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Bush Keeps Americans in Dark
Whatever happened to the 9/11 investigation? Why has the Bush
administration fought off efforts to find the backers of 9/11? Where
is bin Ladin? Why have we abandoned Afghanistan instead of rebuilding
it as promised after we invaded Afghanistan to capture bin Ladin? What
changed our relationship with Saddam Hussein, the butcher of Baghdad,
yet onetime staunch U. S. anti-communist ally, so that we finally had
to invade Iraq in order to "liberate" the Iraqis?
None of the above questions have been answered to date and the Bush
administration wants to keep Americans in the dark. The plan has
always been to achieve U.S. business dominance and Iraq is simply the
latest pathetic third world country to suffer a massacre at the hands
of the greatest military power in history. Remember, Bush said from
the start that even if Saddam left Iraq, the U.S. would invade anyway.
The U.S. did invade. Now the U.S. is threatening Syria and Iran with
the same fate unless they welcome U.S. business dominance. It appears
that our young people are fighting and dying for U.S. business. The
peace movement had it only half right. The invasion was not just about
oil; it was about Iraq's oil, water, roads, trains, phones, ports and
drugs.
The U.S. installed puppet government will dole out the contracts to
corporate insiders to sell of Iraq's assets to benefit U.S. business.
Meanwhile, the Ba'athists are quietly slipping back into office. Our
thugs now. The propaganda mill rolls on.
--Howard Pellett
PCC Fan
I have just finished reading Jan.Feb. 2003 response by Trudy Bialic to
a "PCC should allow free newspapers" previous mail statement.
For some reason which I find it difficult to understand you chose to
headline her response with an editorial - "we allow free papers - just
not most of them" and then at the end of her response editorialized
again saying the "free" press was not one of the "few" chosen.
Excuse me, but the PCC I shop at offers The Stranger, The Weekly, The
New Times, and more, plus has someone selling Real Change outside.
I am really tired of both the Right (boycott France) and the Left (gee
you're a real business) whining.
I own a small business of my own and what is wrong with a business
trying to earn a damn living these days and pay employees. So what
they're a co-op, they have to make money to pay the bills--this is not
hippy dippy land. Get a life.
Besides--you are trying to earn a living too. In fact on the front of
the paper it implies that I have gotten just a sample copy and I can
now "subscribe" (that means send you money) because this will NOT BE
DISTRIBUTED IN THE SAME PLACE NEXT TIME.
So what's the FREE that gives you the right to trash a locally owned
small business who does this community a lot of good?
--Susan L. Zuege, PCC "co-op" member
What more could anyone want besides the Stranger, the Weekly, the New
Times, and a few other commercial papers on PCC's free racks? --ed.
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