William Kristol
Kristol: Another Dishonorable
Chicken-hawk
by Cindy Sheehan
www.commondreams.org/, September
5, 2007
I know just a little bit about Mr. William
Kristol:
He is the son of one of the founders of
the "neo-conservative" movement, Irving Kristol .
He is a commentator on Fox News.
He was Chief of Staff for one of the political
"geniuses" of our time: VP Dan Quayle.
He is editor of another Rupert Murdoch
war-propaganda rag, "The Weekly Standard."
He is a member, and signer, of the Project
for the New American Century , which is a game plan for US global
hegemony based on military strength and one of its goals and objectives
was the over-throw of the Hussein Regime in Iraq with a next stop
in Iran and Syria (because the PNAC plan is going so well, so
far).
By all accounts, Mr. Kristol is a brilliant
man, who like his father before him, uses his brilliance for destruction.
He is a shameless supporter of a failed, murderous, and miserable
strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan and one of the "mushroom
cloud" crowd.
One thing Mr. William Kristol is not,
is a combat vet.
Although he was born in 1952, he never
served during Vietnam. I am sure while at Harvard he was a staunch
supporter of the American effort to enrich the war profiteers
while ostensibly stopping that war's "enemy" communism
from spreading across Asia. Secure in his studies during that
quagmire, Kristol joins a long line of neo-con chicken-hawks who
are drenched in other people's blood and love to send other people's
children to die for their lies.
I don't know anything, or care to know
anything about Mr. Kristol's private life. I don't care if he
is another closeted gay Republican or is a happily married hetero
with children. I do suspect, however, that if Mr. Kristol is married,
his children are not serving in Iraq, being misused by the very
same incompetent and cowardly Commander in Chief (who also did
not serve in Vietnam) that Mr. Kristol shamelessly supports while
the entire administration and Republican hypocrites are crumbling
from corruption and scandal.
I do know one thing for sure about Mr.
Kristol, he does not like to be bothered with those pesky little
things called facts. On February 20, 2003, Mr. Kristol incredibly
gushed: "If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected
in the Arab world." This statement shows an amazing lack
of knowledge of the Arab world or any kind of foreign policy sophistication
(but does show a great use of Rovian-Foxian expolitation of emotion).
No one in the Arab world (except maybe, Israel, which is geographically
located in the "Arab world") was calling for the US
to "free" Iraqis. No one from Iraq except "Curveball"
or the slimy and profit-motivated, Ahmad Chalabi, both Iraqis
who weren't even living in the country at the time of the invasion
were calling on the USA to liberate them. In fact, after many
years of murderous sanctions against Iraq, a fierce nationalism
arose in opposition to the US-UN led sanctions. According to National
Intelligence Estimates, since the illegal and immoral invasion
of Iraq, Islamic Jihadism has increased. Mr. Kristol is also incredibly
ignorant of human nature and human history. No peoples like to
be occupied. No child, brother or sister, or mother or father,
who sees a loved one blown away by American or insurgent's bombs
will love the oppressor. In fact, violence only creates more violence
and more life-long enemies.
Now Mr. Kristol is safe behind his desk
and computer calling for another attack against Iran. I think
he hears the non-existent cries of the Iranian people to be liberated
from their regime. The Iranian people are directly next-door to
Iraq and they see what US "liberation" brings. It comes
with the awful price of high civilian casualties; hospitals bombed,
Doctors killed; no electricity or clean water; and eternal occupation.
In a recent op-ed for The Weekly Standard,
Mr. Kristol makes many more tactical and fundamental errors. The
ANSWER coalition is calling for mass mobilizations begining the
week (Sept. 15) that the White House authored Petraeus report
on the surge is due. Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War
(IVAW), who are leading the September 15th march, are calling
for a "die-in" to end the march and begin the rally.
The vets, unlike the chicken-hawk neocons, have actually served
in war, particularly the one that Mr. Kristol imagines is such
a success. IVAW is asking activists to represent a killed service-member
and at an appropriate time lie down. Taps will be played and also
a simulated 21-gun salute. It sounds respectful to me, being the
mom of one of the soldiers, and I will proudly, yet sorrowfully,
be lying down for my son that day. Many of the march/rally participants
will be "dying" to represent the hundreds of thousands
of Iraqis who have been killed for Mr. Kristol's deceptions.
Mr. Kristol calls on the "honorable"
members of the anti-war movement to denounce the die-in and lumps
MoveOn.org with other organizers of the die-in. MoveOn is not
associated with the die-in as they do not support non-violent,
direct civil disobedience. What I find so amusing is that Mr.
PNAC-Fox News-Chicken-hawk has made himself the judge of what
is honorable.
Mr. Kristol has a problem with the anti-war
movement using the names of the fallen without the permission
of the families. No one got my permission when my sons portrait
was used in the pro-war memorial at Arlington Cemetery. Casey's
name and likeness has been used by pro-war people all over the
nation without my permission. Why is that okay, Mr. Kristol? I
know for a fact such memorials as Arlington West, Eyes Wide Open
and our memorial at Camp Casey would remove names of soldiers
at the next of kin's request. If any family member so requests,
I am sure IVAW will do the same thing-but a word of caution:
Even though the members of IVAW (all my
adopted sons and daughters) have a big problem with the occupation
of Iraq and with the Bush crime family, they served their country
honorably (unlike Mr. Kristol) and they all fought side-by-side
with the fallen. They love their brothers and sisters and they
would themselves have died to take the place of any one of them.
Do not, never, ever, claim that we families, or the Iraq Vets
are dishonoring our sons and daughters killed by the lies of The
Weekly Standard , Fox News, BushCo., et al. That is the biggest
lie of all, or maybe it's this one that Mr. Kristol told on March
1, 2003:
"Very few wars in American history
were prepared better or more thoroughly than this one by this
president."
I would laugh if I weren't crying so hard.
If Mr. Kristol gets his PNAC way, by this
time next year, we will need a lot more people at a die-in.
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