Iraq is hell if you live there, survive there, get tortured there. If it gets worse —and it will — the dead will be called lucky. War may be hell but Iraq is the product of one man's lies, frauds, deceptions. Things are so bad that I wonder if Bush will withdraw, re-invade and hope things turn out better. But that assumes Bush wants things to turn out better. He doesn't. Truth is things couldn't be worse but, as long as Bush occupies Iraq and the White House, things will get worse anyway. Truth is the Iraqi people were better off under Saddam than Bush and are probably nostalgic for Saddam. Truth is we won't get the truth —not on the American media, anyway. It was left to the BBC to report its lead story: torture in Iraq is more hellish now than under former leader Saddam Hussein, demonized and all but compared to Satan by Bush.
Bush had cited Saddam's own hellish torture program as one of his many rationales for the US war of aggression —itself a hell on earth called "Shock and Awe" —the source of pictures of modern, mechanized, souless hell fire if not brimstone. After the attack and invasion, Bush boasted about how much better things were for the Iraqi on the street. That was just one of innumerable lies that this "deceiver of nations" has perpetrated upon the American people and the entire world. Had the Iraqi people been delivered? Into hell! None of this was told us. We were deliberately deceived. All the nations of the world were deceived.
"Iraq is free of rape rooms and torture chambers.Uh huh! That was a lie that was told to all the nations of the world. There's more.—"President" Bush, 2003 Republican National Committee Presidential Gala, Oct. 8, 2003
"The Iraqi people are now free. And they do not have to worry about the secret police coming after them in the middle of the night, and they don't have to worry about their husbands and brothers being taken off and shot, or their wives being taken to rape rooms. Those days are over."Another lie told to the entire world. The BBC's source, UN chief anti-torture expert Manfred Nowak, paints a vivid picture of reality and truth, a situation "...out of control" and a seemingly endless stream of abused victims traceable directly to the US-led multinational forces, security forces, militia groups and anti-US guerrillas. It's a picture of hell on earth:—Paul Bremer, Administrator, [Iraq] Coalition Provisional Authority, Sept. 2, 2003
The UN report says detainees' bodies often show signs of beating using electrical cables, wounds in heads and genitals, broken legs and hands, electric and cigarette burns.But Bush had assured the American people and the world that Iraq was better off now that the evil dictator had been deposed by an American army that Dick Cheney said would be greeted as liberators.Bodies found at the Baghdad mortuary "often bear signs of severe torture including acid-induced injuries and burns caused by chemical substances".
Many bodies have missing skin, broken bones, back, hands and legs, missing eyes, missing teeth and wounds caused by power drills or nails, the UN report says.
Now —Bush wouldn't deliberately lie through his teeth, would he? The reality in Iraq is a harsh light on the lie. The situation is much worse now; Bush brought to Iraq an American corporate apocalypse, in fact, a preview of the corporate hell that awaits the US.Because we acted, torture rooms are closed, rape rooms no longer exist, mass graves are no longer a possibility in Iraq."
—Bush, remarks at "Ask President Bush" event, Michigan, May 3, 2004
But one hell at a time. Back to Iraq. Bush's civilian body count, likewise, continues to rise —250,000 dead civilians in Iraq and climbing.
The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by U.S.-led coalition forces has been responsible for the death of at least 150,000 civilians.Each one of them is one count in the war crimes indictment that may one day be returned. Meanwhile, as Bush diverted more than $200 billion from needed services in the US, he has created, in Iraq, a hot bed for discontent, anger, hatred of US imperialism —a hell on earth. In short, Bush has created an incubator for real terrorism —not the phony stuff he exploits; rather, the real thing that will rise up against us in ways Bush will never, could never predict or understand, despite whatever Skull and Bones powers he may pray to in private. In a worst case, Bush may have sealed our fate, insured our doom.
Why did Bush embark upon this deliberate campaign of torture and atrocity? Why did the Bush administration inflame the middle east? Why did Bush pursue policies guaranteed to radicalize moderates and give cause to real terrorists? Why has Bush, in fact, endangered the people of the United States by making of our nation a rogue, outlaw state? Ironically, Bush cannot claim to have made us safer. To do so would remove the only issue around which he might hope to rally the American people: fear!
Whatever was discussed by Dick Cheney and his so-called "Energy Task Force", the result has been the American corporate takeover of Iraq. Surely, in that meeting, it was all planned and discussed just as Hitler literally auctioned off the Third Reich to Thyssen, Krupp, and I.G. Farben —a single meeting described vividly by William Shirer in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". Just as Hitler favored Farben, lucrative contracts were awarded to Dick Cheney’s Halliburton, circumventing even the pretense of a bid process.
The liar-in-chief would have you believe that Iraq is better off. In fact, Iraqi civilians were abandoned to chaos, out-sourced torture, hunger, and —now — civil war. Nothing said by Bush about Iraq has ever been true. By every sane definition Iraq is lost —but for Halliburton, the very picture of a fascist corporate rule, things couldn't be better. Truth is, Iraq has been looted!
A great collection of "worse off under Bush" links:
Additional resources:- Rape Rooms: A Chronology
- "President" Bush Addresses United Nations General Assembly, 2003
- Iraq Coalition Casualty Count
- Halliburton CEO's stock rises by $78 million since Iraq invasion
- Halliburton Lands Katrina Contracts, Stock Rises to One-Year High
- Hell for Halliburton
The New Testament tells us that Satan is a liar, the great Deceiver, who appears as an angel of light. It tells us that this great master of hoax and deception will lead many Christians into apostate Christianity to their own destruction. It describes him, in the book of Revelation, as the great deceiver of nations.I'm an agnostic. But I am also a logical positivist who believes that a "thing" is defined by a finite number of "attributes" that are known to exist. If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and swims like a duck, it's a duck! Simply —if the "Beast" is defined as "deceiver of nations" ...well, who do you suppose that is? You get one guess.
It would appear that some one in the Middle East, a long time ago, wrote some stuff down that sounds a helluva lot like the hell on earth that Bush has since created in Iraq. Bush has made of himself a helluva "President"! Just ask Hugo Chavez —who understands better than anyone what Bush has in mind for Venezuela. It's a helluva plan.
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kebo is too good not to quote in his entirety:
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WHAT IF A NEW COALITION AROSE FROM A UNITED NATIONS MANDATE:
THIS TIME, to stop the tyranical UNITED STATES! What we have done in Iraq is not one bit less illegal than what Sadaam did in Kuwait. I can't remember exactly what his excuse was for the invasion, but it had to be something more than the lame WMD scam (Which "Colon Pal" now admits he had FOREKNOWLEDGE of).
Actually, the world could bring the United States to its KNEES without firing so much as a shot. "BECAUSE OF THE RENEGADE BARBARIOUS DICTATOR GEORGE bUSH, FROM THIS DAY FORTH, WE NATIONS OF THE U.N AGREE TO GO ON THE EURO STANDARD FOR ALL FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS".
AND WATCH THE ENTIRE G.O.P. HOUSE OF CARDS "FREE TRADE" ECONOMY come falling DOWN in 90 days or LESS
Of course, Limbaugh will blame it all on Clinton, when we are living under bridges by the millions. MAYBE THAT WILL BE WHAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE TO WAKE LAZY STUPID AMERICA UP. Have you ever tried to reason with someone who was really liquored-up? That's what bush seems like to me now, stumbling towards destruction, bah-gawd!
This from kebo:
WHAT IF A NEW COALITION AROSE FROM A UNITED NATIONS MANDATE:
THIS TIME, to stop the tyranical UNITED STATES! What we have done in Iraq is not one bit less illegal than what Sadaam did in Kuwait. I can't remember exactly what his excuse was for the invasion, but it had to be something more than the lame WMD scam (Which "Colon Pal" now admits he had FOREKNOWLEDGE of).
Actually, the world could bring the United States to its KNEES without firing so much as a shot. "BECAUSE OF THE RENEGADE BARBARIOUS DICTATOR gEORGE bUSH, FROM THIS DAY FORTH, WE NATIONS OF THE U.N AGREE TO GO ON THE EURO STANDARD FOR ALL FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS".
AND WATCH THE ENTIRE G.O.P. HOUSE OF CARDS "FREE TRADE" ECONOMY come falling DOWN in 90 days or LESS.
Of course, Limbaugh will blame it all on Clinton, when we are living under bridges by the millions. MAYBE THAT WILL BE WHAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE TO WAKE LAZY STUPID AMERICA UP.
Have you ever tried to reason with someone who was really liquored-up? THAT'S what bush seems like to me now, stumbling towards destruction, bah-gawd!
Fuzzflash, you have a gift —wrapping up the ridiculous and the sublime in a single gestalt of wit, irony, and tragic truth:
Such a sweet irony really; Chavez has used the Devil of the Old World conquistadors to define the front guy for PNAC-conquistadors.
One day —when he stands accused in the International Court —Bush's defense will harken back to Flip Wilson: "The Devil made me do it!"
Damien, thanks for the link to Whitney. His is a must read and the timing is incredible.
I'm an agnostic myself, but I've been joking about Dubya as the AntiChrist since his "scatology" remark (joking in a nervous, please-dont-let-this-actually-be-true kind of way). Belief or not, if the shoe fits better than a bloody glove from OJ's trash, then maybe steps should be taken to curtail whatever plans the Man may have.
drive, that's a good one. If anyone could confuse eschatology with potty talk —its Bush! I am reminded of the time he said he opposed the "...vulcanization of America". But —how about retreads?
I watched this particular episode of BBC World News the other evening, it takes media from sonewhere other than the United States to pay more than passing attention to the reality that sharply differs from the press conferences of universal deceit coming from the White House and being faithfully peddled by the MSM to a clueless and thoroughly uninterested public.
Check your local PBS station for times.
odanny, the American MSM seems increasingly disconnected. It's almsot surreal. The biggest problem with the American MSM is the seeming automatic way it adopts and uses Bush's Orwellian terminology. When the MSM become using terms like "insurgents" to describe guerrillas and "extrordinary rendition", "stringent questioning" and "tough tactics" to describe gulags, torture, and sometimes beatings resulting in death, you know you've got a problem right out of Orwell's 1984.
Apparently, the Noam Chomsky book Chavez was promoting has gone, in Amazon's sales ranking, from way down beyond the two hundredth position up to the sixth or so position practically overnight! Way to go, Chavez!
Len, I wrote a "Letter to the President" along with an accompanying music vid on my blog that I would like your opinion on. If you would be so kind, this old grandma would be eternally grateful.
And the MSM, while slanting the coverage against Chavez, didn't know what to make of the boost in those sales. Sheesh! The MSM apparently can't figure out that those brisk sales are indicative of a generally positive view of Chavez vs the Chavez as Castro meme that they are promoting on behalf of their corporate sponsors and the fascist, corporate establishment and Bush junta.
http://www.capitalnews.org/
You know, this is a guy that the wingnut Pat Robertson said we need to 'take out', that is the mentality of the paranoid modern day fundamentalist/neoconservative
I wonder if these people, in their campaign to discredit someone like Chavez, will ever look into what he has done in his own country in regards to the quality of life of it's own citizens and it likely would dwarf what the Bush Admin. has done its citizens. Remember we have 9/11 first responders dying young now, after being told the air was safe to breathe. The only one getting any attention in this country are the defense contractors, not even the military is being taken care of responsibly and properly.
"you know you've got a problem..." The problem with thinking in those terms is that novelists write Utopian novels (Huxley's Island, for instance) and dystopian novels (Brave New World.) What's coming here is both. A newly forged society that is Utopia for the chosen few cloistered in their gated (and soon to be protected by 24 hour armed guards), and dystopia for everyone else. God, I'm in a pessimistic mood the last week or so. Blogging about the treatment suffered by Maher Arar will do that to you. Times like this one doesn't want to be a philosophical empiricist. The empirical evidence is too grim. By the pricking of my thumbs...
Correction, with regard to Chomsky's book's sales number - it should have read "from way down beyond the two hundred thousandth position". :)
Yeay, history gets a run! Good to see Hegemony and Survival is being read. Chomsky records (p74) that in the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 the world escaped a nuclear war because of one Russian sailor:
"A guy named Arkhipov saved the world," said Thomas Blanton of the National Security Archive in Washington...He was referring to Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet submarine officer who blocked an order to fire nuclear-armed torpedoes on October 27, at the tensest moment of the crisis, when the submarines were under attack by US destroyers. A devastating response would have been a near certainty, leading to a major war.
Chomsky removes the ideological slant on 50 years of US foreign policy, an ideology that has blinded a generation of Americans from the harsh realities of those policies. In fact, the ideological slant has been so bad it's almost been the exact opposite of what's really been going on. Let's look forward to "Chomsky goes on Oprah". Typically, the US media has failed to join the dots on the increased book sales and reach the appropriate conclusion: people don't believe Bush anymore and are looking for explanations elsewhere.
This rejection of Bush may be far deeper than is apparent and could lead to a Republican rout in November - especially if the Republican turnout is down. Mark Shields on The Lehrer Hour was saying that he he had been to Ohio and as far as he could see "the fat lady had sung": the Democrat candidate there was 20 points ahead of his Republican rival and across the country there was a similar, less pronounced, but equally determined move against Bush. Let's hope so.
ha! to oppose vulcanology is not logical.
"This rejection of Bush may be far deeper than is apparent and could lead to a Republican rout in November"
I've been feeling especially pessimistic lately, so maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I dont think the hoped for rout is going to happen. With the return of $2 gas, life is good again for the pinheads, who keep saying "if you blame Bush for high gas prices, then give him credit of low gas prices" (and I certainly do, though "credit" isnt the word I use) as if it's proof of liberal lies. Republicans keep talking about a "cultural war", but they dont bother mentioning that they are the ones waging the siege here. Just watch, the GOP will loose some ground, but it wont be a decisive enough loss to get the Dems motivated to do anything about BushCo, so it'll be the same shit with a different label.
Yes, Fuzzflash, there's a whole story with Armitage that's at odds with his PR. And Diebold has some new patches. Doesn't look good from that standpoint.
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