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I feel as if the American people are being held hostage by gangsters. We need other people and other nations to speak for us, and to rescue us. We have no representation in the White House or anywhere in the executive branch. They are utterly deaf to us. The Democratic Congress is not all that representative. It appears to be a bust, as to stopping Bush Junta aggression.
SEVENTY-FOUR PERCENT of the American people was this war stopped.
EIGHTY-FOUR PERCENT of the American people, polled last summer, oppose any U.S. participation in a widened Mideast war.
Yet they are escalating the existing war, and trying to start another. We came out in great numbers and outvoted the machines, to put people in Congress to end the war and change the country's direction--but I guess that the 5% to 10% Diebold/ES&S "thumb on the scales" for Bushites, warmongers and corporatists is really telling now. We cannot GET a responsive Congress.
The comment upthread that Putin is just seeing to Russia's economic interest (in Iran) was off point. What else should he be seeing to? That is his job. And, in this case, his job is to stop a war that will harm the interests of his people. And if that helps us, that's fine with me. The Bush Junta is a rogue state, with the entire U.S. military under its thumb. They ARE what they said Saddam Hussein was--a danger to everyone. He wasn't a big danger. THEY are. And Iran is a danger to no one. They haven't killed 100,000 innocent people by bombing. They haven't destroyed a country. They aren't running torture dungeons all over the planet. That's what Putin is saying. They want nukes because they are SCARED. Nuke proliferation is spinning out of control because of Bush Junta aggression.
I'm not a Putin fan. But then there aren't many politicians that I am a fan of. That is beside the point. The point is that NO ONE can engage in normal trade, and normal life, and normal international relations, with this rogue monster roaming the globe, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people, threatening relatively Innocent nations, and stomping all over the international agreements that hold the world's fragile peace together.
What worries me is that Putin feels compelled to say it publicly. I had figured that some quiet talks were going on, including China (which also has a big interest in Iranian oil), Russia, European nations (especially those in proximity to the Bushites' proposed scene of conflagration), Mideast nations and others, to defuse the situation, and to allow the Bushites to provide cover for a US retreat from Iraq. That's what I've been hoping the buildup of the US fleet in the Persian Gulf was really for. Now I'm worried that, whatever may have been going on behind the scenes, has broken down. A public statement like this indicates as much.
We need to think: What is Putin trying to accomplish by it? Rallying other nations? Rallying the UN? Deterrence? Counter-threat? Something has gone wrong, that he is trying to correct or influence. Is he perhaps trying to influence Congress to get rid of these bad actors? But frankly it seems like a cry in the wilderness. Like he's thrown up his hands.
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