FIGHT THE EMPIRE! Linda
"There are many ways in which the U.S. controls foreign nations. Let’s look at Egypt, for example. The Egyptian military is mainly supplied by the U.S. But, the U.S. has put limits on the independence of the Egyptian military by limiting stocks of spare parts as well as controlling Egyptian military communications. If the Egyptian army ever becomes a threat to Israel, the spare parts shipments would be halted.
"The main task for Egypt’s military is to protect Hosni Mubarak, the country’s president. He is in the pockets of the U.S. and he must remain in power without opposition.
"The control of Egypt does not end with keeping tabs on its military power. The country must rely on outside help to feed its quickly-growing population. The U.S. supplies four million tons of wheat a year to Egypt through aid programs that must be approved by the U.S. Congress. Many of those who vote to retain the aid programs are staunch supporters of Israel. Mubarak knows this and he does not rock the boat. If he did, his country would quickly suffer a devastating famine.
"Many Democrats criticize the Bush administration about its foreign policy, but their record is not much better. To ensure the continuation of the embargo against Iraq in the 1990s, Clinton spokespeople consistently lied about its weapons of mass destruction. More Iraqis died during Clinton’s tenure than under the two Bush regimes. Madeleine Albright, Clinton’s secretary of state, when asked if the embargo was worth the lives of a million Iraqi children, unhesitatingly answered, "Yes."
"Bush II has merely escalated the xenophobia and ethnocentrism that grips much of the U.S. He has taken the concept of world domination up a notch or two. Clinton was more subtle about U.S. hegemony. He never made the statement that Bush did when he promised "to export death and violence to the four corners of the Earth in defense of this grate country and rid the world of evil."
"Omar Barghouti, an independent Palestinian political analyst, stated:
"We are witnessing the ominous rise of the most powerful
empire ever to exist. Judging from consistent media
reports and opinion polls, the rest of the world seems
to view it as a menacing rogue state that is arrogantly
bullying other nations, east and west, north and south,
into unqualified submission to its self-declared
designs for world domination and incontestable economic
supremacy.
"He has aptly stated how the rest of the word sees the U.S. — a view totally opposite to that shared by most Americans. He added:
A century and a half after officially abolishing slavery in
the U.S., the new-old masters have a diabolical agenda
to resurrect it, except this time on a worldwide scale.
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