by Bob Fagley, The Archman.
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Images From The New Regime* Change:
Nevada and Intermountain Fence Art Place your cursor on each thumbnail for a brief description of the photo.
Click on the thumbnail photos to see a full-size view.

      *bushite art is: Accomplishing 600 billion dollars of federal debt in one year (how many generations of your relatives will be paying for this foolishness?), with no health coverage for many U.S. families, little prospect for continuation of social security, no education funding to go along with "every child left behind" mandates, erroding civil rights (had your phone tapped lately, would you know it?), declining environmental protection (what kind of air and water do you wish to consume?), destruction of your public lands .....
      Yet wealthy republicans are doing well with tax cuts and tax avoidance tailored for them, drastic 'improvements' in corporate welfare, with jobs and health coverage and expanding freedoms in foreign lands at U.S. taxpayer expense (a good idea, yet perhaps not while the black hats cut HeadStart - and children, your future, and the environment suffers) ....... etc., wow, that is bushite art. It is time for regime change at home, and now. It's time to send this facinorous yegg back to texas, for a permanent vacation..... Until then, let's enjoy basic art in the outdoors.

      Some additional thoughts, and thinking rather than getting "info" from the ultra-conservative media is important because:

         Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices -- Voltaire, 1767

         Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? --Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

         The only thing worse than wisdom on ice is ignorance on fire, as in the republican party, Newt Somebody

         To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. Abraham H. Maslow

         What we see depends on mainly what we look for. John Lubbock

         The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible... Bertrand Russell

         Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness. Tao Te Ching of Lao- tsu

         Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Thomas Jefferson

      "There is, of course, no evidence that Al-Qaeda was ever connected to Saddam. James Steinberg of the Brookings Institution says, "(Iraq) wasn't the place you had to confront Al Qaeda. They weren't there, and this is not what that war was about." Unfortunately, as the article notes, many Americans continue to believe their lying liar of a president. (note - this piece was written in 2003!)
      The Washington Post notes that "the $87 billion request is nearly triple the amount the federal government plans to spend on elementary and secondary education this year, and more than twice as much as the budget for homeland security."
      The $166 billion that has already been spent or requested exceeds "the inflation-adjusted costs of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War and the Persian Gulf War combined" and "approaches the $191 billion inflation-adjusted cost of World War I."" (from alternet.org)

      George Lakof writes about: Betrayal of Trust: click here for a link to the entire story. "The question of the L-word keeps coming up. Did the president and his chief advisors lie? I think this is the wrong question to be asking. The real issue is betrayal of trust.
      The president has been criticized for using the following as justifications for the Iraq war. We went to war in Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that threatened us. He was reconstituting his nuclear weapons programs (the aluminum tubes, the uranium from Africa). He had huge stocks of chemical and biological weapons that could be launched quickly in aerial vehicles that threatened the US. Saddam was working with Al Qaeda. Iraqis had "trained Al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases."
      It appears these were all falsehoods... and the president continues to create and reinforce them.
      But lying, in itself, is not and should not be the issue. The real issue is a betrayal of trust. Our democratic institutions require trust. When the president asks Congress to consent to war – the most difficult moral judgment it can make – Congress must be able to trust the information provided by the administration. When the President asks our fighting men and women to put their lives on the line for a reason, they must be able to trust that the reason he has given is true. It is a betrayal of trust for the president to ask our soldiers to risk their lives under false pretenses. And when the president asks the American people to put their sons and daughters in harm's way and to spend money that could be used for schools, for health care, for helping desperate people, for rebuilding decaying infrastructure, and for economic stimulation in hard times, it is a betrayal of trust for the president to give false impressions.
      It is telling what was not in the President's September 7 speech. He sought help from other nations, but he refused to relinquish control over the shaping of Iraq's military, political, and economic future. It was to a large extent the issue of such control that lay behind the UN Security Council's refusal to participate in the American attack and occupation. The reason for the resentment against the US, both in Europe and elsewhere, stemmed from a widespread perception that American interests really lay behind the invasion of Iraq. Those interests are: control over the Iraqi economy by American corporations, the political shaping of Iraq to suit US economic and strategic interests, military bases to enhance US power in the Middle East, reconstruction profits to US corporations, control over the future of the second largest oil supply in the world, and refining and marketing profits for US and British oil companies. The 'Iraqi people' would get profits only from the sale of crude, and those profits would go substantially to pay American companies like Halliburton for reconstruction.
      If the real rationale for the Iraq War has been self-interested control – over oil resources, the regional economy, political influence, and military bases – if it was not self-defense and not selfless liberation, then President Bush betrayed the trust of our soldiers, the Congress, and the American people. Mere lying is a minor matter when betrayal is the issue." (from alternet.org)

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