Rasmus Politics

2004-12-12T01:29:00.000-08:00

This was a letter to the editor posted in one of the Arizona Web Pages
Dec. 12, 2004 12:00 AM

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked a question by Army Spc. Thomas Wilson. It was a reasonable question considering what the government is asking these young people to do in the Middle East.

The young man questioned the lack of armor on the Humvees they are ordered to drive through dangerous territory.

We all know politicians are noted for saying incredibly stupid things, but this one takes the cake. Rumsfeld's answer: "You go to war with the Army you have."

That might have applied at the Alamo, but not this war. (What does the Alamo have to do with this question or the Iraq War? The Alamo was not even in the US at this time.

The administration picked the war, they picked the time, they picked the place, and we have unarmored vehicles over there. What were they thinking? (Getting ready to take out a dictator and getting the Army over there. We did not know this type of conflict would transpire. How many wars have you prepared for lately?)

We've been over there long enough to have additional armor installed on all vehicles. General Motors did a better job of fixing faulty tailgates in their pickup truck recall. - Geri McKenzie, Glendale

I think some of these letters show us Darwin's theory is still alive and well. Stupidity of some people, Geri for one, amazes me.

You do go to war with the army you have Geri. I went to Vietnam and had to endure the politics of war and I see it trying to creep into every aspect of the conflict today. Everyone has their great idea of how a war should be conducted and they are now the experts. I think Rumsfield answered the planted question quite accurately. Maybe Geri is pissed because she did not have a GM car and her tailgate has not been fixed. I just do not know why or how we get all of these great quarterback generals every time we have a press release. Therefore, I might as well jump on in there and spout my ridiculous comments. I think we need to hire all the 13 year old X box maniacs fit them up with drones and have them patrol all of the Iraqi highways and bring the troops home. We can give them a real game to play and have quicker reflexes than any of our combat GI's. They would work for free thereby lowering our National Debt expense and giving the politicians more money to waste on something. We could not prosecute them if they made a mistake and snuff someone because they are under age. With their quick reflexes, they probably would not make a mistake anyway. On the other hand, maybe we could put them to work installing body armor on the Humvees? That might get the GM workers to lower their wages and not be outsourced to India. There we have solved all kinds of world problems with this progressive concept. What do you think Geri? I don't even think we would need to upgrade the armor on the X-box but who knows, things change, and we have to adapt to these changes.

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2004-12-08T18:48:00.000-08:00

Intelligence and Understanding in a sad part of the world

I was looking at a posting on one of the web sites when I found this gentleman and his answer to some of the Muslim students in America who are still, despite years of education, uneducated and really unknowing of history and this world and its myriad cultures.

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If you are not the majority then make sure you don't have elections

2004-12-05T18:43:00.000-08:00

This is the way to make sure you don't have elections. Just kill everyone and then let the great and wonderful United Nations complain and then let the world jump in. If you have a minority that will now lose control then this is the way to make sure you don't have that election. Sounds quite democratic and humane to me, don't you think?

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20041205T190000-0500_70854_OBS____CUT_DOWN_IN_IRAQ_GUNFIRE.asp

International Red Cross charges systematic abuse Bush's "Torture Inc." at Guantanamo

2004-12-01T22:59:00.000-08:00

International Red Cross charges systematic abuse Bush's "Torture Inc." at Guantanamo.

International Red Cross charges systematic abuse Bush's "Torture Inc." at Guantanamo.

You want to know what real torture is? It is not a bunch of naked Iraqi's. This is what the world just does not want to acknowledge. This is torture.

We live in a time of unparalleled instances of democide, genocide and ethnocide. The Holocaust, the genocides in Turkey, Cambodia, Tibet, & Bosnia, the disappearances in Argentina & Chile, the death squad killings in El Salvador, Stalin's purges, the killing of the Tutsi in Rwanda . . . . and the list goes on. Mass violence, torture, violations of fundamental human rights, and the mistreatment of human beings is not a new aspect of humanity; documentation of such events spans the historical record. However, technology has taken these cruelties to new levels.

Rwanda: http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/%7Esss4407/Rwanda/RWStats.htm
http://www.jburroughs.org/history/causes/photos.html
Armenia: http://www.cilicia.com/armo10f.html
http://www.theforgotten.org/site/intro_eng.html
Now compare these pictures with the prison in Iraq.
Darfur: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/36028.htm

Ethiopia: http://www.genocidewatch.org/EthiopianGenocideofAnuakContinuesMcGillReport6May2004.htm

Concerning now the overall mortality statistics, it is sad that hundreds of thousands of people can be killed by governments with hardly an international murmur, while a prison picture can cause an immediate world outcry and global reaction. Simply contrast the international focus on the relatively minor Falkland Islands War of Britain and Argentina with the widescale lack of interest in Burundi's killing or acquiescence in such killing of about 100,000 Hutu in 1972, of Indonesia slaughtering a likely 600,000 "communists" in 1965, and of Pakistan, in an initially well planned massacre, eventually killing from one to three million Bengalis in 1971.

A most noteworthy and still sensitive example of this double standard is the Vietnam War. The international community was outraged at the American attempt to militarily prevent North Vietnam from taking over South Vietnam and ultimately Laos and Cambodia. "Stop the killing" was the cry, and eventually, the pressure of foreign and domestic opposition forced an American withdrawal. The overall number killed in the Vietnam War on all sides was about 1,216,000 people.
Cambodia was taken over by the communist Khmer Rouge, who in trying to recreate a primitive communist agricultural society slaughtered from one to three million Cambodians. If we take a middle two-million as the best estimate, then in four years the government of this small nation of seven million alone killed 64 percent more people than died in the ten-year Vietnam War.
Overall, the best estimate of those killed after the Vietnam War by the victorious communists in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia is 2,270,000. Now totaling almost twice as many as died in the Vietnam War, this communist killing still continues.
To view this double standard from another perspective, both World Wars cost twenty-four million battle deaths. But from 1918 to 1953, the Soviet government executed, slaughtered, starved, beat or tortured to death, or otherwise killed 39,500,000 of its own people
For China under Mao Tse-tung, the communist government eliminated, as an average figure between estimates, 45,000,000 Chinese. The number killed for just these two nations is about 84,500,000 human beings, or a lethality of 252 percent more than both World Wars together. Yet, have the world community and intellectuals generally shown anything like the same horror, the same outrage, the same out pouring of anti-killing literature, over these Soviet and Chinese megakillings as has been directed at the much less deadly World Wars?

In any case, we can that the more freedom in a nation, the fewer people killed by government. Freedom acts to brake the use of a governing elite's power over life and death to pursue their policies and ensure their rule.

In light of all this, the peaceful, nonviolent, pursuit and fostering of civil liberties and political rights must be made mankind's highest humanitarian goal. Not simply to give the greatest number the greatest happiness, not simply to obey the moral imperative of individual rights, not simply to further the efficiency and productivity of a free society, but also and mainly because freedom preserves peace and life.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets ----Voltaire

And you think a few pictures of naked prisoners in Iraq make the United States the worst country in the world. Think again and reflect on the truth of history and what is still taking place today in Africa, in Asia, In many other places where democracy does not reign and the people do not have hope.

My First Blog

2004-11-16T03:58:00.000-08:00

Well here it is folks. My first blog.