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William Kristol, another dishonorable
chicken-hawk
Cindy Sheehan
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Thursday September 6, 2007
I know just a little bit about Mr.
William Kristol.
He is the son of
one of the founders of the "neoconservative" movement, Irving
Kristol.
He is a commentator
on Fox News.
He was chief of
staff for one of the political "geniuses" of our time: VP Dan
Quayle.
He is editor of
another Rupert Murdoch war-propaganda rag, "The Weekly Standard."
He is a member,
and signer, of the Project
for the New American Century, which is a game plan
for US global hegemony based on military strength and one of its
goals and objectives was the over-throw of the Hussein Regime
in Iraq with a next stop in Iran and Syria (because the PNAC plan
is going so well, so far).
By all accounts,
Mr. Kristol is a brilliant man, who, like his father before him,
uses his brilliance for destruction. He is a shameless supporter
of a failed, murderous, and miserable strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan
and one of the "mushroom cloud" crowd.
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One thing Mr. William
Kristol is not, is a combat vet.
Although he was
born in 1952, he never served during Vietnam. I am sure while
at Harvard he was a staunch supporter of the American effort to
enrich the war profiteers, while ostensibly stopping that war's
"enemy" communism from spreading across Asia. Secure in his
studies during that quagmire, Kristol joins a long line of neocon
chicken hawks who are drenched in other people's blood and love
to send other people's children to die for their lies.
I don't know anything,
or care to know anything about Mr. Kristol's private life. I don't
care if he is another closeted gay Republican or is a happily
married hetero with children. I do suspect, however, that if Mr.
Kristol is married, his children are not serving in Iraq, being
misused by the very same incompetent and cowardly commander in
chief (who also did not serve in Vietnam) that Mr. Kristol shamelessly
supports, while the entire administration and Republican hypocrites
are crumbling from corruption and scandal.
I do know one thing
for sure about Mr. Kristol, he does not like to be bothered with
those pesky little things called facts. On February 20, 2003,
Mr. Kristol incredibly gushed: "If we free the people of Iraq,
we will be respected in the Arab world." This statement shows
an amazing lack of knowledge of the Arab world or any kind of
foreign policy sophistication (but does show a great use
of Rovian-Foxian expolitation of emotion). No one in the
Arab world (except maybe, Israel, which is geographically located
in the "Arab world") was calling for the US to "free" Iraqis.
No one from Iraq. except "Curveball" or the slimy and profit-motivated
Ahmad Chalabi, both Iraqis who weren't even living in the country
at the time of the invasion, was calling on the USA to liberate
them. In fact, after many years of murderous sanctions against
Iraq, a fierce nationalism arose in opposition to the US-UN led
sanctions. According to National
Intelligence Estimates, since the illegal and immoral invasion
of Iraq, Islamic jihadism has increased. Mr. Kristol
is also incredibly ignorant of human nature and human history.
No peoples like to be occupied. No child, brother or sister, or
mother or father, who sees a loved one blown away by American
or insurgents' bombs will love the oppressor. In fact, violence
only creates more violence and more life-long enemies.
Now Mr. Kristol
is safe behind his desk and computer calling for another attack
against Iran. I think he hears the nonexistent cries of the Iranian
people to be liberated from their regime. The Iranian people are
directly next-door to Iraq and they see what US "liberation" brings.
It comes with the awful price of high civilian casualties, hospitals
bombed, doctors killed, no electricity or clean water, and eternal
occupation.
In a recent op-ed
for The
Weekly Standard, Mr. Kristol makes many more tactical
and fundamental errors. The ANSWER
coalition is calling for mass mobilizations beginning the
week (Sept. 15) that the White House-authored Petraeus report
on the surge is due. Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War
(IVAW), who are leading the September 15 march, are calling for
a "die-in" to end the march and begin the rally. The vets, unlike
the chicken hawk neocons, have actually served in war, particularly
the one that Mr. Kristol imagines is such a success. IVAW is asking
activists to represent a killed service member and at an appropriate
time lie down. Taps will be played and also a simulated 21-gun
salute. It sounds respectful to me, being the mom of one of the
soldiers, and I will proudly, yet sorrowfully, be lying down
for my son that day. Many of the march/rally participants will
be "dying" to represent the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who
have been killed for Mr. Kristol's deceptions.
Mr. Kristol calls
on the "honorable" members of the antiwar movement to denounce
the die-in and lumps MoveOn.org with other organizers of the die-in.
MoveOn is not associated with the die-in as they do not support
non-violent, direct civil disobedience. What I find so amusing
is that Mr. PNAC-Fox News-Chicken-hawk has made himself the judge
of what is honorable.
Mr. Kristol has
a problem with the antiwar movement using the names of the fallen
without the permission of the families. No one got my permission
when my son's portrait was used in the pro-war memorial at Arlington
Cemetery. Casey's name and likeness has been used by pro-war people
all over the nation without my permission. Why is that okay, Mr.
Kristol? I know for a fact such memorials as Arlington West, Eyes
Wide Open and our memorial at Camp Casey would remove names of
soldiers at the next of kin's request. If any family member so
requests, I am sure IVAW will do the same thing -- but a word
of caution.
Even though the
members of IVAW (all my adopted sons and daughters) have a big
problem with the occupation of Iraq and with the Bush crime family,
they served their country honorably (unlike Mr. Kristol) and they
all fought side-by-side with the fallen. They love their brothers
and sisters and they would themselves have died to take the place
of any one of them. Do not, never, ever, claim that we families,
or the Iraq Vets are dishonoring our sons and daughters killed
by the lies of The Weekly Standard, Fox
News, BushCo., et al. That is the biggest lie of all, or maybe
it's this one that Mr. Kristol told on March 1, 2003:
"Very few wars in
American history were prepared better or more thoroughly than
this one by this president."
I would laugh if
I weren't crying so hard.
If Mr. Kristol gets
his PNAC way, by this time next year, we will need a lot more
people at a die-in.
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