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For the last three days the bombs
and rockets have been falling on Iraq, again.
The military, our military not
the coalition, is waging all out war on the civilian population of that
place that was a nation, and now's it's just a land of hatred, bigotry and
all out war, again.
The targets of the high
explosives amid a lethal rain of lead, are compounded by withering fire
from US C-130 gun ships, backed up by sorties from fighter aircraft and
jet bombers: all of this is being directed at armed and hostile people
inside Fallujah, and outside Najef. These people are resisting the
unlawful US occupation of their country. If that place were in the USA,
instead of Iraq, we as citizens would probably be equally opposed to
whoever's forces had come to kill us in our homes and towns. That is in
the nature of any population that deems themselves to have been a country
wrongfully invaded.
The Marines have repeatedly
insisted that they are not being aggressive, that all these actions are as
precise as possible, and are in any case merely defensive. That's because
they are being fired upon and that they (the US Marines) have the right to
defend themselves. This is the equivalent of bandits in the night kicking
in the door of your house, and finding that you are armed decide to
compound this invasion by attempting to kill you. What is galling is that
when caught in the act of this outrage, the bandits then say that were
only firing in "self-defense."
This piece of slander is what our
servile media continues to spew out, regarding what is happening in Iraq
as this is being written. It also happens to be an outright lie! There are
no other formal military forces present in that country. Therefore there
is no reason why the US military could not simply pull back, out of range
of the civilian defenders, and simply wait it out. If the US and its
sympathizers really gave a damn about the Iraqi people, as the people they
say we went there to liberate from oppression-then that is exactly what we
would do. But that is not what we are doing there, because we are not
interested in those people's lives, only in the vaunted and undeserved
reputation of our military force, and the macho image of GWB.
To continue to pretend that we
care, while we watch GI's machine-gunning the population is beyond
ludicrous.
The United States, as a sovereign
power is supposed to use its military force with some degree of
discretion, we do not. Circumspection is for weaklings: Besides in this
case that would involve the outright recognition that for every action
taken, there will always be an equal and opposite reaction. In this case
perhaps, the Iraqis reaction, may come to be more than equal to the damage
we will have done to that country, in the end.
This goes to the careful and
considered use of our military power, so that at the end of the day, the
people in country can be united as a people, and not come to see
themselves as simply a conquered bunch of American slaves. We did not
choose this course. We chose instead to intimidate whenever possible, to
humiliate whenever the situation presented itself, and none of this was
lost upon the people of Iraq.
What has been lost is any
possible shred of goodwill, whether from the Iraqi people or from any of
the members of the world community, with the exception of the Brits, and
of course the Israelis who will ultimately be the beneficiaries of this
thuggery that we're calling a war.
Since George HW Bush began his
war upon Iraq, the USA has been at war there. That includes the
intervening twelve years of sanctions that killed a half a million Iraqi
children, plus the 24-7 bombing runs by both the US and the Brits over the
no-fly zones that further rendered Iraq to be a virtually defenseless
place. While Bush was announcing our bloodthirsty attack, Iraq was
actually dismantling the few older missiles they did posses. When
nightfall came and the stealth fighters began to drop their loads of
bunker-busting bombs, and the night skies over Baghdad were illuminated by
the bursting of the ordinance and the hell-fire rain of lead and flames
rose over the capital of Iraq, there was virtually no resistance. There
was no Iraqi Air Force, beyond the uniforms, because there were no planes,
there were no missile batteries of any consequence. There were however
some anti-aircraft weapons left over from the 91 war, but they were
powerless against the might of our aerial onslaught.
What we were doing on television
screens around the world was nothing so grand as defending the freedom of
the United States or protecting ourselves from an immanent threat-no we
were simply slaughtering what was left of the corpse of the nation we
fought with in 1991.
The only party to that attack, by
the US, that could have been allowed to claim the right of self-defense
was Iraq. And if they had, the world could have never heard it over the
sounds of the bombs that were shredding the government and the
infrastructure of Iraq, for the duration of our glorious invasion of a
defenseless place. That act was a war crime according to the terms of the
Nuremberg Tribunal, yet no nation has brought that charge forward to date.
What is going on now should
comprise another chapter in the original war crime, because this time we
are taking a page directly from the Israelis, in the way that they have
been treating the Palestinians since 1948. There are very specific things
that no occupying force may do to those who they are responsible for,
because they are the occupying power. Israel has never paid much heed to
any of that kind of talk, because it goes against the aims of the band of
thugs that have hijacked that US territory that calls itself a country.
Now we has adopted their
barbarous tactics, and in so doing we have placed ourselves and our
interests beyond the reach of international law and the conventions of the
civilized community of nations. And none of this has been lost upon a
watching world that is repulsed with shame and anger at what has become a
daily drubbing of defenseless people by a superpower that is neither
Super, nor even much of a power, unless they have their armies to enforce
their will upon an unarmed foe. That's the Israeli way: where tanks are
rolled out to murder children who throw rocks, but that's not something
that a truly powerful nation should ever stoop to be involved in. Watch
for this to be coming soon to the people of Iraq.
Our resident in the Tarnished
House has said that he has given his commanders on the ground complete
control over the unfolding military actions now taking place. Bush did
this even though he's been told repeatedly that the situations in these
towns in Iraq are far too sensitive to allow our military to simply attack
them. Bush has once again overridden common sense and all thoughts of
diplomacy, by taking the decision to fire, away from the commanders, and
giving it to 1st lieutenants and captains in the field who are mostly only
children really. His justification is the protection of the marauders
(that would be us), from the terrorist insurgents (that would be the
population of the towns). In this he has missed the entire point of the
exercise that he says he came to Iraq to perform: namely the liberation of
the Iraqi people.
Either Bush is lying once again,
about his reasons for attacking in the first place; or he's too stupid to
see that by doing this, even though the military situation has never been
in any doubt (we will win, because we have the weapons) - In the end we
will have created generations that will hate us forever. Hourly we add to
this number of lives, that we are decimating, solely because those in
charge of this war are idiots.
Yet the military and the
politicians are not alone on this one. Americans are watching along with
the rest of the world, and so far at least, there has been no outcry, no
public demand here that we stop this senseless and inhuman slaughter.
Why not? Has there not been
enough death in Iraq already? How much is enough?
We have allowed people who have
no military experience, with the exception of Colin Powell, and he's been
nothing in this but a compliant coward, to take over this nation. Bush
never even set foot outside the country before he became president. He
knows zip about world affairs, so how is it that this one tiny screwed-up
psychopath has been allowed to cause so much death and destruction around
the planet? We are complicit in this with him because we watched it all
and we said nothing: and still we cannot seem to find the words to call a
halt to this obscenity! Why not?
Do not think that the world will
ever forget this little war, because they won't, We have allowed Bush
& his Bandits to squander the good will of the entire world community
after 911. And because, as we discovered only after he came into office
(because we chose not to question who he was), that Bush has none of the
humanity that makes a man mature. He understands nothing he cannot under
any circumstance perceive the life of any other human being. It is this
singular fact that makes everything he does so dangerous. Because of this
he can never sympathize, he has no conception of what it means to have to
work; he has no idea what it means to miss a meal. Bush is nothing but an
empty shell brought up on other peoples money, and imbued with nothing but
his own self-interest.
We've had presidents before who
were less than sterling people-but never anything as horrible as George W.
Bush. He's robbed us blind, he's lied about every aspect of everything
that his administration has tried to do and he's broken so many laws, that
he's made the law itself an ass. And still he sits there smug and goofy,
unable even to define the deeds his henchmen do. They're betting on us, to
keep silent, to share his glee at the way we crush all opposition to his
dictates! Can you be bought that cheap? Think about it please...
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