- It would be comical if the very president whose whole
pretext for existing was predicated on hyping up the U.S. military to unnecessarily
scary levels turned out to be the loser who revealed to the world that
American defenses were nothing but disoriented kids no match for desert
tough guys " plus mighty machines that don't work in bad weather and
a sleazy symphony of finely tuned money-consuming BS that was usually false.
-
- It would be comical ... except for all those Iraqi children
lying in bloody pieces strewn on streets of mud brick desert villages and
babyfaced U.S. GIs lying face down in sandstorms, unpictured and uncounted
by American TV networks " "We don't want to upset the public
with gory details!" Funny how the U.S. death toll on Arab TV is much
higher than reported by CNN or NBC.
-
- It would be comical if America lost a war to a country
that didn't have any planes, any steel-spewing smart bombs (which the U.S.
is now dropping in civilian neighborhoods to ensure innocent people will
be killed for years to come), or any million-dollar missiles that can be
fired from hundreds of miles away, thereby assuring the brave commandos
doing the firing that they won't have to see tears gushing from the eyes
of mothers watching blood gushing from the mouths of their children.
-
- It would be comical if the good old USA lost a war to
a bunch of ridiculously ordinary people many Americans disparagingly call
ragheads " comical in the eyes of God, comical in the eyes of a world
which has seen America go berserk with power and give its soul away to
men who have no idea what a soul is.
-
- It would be comical " and a well-deserved twist
of fate " if America had to pay Iraq to let its troops go home.
-
- But we jump ahead of ourselves. The fate of Iraq "
and the world " still hangs in the balance. The sandstorm still rages.
America's premeditated murder of a sovereign people has yet to be either
completed or thwarted.
-
- Let us take a moment, as Americans concerned with our
future, to calculate whether it would be better for America to win this
so-called war, or to lose it.
-
- If all goes according to Washington's plan and America
wins this so-called war as it planned it would, then Americans are in for
just about the same treatment for themselves as was accorded the Iraqis,
although with perhaps fewer bombs and more mandated vaccinations (some
the ingredients of which, of course, will remain secret).
-
- An exhilarated Bush will railroad passage of Patriot
Act II through his android Congress, and the last vestiges of the U.S.
Constitution will be permanently erased. What a real pain that Bill of
Rights has been to businessmen over the years!
-
- Freedom of speech will be the last to go, rubbed out
with military tribunals which can hand out death penalties on 2-1 votes
with no appeals. Already the state of Oregon is considering life in prison
for peace protesters. Those remaining inhabitants of the dog cages at Guantanamo
will be quickly eliminated to make room for newly convicted domestic dissenters.
-
- All remaining environmental laws will be permanently
revoked, the United Nations will be disbanded as the irrelevant institution
it is, and new babies will be inserted with computer chips containing their
social security numbers and econo-genetic classifications, something that
will forever separate them from the children of politicians who go to Andover
and Yale.
-
- These are some of the things Bush will accomplish at
home after he wins the war in Iraq. You as an American may now calculate
if these new developments are desirable.
-
- But before you do, consider the alternative: what if
Bush loses the war in Iraq, or if conditions prove to be so intractible
as to create some kind of negotiated stalemate?
-
- Bush brings the troops home and almost immediately gets
impeached for recklessly endangering the security of the nation and needlessly
squandering the lives of thousands of young Americans, all on the basis
of proven lies that the American media were too chicken and too unprincipled
to challenge him about.
-
- Hell, didn't those judges just rule that Fox media wasn't
required by law to tell the truth in that case of the Florida reporters?
Those judges are going places, either way, probably to the Supreme Court
if Bush wins, and straight to jail if Bush loses.
-
- Wouldn't it be great if all his judicial appointees were
impeached along with him as dishonest shills of big business? That just
might fix the court system.
-
- But another thing happens if Bush loses this war, and
it might just happen regardless of the outcome.
-
- I'm talking about World War III. It's not just a metaphor
anymore. We are tiptoeing along the edge of the nuclear volcano as I speak,
and I'll tell you why.
-
- When Bush finally pushed the button and went into Iraq
without any legitimate provocation " only the lies he tried to tell
that were rejected as fantasy at the United Nations " he opened the
gates of Hell.
-
- If the U.S. can invade Iraq for no honest reason, why
can't North Korea do the same to the United States? They have much more
legitimate provocation to point to than the United States ever had in regard
to Iraq, in either war. The U.S. has threatened them repeatedly, and now
Japan is launching a new spy satellite.
-
- North Korea has every reason to believe this is a provocation
against them. They have every right, according to what the United States
has just done in Iraq, to attack both Japan and the United States preemptively,
to protect their country from what genuinely looks like will be the use
of weapons of mass destruction against them in the future.
-
- They have a more legitimate reason to attack us than
we had to attack Iraq.
-
- Will they ask that the United Nations send weapons inspectors
into the United States to check for weapons of mass destruction? North
Korea has every right to ask this, in fact, a much more pressing right,
a more legitimate reason to ask the United Nations to do exactly that than
the U.S. ever did have or ever will have in its hysterically falsified
case against Iraq.
-
- Plus ... with the United States faltering as badly as
it is in the sandstorms of Mesopotamia, with all the stories of "coalition"
(ha!) forces shooting each other on a frighteningly regular basis, with
the repeated failure of U.S. missiles to hit their targets and U.S. equipment
breaking down under adverse conditions " plus all those phony, pre-determined
outcome missile tests the U.S. has conducted in the past few years and
other U.S. military exercises that were rigged to impress Congressional
funders " how long do you think it's going to be before other countries
start to notice that maybe the U.S., for all its braggadocio, maybe isn't
all that tough?
-
- Some of them might think, hmm, maybe those missiles won't
really work, and even if they do, they won't really hit anything important.
-
- See, this is the really bad scrape Bush has gotten us
into. If we make much more of a spectacle of ourselves than we already
have, other nations around the world are going to begin to believe that
U.S. defenses are all talk and no real action, that is to say, no real
danger to anyone with some toughness, guile, and a couple of long-range
missiles that actually work.
-
- This is what I talked about at the top, about Bush shooting
his mouth off about toughening up the military in order to get elected,
and impressing millions of timid, white-haired phonies enough to vote for
him. (Let's skip the vote scandal this time around.)
-
- How ironic that it was all talk and no action, how all
these astronomical military expenditures really just went to executive
bonuses for his Carlyle Group and Halliburton friends, and then how all
the military tests were rigged by these same fools and their lackeys, so
that Americans have a puffed-up defense budget for an inexperienced fighting
force with weapons that have made plenty of money for their manufacturers
but don't work reliably.
-
- What happens when some hicktown tough guy from rural
Eurasia has a couple of long-range missiles and figures he can get away
with a free shot?
-
- Or worse, that the collective of nations calculates America
is so undependable and so hardhearted that it's worth taking a shot to
stop this maniacal menace named George W. Bush, who bears a truly startling
resemblance to Adolf Hitler.
-
- Either way would be World War III and none of us would
get to talk about after it happened.
-
- That's where Bush's preemptive war has brought us on
this fateful day in March 2003 " right to the very brink of nuclear
armageddon, where one false move torches the planet.
-
- This would all be comical " except for that.
-
-
-
- * - "Alas, Babylon" is the 1959 sci-fi classic
by Pat Frank in which two brothers use the phrase as a coded message to
indicate the nuclear holocaust so feared in those early days of the Cold
War had actually begun. And it has in the year 2003, as the U.S. has already
begun anew its barbaric radioactive poisoning of Iraq through the use of
cancer-causing uranium-tipped bullets and shells.
-
-
-
- John Kaminski, a writer who lives on the coast of Florida,
is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," soon to be published
by DandelionBooks.
-
- A sampling of some of those essays can be found here:
http://timewedo.com/special/kaminski/flames.shtml and here http://www.rense.com/Datapages/kaminski.htm
|
