Election: from The Truth in LOVE

The Truth in LOVE

By: Bruce Scroggins

My fellow Americans this year 2004, this election is the most important event in the entire world, we as Americans cannot get this wrong again. There is at risk, the future of America, as all Americans know it, we as a free people, must return to the position of being the leader of the free world, and not an arrogant big brother, with a badge to police the world and make enemies of our allies, the present Administration has instead made allies of the power elite of American Business, and then together, they back them in there power plays, and all for the sake of a well healed few of the world, ignoring the vast majority of the underserved, and underclass of poor, and disenfranchised.

In America we have a new powered elite, in Energy, Insurance, Communications, Health Care, and huge Corporate Farms, and Multinational Corporations, all bolstered by favorable tax laws, and deregulation, and greed like the world has seen in the past, but not like in this new 21st Century.

America’s traditional allies of old, forged out of like trails, and a past filled with death and blood, have been fractured today, and divided, why? Because the moneyed elite of the world has changed, and in there 21st Century, these Partners in Oil, and Finance wanted to turn America in a new direction, in part to head off a change in monetary position fast approaching on the world stage. Now lets talk about OPEC, and China, you say why? OPEC an China quite simply, they hold far too much Americas debt, and America knows that is it’s a precarious position, Americas an China are packed with problems, now and in future for America, and China has a will today to continue to use larger, and larger amount of oil, and these events, and more will dictate all free trade agreements. And OPEC has and was leaning towards taking only euro dollars for a oil, this would effectively push America to what I call a “first world third world country” (by hastening the most sever shrinking of the middle class) and in this time, it would raised Europe, China, and India to the top of monetary power overnight, and Saddam, in the early “90’s” was actively, instigating not taking US dollars for oil to OPEC and, OPEC was listening, at lease a large number of OPEC was listening.

China’s economy is also tied to oil, how and why? Because they are using oil, at and ever increasing rate… listen China’s economy is growing at leaps and bounds in the manufacturing sector, armed with free trade, and the new power that WTO trade agreements has brought, and more importantly the US led entrance into the WTO (World Trade Organization) together with, have started a economy like the world has never seen, and there thirst for consumer products is just getting started, and there is no sign, or signs of a decrease, now together with, and with China holding huge amounts of American debt, and having one of the largest workforces in the emerging world economies, and along with India, and the European Union’s burgeoning juggernaut of a economy, America and the world is in for a race for the use of resources like no other in world history, and all this is goings on, right out in the open, on the world stage, and all this is not with out a dire plan, from America’s big businesses interest.

The present administration, is packed with Idea logs, called neo-cons, and the plan is one, that more than one American President has heard, and seen before, and this plan was floated to President Clinton back in the early to mid “90’s.” It’s name, Project for the New American Century, PNAC it’s a template, and upon a closer look at the present administration, you’ll see some familiar names and faces, and upon a clear look at what’s happening around the world, and in this administration. You see a conspiracy? No… fact is what you’ll see… just takes your party blinders off and look.

1 There is $7.34 trillion worth of petroleum and another $3 trillion of natural gas in the Caspian Basin. A pipeline across Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India could bring it to market. (Included in this market are a number of gas-fired power plants in Pakistan, owned by US corporations, and, at the time, an Enron project in Dabhol, India.)

In 1995 the Bridas Corporation was negotiating with the Taliban in Afghanistan to build the pipeline. The U.S. Government and the Unocal Corporation were pressing the Taliban fiercely to decline. In January of 1996, however, Bridas signed the contract to proceed: it now controlled the flow of Caspian riches.

Fast forward to 1998. The Project for a New American Century is staffed by a group of “meoconservatives,” starkly rightwing political thinkers and activists. It is committed to maintaining the military and economic supremacy in the world accorded the United States by the collapse of the Soviet Union. On January 26, 1998, PNAC sent a letter to President Clinton urging the removal of Saddam Hussein by military means, if necessary. Should he remain in power, much would be put at hazard, including “a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil.” Signing the letter were Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, James Woolsey, Zalmay Khalilzad, John Bolton, Richard Armitage, and Elliot Abrams.

Fast forward now to 2000, an election year. Eleven members of the PNAC would assume prominent roles in the upcoming administration of George W, Bush the signers of the 1998 letter to Clinton, plus Richard Cheney, Douglas Feith, and Lewis Libby. In September the PNAC made public another document, a 90-page report entitled, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.” The new document advocates pre-emptive war—something never done in the history of the nation—but it realized how sharp a departure this would be. The “transformation” would be long and difficult, in the absence of “some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Peal harbor.” President Bush, early in his Adminastration, formally adopted the concept when he signed and issued the National Strategy document.

One more fast-forward: to January of 2000. The Bush Administration has taken office, and the linkages with the oil industry are intimate, historic, and huge. The President and the Vice President are just the openers: eight cabinet members and the National Security Advisor were drafted directly from the oil industry, and so were 32 other officials, in the Departments of Defense, State, Energy, Agriculture, Interior, and the Office of Management and Budget.

Vice President Dick Cheney convenes his supersecret “Energy Task Force.” Its membership and deliberations remain deliberately obscured, but Mr. Karl Schwarz is certain the forced removal of the Taliban and the Bridas Corporation was discussed. The citizen group Judicial Watch did force the release of a few documents, however with a lawsuit. Prominent among them is a map of the Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, tanker terminals, and oil exploration blocks: the Cheney Task Force had more than a passing interest in Iraqi oil, as well.

The war was a set up for several reasons. Yes Bush wanted to whack the man who tried to kill his father, but Bush knew getting Saddam was a given, what with the assurances of the strength of US Military by the General Military staff, but getting in office… now that was a trick of a different sort, getting in office was the first step in executing the plan, execution of an all out efforts by operatives needed to get to Florida, and handle the voting from start to finish, and what a vote it was, poor Floridians got antiquated vote machines, mostly in the central parts of Florida, and the more affluent in the pan handle, and the south where most of Bushes supporters live, in these counties America now knows the most up to date vote machines were secured, and with the help of the Secretary of State (Katherine Harris Head of the GOP re-election committee in Florida) together with Jeb Bush on board, the Bush machine was ready to go, and when more troops were needed, the Republicans, simply imported Republican stalwarts from out state re-election committees, and Bush did know he could count on the Supremes, but I don’t think he thought it would come down to them, and when they stomped in with their decision , it was done deal, it was over for all intents a purposes, Bush then ran with the victory, all the way to Iraq, even though at least half of America thinks the attach by Osama was were we were going to get America some pay back, for the Pearl harbor of New York, but all it turned out to be, was a catalyst PNAC needed to push forward their plan.

Osama was never the focus, but he was just what Bush and Cheney, and Pearl, and Wolfowizt, and Rumsfeld needed, and what had been there plan all along, even before entering the White House, now on this statement history and the records will prove this to be the facts, O’Neil, and Conndi Rice, both testified to the Bush administrations immediate obsession with getting to Iraq, the Bush administration was tied up with PNAC’s agenda, before entering the White house.

The war was also, the way to repay big business big time, all those who backed Bush to the tune of a 200 hundred million dollar war chest to get Bush in office. Going to Iraq was the plan, and paying back big business, was set up in part after entering the white house by Vice President Cheney, in his now widely known private meetings with big energy, and others, but not the only reasons… America had been losing their allied bases, and their ability to control, and protect the oil, that’s part of the reason the troops stayed in Saudi Arabia, and they stayed on two state of the art Military bases, 25,000 thousand US troops, but to the middle east extremist Muslims an affront to their faith, and defiling of their wholly land by infidels, it was more than the muslin world as a whole could take. America spent big time to build these base starting back before the 91 gulf war in Saudi Arabia, and one of these bases was designed to be the command and control center for all middle east military activities for the future, but with increasing Intel of hostilities, America knew their position was becoming untenable, but America still needed bases in there plan for middle east, US Hegemony.

Now the G-8 Countries including America made deals with Iraq, while the UN sanctions where in place, and France, Germany, and Russia, and American businesses made deal after deal, and if you just look a little closer at the just released UN, and CIA reports prove this out, you see all the deals made under oil for food, and Halliburton’s part, in their deals were central in selling the necessary parts to keep Iraq oil flowing during this oil for food program, and other American companies profited as well, in the oil for food program, and Halliburton’s involvement and others were left off the reports leaked the news, which certain news network wants the American people, as well as the world to believe is all the Europeans fault, as well as the UN’s alone.

America had been controlling 2/3 of Iraq, with “NO FLY ZONES,” and sanctions, up to the war, and America hasn’t controlled that much of Iraq since the war began, why? Because of extremely arrogant, bad planning, from Rumsfeld, and Bush and Cheney who all thought, it would be a cakewalk, they were led to believe they’d be welcomed as liberators, and the paid operatives, like Ahmad Chalabi, led them on, down the road Bush wanted to go any way Ahmed wanted hid country back any way he could get it and for their own selfish reasons, and Ahmed knew Iraqi, being and old batthist himself, he knew full well Iraqis would not go for democracy like we have here in America.

Bad planning yes the worst by an invader, since Napoleon. Just to let you know, that there was an agenda other than just deposing Saddam… think back upon entering Iraq and taking the southern most parts of Iraq, where some oil was the first concern of the troops, and the military commanders was to guard the oil, and not the cashes of weapons, or the chemical plants, or WMD’s, or the nuclear plants, and the Museums… all were left unguarded from the start, for WEEKS.

OH’ by the way, America are signatories of a document called “The Geneva convention,” and it say you are not to bomb, water treatment plants, or hospitals, or anything needed by the civilian population, for their pursuit of life, in war (not sure of the wording, or of why you can not bomb these facilities), but it has to do with placing the population, and non combatants in a position, of extreme hard ship, but the coalition of American led military bombed 28 Hospitals, and if you look, and listen, ask the news media you’ve heard, nor been informed that this took place, and they reported nothing about re-building the hospitals, but you have heard only about Power Plants, and schools, and electricity, and getting the oil, and pipe lines up and running, now the Iraqis, didn’t blow up there own hospitals, or there water treatment plants, and these are reasons they were not at all in a hurry to have the UN go in with them, and didn’t protect the UN when they came in after pressure from the US populist and others in the world, and now today, there is big money to be made in Iraq, by privateers, and profiteers, but in the eyes of the Iraqi people, they look like foreign carpet baggers, backed by invaders.

Now does Iraq want freedom? Yes from Saddam? Yes from any oppressor? Yes but does Iraq want American style democracy? No… Iraq will take some of the freedoms, but not the trappings of our style of democracy, what with, alcohol, outright prostitution, liberal TV, and equal rights for women, yes some of these are good for a Democracy, but some and others are not freedoms Iraqis want at all, and some, are not even wanted in our country.

America is my country, but we have a administration that has a plan for continual war, and not for peace, and we as a country have to stop backing dictators, and despots, around the world, and stop backing big business who get us into wars, for greedy, selfish reason. And do you think the Iraqi people want there country to be the center of terrorism, stop and think what the Iraqi people must be thinking about America, every night the president keeps saying “I’d rather fight them over there than here in America,” America has for are intent and purpose turned Iraq into a terrorist heaven, and they are killing Iraqis at a terrible rate, as well as men, women, and children, and all combatants on both sides are suffering, theirs kidnapping, ransoming, and rape is underreported, if at all, ericaceous family killings, and outright murders.

America has enough oil undeveloped, to maintain our country for hundreds of years, but has refused to develop it, why? Because, they simply want to use up middle east oil first, and America, and France, and Germany, and Italy, and Russia put in the infrastructure, to get the middle east oil out of the ground, a long time ago, so every time there’s a price increase per barrel of crude, they all get paid from royalty’s, and in some cases, these royalties have been paid for decades, that’s why? You never hear the oil companies complain, when the cost of home heating, or gasoline goes up, and it’s at a record high today, this winter Americans will pay on average 28% more to heat there homes, why? Has America protested this?

Oil in America and energy power plants: Lets take oil first, the big oil companies, bought oil exploration leases, years ago from the government, for leases off shore California, and in the Gulf, and in other places, but these major oil & energy companies refuse to develop them, complaining about the cost to explore and develop new fossil fuels, and as it stands, if they started today, it would take 20 years to bring any appreciable amount of oil on line to help, and it would still be not enough, WHY? Because it would take another 20 years after that, to make a real dent in Americas needs.

Energy: In the past when energy and power plants were built, America, and the states learned years later that the past practice of letting these energy companies build, unregulated, was a bad idea, and the big energy companies took advantage, and the states let the big energy companies build a power plants, unabated by environmental rules, and regulation, to protect the environments, and as we all know the taxpayers and the states paid the cost for clean up, big time. Well the tax payers, and the states learned, from this and regulated for there clean-up, the next time around with new rules, and regulations set-up to cover all environmental damage and clean up, and set it at the feet of big energy, and big energy in turn refuse to build plants, and this was an underlying fact in the California energy crisis, so this crisis in California played out, with big businesses still making obscene profits, and they still to this day have not built ONE NEW POWER PLANT in CALIFORNIA.

Big energy also let the power grid get into disastrous conditions, and hasn’t started to fix the problems yet, but legislation is in the works in congress to address this problem. But it’s a dirty game that big energy is playing with America, and America has to hold big energy to account.

How does America change the course we’re on, four ways, change administration, and change administrative procedures, and that will change the direction, and with the change of leadership, America has to stop allowing any administration to put in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency EPA, some one who was oppose to the environment, do not allow any administration to put in charge, any one who was in bed with the energy companies, this will be a start… and we as a people will have to hold the new administrations feet to the fire as well, why? Because big business, is backing both parties as Nader has said, and big business has some powers, as you’ve seen with not building, and developing energy, we as a Country have to push alternative sources for energy, big time and never let up, never ever let up.

America has to demand of our leaders fair free trade with the developing economies, stop paying for business to out source jobs, fully fund No Child Left Behind, and roll back the tax cuts on every one making over $200,000 and fix the tax code, and put back as much money into the social security truth, opps’ (trust) fund, lower taxes on capital gains, and small business’s, and hold Insurance companies accountable, for accelerating the cost of insurance. The insurance companies have unilaterally raised premiums 10% plus for three straight years, is unacceptable, and with a big investigation on all Insurance, it will be a very good start.

Now helping Iraq, and helping is all we can do, Iraq has to fix it self, as the rightful leader of the free world, we have to start acting like the free world leader, we have to sit down with our traditional allies and the Muslim countries in the region to secure the cities and bring them all into the cost, and profits of rebuilding the country of Iraq, first to secure the borders, and then help in building some freedoms for the peoples, and these Muslim countries will then have a first hand experience in working to free some one from oppression, a way of life of freedom, this will be demanded by their own countries as they get more involved.

Is there more we all can do yes, we have to hold our media accountable for abdicating there responsibility to ferret out, lies, and prevaricators of miss-direction, and smear, and start being the 4th estate, and not partisan hacks, with a agenda other than the news, and the facts, news papers do a better job of calling a liar a liar. Congress has to look deeply into the FCC, and the SEC, and get them onboard for all America, and not just for big business, and partisan agendas. Now we have to stop gutting the environment, and make big energy pay for refusing to build power plants, and not searching for oil, they have brought America no good for years, and the pharmaceutical companies are in co-hoots with the insurance companies, and in an investigation, of the Insurance companies, it will be revealed their duplicity, then Americans can bring down the cost, and it will have a ripple effect through out the world, we can bring down the cost of medicine as well, and the cost of health insurance. Frivolous law suits, or tort reform is needed, but not the way republican want, America should never stand for, no patience rights, or no consumers right to sue, for what ever amount is fair, and if you cap awards across the board, Americans will find one size only fits all, does not work as a deterrence for those who have to pay for their transgressions, and out right frauds, and malpractices, a reasonable amount of settlements, can be worked out by both sides.

I love my country, and my people, the native people, white and Black, and Irish, and Jewish people, all have given, and gone through a lot to get where we are today, we’ve fought wars for independence, a civil war, and I want to say to the world and my country that “righteousness exalts a nation: but sin a reproach to any people,” and it says in my Bible that “if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from there wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive there sins, and will heal their land,” All of America… Democratic, Republican, Conservative, Independent, we all needs to pull together and stop with the divisive and derisive, talk, by all the actions of our leaders, and stop with the working to make half of Americans, the half who do not agree with a policies… stop forcing the other half to live the way your narrow ideological administration and congress, who are in power, has legislated… and when the powers change hands, and there will be a change… at this time, we all have to sit down, and come together, and work together, and not work for retribution, especially against those who did not vote for you, for the leadership of the USA, this time, no more wedge issues, no more saying one thing, and doing another, America will have a true statesman, able to work out the complex positions of true leadership of the free world, and will work towards energy independence, and alternative fuels, and not go about with more nation building, in places other than, Afghanistan , and Iraq, where the commitment is set for years to come, we as the leader of the free world will make it, as right as humanly possible, with the help of all our friends.

1 Richard W, Behan: ‘A Republican businessman vilifies George Bush’

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