This is a picture of a destroyed vehicle in Southern Lebanon. It’s not the whole picture. On the bottom of the picture, cut off, is a very small child lying dead, killed by Israeli bombs. Click here for more graphic depictions of what Israel is doing to the innocent civilians of southern Lebanon. More pictures of “precision bombing” by Israel here. The Guardian wrote about it too, as children dying in a convoy attack, but it wasn’t just children. Unfortunately Isreal, according to Juan Cole, has vowed to cause “pain to the Lebanese”. I think it has achieved this objective, and then some. If you refuse to negotiate a peace, then you are likely to have to go on fighting a war, says Juan Cole on his blog on Thursday. I think we have all noticed by now how some governments, including the current Bush regime, seem to ridicule peace and treat it like a sickness they need to wipe out. Then there is this allegation: “Lebanon charged that the US blocked a UN Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire.” Face it: Israel and the Bush administration want war; mainly because it’s profitable by itself, or its outcome it. Maybe someone can explain why we give Israel over $3 billion per year, much of it earmarked for weapons. American taxpayers are funding their war against Lebanon, a fellow Democratic country. So we can somehow, some day, blame this all on Iran, and then really start the next world war.

Speaking of that, the Republicans may decide to promote ‘the long war’, the GWOT (Global War on Terror), the whole violent, volatile mess in the Middle East, and everything else that the Neocons have started or encouraged, as World War Three. And WWIII will be a perpetual way of life from now until eternity — in order to win elections for the GOP from now until eternity. So says Newt Gingrich. (Remember him?) “Let’s face it, it’s WWIII, Gingrich says” yesterday on Meet the Press. Therefore, it must be so, because Big Giant Head Newt says so. That adds plausibility to what we are doing there, of course, which benefits Republicans. Here is what Newt is afraid of: as more Americans seem to accept gay marriage and abortion as things they can and will “tolerate”, those items could soon disappear as issues for elections. So instead, the GOP can use WWIII as an excuse to keep them in power and “fighting the enemy” for ever and ever. Eternal war. That must be why they are promoting it and possibly blocking ceasefires. Any other explanation would mean they are just murders. Newt said, “. . . Bush needs to deliver a speech to Congress and “connect all the dots” for Americans.” We’re way ahead of you, Newt. Consider connnecting dots a “Mission Accomplished”.

Posted by Shelly from Citizen Against Lies