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America's coming war with China

by Leon Fisher, Unknown News
leonjfisher@webtv.net       October 15, 2007

America's unenviable situation in relation to China is a mess of our own making, or more accurately, a mess made by Wall Street, with the help of their bought and paid for political whores in Washington. They justified the uprooting of America's manufacturing base and the outsourcing of American jobs to China and elsewhere with the promise that this "Free Trade", as the Wall Street Capitalists like to call this criminal act, would be good for the American worker. As it has turned out, this was nothing but a pack of lies.

The gigantic imbalance of trade, especially with China, is proof that this nonsense called "Free Trade" has failed miserably. The only Americans profiting from this dismal state of affairs are the Corporate thieves who engineered this obscene sell-out in the first place., while the average working man is rapidly losing his standard of living.

 
The corrupt economic and political leadership of the United States must be ousted and replaced with those whose priorities are that of the American people, not Wall Street nor any of the myriad domestic and foreign lobbies which presently influence policy making in Washington.

Nothing short of this will save us from endless war, economic ruin, and martial law imposed by the corporate-fascists in Washington and their rubber stamp Congress.
And while the politicians pontificate about National Security, American Dollars flood into China, enabling the Communist dictatorship (that's right folks, the same tyrants who control things with zero tolerance for dissent, remember the Tiananmen Square massacre?) to build the Peoples Liberation Army into a modern fighting force second to none.

When the Chinese communists finally move to take back Taiwan, having only waited this long to build up their amphibious capability, should the US dare to oppose them our .military will find itself on the receiving end this time. No cakewalk like Grenada, Panama, Bosnia, or Iraq, but a major military power with modern weapons and inexhaustible manpower reserves.

The US military locked horns with the Chinese Peoples Army during the Korean War in the early 1950s. They attacked us at the Chosen Reservoir in North Korea, which precipitated the longest retreat of US Forces in American military history. They fought us to a standstill in Korea with basic weaponry and no air force to speak of.

A conventional war with China would entail massive casualties on both sides -- hundreds of thousands of Americans and Chinese would be killed and wounded in a very short time, fighting for control of the vast reserves of oil in the Middle East. With America's manufacturing infrastructure no longer capable of supporting a major war such as it did in World War II, American military forces would be at a definite disadvantage, suffering from shortages of all kinds. With American ground forces being bled white, US military planners would have to go nuclear to stave off defeat.

However, China, having a nuclear arsenal of its own and a missile system in which to deliver them, would give even the most hawkish of American military and political leaders second thoughts.

It is therefore unthinkable that a war with China could in any way be in America's interests. Besides the possibility of defeat in a conventional war, and the destruction of American cities and the deaths of millions of Americans if the war escalates into a nuclear exchange, add total American economic failure to this scenario -- all triggered whenever China pulls the plug, so dependant upon China has America become.

 
In order to avoid becoming further bogged down the road of economic and military disaster, such as an attack on Iran which the present occupiers in the White House are pushing for, the corrupt economic and political leadership of the United States must be ousted and replaced with those whose priorities are that of the American people, not Wall Street nor any of the myriad domestic and foreign lobbies which presently influence policy making in Washington.

Nothing short of this will save us from endless war, economic ruin, and martial law imposed by the corporate-fascists in Washington and their rubber stamp Congress.

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