- Naturally, most Americans dread the prospect of US soldiers
coming home in body bags. It's not something Americans do well, this coming
to terms with engineered mass murder -- and yet large numbers of Americans
support Bush and his decision to invade Iraq.
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- How many dead GIs will America accept?
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- "I'm not going there, because I don't know,"
said Dan Bartlett, White House communications director.
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- "The president looks at this knowing that when the
commander in chief talks about the use of force, the American people understand
that it may entail the sacrifices he has spoken of. And the president also
views this in the post-9/11 context, in which failure to act could lead
to the taking of even more lives," explained White House press secretary,
Ari Fleischer.
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- You know you're in trouble when they start talking about
sacrifice. It usually means a there will be a whole lot more dead people,
maybe even a few you know.
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- Numbers are abstract. 24 US soldiers killed. No names,
no faces. That's why the Iraqis broadcast images of POWs and the dead bodies
of US soldiers on TV the other day. It's both a propaganda war and a numbers
game.
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- Even so, Americans don't like to see their dead treated
disrespectfully. Good chance the Iraqis don't like to see their dead treated
badly, either, but apparently the message has not made it to the corporate
media. Images of dead Iraqi soldiers are all over newspapers, television,
and the web.
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- The "coalition" -- of two and one quarter --
bombed Iraq TV after it showed the disrespectful video in question, but
that will not staunch the uncomfortable imagery. It leaks all over the
place, if you bother to take a look.
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- Such images rapidly deconstruct all abstractions the
Bushites care to make.
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- It suddenly gets personal, emotional. People begin to
ask questions, ask if this invasion is worth it. How many American kids
need to die for Bush, for Wolfowitz, Perle, Abrams, Bolton, the Kristols
and Kagans and Ledeens? 500? 5,000? 10,000? Somebody said the invasion
might cost 12,000 US lives, ten percent of 120,000 troops.
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- How many dead Iraqi children and grandmothers are acceptable?
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- How many lives and how much money will this ill-defined
and generally considered illegal invasion cost?
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- Bush and Ari and Dan Bartlett want to avoid these questions.
In fact, Bush has called such questions "silly" and he refuses
to answer them. If you're worried about your kid in the military, how long
he or she will be in Iraq and what he or she are up against, let it be
known that Bush considers you silly.
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- Mass murder bothers most people, especially when it involves
their loved ones.
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- Bush is apparently not human, maybe he's a robot. Sometimes
he looks like a robot. Only robots feel nothing when they issue orders
to kill thousands of innocent humans.
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- Some people say Saddam's dead, he died from cancer four
years ago. But then it's obvious this whole thing is not about Saddam Hussein.
It's about Iraq and Israel, it's about oil and sending a message to the
Arabs. It's about the will of the Iraqi people who are now resisting invasion
and the theft of their country.
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- As a Christian (or rather a professed Christian) you'd
think mass murder would creep Bush out, considering the Ten Commandments
and all. But then the Old Testament is chock full of unreasonable violence
and murder. The God Bush listens to struck down all the firstborn in Egypt.
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- Bush's selected religion -- Christian Zionism -- embraces
mass murder in the name of the so-called Rapture and Second Coming of Christ.
In short, countless numbers of people are required to die for these selfish
Christian Zionists so they can get a free pass to heaven. It's the Arabs
now, but later it will be the Israeli Jews who face extermination. Naturally,
the Israelis exploit this sort of delusional nonsense and use Christian
Zionist support against their implacable enemies, the Arabs.
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- Christian Zionists don't care about dead people, especially
Palestinian Arabs, all of who must die for the sake of their schizoid end-of-time
theology fantasies.
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- "It's a matter of victory and the Iraqi people have
got to know that, you see," explained Bush the other day. "They
have got to know that they will be liberated and Saddam Hussein will be
removed no matter how long it takes."
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- In other words, if it takes a dozen or more market bombings,
or a medieval siege of Baghdad, it's in the best interest of the Iraqis
for the US to blow them into cluster bomb crisscrossed chunks.
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- Did Bush even ask the Iraqis if they want to be liberated?
No, because liberation is not the issue here -- the wholesale looting of
Iraq is the issue.
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- Bush and his neo-con school of global piranhas don't
care about the Iraqis who will die of thirst, starvation, and disease as
a result of this criminal invasion and the eventual medieval siege of Baghdad.
It's the oil and the racist interests of the Israelis that matter, not
the fate of a few million Iraqis.
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- More practical types envision gushing oil wells, spanking
new strip malls, and a passel of IMF loans designed to loot not only the
Iraqis of their water and natural resources, but also their self respect.
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- Bush doesn't think like most of us.
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- Dubya's a lot like his daddy, like Clinton and Nixon
and Reagan and all the others -- mass murder, death squads, genocide, starvation,
torture, fixed elections, none of this cruel and heartless stuff bothers
him.
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- It's simply another set of pliers in the New World Order
toolbox.
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- I was just following orders, said Adolf Eichmann.
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- Millions of people were killed on the direct orders of
Hitler and his sadistic Nazi crew. Sometimes you have to do what you have
to do and not look back in order to get things done, or so the Nazis reasoned.
Millions of Germans agreed -- and apparently millions of Americans now
agree with Bush. Some of them even find him admirable.
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- It helps that Saddam and Osama are now the same person.
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- It wasn't until the very end that the German people were
forced to confront what the Nazis had done in their name. It will be much
the same for Bush and the Americans.
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- It's the job of CNN and Fox News to make sure we're not
tainted by the blood-drenched reality of this invasion. Truth must be bottled
up, locked away.
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- Only one version of events will be allowed -- and that
version consists of the deceptive and cynically self-serving propaganda
cranked out by the Bush White House, the Pentagon, and duly relayed to
a gullible public by the corporate media.
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- This week both YellowTimes and the English-language version
of al-Jazeera lost their internet presence.
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- Remember, the US put one of its precision-guided missiles
down the smokestack of an al-Jazeera office in Kabul during the invasion
of Afghanistan.
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- It has threatened to target the radio and satellite signals
of independent journalists in Iraq, those not "embedded" (or
entombed) in the Pentagon's media charade and pre-packaged lie factory.
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- The pictures of dead Brit soldiers shown on Arab TV reportedly
outraged Tony Blair, Bush's sidekick and co-conspirator. Of course, if
the images were of gassed Kurds and the finger was pointed at Saddam, Blair's
outrage would be turned in a different direction.
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- It's a stage-managed and fake outrage Blair invokes.
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- Tony Blair, like Bush, has no compassion for the victims
of the neo-con scheme to reorder the world -- beginning with the Middle
East. Blair is a robot, too. He is programmed for murder and devastation.
Clinton -- who bombed both Yugoslavia and Iraq -- taught his protege Tony
Blair well.
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- More specifically, it's not dead people that irk Blair
-- not even dead Brits, per se -- but rather the reaction of common and
mostly decent British citizens to these horrific images and what they mean.
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- It's all about how photos and video negatively impact
support for the illegal Bush-Blair invasion of the Iraqi people, a people
already suffering from more than a decade of sadistic and cruel Anglo-American
imposed sanctions. More than 500,000 Iraqi children perished as a direct
result of those sanctions. It's a crime of Hitlerian dimensions.
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- In Britain, some people are talking about packing Tony
off to The Hague. I support them, with one caveat: George W. Bush must
be handcuffed to Blair when he boards the plane.
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- It was the UK Sun that reported the death of Private
Jessica Lynch, 19, a US Army supply clerk who joined the US military because
she couldn't find a job in the Bush-Enron economy.
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- Lynch was one of 12 US soldiers killed by Iraqi soldiers
in the ambush of a supply convoy. Jessica's cousin, Lorene Cumbridge, told
the media for "West Virginia children in some of the more rural areas,
the military is the one good chance of getting an education and making
something of themselves."
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- "The path we are taking is not easy, and it may
be long," Bush told several thousand working class and poor kid-soldiers
at MacDill Air Force Base. "Every day has brought us closer to our
objective."
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- Ah, yes, the all-important objective.
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- Shall we summarize?
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- Jessica Lynch died for a) oil and the destruction of
an increasingly euro-based OPEC, 2) the Israelis -- who stand to benefit
from this criminal invasion more than anybody beyond multinational corporations
-- and 3) because the Bushites want the world to know in no uncertain terms
that the US will bomb and slaughter "vassals" -- as neo-con swami
Zbigniew Brzezinski calls people in the third world who resist New World
Order gangsterism -- the rest of humanity must understand that we are indeed
a nation of merciless robot killers in hire of Halliburton and Exxon and
the Enrons of the future.
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- Oh, and let's not forget those 40 million or so Christian
Zionists who demand the Middle East be swept clean of unChristianized Arabs
-- and, eventually, Jews and all other non-believers -- so they can go
to Heaven while the rest of us burn in Hell.
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- Final price?
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- Possibly a half million or more innocent Iraqis and a
few -- dozen, hundred, thousand? -- working class kids like Jessica Lynch,
not to mention a few hundred billion dollars.
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- Bush is doomed to failure, maybe (hopefully) even criminal
charges, because neo-cons such as Richard Perle and Michael Ledeen are
unable to understand a very simple and human behavior pattern -- when attacked,
most people will defend themselves. Ask the Vietnamese peasants who kicked
the ass of the baddest and most deadly military force in the world.
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- It's called a home court advantage and Bush doesn't get
it.
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- Some of us knew it would turn out this way, but there's
no time to say we told you so. We're at a very dangerous intersection in
this invasion -- the US is stalled against the sheer intestinal fortitude
and anger of the Iraqi people, many of whom are resisting the invasion
violently.
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- It's not Saddam they fear at this moment, but the global
vampire crew of Bush and his "thinkers" -- fat-ass wealthy "thinkers"
such as Richard Perle who seem to believe people in the third world, especially
Arabs, can easily be rolled over with clanking tank treads, their aspirations
crushed without much effective resistance.
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- Once again, history teaches.
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- Once again, history shows the Richard Perles of the world
up for what they are -- amazingly stupid, arrogant, racist, reckless, and
criminal.
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- Bush and his Pentagon planners want to avoid bombing
Iraq's already decimated infrastructure -- not because they wish to avoid
the human cost associated with such a brutal act, but rather because bombing
Iraq to a Stone Age condition will make it more difficult to lord over
the country, set up military bases in short order for future invasions
in the neighborhood, and steal the oil. As well, killing too many Iraqis
makes for resentful vassals and uncooperative near-slave laborers.
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- But then so does occupation, as the Israelis have learned.
Instead of learning from history and understanding human behavior, both
the Americans and the Israelis plod heavily toward defeat. In this way
they are like Afrikaners and other miserable colonialists of the not-too-distant
past.
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- Iraqis will continue their violent resistance to the
criminal invasion. So the real Shock and Awe phase may now begin in earnest.
It's serious now, infrastructure be damned. The Israelis and Christian
Zionists demand no less than pre-Armageddon devastation.
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- In other words, more dead people, and a whole lot of
them.
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- As a result, more Iraqis missing a father or mother or
brother and sister will now pick up a gun or a suicide bomb and take out
American kids from West Virginia, Nebraska, and South Dakota. One foot
in the quagmire, the US begins its intractable and predictable descent.
The sum total will be nearly unimaginable suffering and death.
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- It will be the end of America as we know it.
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- No doubt, emboldened and driven by a shot list cobbled
together by demented and immoral neo-con overseers, Bush will attack Iran
and Syria next -- in fact, he has already lobbed missiles into both countries.
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- Arabs remember the Crusades all too well. Bush's Christian
Zionist philosophy is not lost on them.
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- They also listen to what the Israelis have to say, especially
the crazed settlers who seem to be running the government there now. Ethnic
cleansing is a casual topic of discussion in Israeli cafes at this very
moment.
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- For millions of Arabs, this is nothing short of a religious
war -- a high-tech continuation of the Crusades.
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- Is it logical to conclude that as the US military attacks
Kerbala and Najaf -- towns Shia Muslims consider infinitely holy -- the
average Muslim will effortlessly reach the conclusion that the Crusader
infidels and the Israeli colonizers have finally arrived to eradicate Islam?
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- It doesn't help when neo-cons start talking about editing
the Koran after they domesticate -- or is it democratize? -- the primitive
vassal Arabs and Iranians.
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- Did George Bush sincerely believe the Arabs would simply
give up and welcome their self-proclaimed liberators with open arms?
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- It's the racist elitism of Bush and Cheney and Powell
and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and the PNAC think tank white paper writers
and scriveners in the Pentagon and so-called intellectuals over at JINSA
and AEI that are cajoling and shoving the American people into protracted
and unsustainable war.
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- The ultimate result of all this traitorous collusion
will be more dead people.
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- In the months ahead more and more average Americans will
find themselves distressed by increasing numbers of dead people -- and
many of these usually peace-loving Americans will recognize the names of
the dead -- and maybe they will do something decisive, something capable
of unseating the neo-con and Christian Zionist ideologues before they torch
the entire planet with their self-destructive ideas and devious plans.
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- It may take something more than 500,000 people gathered
in New York and San Francisco and Lisbon and Paris and nearly everywhere
else.
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- It will take direct action from this point forward --
and we know what that means, as do the men surrounding the George Bush,
the unpresident.
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- He doesn't want you to go there.
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- Kurt Nimmo's Another Day in the Empire http://nimmo.blogspot.com/
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