- The strange creature named the Busharon is in serious
trouble.
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- The front half of this animal - George W. Bush - is having
trouble with nude photos. Not only those of the hapless Iraqi prisoners,
with the exuberant female soldier pointing at their genitals, but also
of Bush himself, whose nakedness was exposed for all to see.
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- The savior of the Iraqi people from a cruel tyrant, the
gallant leader bestowing democracy on Mesopotamia, the representative of
Western civilization fighting against barbarism - has himself been exposed
as a cruel barbarian.
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- Let no one kid himself: this is not a case of a few sadists,
male and female, who happened to find themselves in one place. It is already
clear that there was systematic abuse of prisoners - keeping them naked,
humiliating them sexually, sending in vicious dogs which probably bit them,
preventing them from sleeping, keeping them shackled in painful positions
for a long time, covering their heads with filthy hoods, threatening them
with electrocution - all these were photographed. But there can be little
doubt that with such an attitude towards the prisoners, much worse torture
was applied but not photographed.
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- It is now quite clear that this is applied as standard
procedure for "softening" up prisoners. Not only in this prison,
not only in all the other prisons in Iraq, but also in Afghanistan, in
the devil's island of Guatanamo and all the other places where such defenseless
victims, most of them quite innocent people who were picked up by accident,
are imprisoned. Meaning: this was a matter of policy, coming from the highest
level.
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- The soldiers, male and female, who happily let themselves
be photographed in these pornographic scenes are certainly detestable,
but anyone familiar with military life knows that this was not a private
initiative. Such acts cannot go on for a long time, with many hundreds
of pictures shot, without the whole chain of command being involved.
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- Every simple soldier is influenced by the spirit of his
commanders, at least up to the level of the brigade. Its commander in turn
is influenced by the spirit of his superiors, up to and including the Chief-
of-Staff. In this case, it has been proven that the Pentagon chiefs and
the Secretary of Defense knew the facts long ago. The investigating general
did not find any written order, but such orders are always conveyed orally,
and sometimes by a mere gesture or a wink.
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- These soldiers, most of them from decent homes, behaved
as people do in lynch mobs, and for the same reason: the denial of the
humanity of other races, which are considered sub-human. Racism turns the
members of the master-race themselves into sub-human beings.
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- George Bush lost his world with the publication of these
photos. He could have fired the whole chain of command, from the Secretary
of Defense down to the prison commander. He didn't, of course.
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- All the moral arguments attempting to justify his war
against Iraq have come crashing down. No democracy, no liberation, no civilization.
Nothing is left except the naked aggression of cynical and cruel robber
barons, just like the henchmen of Saddam Hussein.
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- If I may be permitted a prophecy: this week starts the
countdown to the end of the career of George W.
- The animal's rear end - Ariel Sharon - is also in great
trouble.
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- This started with the rejection of the "Unilateral
Disengagement" plan by the Likud members, a tiny part of the population,
manipulated by the settlers. Since then Sharon has been prowling around
like a caged predator. He has no majority among his ministers and members
of parliament (they are bound by the party referendum), he is unable to
form another government (the MPs of his party will not allow it), he is
unable to fulfil his promise to President Bush (and has made Bush look
ridiculous).
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- He has begun to blabber about "other plans"
that he is forming - reminding one of Groucho Marx's joke: "Those
are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
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- If Sharon had really intended to leave Gaza, he would
have done it at once and without the hullabaloo, fixing a strict timetable
and without changing the details every few days. He would have including
in his plan the evacuation of the "Philadelphi Axis", the narrow
strip a few hundred yards wide between Gaza and Egypt, which demands a
human sacrifice almost every day.
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- A week after the Likud referendum, two terrible blows
were delivered. An armored vehicle carrying a large quantity of explosives
entered Gaza city in order to blow up buildings, and was hit by a roadside
bomb planted by Palestinian guerillas.
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- It exploded, tearing the six soldiers to pieces. The
day after, the very same thing happened on the "Philadelphi Axis":
an armored personnel carrier full of explosives, which was sent there to
blow up tunnels under the border, was hit by a Palestinian rocket and blew
up with its five crew members.
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- The power of each of the two explosions was such that
body parts were scattered over hundreds of meters. The whole country saw
on TV how Israeli soldiers crawled on all fours, filtering the sand with
their bare hands in order to gather the body parts of their comrades. The
media competed in the orchestration of a necrophile hysteria, with endless
talk about "body parts" interlaced with scenes of funerals.
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- It was impossible to ignore the direct connection between
the Likud referendum's rejection of the withdrawal and the death of the
soldiers. This was expressed in the most simple way by the actor Shlomo
Vishinsky, whose son Lior was killed in the second vehicle, when he blamed
the members of Likud for the death of his son.
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- For the first time, the Israeli public saw the real picture
of Gaza: not "terror", not "terrorists", but a classic
guerilla war, with the whole population taking part in the struggle against
the occupation forces. Today's Gaza, tomorrow's West Bank.
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- In such a struggle, we cannot win. One can kill Palestinians
wholesale, destroy whole neighborhoods, as is happening now.
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- But one cannot win. The public is beginning to understand
that. The "Zionist Left", so it seems, is also waking up from
its 4-year coma.
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- Israel will leave the Gaza Strip, as it left the "Security
Strip" in South Lebanon. The similarity between the two strips is
so obvious, that banal headlines proclaim it in all the media.
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- If I may be permitted a second prophecy: this week starts
the countdown to the end of the career of Ariel Sharon.
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