- America has been hijacked by an evil and corrupt administration.
The Bush administration has used the country as a weapon of mass destruction.
All civilized and intellectual beings know only too well, that the Muslim
populations they have encountered, and despite Bush's lies, the Muslims
are a good, honest and peaceful people. Bush is using lies, racism and
religion to persecute and kill innocent people and to rape and steal their
countries.
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- We live in a world full of differences and those differences
must be accepted, embraced and learned from, not used against one another.
Bush and Blair have isolated themselves and their countries from the world
and peace. They have also isolated themselves within their respective countries.
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- Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle
etc, are members of a vile neo- conservative group: Project for a New American
Century (PNAC). They have targeted Iraq for its oil fields and Middle East
location to fund and support future theatres of war against the Middle
East and Asia. They have a hit list, written in the mid-1990s, that includes
Syria, Libya, Iran, North Korea and many others.
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- This agenda regrettably was not stopped in Iraq. And
one should not support occupation, with troops in Iraq, we must support
the innocent and the intelligent -- not the evil doers who are slaughtering
them or the ill advised, and some say, idiots who support the Bush administration.
The Middle East must have our heart and our prayers.
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- Governments have always masked brute self-interest with
moral purpose, of course. But much blatant hypocrisy has done much to undermine
the international goodwill that America garnered in the first months after
the twin towers, particularly in the Arab world.
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- In a deeper sense, self-deceit also corrupts one's intentions
and one's self. The fact is that the coalition didn't send troops to Afghanistan
to stop women being made to wear the burqa. They sent them to remove a
regime that was harbouring a group that had launched a vile and bloody
attack on civilians in America.
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- Once that was achieved, the great plans for the rebuilding
of Afghanistan have been let quietly slip from the table. It is difficult
to imagine anything, but the same would happen now that Saddam Hussein
has been removed. The US oil companies would be given the oil concessions
and the future of Iraqi society would be pushed into the "not our
responsibility" tray
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- The US have won the war in Iraq if indeed it can be called
that, instead of premeditated genocide but its stocks in the market place
of public opinion on the international stage has sustained irreparable
harm. The US will never be the same after this bloody demonstration of
arrogance.
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- It has choices however. It can genuflect before the world
and seek forgiveness or it has to show that it will discard the more Zionist
than even Israel, image of America. It has to show the World, or while
still holding on to its big stick or, it could continue on its natural
path to become the world bully, the righter of wrongs, the evangelical
purveyor of the Anglo Saxon way, the ordained kingdom.
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- The United States cannot turn back now. It has set itself
on a path of no return. All bullies at some stage recognise that a lifetime
of offensive behaviour can become boring. The problem is, the bully cannot
afford to affect the behaviour of the pacifist or, he will be taken out
very quickly. Having stored up so many enemies, the bully must now remain
forever a bully to ensure his own survival. Pretty soon America will become
the biggest threat to world peace. Perhaps. It already is.
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- With all the talk of the US warmongers about liberating
Iraq and rebuilding it, let us be reminded, about the US objectives in
rebuilding Afghanistan after the end of the campaign in November 2001.
The objectives were; Education, Health, Sanitation facilities, Enhancement
of administrative capacity, Development of Agricultural sectors and Rebuilding
of Roads, Energy and Telecommunication links.
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- What has happened since? Zilch. Afghanistan is still
the country with much less than a GNP per capita of US$800, a literacy
rate of 36% and a life expectancy at birth of 47 years. Following the trendsetter
Bush, to quote from Professor AfnanFaxan ,universityof Jeddah, in his article
in the "Arab News" Quote ( as recently as April 10, during a
pro-war demonstration in New York, Gov. Pataki told a cheering crowd: "The
war started here on Sept. 11, 2001." Like President Bush, Pataki is
just one of countless US officials busy justifying the invasion of Iraq
and promoting the lie that the Iraqis were responsible for the death of
3,000 people in the World Trade Centre. Nobody mentions Osama Bin Laden
anymore. Nobody mentions the fact that half the population of southern
Iraq will die from cancers linked to the use of US uranium-tipped shells
and missiles. Nobody mentions the chaos, lawlessness, looting and torching
prevalent in post-war Iraq under US leadership and occupation.
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- What these politicians are doing is basically denying
the relevance of morality in politics and preaching the Machiavellian self-serving
doctrine of the "end justifies the means." The logic is it's
good to destroy and kill and maim thousands of civilians if it means getting
rid of their leader who never actually attacked you but could possibly
think of doing so in a distant future; it's good to leave millions of people
without water, power, food, sanitation or security just as long as you
bring American democracy to the region. The last time I checked the American
Heritage Dictionary, Machiavellian was an ugly word suggestive of deceit,
cunning and expediency. It will continue to be ugly, even if American dictionary
compilers decide to change the hard-core meaning of the word and impose
a new definition.) Unquote
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- In effect, the ongoing looting and torching of museums,
libraries, universities, schools, hospitals and other cultural and civic
institutions in Iraq is not an attempt at regime change but at culture
change. By stripping the Iraqi people of their collective heritage and
destroying their ancient Mesopotamian roots, the Bush administration thinks
it can recreate Iraq from scratch, reshape and remould its proud and nationalistic
people and turn them into a nation of illiterates, thieves, cutthroats,
and informants who willingly accept US occupation and Zionist hegemony.
The Iraqis are well aware of these vindictive intentions. This is what
the director of Iraq's National Library had to say to Los Angeles Times
about the American-led destruction of Iraq: "They burned the history
of this country. Now we are standing here beginning from zero. Our memory
is destroyed."
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- Just think of the irony. When deadly tornadoes ravaged
the four-block-long business district in Pierce City, Mo., last weekend,
one devastated business owner had this to say to a visibly shaken Missouri
Gov. Bob Holden: "How can we save this? This town is 130 years old
and you just don't find this anymore." Yes, 130 years is definitely
tragic, but at least the Missouri twister was an unpreventable natural
disaster. Can anyone begin to imagine or comprehend how Iraqis must feel
at the deliberate man-made destruction of thousands and thousands of years
of their history and spectacular culture?
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- Where did US Defence Secretary Rumsfeld get his creative
ideas of culture destruction and culture change? Probably while he was
sifting through the history books at the Pentagon trying to find a creative
way to contain the Iraqi threat to Israel. He probably hit upon the Third
Punic war in 146 BC when the Romans physically destroyed and occupied what
is today known as Tunisia and founded a new city of Carthage _ a Roman
one. They called it the province of "Africa" _ a name that was
eventually used to refer to the entire continent. In the same manner, by
destroying Iraq and looting its cultural heritage, Rumsfeld thinks that
the US can create the new American province of Iraq and ultimately rename
and repopulate the entire Middle East.
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- At the heart of this diabolical plan to culture-change
Iraq professor Faxan states, are the evangelical Christians of Samaritan
Purse and the Southern Baptist Convention, who form a large part of Bush's
electoral base and who are deeply pro-Israel. Why on earth are these Islam
phobic missionaries now camped in Jordan waiting to swoop like vultures
into Iraq? The answer is simple. They're there to confiscate what they
perceive to be biblical land, retrieve it from the hands of the heathens
and terrorists and triumphantly claim it for Christendom. This is what
the Reverend Franklin Graham wrote in his book ("The Name") published
last year: "The God of Islam is not the God of Christian faith_ The
two are as different as lightness and darkness." Richard Land, the
chairman of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern
Baptist Convention, had this to say: "The reason most evangelicals
support Israel is that we believe in the bible."
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- Again to quote from Professor Faxan (Quote) "By
and large, the first eleven chapters of Genesis are set in southern Iraq,
in the land of Shinar or Babylonia, Including the cities of Babel, Uruk,
and Akkad. The cities of northern Iraq, Nimrod and Nineveh, is also part
of Judeo-Christian heritage, just as they are integral to Arab and Muslim
traditions. Till today, well-preserved remains of all these cities can
be seen in Iraq and there's the rub. Can religious extremists in the US
and Israel afford to ignore such a goldmine of archaeological treasures?
It's no wonder that many Christian-Zionist missionaries have already started
settling with the Kurds of northern Iraq, insisting that Jewish Kurds who
migrated to Israel in 1948 must now be repatriated and given a voice in
the interim government. In short, these evangelists believe that God gave
the land of Iraq, indeed all the lands of Arabia from the Nile to the Euphrates,
to the Jews forever. To them, the invasion of Iraq consecrated "the
victory of the Cross over the Crescent," to quote a famous line said
by the French General, Henri Gouraud, as he kicked Saladin's tomb after
the fall of Damascus in July 1920.
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- Tragically, this crusader mentality is today prevalent
in the White House. Just listen to the same venomous words of Michael Leedon,
a senior adviser to Bush, who is perhaps the most vocal and violent of
Bush's evangelist team: "God willing, Judgment day is coming to the
Middle East." Let us not forget that Hulegu's army included Christian
soldiers from Armenia and Georgia sent by King Bohemond of Antioch-Tripoli
and King Hethum I of Armenia, who both wanted to liberate Christian holy
places from the Muslim "infidels". An estimated 800,000 Muslims
were massacred by the Mongols in February 1258; Christians and Jews were
fortunately spared since Hulegu's wife, Dokuz, and his chief general, Kitbugha,
were both Christians. Like today's neoconservative advisers to Bush, these
two confidantes saw the destruction of Baghdad as a fulfilment of biblical
prophecy heralding the Day of Judgment. The pleasant irony of course is
that the Mongol conquerors themselves converted to Islam in less than a
century after their invasion." (unquote)
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- It is also quite telling that Jay Garner, pro-Likud American
viceroy of Iraq and close friend of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,
has set up permanent camp in biblical Ur, the reputed birthplace of the
Prophet Abraham, where excavations in the 1920s and 1930s had yielded a
great temple complex as well as royal tombs packed with sacrificed servants
and gold treasures rivalling the riches of Tutankhamen. His choice of location
is foreboding; it foreshadows the inevitable expulsion of Iraqi civilians
and their replacement with Israeli settlers and missionaries like Franklin
Graham. He has already started repopulating not only Ur but also the city
of Qurna, believed to be the Garden of Eden, the mythic place where the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers join and where the ancient Eucalyptus known
as Adam's tree stands as a symbol of paradise on earth. This city revered
by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike is now home to the 1st Battalion
Royal Irish Regiment. In addition, the US State Department has organized
and funded the Eden Again project, headed by a group of American geologists
who hope to restore the Garden of Eden and to populate the city with people
they refer to as "refugees and Westernised Iraqi exiles." The
same destiny awaits the fabled ancient cities of Uruk, Nineveh, Nimrod,
Babylon, and many other medieval Muslim villages in the western reaches
of Baghdad now abandoned by their inhabitants. In the marshland of Uruk
(from which the modern name of Iraq is derived), Western archaeologists
have now cordoned off what they believe to be the lost grave of Iraq's
King Gilgamesh, the hero of the world's oldest epic poem recounting a devastating
flood which has been linked to the story of Noah's Ark. They hope to unearth
Gilgamesh's grave next year if and when the political situation allows.
Just wait until you see wildcat settlements or giant armour-plated D9 Israeli
bulldozers roaming the streets of Uruk, Ur and other ancient cities of
Iraq looking for lucrative sites to excavate or demolish. Surely then George
Bush and Jay Garner wouldn't be able to masquerade as the Good Samaritans.
Or would they?
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- This war reeks of Israeli revenge and the coming months
and years will see Iraq turning into a grotesque mirror-image of occupied
Jerusalem or the West Bank and Gaza _ replete with the confiscation of
land and revenue, the mass detention of civilians, the demolition of homes,
the door-to-door searches, the roadblocks and 24-hour curfews. Even the
very language and terminology of US Marines is becoming jarringly like
that of the Israeli Defence Forces. Mark Franchetti in The Times recounts
the words of US Marines who had just machine-gunned 15 civilian vehicles
at a roadblock in Nassiriya. Here is Corporal Ryan Dupre venting the same
hatred and spewing the same vindictive analogies as the Israelis: "The
Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy. I am starting to hate
this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin' Iraqi. No, I won't get
hold of one. I'll just kill him."
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- Just think. While we were watching the bereavement, the
wailing, the mourning and the funeral processions in Iraq, a callous Colin
Powell was addressing a cheering AIPAC crowd of ecstatic Zionists. In a
theatrical delivery, he told his pro-war Jewish audience what they wanted
to hear. This war will make Israel "safe" and "secure,"
he exclaimed in a rising crescendo, not forgetting to add the White House
clich "Let there be no doubt about the outcome. We will drive Saddam
Hussein out." Was this the appropriate time and place to hold such
a radical war rally? Watching him perform that night in front of this ultra-radical
group chillingly explained why he was fighting so hard to discredit UN
weapon inspectors and to stop the process of inspections in Iraq by any
means possible even to the extent of presenting forged documents of Iraqi
uranium procurement.
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- Obviously, the Arabs and Muslims have been duped into
thinking that America's first black secretary of state is inherently good
and peace loving. They should have known better. Even in 1991, when he
was questioned about the number of Iraqis killed in the Gulf War, Powell
replied: "It's really not a number I am terribly interested in."
Well, Mr. Powell better be interested this time round, because many people
all over the world are counting the death toll and sooner or later he will
be charged with legitimising the mass murder of Iraqi civilians. Undoubtedly,
there will be a day of reckoning as Bush predicts, but this time it will
be the turn of Bush and his war Cabinet. Clearly the major objective of
this war is not to liberate the people of Iraq; they hardly count in the
equation. The military goal is simply to destroy the country first, obliterate
Iraqi culture next and then try to coerce the natives into accepting subjugation
and invasion. Sharon is closely watching how his old friend Jay Garner
establishes his rule and culture-changes Iraq from enemy to closest friend
and ally. Seeing that President Bush wants to democratise Iraq and the
rest of the Arab world, shouldn't he have asked the Iraqis first whether
they want to be liberated? Why not hold elections? Let's vote and see how
many Iraqis want Tommy Franks or retired Gen. Jay Garner as their governor.
There's no use pretending that President Bush is a saviour who wants to
liberate the Iraqis. In Iraqi eyes, he is not. And while we're at democratisation,
why not hold global elections to see how many people want President Bush
to be the "leader of the free world," as his Zionist supporters
now introduce him.
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- Egged on by radical Zionists, Bush has legitimised everything
that was once thought to be in violation of common laws of decency and
morality: Pre-emption, invasion, assassination, regime change, culture
change, wanton destruction, mass detention, torture and the use of brutal
overwhelming force. But history has shown us what befalls people who perpetrate
such crimes.
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- If we examine it dispassionately we will come to the
conclusion that America has a natural affinity for waging war against non-white
countries. Lest we forget, we must remind ourselves that America, that
bastion of freedom, Christianity, Capitalism and televangelists is the
only country to have used atomic bombs on another country. Not only did
the United States drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945, but
three days later when the Japanese were still dazed over that 'shock and
awe', the Americans dropped another one on Nagasaki.
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- World opinion gained exponential traction against this
war but, we as a World failed to prevent it. Pretty soon the American public
will come to realise the error of their ways in electing (?) a president
who has always sounded like a high school dropout rather than an Ivy League
graduate. Pretty soon the US population will wake up to the realisation
that other people in disparate parts of this globe whether they be black,
yellow, mottled or cross- hatched, are very similar to the typical individual
on Wall Street.
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- As his Top Gun fantasy last week made only too obvious,
Mr Bush enormously enjoys playing soldier -- especially when the situation
permits him to order others (blacks and poor-whites, mainly, meaning those
whom Mr Bush's scary, to note, fiscal policies are destined to turn into
un-persons in the New America) to go out and do the killing and the getting
killed, while, in preparation for his carrier landing, Perhaps, he takes
ditching lessons in the White House swimming pool.
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- There was a time when patriotic Americans from both parties
would have denounced any president who tried to take political advantage
of his role as commander-in-chief. But that, it seems, was another country.'
a long time ago. The American, in the street has got to be roused out of
his slumber, we pray, to recognise the world as a True global village,
with links not only of economic aspirations, but also pain, blood, tears
and sweat, the harder it will be for them to create home-grown despots
with power to bring about chaos in this world.
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- The Iraqis do not want a foreigner to rule them, especially
when they see the Americans exporting their oil, while they go hungry.
Nor, are the Iraqi 's sure, America has a truly "Made in America"
brand of democracy for export to Iraq. America has got to first legitimately
elect Presidents!
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- Everyone knows, Americans count in the World as hardworking,
Industrious and Compassionate and loved. It's the present Administration
that came into power under questionable terms that is causing America to
be known as a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
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