His Majesty King Abdullah addresses a Washington meeting on Monday of leaders of Muslim and Arab organisations, which Her Majesty Queen Rania also attended (Photo by Yousef Allan)
When a voter casts their ballot this November they have a lot riding on it. War and Peace and Middle East Stability is 'at risk' depending on the leadership of the country. That includes election races for the Senate and House.
Choosing a President, US Senator and US House member carries brevity to the 'content' of which the world will regard the USA. The Bush/Cheney Neocon White House promotes war at every turn. They promote the sale of arms and they CREATE 'arms races' with countries the USA at one time protected and defended.
Under leadership that now defines the Republican Party, the USA 'contributes' to instability by encouraging war rather than limiting the regions ability to wage war. We don't need that kind of President or one too naive to understand the concept. We need a President that defines themselves as a Peace Broker with the ability to 'help' the Middle East obtain stability and movement away from violence.
Currently, the Republicans 'justify' their position in the Middle East as a national security issue. The ONLY reason it is a national security issue is because of oil exports to the USA. The countries of the Middle East are working diligently to control the growth of al Qaeda terrorist networks and Saudi Arabia has successfully been rounding up these characters for some time now on a regular basis:
28 Al-Qaeda Militants Arrested in KingdomP.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News (click here)
JEDDAH, 4 March 2008 — Saudi Security forces have arrested 28 militants, who were involved in rebuilding the Al-Qaeda network in Saudi Arabia to launch another campaign of terror across the Kingdom, an Interior Ministry spokesman said in a statement.
The militants had been collecting funds on the pretext of supporting the needy in Pakistan and Afghanistan — money that was, in fact, being used “to finance their criminal activities,” said the spokesman.
One of those arrested was carrying a recorded message of Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman Al-Zawahri on the memory card of a cell phone. “The bearer of this message is one of our trusted brothers, therefore, please give him your donations to help hundreds of families of captives and martyrs in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Al-Zawahri said in the audio recording aired by the Kingdom’s state television.
The Interior Ministry spokesman added that a person visiting Makkah had brought the recording to the Kingdom.
56 Arrests Since December...
At the same time the Republicans provide 'no way out' for the USA Energy and Transportation Crisis and as a result they continue to hold the American Public hostage to their own wars, 'in the interest of national security.' It's like being a hamster on an excercise wheel or a rat in a maze. The Republicans have no 'good faith' methods to improve the lives of Americans so much as 'trap' them into chronic war on the soil of Middle East instability.
It's time to 'end it' and stop the 'war escalation' which leads to exceptionally dangerous levels of available weapons in the Middle East as well as nuclear escalation. The issue with Pakistan and India having nuclear weapon capacity is what drives this methodology currently 'at work' in the Bush/Cheney/Republican White House. Those countries are NOT one of the five legal nuclear nations and need to have demands to disarm from their nuclear arsenal. This is not 'rocket science' in that there are proven methodologies to convert 'weapons grade uranium' into nuclear fuel rods.
