This is a Massacre, Not a War in Iraq

[Comadreja]

This is a Massacre, Not a War in Iraq: Woe unto us for allowing the madman Bush to kill people in Iraq, Afghanistan and by proxy, in Palestine. Some day, as Malcolm X prophesied, "The chickens will come home to roost." http://207.44.245.159/article7014.htm

10/04/04 "ICH" -- This is a massacre, not a war in Iraq. The U.S. bombing Samarra, Fallujah, Baghdad and other cities, killing hundreds of civilians and calling them terrorists is like the massacres of the Native Americans during America's push westward.
In this case, it has to do with America's push eastward.

What is also troubling is that no major media outlet, no major politician--none are callig this what it is, an immoral, unmitigated killing of hundreds of Iraqi civilians every week, a massacre.

Also, those who are experts in Arabic have claimed for months that the man alleged to be Zarqawi is not really Zarqawi because he does not have the real Zarqawi's Jordanian accent. But, the American military, we are positive by now, has created this mythical Zarqawi to allow it to mercilessly attack Fallujah and punish its inhabitants because they withstood the American ground attack and chased the Americans out. Even today, the Fallujhans have said aloud to Al Jazeera and other outlets, that they will come out into the streets and fight the Americans--but our country, America, is immoral and cowardly, every day attacking Fallujah by F16, Apache and long range cannon fire. In the process, killing hundreds of civilians, but as in the Viet Nam war, saying, "It's just collateral damage and we are not responsible for that."

My question then, is who is responsible for the killings.
I point my finger at General Abizaid, a man who should know better. I also point the finger of guilt at his subordinate commanders in Iraq and all the way up to the two devils at the top of the pole, George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. By now, it is obvious why Bush and his cronies do not want to support the International Criminal Court and are even attacking the court at the Hague--because they know that they are breaking international laws and that they would be pulled up, kicking and screaming ala Milosovich, to that court for their war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq.

It is time for Americans to speak up to stop this massacre.
We are killing Iraqis in the name of "Freedom" and "Democracy!"
How absurd, must we kill the Iraqis to "save them". This sounds almost like the old Salem Witch Trials, where they put people to death in order to save them. But it also smells of the aforementioned slaughter of the Native Americans by the jolly good American cavalry--ironically, it's the same cavalry that is repeating its deeds 200 years later, but this time against Iraqis. For shame.

Also, shame our media outlets, our church leaders, those phony Christians, Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson--men who shall certainly be condemned to hell by God on the day of judgement. Some may say, I have no right to say such a thing, but all you have to do is see how they are supporting these atrocities--especially Billy Graham and his son, both men who had built reputations for decency but have now destroyed them with this endorsement of slaughter in Iraq.

As for Falwell and Robertson, they not only endorse the Iraq slaughter, they also are doing all they can to praise Sharon and Israel for their slaughter, on a daily basis for the past 3 years of Palestinians. They also cheer when Palestinian homes are bulldozed, as in the 200 taken down in the past month.

In the process, some at the UN have spoken out, even Kofi Annan, but people in America are not hearing. Instead, America is trying to distract the public with stories about Darfur, about the non-existant Zarqawi, about "staying the course" (as if there is a course and as if it is justified), and few are asking, "Just why are we in Iraq, after all, Saddam is gone?" We hear such nonsense as, "We have to stay to settle things down in Iraq." But President Jimmy Carter and most international experts say that we are the problem and that Iraqis could solve their own problems if we'd leave.
But, as most know, and this has been pointed out by Jane's of London and other experts in the U.S. such as Chalmers Johnson, America intendes to build at least 2 dozen bases or more in Iraq to stay on--never to leave.

I want to say again, as I said in articles since Bush's invasion of Iraq, we shall pay a heavy price for this slaughter of Iraqis who are Arabs and Muslims. This slaughter, this massacre has incensed the entire Muslim world.
America is no longer respected in any part of the Muslim world.
In fact, a recent poll in Egypt, one of our strongest allies in the Arab and Muslim world, showed that over 90% of the Egyptians are now angry at America. But what of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, many of them are so incensed that they will become militant against us. Our behavior has taken away any credibility moderates had, now the radicals can say, "See, moderation got you nowhere with America. They even kicked Cat Stevens out of America, a leading moderate in England, a man who had even given advice to the White House on how to deal with radicals."

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[DELUSIONAL]

1. Wedding parties attacked --

one recently and many other reports. Justification -- military age males.

There is this powerful analogy of the slaughter of Native Americans -- removals -- Trail of Tears -- Reservations -- and continuing treatment of Native Americans by Gale Norton -- Interior Department.

It would seem that every mistake that could have been made has been.

1. Attacking a KNOWN weak nation (Saddam was attempting to bluff his neighbors -- and for this thousands of Iraqi citizens have been murdered by US military.)

2. Going it alone -- the collation is a farce.

3. Blocking Humanitarian agencies -- Pentagon decides to take on role of NGOs.

4. firing of whole segment civil servants -- Baathas.

Etc etc etc

5. Lack of basic knowledge of the Iraqi culture by US troops.

Etc etc etc

If the Pentagon uses the Native American pacification model -- disease to reduce the population (check), building of jails and reservations (check), killing and/or rounding up males of military ages (check), controlling of the "leaders" by the great white father (check), more starvation and disease of children (check), theft of land and/or natural resources (check), more killing and elimination of indigenous population (check).

As long as there is oil and water in Iraq the future doesn't look good for the Iraqi people -- based on the history of Native Americans in North America, central America and South America -- oh don't forget Australia.

[anarchy1999]

2. Thanks for putting this up.

You'll probably get in trouble for posting so much, but thank you.

We are so wrong and we so need to be on the streets, why is Dubya even being allowed to run? Another term, why? International criminal is about to be re selected. And we the people are letting it happen. Why?

[sweetheart]

3. I think it comes down to the sneer

I've been on railing about the criminal acts of the military, and
i had a lucid dream that really helped pinpoint, IMO, the issue that
we must address.

I visited a military base, and chatted with all sorts of different
military people who were experts in all sorts of weapons systems.
Then the "big general" came out of his office. He was a skinny
white man who was there to "do the dirty" and show this damned
liberal why I must respect the military.

Following was a blistering rant from him, something best captured in
the film with jack nickolson, "jessop". I am not threatened, by a
man who sneers, but it was his presumption of the rightwing to be so
condescending that i see is what the "right" thinks is a corker.

Simply yelling at this "damned liberal communist pinko son of a bitch"
din't phase, as i've lived in new york too long, and insulting people
in to passivity just makes me smile. Then out came the big sneer.

"You people don't know what it means to defend the country, and what
you are saying during wartime is treasonous." The right wing always
attempts to win an argument by threat, and embedded in the threat is
a percieved position of moral superiority, that of being a defender
of the nation, of my having insulted the men who saved us from
the germans and from the koreans and the vietnamese.

And they say a lesson learned from world war 1, was not to ever keep
a career military, as the institutional groupthink of the organization
will start and wage war as a training exercise, totally subverting
civilian control of government. So in that sneer is the criminal
act, from a welfare queen (as what is a career tax-paid desk jockey,
but a welfare queen)... and geez, how this welfare queen thinks that
sneering at liberals works... hmmm.

I think the only way to clean up the mess is to sack the entire top
brass of the military, everyone above the rank of major should be
retired, and banned from setting foot in a government office or
department or taking any job with any company contracting government
business. Then these career jokers, can come to learn about
civilian life they've been defending all these years.. good for them.

And we can get rid of the sneer. THe military works to serve the
constitution, and the civilian president, an all the people of the
nation, humbly. THe line is crossed when these military jokers
think they have some divine political rights to bully civilians
in to accepting complicity in their criminal acts...

;the temptations of the serpent; and it all comes out in a sneer.

[venus]

4. This picture and story makes it hard to continue

to support the troops. How dare we do this to another sovereign nation. Still can't get over it. Can you imagine being pulled from your home and arrested for no reason other than because your a male. Then getting tortured in prison. No peaceful sleep at night. Fear a constant. Just unimaginable.