His acquiescence with its demand that he keep on Bush's secretary of "defence" and arch
warmaker, Robert Gates, is unique in US history.
Irony died decades ago but shame joined it in the grave when the
warmaker waved his olive branch.
But since the Democratic Party denies them their first choice, they will--naturally!--pick a hard-right
warmaker of staggering incompetence and no regard for either the Constitution or the needs of the people.
He makes the assertion that all religions have within their theologies enough alternatives for peacemaking and warmaking that anyone who wants to be a peacemaker can find something in their religion to justify it, and anyone wants to be a
warmaker can find something in their religion to justify it.
But how can Ariel Sharon run a land with so much death and destruction, when he is himself a
warmaker pretending to be a politician?
We hear a great deal about the "deadbeat dad," the insensitive male," the "hormone-driven
warmaker." The "problem with men," according to current wisdom, is that they are not women.
Clinton was also quite a prolific
warmaker. His Administration dealt a heavy blow to constitutional due process and increased the number of crimes for which the federal government could exact the death penalty.
We hear a great deal about the "deadbeat dad," the "insensitive male," the "hormone-driven
warmaker." The "problem with men," according to current wisdom, is that they are not women.
Our
warmaker in chief, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, has been described by the talking heads of cable TV as "a virtual rock star" and "a babe magnet for the 70-year-old set." More important, Rumsfeld's department has become a virtual money magnet, attracting $50 billion in spending increases since mid-September on the way to a budget that could hit $363 billion this year.
And, the United States helps the Saudi coalition
warmakers choose their targets.
His final reason is economical: he argues that guns were much more expensive in China than in Europe, and so European
warmakers got more bang for the buck.
"This shows that there are many more peacemakers than
warmakers," 37-year-old Zeeshan Abdullah, one of the organizers, told the crowd.