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US general issues warning: politics must not interfere with 100-year “war on terror”
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Wednesday December 20, 2006 15:20 by Terence
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As if war has nothing to do with politics!
One of the high ranking nut-cases in the Pentagon, Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, an Air Force commander and the Defense Department’s deputy director for the “war on terrorism" has warned last week that the “global war on terror” will go on for another 50 to 100 years and voiced concern that “politics” not be allowed to interfere with the protracted struggle
Who are these people? Such argument if it can be even called that, shows how depraved those in power are. As reported in the link below, one of the high ranking generals has warned of madness. Yes thats right, he actually said the War on Terrorism which is really the War of Terrorism waged by the USA, must go on for at least the next 50 to 100 years and the best one yet is that politics must not interfere with it.
While it is obviously daft, unfortunately this nut-case high ranking global terrorist who is part of the Bush Administration and representative in the military for capitalism can't be that stupid and what it really means is that you no-one should darn to interfere politically. This means the War of Terror will be continued no matter what anyone thinks or says and is a good indicator of how truly undemocratic things have become. It is a very ominous warning.
Taking some quotes from the report (URL below), here's an some good examples of what horror the future holds.
....The remarks were made by Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, an Air Force commander and the Defense Department’s deputy director for the “war on terrorism.” He made them in an exclusive interview with the Washington Times, the right-wing daily owned by the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
“We’re in a generational war,” he told the paper. “You can try and fight the enemy where they are and where they’re attacking you, or prevent them and defend your own homeland,” he said.
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...Difficult indeed. How is the “public will” to wage global warfare for the next century to be maintained, particularly when “politics” gets in the way?
Given the political context of Schissler remarks, his warnings have unmistakable and chilling implications.
Barely six weeks ago, the Bush administration, which initiated the “war on terror” and proclaimed Iraq to be its most important front, suffered a stunning defeat at the polls. The Republican Party’s loss of both houses of the US Congress was the result of mass popular opposition to the Iraq war.
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Not only is the American public unwilling to support a century of wars of aggression, it has reached the conclusion that the three-and-a-half-year-old war in Iraq should never have been launched and should be brought to a speedy end. This is the threat to the “American will” about which Gen. Schissler is so concerned.
This supposed “will” to wage war—what could better be described as a temporary and forced acquiescence—was achieved through political deception and intimidation, by terrorizing the population with the supposed threat of attack in the wake of the September 11, 2001 tragedy.
or should we say Sept 11th the Black Operation day used as a pretext to enable the War of Terror to be foisted on the people and their consitutional rights to be stripped away.
The full report can be found at the link below.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3I've heard something similar before, some bloke ranting on about a 'Thousand-year Reich.' The US military blood-lust kicked off with the first Indian they slew and hasn't been slated since . . . .
The original article didn't make any reference to "September 11th the Black Operations Day". Bringing daft conspiracy theories about 9/11 into the mix just distracts attention from the real crimes of the war mongers in the US ruling class
USA seems more and more to model itself after Turkey, without the secularism - Praise Jesus + pass the Ammunition !