- To be in war is to be in hell on Earth, captured by
lunacy
and bewilderment, panic, fear and unmatched levels of stress invading your
body. Bullets whizzing by, helicopters flying low, machine gunning anything
that moves, fighter jets roaring overhead, explosions everywhere, 500 pound
bombs flattening entire city blocks, cluster bombs maiming and killing,
the tremors of the ground rattling your conscious, concrete flying
everywhere,
screams of pain and agony surrounding you, hidden snipers killing
indiscriminately,
platoons of men caught in hours-long fire-fights, bullets, artillery and
rockets flying everywhere, the smell of blood in the air, the odor of sweat
and urine festering about, your heart palpitating thunderously, body parts
strewn everywhere, pools of fly-infested blood lining the streets, the
nauseatingly putrid stench of rotting death omnipresent, hundreds of
mutilated
bodies thrown about, the ravaged remains of a once vibrant city laying
at your feet, your house destroyed, your family huddled in the corner of
your most secure room, your children shaking, lying in a fetal position,
hunger overcoming you, your belly hurting for food, your tongue and mouth
desperate for water, your spirit eager for escape, your instincts telling
you to survive, to hug your children and never let go.
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- Welcome to Hell on Earth, where the devil1s excrement
bleeds black and the neocon delusion dwindles into twilight. Welcome to
state-sponsored terrorism breeding unending crimes against humanity, where
torture has replaced torture, where human evil has replaced human evil
and where tyranny has replaced tyranny. Welcome to the American Crusade
and Iraq Invasion, where 100,000 innocent civilians have died, in a year
and a half, at the hands of the military-industrial-complex and the killing
machines it trains to push, aim, fire, direct, guide and launch its weapons
of death, carnage, destruction and human misery. Welcome to Fallujah, where
bombs and missiles rain down from the heavens above and cold-blooded
monsters
on a wanton murdering spree roam hellish streets below.
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- Iraq is where over 1,200 American soldiers have been
killed. Iraq is where 15,000 American soldiers have been maimed, burned,
shredded, disfigured, physically scarred and mentally devastated, never
to find normalcy again and never again to know inner peace, becoming an
army of psychologically mutilated energies, joining their physically
healthy
comrades in arms in a future battle against inner demons never to be fully
exorcised from within.
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- To be in Iraq is to be witness to a Pandora1s Box opened
by Bush and the neocons where the destruction of Fallujah and other cities
is seen as liberation, where the introduction of martial law is seen as
democracy and where the importation of chaos, mass killing, utter
destruction,
terror and guerilla war is seen as a human rights campaign to free the
Iraqi people of tyranny. To be in Iraq is to see firsthand how an army
lays waste to a large city in a grisly act of collective punishment, how
citizen soldiers turn into savage barbarians, torturing and dehumanizing
innocents, murdering wounded Iraqis, bombing civilian homes, targeting
innocent hospitals and assassinating dozens of medical personnel.
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- It is to see trigger-happy, zit-faced, video-game
conditioned,
television desensitized, military-brainwashed twenty year olds
indiscriminately
shooting innocent civilians, women and children all, trying to escape a
city of death. It is to see an army, priding itself on virtue and morality,
purposefully making targets of all living humans in a city of 300,000,
granting the green light for their foot soldiers to kill anyone,
prosecuting
the guilty only when caught red handed, to salvage public relations or
to play the game of politics. It is only when the criminal policies of
those at the top are somehow forever recorded on tape by the actions of
soldiers that scapegoating of grunts in order to save the hides of the
brass is allowed. In the military, it is not a crime if nobody sees
it.
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- To see the carnage taking place or imagining the terror
now enveloping Iraq is to be inside a horrific nightmare that refuses to
liberate us from its vice-like grip. To be in Iraq is to be inside Human
Hell, as monstrous as one can imagine a place of such evil to be. It is
to see Human Evil grow stronger every day, seeing the Cradle of
Civilization
become a smoldering cauldron of exponentially-growing guerilla war. The
violence only escalates, the death figures only increase and an entire
country of 25 million people is slowly but surely descending into the
depths
of despair and the apex of unmitigated hatred and vengeance.
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- Hell is this thing called war, procreator of human evil
and ambassador to sheer death and suffering. America has exported war where
none existed, chaos where order once stood and its legions of
military-industrial
complex mercenaries birthing terror and pillaging resources. It has created
a vast factory of resistance fighters whose assembly lines continue to
produce mujahideen with every bomb dropped or bullet fired, making Iraq
a hornet1s nest of freedom fighters intent on evicting American invaders
and occupiers from their lands.
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- Their numbers grow, their cause gains worldwide support,
the moral high ground is indisputably theirs and it is they fighting for
freedom and liberty, not for corporate profit and oil and to hide the
ineptitude
of the Bush administration. The illegality of the Iraq invasion and
subsequent
occupation cannot be denied; it was orchestrated based on lies and deceits,
for no reason other than for corporate profit. A sovereign nation, a threat
to no other, crippled by a decade of sanctions and US imposed economic
genocide, was invaded by the forces of greed and the Almighty Dollar. This
illegal war, against all principles of universal precepts of human
interaction,
mandated by warmongers, greed-mongers, profiteers and exploiters of human
misery, is akin to Hitler´s invasion of Poland, while the entire
world watched aimlessly and indifferent before he invaded again and again
and again. With Iran clearly next in the scope for Bush, Israel and the
lunatic neocons, humanity is one step closer to repeating the mistakes
of the past, this time with most ominous consequences.
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- The Iraq resistance, however, is already victorious,
and once the United States escapes its bubble of infallibility and enters
the realm of reality, it will see this, wishing it had never entered the
quagmire and debacle known as Iraq, where the world1s only superpower was
brought to its knees by yet another "barbarian-filled,
savage-infested,
primitive-living, third-world of a country." It seems that along with
the ghosts of Vietnam can be added those of Iraq, forever to haunt America
for its continued ignorance of history, culture, civilization and the
awesome
will of the human spirit to live free.
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- Yet in the Iraq resistance does the world now depend,
for its freedom fighters have caused unexpected delays and returns for
the zealots in office. In them does humanity seek salvation from a
warmongering
dictator and a small cabal of deluded Machiavellis whose ideology and
insanity
threaten the entire security of the globe. For it is their tenacity and
unrelenting guerilla campaign of aggression that has prevented further
war, destabilization and catastrophe.
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- It is also in the American public that the people of
the planet need for survival. It is this population that must wake up and
commence the greatest peace movement to ever exist, demanding that its
loved ones return home from a war without purpose and a cause without hope.
We must bring the troops home, for they and the resistance are one and
the same, bred from the same lower castes, denied opportunity by the same
state and system that purposefully oppresses them, now demanding allegiance
in death and sacrifice both in mind and body. For the Establishment needs
the lower castes to do its dirty work, dying and suffering for the profit,
power and control of the elite, becoming its army of death and
conquest.
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- Thus Americans must rise like the people of Iraq,
marching
in the millions, together and strong, peacefully and non-violently bringing
down the system, fighting tyranny and despotism, demanding an end to this
most heinous of fights that serves no purpose other than to bring humanity
even closer to self-destruction. The American people and the resistance
in Iraq are one, fighting the same enemy, seeking the same cause,
struggling
to free humanity from the grip of everlasting conflict.
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- The Animal Uncaged
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- Beyond the special effects, blazing pyrotechnics,
elaborate
sets of carnage, unremitting weapons imagery, fake blood, dramatized death
and other Hollywood accessories used to condition and desensitize us to
violence and warfare, only a very small fraction of Americans have ever
experienced real war and the devastation and suffering that always, without
question, seems to follows.
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- Few of us ever come face to face with a most malevolent
demon, that entity resurrected by man over and over again, that for as
long as humans have walked the lands of Earth has, like an intrusive virus,
penetrated our cellular structure, attaching itself inside us and
prospering
with each new act of man1s wretchedness upon itself. Since the beginning
it has remained within us, gripping our nature with its raptor-like claws,
waiting patiently for weakness to once more consume our thoughts and
passions,
giving light to darkness and life to death. We are predictable creatures,
after all, for killing, raping, destroying, cleansing, starving, torturing
and fighting ourselves is as widespread in our history as a common cold
is in winter.
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- It is warfare, that scourge of humanity, whose seeds
of lunacy, rage, violence and hatred unearth among men the worst evils
of the human condition, turning us into crazed beasts made immune to the
senses of human morality and the constructs of universal law created by
the wise, righteous, virtuous and principled among us over the course of
untold generations and throughout all corners of the globe. In battle,
where man fights man in struggle for survival, all rational assembly of
goodness bred through social evolution is replaced by an innermost
primitiveness
of primeval ooze long ago mutated.
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- The animal inside is thus uncaged, released out of its
human cocoon, transformed into an unthinking predator devoid of human
virtue
whose respect for life and learned morality cease to exist. Tamed humans
become wild primates, captured by the behaviors of all creatures we once
were on our long road to what we presently are, falling down the hole of
evolution, regressing backwards to the law of the jungle and the survival
of the fittest.
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- Through the yells and grunts of men in battle can the
reality of primitiveness past be heard and felt. Hearing the wails of the
injured, the cries of the dying and the groans of enemies fighting in hand
to hand combat, with only the winner continuing life, must be an unwelcome
voyage back to days long gone but bountiful throughout time, reminding
its observers of the long and violent human past that never goes silent.
In war1s malevolent sounds can the demon of humanity clearly be
experienced,
shrieks and screams unwelcome to the human ear, sending shivers of dread
down our spines.
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- It is in war that the true nature of what we are is
released,
visible for all those willing to see.
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- Madness Released, Wickedness Allowed
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- For war--that human weakness created by warmongering
leaders that send to battle the mostly young, ignorant, easily manipulated,
testosterone-filled members of the lower castes of any one tribe-- -
unleashes
in human beings a most vicious animal from the deepest reaches of our
psyches.
The primordial necessity to kill, the hunger to maim and rape, the desire
to inflict pain and suffering is therefore reborn, free to act
indiscriminately,
away from the menacing glow of the rule of law and the watchful eye of
humanity.
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- In war, in its battles and fights, killing becomes legal
and permitted, a duty onto every soldier, a policy espoused by the highest
leaders of every side. Horrific crimes such as rape and murder of
innocents,
normally punished severely in society, become a weapon of fear and terror,
overlooked and forgotten, designed to weaken the enemy and its supporters,
seen as an unpunished necessity for the psychologically traumatized soldier
seeking to exorcise demons and release stresses tearing him apart.
Throughout
history, in all regions of Earth, untold millions of women have been
sexually
victimized by individual soldiers turned animals or by gangs of warriors
turned pack of wolves. It is part of the disease, a symptom of the demon
released.
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- It is because of war that laws and morality disappear,
making crimes the normalcy of every day life and the morals of ordinary
men the vanished remains of humanity. In war, being wrong is considered
right, evil is seen as good, and the daily introspections of soldiers
questioning
war1s purpose is admonished, judged as a sign of weakness, heresy and
free-thought.
In truth, morals are an enemy of warmongers, this is why free-thinking
minds are eliminated during military training, when god-fearing Christian
boys and girls are transformed into cold-blooded automaton-like killing
machines, conditioned to kill without hesitation or mercy, brainwashed
to obey and follow, never to think beyond what they are trained or told
to do.
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- In war the killing of innocents becomes a means by which
to traumatize, terrorize and instill fear into the enemy and its helpers,
made legal by those in power, glossed over and made to disappear. In modern
times, this practice is called collateral damage by American Nazis in
office,
as if beating hearts, terrified minds and baby eyes were inanimate concrete
buildings and inconsequential infrastructure, nothing but rocks, concrete
and rubble to be bombed and demolished. This is nothing more than
collective
punishment of an entire population, perfected by the Israelis and taught
to the Americans, which seeks to destroy the collective will of the people
and the resistance. It is purposeful, it is strategy, it is policy and
it is malevolent, a war crime and a crime against humanity.
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- In war the enemy and its supporters must be made to seem
inferior, taking on the appearance of sub-humans or even animals. This
legitimizes their killing and the deaths of their loved ones, who, in the
eyes of American GI1s, are seen as a savage sub-species. Thus the learned
constructs of morality and the traumatic questioning of murder by the human
mind are washed away, and the respect once afforded human life becomes
nonexistent.
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- The German Nazis, similarly, called their enemies
"untermensch,"
or sub-human, easily killed, raped, tortured and exterminated. Once people
are no longer considered humans, it seems their murder is easier to
swallow,
and thus the killer1s mind can continue fighting, and killing. The
Americans
are today repeating many of the same atrocities as their Nazi counterparts,
becoming the same monster, using the same beliefs, mutating into an abyss
of human wickedness from where few minds ever return.
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- Down the Same Road We Follow
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- In the battlefields where today1s armies fight, the
ghosts
of history are once more made to appear, pitching battles of old with claws
and teeth, our ape-like ancestors fighting tree to tree and branch to
branch
for resources and territory, power and sexual conquest. Later after our
mighty Diaspora out of East Africa to all reaches of the planet our methods
of warfare evolved, stones and spears appeared, in confrontations over
competition did clan versus clan and tribe versus tribe find themselves,
leaving destruction, extinction and ruin in their wake.
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- In these modern fighting zones of today can we see the
armies of ancient city-states doing battle with rivals through iron and
armor, fighting each other for group loyalty, power, resources, belief
and land, shielded by advancing technologies, maimed by evolved weaponry,
seeking higher ground for their cities, surrounding and protecting their
cities with defensive walls. Soon empires rise and barbarians fall, greater
economies, populations and wealth always prevail, the Caesars' addiction
for expansion of land and conquest of man grew, their ego and legacy was
thus assured; the Popes' subjugation of heathens and pagans spread with
the hypnotizing opiate of their theology and the devastating violence of
their cross capturing the minds and bodies of millions, their cultures
erased, their ways of life altered forever.
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- In the lands of Iraq do the winds of kingdoms and
monarchies
rise, entire legions of armies clashing in savage war, thousands of feudal
peasants fighting for nobles' lands and kings' thrones, new sophisticated
weapons of devastation and fiery hell are born, injury and death in greater
numbers are thus assured. Visible ghosts and unseen winds give rise to
the nation-state, pitting country against country, manipulated patriotism
versus brainwashed nationalism. Entire cities are condemned to rubble,
now millions of innocents and millions of combatants die, firestorms and
bombs dropped from the sky, bullets and ordinance kill from below. In the
fields of death only blood blossoms, its crimson red color alive as roses
as the devastation of modern warfare makes dead men walking of those
standing
ready to fight and those hiding in fear.
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- Two World Wars have enveloped the globe, following man
everywhere he goes. Human violence and wickedness have simply evolved,
from our start in the tree to the land of the free. Genocide, ethnic
cleansing,
mass murder and extermination continue to reign, we never learn, again
and again. Today in the 21st century do we live, in a guilded age of smart
bombs and missiles that completely miss their targets, instead killing
thousands of innocent men, women and children. In times of depleted uranium
munitions and bombs do we stand proud to thrive in, filling the bodies
of both friend and foe with the slow-killing disease called radiation.
Thousands of nuclear bombs are ready to evaporate our planet; millions
of tons of chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction have been
produced, ready to poison and plague us; the assembly lines of instruments
of death, violence and destruction continue to run, their conveyor belts
refusing to stop the proliferation of weapons designed to kill and maim;
space, the next frontier of war, is set to be weaponized and
militarized.
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- From the first stone and wooden weapons used by man to
the latest gadgets invented by the military-industrial complex, human war
simply evolves in time and space, our weaponry growing more sophisticated
and deadly with each new year, their capacity to kill more people growing
exponentially. The resources invested in the manufacturing of weapons only
grows more each year, now reaching $450 billion a year in the US
alone.
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- Knowing humanity, our addiction for violence and penchant
for war, it is not hard to fathom the next great war being our last, as
nation-states begin to compete for the last vestiges of Earth's natural
resources, which continue to dwindle more each passing year. The need for
oil, water, arable land and food, our pursuit of competition and
elimination
of rivals, our failures to understand our condition or learn from our
mistakes
and the continued lingering of the virus called violence embedded in a
species six billion strong virtually assures that we will continue as we
have always been, the next time incinerating ourselves, becoming ash and
dust, finally making extinct millennia of perpetual war and suffering.
The road of history does not lie, its sides filled with untold destruction
and human death. If we continue ahead as we always have, we will be lucky
to survive fifty more years. Under Bush, it will be a miracle if we survive
four more.
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- With humanity, it seems, only where our hands cannot
reach does peace exist. Only where we fail to conquer does war not thrive.
In lands free of human minds and bodies balance remains and nature
flourishes,
emancipated from the destruction that follows man everywhere he goes like
a trail of footprints through muddy paths. Everywhere we roam extinction
begins, so it is only logical that with us it should end.
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- For only the dead have seen the end of war, finally
liberated
from the virus, the plague and the demon that infects us to our
core.
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- Only the dead have seen the end of war, so rejoice and
relax, for if we fail to act, we will all be there in four years
more.
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- Manuel Valenzuela is social critic and commentator,
international
affairs analyst, Internet columnist and author of Echoes in the Wind, a
novel now published by Authorhouse.com. A collection of essays, Beyond
the Smoking Mirror: Reflections on America and Humanity, will be published
in early 2005. His articles appear regularly in alternative news websites
including informationclearinghouse.info. His unique style and powerful
writing is read internationally and seeks to expose truths and realities
confronting humanity today. Mr. Valenzuela welcomes comments and can be
reached at manuel@valenzuelas.net. A collection of his work can be found
visiting his archives and by searching the Internet
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