<div dir="ltr">Neither the RNC nor the DNC will broach the subject of George W. Bush's "Operation Iraqi Freedom,"<br>--i.e., the concept of unilateral pre-emptive warfare to effect régime change--is in violation of the<br>
United Nations Charter (to which both the U.S. and Iraq are signatories) as well as international law.<br>The U.S. violated Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity, launched an unprovoked <br>war of imperialist aggression, and refuses to end is military occupation of the country even<br>
when requested to do so by the puppet government that it installed through the use of force.<br><br>Obama touts his anti-war stance as an Illinois state senator. McCain--military adventurist that he is--<br>blindly accepts the Iraq war as a military "order," congratulates himself on being an early<br>
"surge" advocate (in contrast to Rumsfeld's "shock and awe" and Bush's "mission accomplished").<br><br>Neither of the candidates questions the "faulty intelligence" that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, <br>
Wolfowitz, Rove, and others used selectively to justify an imperialist war they had already planned<br>well in advance of 9/11/2001. None of these war criminals has been taken to task. And in that<br>the Democrats have been complicit, including John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton,<br>
and Joseph Biden.<br><br>The U.S. has lost the moral high ground with unilateral pre-emptive warfare, Abu Ghraib,<br>water-boarding, and Guantánamo. When Vladimir Putin and his KGB pals pulled their number<br>on Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Georgia and Bush, Cheney, McCain and the GOP halleluyah chorus<br>
sang "Foul!" in perfect harmony, their performance revealed the utter absurdity of their miserable<br>excuse for political leadership.<br><br>In the past few days, the Republicans (Giuliani, Palin, McCain) have resorted to mocking and<br>
ridiculing Obama. McCain used the "anointed" metaphor, great poet that he is. He conveniently<br>omitted application of that metaphor to George W. Bush, who has informed us repeatedly<br>(and Sarah Palin agrees with him) that it was through divine revelation that he made the<br>
decision to launch his war of imperialist aggression against Iraq.<br><br>Oh, yes, and by the way--McCain used the expression "My friends..." eleven times last night.<br><br>Pro Deo et patria--<br><br>Sic transit gloria mundi.<br>
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