Diversions

The Bush-ites want war with Iran. Our troops are already on the ground there. Most of the Generals and Admirals in the Pentagon think they the Bush-ites are nuts, even Jack Straw-the British statesman that ardently supports the Iraq conflict- seeks to dissuade the Bush team. The deep seated psychosis which afflicts Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and co., seems to know no bounds....The Bush-ites claim the Iranians are building an atomic bomb, just like they implied Saddam was. The CIA says Iran is many years away from this feat, so there are other reasons- to further the junta's agenda of mineral-stealing, to distract people away from the legion of failed and fascistic domestic policies,to expand the empire. If Israel gave up its illegal nuclear arsenal of bombs (200+), then certainly the mullahs could be convinced to scale back their atomic efforts.....


The election in Mexico is deadlocked....

The Republicans in Florida in 2000 hired a company called ChoicePoint to draw up a list of 'felons' , so they could be scrubbed off the voter rolls- 95,000 were named, only almost all of them were NOT felons, and the vast majority of names on the list were black Democrats. Then Choicepoint was paid by Jeb Bush's office NOT to doublecheck its list, which is illegal. If the list had never been made, Gore would have won Florida by about 80,000 votes , instead of losing it by about 500. When investigative journalist Greg Palast tried to interview the key politicos involved in the payoff to not re-check the list, officials literally ran out of the interview, 60 minutes style, attempting to hide from the cameras.

Choicepoint corporation was sent down to Mexico, apparently to perform a similar service on behalf of the administrations client neocon candidate, Calderon. The populist candidate, Obrador has cried foul, and will to take to the streets. (Unlike Gore- afterall, the US race was just a contest between two millionaire frat boys...).