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Two Teds to the Rescue?

Sen.Kennedy's campaign to nullify Congress' authorization of war against Iraq is a long shot at best. Everyone must stay in bed the day the war begins -- and don't get up until it ends.
Don't look now, but Ted Turner just up and quit his job at AOL Time-Warner. Just because the corporation dropped a cool $100 billion in 2002? Perhaps. But Captain Outrageous wasn't at the helm of that turkey, and apparently has lost all desire for mixing it up in corporate warfare with his entire nation on the brink of a far more serious disaster. Perhaps he is now on a mission to make the world safe for his old hunting buddy in Cuba -- as well as everyone else on our perilous planet.

Another Ted has responded to the Bush administration's stretch run at plunging the Middle East into desperate turmoil by launching a drive to nullify Congress' authorization for war to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein. This is a truly extraordinary proposal, and one that Sen. Kennedy would only pursue if the matter were truly grave.

This is much bigger than just a war against Iraq. The U.S. government has been taken over by a cabal of Bonapartist aspiring dictators who rode to power behind a phalanx of state police roadblocks at polling places in Afro-American neighborhoods in Talahassee on election day in 2000. Their intention of establishing a U.S. global empire based on military domination has been well established. Ted Turner is well aware of the program. It was brought to light by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Problem is, it can't happen the way Bush and his imperial cronies envision it. The geoploitical cleavages that are emerging from Bush's drive for military domination of the Middle East are already apparent, and they seem to resemble the global configuration portrayed by George Orwell in "1984 "-- Oceania (U.S and the U.K.), Eurasia (Germany, France and Russia) and East Asia (Japan and China). And such a state of affairs is not conducive to democracy anywhere -- it can only be enforced on the global masses through brutally dictatorial regimes in all nations.

Can the Two Teds prevent this? Don't bet on it. Wall Street might be uneasy about the whole mess, but the financial magnates who benefit from all the power games in Washington were euphoric about the prospect of a GOP trifecta in the federal government last fall. Indeed, the Dow rallied by more than one thousand points in October, 2002, as it became clear that the Republicans would sweep into clear majoritiies in both houses of Congress come Novemeber.

No. The responsibility for preventing this nightmarish state of affairs rests with America's working masses. We must shut down the war machine by shutting down the country. Stay home from work on the day the war against Iraq begins. And don't return to work until it ends. The future is in our hands -- and our hands only.

Global solidarity forever,
Hal Sutton, trustee
UAW Local 1268
 
 

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