It’s the bard most oft best describes our times, notice the opening line
of Richard III (no relation), "Now is the winter of our discontent." And,
discontented we may well deserve to be, not by our circumstance, war and
the pestilence brought by someone whose maturity rivals only
that of a lemming hurling over a cliff, but by the shear stupidity of what
we are having to endure from this group of bozos and harlots.
If true that those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad, get
those rapture kits ready. I refer to the Administration’s formation of
an assassination squad to ferret out Iraqi insurgent leaders and anyone
else not going along with the Bush/Gen. Ricardo Sanchez program.
Seymour Hersh, writing in The New Yorker magazine details how, in a wisdom
that can only be ascribed to Scooby Doo, there is a special
unit to hunt down and kill insurgent leaders. This pre-supposes Sanchez
et al determine who these leaders actually are, and that they
actually exist in the persona ascribed to by the U.S. Army.
I am reminded of a woman recounting her days before renewed virginity and
marriage, "it’s only kinky the first time," because this is the path
now used by the Israelis and too similar to one we used in Vietnam, the
Phoenix Program.
This program establishes an elite squad of, if they’re not now soon will
be, psychopaths and sociopaths to cold bloodedly assassinate the
political opposition, often time for no other reason than they are the
opposition. Neat, huh?
As the thinking goes, sneaking into a village or a home and killing someone
who is not actively engaged in combat at the time is supposed to
win the hearts and minds of those surrounding the victim. It is also thought,
so I’m told, that this will deter anyone else from engaging in
political opposition or insurgency.
Let’s just drop by Ho Chi Minh City and see how well it worked out. But, it gets even better: You’re not laughing yet? Catch this.
As part of the heart and mind effort our Army, under the tutelage of Rummy
the one and only, has sought out and obtained the assistance of
the IDF (Israeli Defense Force). These are the guys who dress up as Arab
women, sneak down the street and bomb and kill people who don’t
like it when IDF Apache gunships bomb and kill people in broad daylight.
Unless I’ve just missed it all these years one of the prime Arab complaints
about the U.S. is our support of Israel and its occupation of the
areas claimed by the Palestinians. It is from this that an untold amout
of death and sorrow has sprung.
So now to show that we are serious about establishing democracy in Iraq
we have brought in Israeli troops to show us how we can do to the
Iraqis what IDF does to the Palestinians. And, we brought them, under our
protection, to Iraq. That should win lots of hearts and minds, right.
Lets recap, there will be a quiz next November; we invaded Iraq because
we were told they were in league with Al Queda, which they were
not. We invaded Iraq because it had bio weapons and weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) ready to rain down on unsuspecting victims at a
moments notice, which it did not. We were going to be greeted by throngs,
nah–thousands, nah—hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who would
line the streets cheering us and liberators, which they did not.
The entire war was going to be a walk in the park, which it is not.
The only resistance to our being there are hardcore Saddam loyalist, which they are not.
Bagdad is rallying to us, makes one wonder why President I-pee-freely–at–gunfire
did not take a motorcade to see the throngs of thousands
of happy liberated Iraqi who wanted to shake his hand, not.
And now, a plan of assassination and terror which didn’t worked in Vietnam
and damn sure has not worked for the Israelis is being
established with the help of IDF advisors in a region that views Israel’s
occupation of Palestinian land as a huge part of the problem.
Considering that this administration has been wrong about virtually everything
regarding Iraq, why do these goofball nitwits think this new
Phoenix program will do anything but bring on more terrorism and insurgency?
Do they just give out stupid pills at the Pentagon or is it
something in the water?
Look at how this war is sold to the American people. Local Heartland TV
infodroids talk about reserve and guard units as being "called to
duty." This is a fine line distinction to being "called up" or "activated."
Using "duty" puts a sacred touch to taking people away from there children
so Haliburton can over charge the American people by
millions/billions, who cares.
"Duty" makes it ok to sneak into villages and kill someone who, because
the intelligence has been soo bad, may or may not be your enemy.
And, he/she may or may not be your enemy because of Saddam but maybe because
you humiliate and degrade him and his country before
the world, for profit.
But, finally it is the self-righteousness of these actions that are so
troubling, disconcerting and ultimately dangerous. The bard’s Ricky III
reminds us,
"And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ,
And seem a saint when most I play the devil."
now which works best for you.
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