- Having gotten out of bed early Sunday morning but not
having turned on the TV or radio till mid-morning, I was completely unaware
of the capture of Saddam Hussein.
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- As I finally got around to it, the first thing to greet
my eyes and ears was one of the mainstream media's fops, standing in front
of the White House in Washington with this very serious demeanor, talking
about the capture of Saddam, and what all this was going to mean to G.W.
Bush and the coming election, the people of Iraq, the American people,
world opinion, and so on and so forth.
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- As I listened to this interminable flow of rubbish gushing
forth from this man's lips I knew then and there that the corporate-controlled
news media was going to play this for all it was worth, even more then
the killing of Saddam's sons, and more so then the President's risky "surprise"
Thanksgiving Day visit to the troops in Baghdad ... if that is possible.
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- As I left the TV in total disgust and switched on the
radio, it was no better. All the major stations, except one independently
owned radio station (WBAI), were exulting in the "joyous" news.
It was not long till the news station began to ask the people on the street
what they thought about it, and naturally all I heard were the voices of
the usual mindless idiots praising the President and calling for the execution
of this evil madman Saddam who not only suppressed and murdered his own
people, but threatened the entire world with weapons of mass destruction.
Which some morons still believe exist.
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- Bush and the efficacious oligarchy which he represents
must truly be thanking their lucky stars for these "useful idiots",
as V.I. Lenin called those fools who helped win the revolution for the
reds in Russia. If these "idiots" - among them our friends, neighbors,
and fellow citizens - would take a little time off from the usual distractions
of our society, they would begin to realize that our own government has
been both past and present engaged in and guilty of the suppression and
murder of its own citizens (Waco, Ruby Ridge, MOVE in Philadelphia), engaged
in the mass genocide of its indigenous peoples, the American Indian, and
had two hundred years of slavery and almost another hundred years of disenfranchisement
for its African-American population.
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- The premeditated deception by press and President to
dupe its citizenry to support "police actions", "peace keeping",
and unjustifiable wars is a long tradition:
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- * The alleged blowing up of the cruiser Maine in Havana
harbor actually resulted from a coal fire spreading to the ammunition magazine,
resulting in a massive explosion, but it was blamed on the Spanish, initiating
the Spanish American War.
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- * President Wilson's pro-British, Anti-German press propaganda
deceived Americans into sending their sons into the trenches of World War
I.
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- * Franklin Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" at Pearl
Harbor got the U.S. into World War II, but details now emerging show that
Roosevelt was well-aware of when and where the Japanese attack would take
place. He purposely failed to warn the fleet, shamelessly sacrificing American
servicemen to sway public opinion in favor of yet another foreign war.
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- * The Gulf of Tonkin attack on US Navy destroyers, which
never even happened, plunged America into a futile un-winnable conflict,
killing fifty thousand plus Americans, and an estimated million and a half
Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians - but it made billions for the powerful
military-industrial complex.
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- * George Bush senior's first Gulf War loudly called for
the liberation of Kuwait, but failed to tell the American people that the
U.S. State Department had given Saddam the green light to occupy Kuwait,
through the American ambassador to Iraq months before.
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- * And this was not the first time a "friendly"
leader was "set up" when no longer useful to a U.S. administration
- remember Manuel Noriega of Panama?
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- * Then there was the media barrage about the starving
people of Somalia, so only the most heartless of human beings could oppose
military intervention. It was quite a cover for "nation-building",
or what used to be known as colonialism, at the point of a gun. Another
miserable failure, killing the people we were sent to save, while those
we were saving were killing our young men, all at the expense of we taxpayers,
more useful idiots. At least the fool in the White House at the time knew
when it was time to leave.
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- * Kosovo, another local European argument giving our
political elite another opportunity to justify their existence and honor
themselves as great "peace makers", guaranteed yet another payday
for the military-industrial complex.
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- * And this brings us to the present administration, looked
upon by hundreds of millions both at home and abroad as the most detested
and despised government that America has had in its entire history. Shamelessly
exploiting 9/11 to implement a policy which had been in existence years
before the first jetliner impacted the World Trade Center, the Bush administration
is now well on its way to take control of the world's known energy resources.
Having stolen the 2000 election before the eyes of America and the world,
and in the opinion of a great many people, thought to have engineered or
been a party to 9/11, the Bush administration is now stonewalling the independent
9/11 investigation, citing reasons of national security. How convenient!
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- After almost a year of lies and deception about "weapons
of mass destruction" from not only the President himself, but every
high-ranking member of his cabinet including Colin Powell (whom the corporate
press has for years touted as beyond reproach), Bush ordered our military
to violently attack Iraq. Months later, despite special units deployed
to search out the weapons of mass destruction, nothing has been found.
No doubt embarrassed by this development, after assuring both the American
people and the world that thousands of tons of chemical and biological
weapons were definitely there, all this talk about liberation and democracy
was substituted, trying to save Presidential face.
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- The Iraqis, it seems, were telling the truth in the first
place. No weapons of mass destruction after all. Yet the corporate-controlled
press, true to form, gave these liars in Washington a free pass, where
a truly free press would be calling for their resignations and even a criminal
investigation.
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- This war on Iraq, just like those wars before, killed
thousands of innocent people, and provided yet another big payday for the
Bush/Cheney corporate pals. Saddam, like Osama, is being used as just another
distraction, a smokescreen to keep the useful idiots useful, helping to
maintain a government whose duty is not to the people who elected them
(or didn't, in the case of G.W. Bush), but to the small percent of very
rich and influential men who wish to control everything on earth.
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- By allowing this un-elected fraud and his willing accomplices
in the press corps try to convince us who our enemies are and who we should
hate, they will ultimately win, trashing the Constitution and the Bill
of Rights along the way. So let that arrogant, strutting peacock have his
triumph. But as the days pass, as things worsen for the American people,
even the most distracted among us will eventually come to their senses
and start the process of returning America to the road to freedom, liberty,
and sanity.
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- © 2003, by the author.
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