Obama in Iraq
It is hard to know where to begin on Obama's remarks in Iraq yesterday during a visit described unnecessarily by our press as a "surprise" since that is the only sort of visit a US President can make to Iraq. What is more appalling? The casual obscenity of a US President calling upon a nation that the US has been beating, brutalizing, and raping (that is when not using like a pawn in geo political games) for decades to "take responsibility for itself" or the fact that he has absolutely no idea of how much like a criminal sociopath he sounds when making such remarks?
It isn't Obama's fault. He is, after all, a product of the imperial Beltway and thus has never been exposed to anything approaching reality . . . to anything that lies outside the allowable parameter of opinion on Iraq. This parameter runs the gamut from the kook "right wing" belief that still believes Iraq was behind 9/11 and that the WMDs were there but just got moved to Syria . . . to the "left wing" opinion that the Iraq war, though fought for noble reasons and with good intentions, was the wrong war at the wrong time but since "we" are there "we" should make the best out of it.
Not for a second are we ever exposed to the stark reality of Iraq: that DC, in our name, has brought murder, pain, and misery to the lives of millions of Iraqis for self serving opaque agendas that had no good intentions or noble reasons behind them and they hate us, with good and just cause, and want us gone, completely, from their country.
I want to make something clear here. Obama's remarks yesterday in Iraq were not extraordinary or atypical in any way for an American politician, official, or military commander to make. Rather, they were par for the course in their staggeringly narcissistic and sociopath like assumptions.
Within any rhetoric out of our imperial Beltway on Iraq are underlying assumptions such as that Iraqis should be grateful to the United States for invading their country on false pretenses, destroying its infrastructure, and turning their nation into our battle ground for a ludicrous war on a tactic wielded by a largely mythical organization that is conveniently and fluidly defined.
The Iraqis, you see, after decades of suffering the results of American policies that could be described, at best, as having nothing but brutal indifference toward the lives of even the most vulnerable and innocent among them, should be thankful to the United States for finally invading them and "liberating" them.
And it isn't our fault that though they haven't been "killing each other for thousands of years" as is the the idiotic and wrong American sound bite on Iraqi sectarian history that they are now doing so. Nope. We had nothing to do with creating the cauldron of horrendous sectarian violence in Iraq that is ongoing to this day (and that as a ratio of population produces one or two 9/11 type casualty events in Iraq every week- that is when one of the unreported hundreds of US air-strikes in Iraqi urban centers are not doing so).
Obama also called the Iraq war an "extraordinary achievement".
The "extraordinary achievement" that Obama called the Iraq war is a nation that high ranking American officials can't visit pre-announced. It is an "extraordinary achievement" with an "unknown" civilian casualty component- killed civilians by the way- the US military didn't even deem worthy of counting. It is an "extraordinary achievement" with as many as four million people (or nearly 20 percent of the population) either displaced or refugees. It is an "extraordinary achievement" with a capital city being walled off- as if an ancient city under siege- from the rest of the country and only allowing four access points. It is an "extraordinary achievement" still, six years on,without the same levels of pre-war clean drinking water.
But for Obama it is time this country of Iraq, this ungrateful country that has had the good fortune to be blessed with the presence of our moral troops, picked from the cream of our society, who have nothing but respect for them and their culture- to step up and "take responsibility" for their country because we are just so sick of doing such a good job for them.
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Abusive paternalism: This is for your own good, and it hurts me more than it hurts you.
Very well put, Christopher.
A particularly pernicious form of aggression exacted upon billions the world over is that which gushes from the necessarily lying statist news wires; one episode of this violent attack on intellectual honesty and human decency has it that an indigenous Iraqi Resistance does not exist. And why not? Because a U.S. occupation, to which Iraqis could possibly lawfully resist, doesn't exist. And why not? Because the state-worshiping new media said so (via omission and perversion of language). Why did they say so? Because U.S. officials said so. And that's that! Why? Because the State holds the monopoly on the use of force and the dissemination of "news."
A "good journalist" will not put his bureau in a compromising position — especially when that bureau is located in a Green Zone or other volatile area under the "security" of those noble imperial forces. The same is true for a shop owner in the neighborhood being "secured" by the local mafia.
Just imagine what could happen, should AP decide to start telling the truth about the decades-long, slow-drip, Israeli holocaust against Palestinians. Who knows? Maybe that Jerusalem bureau suddenly ain't so secured by all those brave and moral IDF occupation "soldiers." So it's probably better, for the news outfit's security, not to cast the admirable defenders of freedom as thieving murderers and pirates, true or not.
Greetings Mr Dowd. What you have said in your article has brought Your country to the shamelesness that it is experiencing worldwide.I am elated there is at least one journalist in america can say this about his country,and you have not yet scratched the surface of the atrocities comitted by your contrymen.
well said indeed...we expect garbage like this from a bush but coming from obama,,,maybe he was trying to please the troops...god protect countries from any more us "help"....gary
That's a marvellous article and gives me some hope for America.
Another example of your country's narcissistic and sociopathic thinking is that no one, so far as I know, has ever even thought of making reparations to the innocent people you have incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay for years.
Regards, Alex
If Iraq were truly a fully sovereign state, what foreign leader could just drop in for a "surprise visit" without notifying--indeed, getting permission from--the Iraqi government? To top it all off, Obama actually paid visit FIRST to the commander of the USA invasion force before meeting the Iraqi prime minister!
What an article to read that is so truthful it might noticed by FBI Or CIA on the ground that that is not supposed to be portray American public is not ready for this type of brutal truth.
Let me guess what will happen in the future, when Iraqi people start running the country when its stabilised then it will be a open season for a revenge anywhere any time.
That's the Arab history tels us.Terrorist becomes a hero heroes becomes a terrorist.
Excellent commentary. I couldn't agree more. Like Vietnam, Iraq is pointless war conducted with similar malice and indifference to life. The notion that this is an "extraordinary achievement" contradicts reality.
Seven years too late and counting :^(
Notice mother USA is spitting image of Israel?
Cut throats and theives ;^(
Major problem in the NATO countries is that one chosen religion owns and controlls most of the media. Only reason some reporters are coming out of the shadows is that normal folks have started to notice and editors are shamed.
Christopher Dowd Good Job :^)
Great first paragraph.
Downhill from there however. You criticize the obvious but do not place it in the larger context. What is the larger context? That Obama's remarks were standard rhetoric? No. Start with Israel and the Lobby. But, it's necessary to go beyond that. Who is calling the shots in the US? I suggest Goldman Sachs/Hank Paulson/T. Geithner, the CFR, and beyond. It's time that the 'real' media, if such a thing exists, starts analyzing the news to a level that makes it understandable and that enables opposition, instead of just churning the outrage.
You will be accused of inflammatory rhetoric by the Yahoos. In fact your indictment is clear-eyed and restrained, and old news for those acquainted with the real history of the Empire, not only in the genocide of native American tribes but, having exported Indian Fighters to the Philippines, in the Pacific.
It was Twain who wanted to redesign the American flag--red and black for blood and death--with skulls for stars, was it?
"Sociopath" is relatively kind, suggesting a disease rather than pure, perversely "Judaio-Christian" barbarism and brutality.
Concerning the Middle East, despite all the talk about a "successful surge" in which the United States paid off various Iraqi irregular militias not to shoot at our troops, there is still much which needs to be said about Iraq, and to a lesser extent, Afghanistan. This exercise will require the painting of some very broad and even painful strokes. So many important and vital questions have not even been asked, let alone pondered.
There are of course on the surface the all-too-familiar debacles. How could these impending defeats have happened to "the greatest military power on Earth?" Consider that the very same nation which in 1945 had six percent of the world's population and over 80 percent of the world's wealth has now decayed into an infantilized economic and moral state.
A nation caught up in such a great decline should be ripe for self analysis, rather than engaging in craven delusions. If the reasons for the invasion were wrong, or outright lies to conceal the real agenda, how can the occupation ever be made right? As such, one might wonder about the real reasons behind the invasions?
Was it to break up Iraq into three little states which would be unable to challenge the U.S. or Israel? (I doubt our leaders are that smart.) Was all of this the workings of the Project for a New American Century, AIPAC, the Council on Foreign Relations or some other allegedly nefarious group? Some hidden New World Order elite operating from secret chambers? The Antichrist? The Boogeyman? Or did George W. Bush and Tony Blair fly by the seat of their collective pants?
There are those who claim over 1,000,000 Iraqis, mostly civilians, are dead. Some may rightfully dispute this number, as if an exact account is possible in a country where overwhelmed morgues have turned away bodies in droves. This Neocon invasion happened all because the U.S. felt the need to get rid of a murderer and dictator we had trained, financed and armed. It's fair enough to say "We created him, so it was our responsibility to get rid of him."
But make no mistake, Islamic militants did not start the war in Iraq -- Dubya did. Why?
First, Saddam tried to kill his father, George Bush Sr. (We can understand the son's anger about that and perhaps even applaud it).
Second, President Bush Jr. read a book about democracy written by Natan Sharansky, a former Soviet refusenik, (a smart, decent man) who gained notoriety in the Israeli Knesset. After reading this book, Bush Jr. decided to democratize the entire Middle East. He quoted from this book at his second inauguration. The question remains, if Natan Sharansky had written a book about the cartoon character Gumby, would we all be riding around now on an orange horse?
British Intelligence, Blair, the CIA, Dubya and his cabal (as correctly chided by everyone from Paul Craig Roberts to Paul Sperry) have acted shamefully at various levels. This should be chilling to all decent Americans who value truth. Only liars tolerate other liars. And no lie occurs in a vacuum, rather only to cover up other lies. And they still don't get it, do they? Let us consider that American soldiers (about 80 percent are at least nominal Christians, Catholics and Protestants/Evangelicals) have now effectively run most Iraqi Christians out of their own country by installing the radical Shiites to power in Iraq. Is that true irony? Of course we all know from an infamous Sixty Minutes interview with a true insider how evangelicals have been used to the highest degree by this administration.
And to think how many of us voted for them back in 2000 not knowing their level of contempt for us! Never again ...
And where are the vaunted American Christians when our fellow believers are killed in Iraq and Gaza? Many actually cheered on this sickening spectacle. Others simply nod in silence. No wonder so many people hate Christians in America. What happened to love thy neighbor?
What happened to silencing one's own conceit, false pride and self esteem? What happened to the notion of turning the other cheek and doing good to those who hate you?
What happened to defeating evil with love and not with more evil? To know Christ's power mean to first know His betrayal and abandonment and humility and service to others. How can we say we are Christians when we are so quick to kill? This is not the path to "the narrow gate." This is more like "I never knew you."
With thousands of dead American soldiers (the very best boys and -- shamefully -- the girls of America cut down like flowers in their youth) and tens of thousands of serious casualties, again, we must ask, "Why?"
There was a greater freedom of worship for Iraqi Christians under Saddam than after "liberation." And as non-state and sub/micro-state actors (Fatah, Hezbollah) and supra-national actors (al-Qaeda, Islamic jihad) continue to fill the coming power vacuum, things might get even worse in the Middle East for everyone who doesn't support their particular brand of religion. What's the point?
What about all the missing U.S. development aid which Paul Bremmer couldn't account for? He couldn't fly in some accountants? Where is the outrage of the U.S. taxpayer? Who knew the money was being flown in? Have you considered that maybe we stole the money from ourselves?
As an aside, the December 5th, 2006 edition of the USA Today reported that a billion dollars has been wasted on training the Afghan police force. No one knows how many police were trained, what equipment they have or where it is. Where is the outrage as Mr. Obama makes further preparations to bankrupt America in the Graveyard of Empires? The nation of Afghanistan where Alexander the Great, the British Empire and the Soviet Empire all were all eventually sent packing. Is our hubris that strong? Are we that far off the beaten track?
How could our military have trained so few Iraqi soldiers in all this time and with all that money? Why dismantle the entire Iraqi Army and purge every single Baathist from power? Was that smart? Is this the best our military, the CIA, DIA, State Department, Rand Corporation and so-called Ivy League "elite" can come up with? What do they teach at West Point? "How to Ruin a Country 101?"
Can you explain how a radical Shiite government in Iraq, allied with Iran and chanting "Death to America" helps American interests? It's just insane and it is getting increasingly harder to focus on the reality in Iraq, or what went on in the minds of Cheney, Bush Jr. and Halliburton. (As a plus, the Kurds, the largest ethnic group in the world without a country, may finally get their own state.)
Of course, things didn't have to turn out this way. From the very beginnings of the now infamous Shock and Awe we had no real plan for occupation. U.S. Special Forces bribed Iraqi commanders with briefcases filled with cash as a means to make them abandon their positions. This was not a very good introduction to capitalism.
Then we failed to secure an important Iraqi museum which was soon was looted. Great and priceless treasures of human antiquity were lost. This was a horrible mistake as it set a tone for anarchy. In fact, it was so stupid from a tactical point of view it stupefies the imagination. When questioned about this, former Secretary Donald Rumsfeld simply said "Democracy is messy." Well, so is a diaper! That's why a baby needs constant attention.
And what good is a brand of democracy in the Middle East which brings to power the rockets of Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iranian-aligned the Shiites in Iraq and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt? These groups only taunt Israel and give the Israeli/American military machine more reasons (real or imagined) to go to war. And wars mean money for certain elites.
(That said, if it was a reverse situation and the facts on the ground showed all Jews from Morocco to the Philippines and from Southern Russia to the Sudan, and this tiny little Muslim nation was in the middle of that vast "Jewish sea" of nations and peoples, would all those Jews come after this one tiny Muslim country? Or would they leave them alone and give them a tiny piece of land the size of New Jersey? I think we all know the answer to that question at least.)
Want an exit strategy? Sure, with multi-billion dollar bases, the most luxurious embassy ever built, air power and oil involved, was there ever a plan to leave Iraq?
Ever truly ponder Rummy's "light footprints" of a rapid moving, fluid military? Does this include women in combat, women with babies in combat, women with little children in combat and as Sixty Minutes reported, calling up a 60 year old grandmother?
Further, does this include our troops hunting for scrap metal to protect themselves, and the families of servicemen and women mailing off body armor and other equipment the military should be providing? But we've got oodles of money to send the ANC, the United Nations and God knows who else. (The "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska comes to mind).
"Look, Grandma mailed the soldiers cookies!"
"Look, Grandma mailed the soldiers body armor!"
"Look, Grandma mailed the soldiers ... Grandma!"
This is America?
Why wasn't a 60 year old grannie on the beach at D-Day?
Then, to control people with vice, alcohol and prostitution were legalized almost right away in Iraq by the U.S. forces. If you look at MTV you will see why Muslims fear America. Our culture is disgusting. Things we would have shunned even in 1990 are now not only openly tolerated but celebrated. Legalizing such vices in Iraq probably alienated many Muslims. Islam is a genuine religious faith and we should respect its higher morals, especially its stance against abortion, resistance to pornography and other ills. Instead we as Americans demonize them, because their prayer life, family values and resistance to abortion show us how sinful we really are. (Granted, some of them are violent and very nutty. Usually you become a martyr by being killed, not by killing other people.)
Not many Americans realize that scores of Iraqi doctors and professors have been murdered on an almost daily basis. How does this bode for the future?
Why aren't professional mercenaries from South Africa and ex-SAS protecting them, or even trying to? Again, no one saw this coming? Does anyone care about the Iraqi brain drain?
Trick or Treat at Abu Ghraib was beyond disgusting and has forever damaged the image of America. Our soldiers and the Vlakplas archetype mercenaries were beyond cruel. Where is their honor? Where is their love? Where is their humanity?
The rape of Abeer Qasim Hamza, the teenaged Iraqi girl, her subsequent murder and the murder of her family (and a very small child) to conceal this sick ritual was beyond disgusting. The U.S. soldiers involved with this are beyond inhuman and shame all of us. Again, this is the great, Christian America? No wonder people around the world hate us, our sick culture, deluded and insane leaders, our violent video games and our pornography. No normal person wants to fight the war in Iraq anymore so they have to let in people with criminal records. How sad.
Think of Jessica Lynch, our great heroine, running around topless at her Army base in Iraq. (That's our girl!) Ponder Lynddie England recording the madness at Abu Ghraib through her cell phone pictorial essay. Sadly this is what America has decayed into. This is attested to by the recent story of a young man in the U.S. who was vociferously cheered on over the Internet via his webcam as he committed suicide.
Not all Americans are that way, not nearly a majority, but there are far, far too many who live and think and act that way for us to remain a "normal" country.
Other questions we might consider about Iraq, our foreign policy and culture run across a wide spectrum;
What about the fresh water from the Tigris and Euphrates? Israel is running out of water. Has a pipeline been proposed? (A few years back, Tony Blair was caught trying to broker a fresh water pipeline from Kurdistan to North Cyprus and then across to Israel).
What about Iraq's oil?
What of Iraq falling into Iran's orbit?
What about the proposed oil pipeline going through Afghanistan? What about the opium? What about the opium money?
What about exiled Iraqi girls as young at eight being sold into sexual slavery in Saudi Arabia via Syria -- as reported by Brian Williams on NBC News? How could Bush Jr. sleep at night knowing this is going on?
What about America's MTV culture trying to turn Allah McBeal into Ally McBeal in the Middle East and Central Asia? That is the real issue in the battle between civilizations. It is the singular untold story -- the sexual liberation of Islamic women. Granted, some Muslim women are treated like chattel slaves and even have acid thrown in their faces, (the "Religion of Peace") but we all know the American endgame for them is Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton. That's another brand of acid and a story for another day.
What about Central Asian population control? Will the New Age Mother Gaia types allow Iran's population to continue to grow at such a high rate?
What about the U.S. declaring victory in Afghanistan not when bin Laden was captured (he probably never will be) nor the Taliban defeated (they are now busy retaking the country) but rather when "women were liberated from the Taliban." This is the 21st Century America. The soft America. The America that makes the World War II generation cringe. The America where all the soldiers in our Army get to wear the archetype special forces beret so their "feelings" and "self esteem" aren't hurt.
The America which made Alan Greenspan a demigod. The America which abandoned all its traditions and morals to participate in the global economy. (Pornography, weapons sales, MTV values, Hollywood, Madison Avenue, sexualizing pre-teens, slave labor imports from Mainland China, helping to fund the U.N. abortion jihad on and on ad infinitum). Again, have we no pride, no honor and no shame? Think of the latest American fashon -- high heel shoes for babies. Think of our once vaunted universities and the godless, Christ-hating professors who insert Marxism into your precious chlidren. Think of the filth on Saturday Night Live. Think of the war on the Boy Scouts.
Think of the murder of poor Channon Christian and her boyfriend in Memphis, this by the lowest form of oxygen stealing parasites ever to grace America's shores. This gang Sodomized them, cut off her breasts, cut off her boyfriend's penis and then poured lighter fluid down her throat. While they did this they were living out rap lyrics calling the faithful to "kill whitey all night long." Where were Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Mr. Obama on this hate crime? Silent. Regardless, this is the United States of America. This is who we are and there is no escape from that fact. We are a nation that is already eating the dishes we served to Rhodesia, South Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan. The dishes we served to the Hmong, Montagnards, the Karen, UNITA, Rwanda, South Sudan, the Contras and the Afrikaners. It's cosmic blowback. "As you do unto others ..."
I count America having lost four wars in the past six years: there is of course Iraq, Afghanistan, the Somalia-warlord contest and by proxy, Lebanon. The U.S. has been kicked out of Uzbekistan. Bahrain might be the next nation to send our fleet away, never to return. Are these disasters somehow linked to the sickness in our culture? Perhaps not. But is God blessing our nation these days? If not, then why not? Maybe it's time to ask if America is long past the point of no return? (Maybe Woodstock was the point of no return -- though few could see it -- then or now).
We woke up one day and the Soviet Union was gone. We woke up the next day and apartheid was gone. Think it's impossible we'll wake up one day and find the gang in Washington, D.C. vaporized by a terrorist or Russian or Chinese or North Korean mini-nuke? Let's hope not, but we should be ever wary. We have real enemies "out there" and inside our own nation. These enemies, both foreign and domestic, terrorize us daily through their Gramscian culture war 24/7/365.
Because of Iraq, our military is a wreck. Ex-NFL great and late soldier Pat Tillman, (an Arizona State graduate) though a brave and great American, died for nothing. Our leaders have been exposed as insane cowards and liars. They ran from Vietnam, only to send young American men and women to do what they themselves would never attempt. Now they've handed our nation over to Marxists.
Furthermore, depleted uranium is making many of our soldiers sick, never mind what it is doing to ordinary Iraqis and Afghans. It's all just so very, very Christian, isn't it? Let's wave the flag and chant a mantra that the center is still holding.
South America, Central America, much of Africa, China and Russia, along with Cuba and North Korea and various drug cartels are aligned against the U.S. Our border with Mexico is a joke and the EU is leaning away from the U.S. On our side we can count on Australia, the UK, Thailand, Singapore, Israel, Latvia, Albania and maybe (and this is a big maybe) Bangladesh.
Nuclear war and nuclear terrorism remain very real possibilities though our shopping mall culture does not want to hear this annoying truth. Remember when a man carrying a sign on the street saying "The End is Near Repent" actually seemed funny instead of prophetic?
We're in tremendous and unpayable debt, with both fiscal and trade problems as Lou Dobbs tries in vain to tell us just about every night on CNN.
Worse of all, our children wear pajamas to school, can't flush the toilet and in the winter, during the most frigid of days, many children refuse to wear a coat, but rather only a T-shirt. It appears the insanity and the infantilization has spread from top to bottom.
I want America to become a great nation again, but the sad reality is that from impending Sharia Law in the UK to France on fire to the new Hong Kong to the killing of the ethno-European farmers in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and The New South Africa, our civilization is either dying or already dead.
Democracy has become meaningless in many ways. It's not merely the idea of democracy being "the broad participation of the electorate." Rather it's about the progressive left wing Gramscian/Jacobin and Cultural Long March on social and economic issues favored by the American and Transnational elites.
(Consider in Europe how the Irish and Danes must vote again and again about immigration or divorce or abortion or the Euro till the elites get the answers they want.) In the U.S. we have similar battles about abortion, pornography, the NEA, the dumbed-down public schools, taking our guns away, Rhodesia (destroyed, totally) MFN for China, turning over South Africa to the communists in the SACP/ANC, legalizing the 30 million illegal immigrants, partial birth abortion, (as needed for fetal tissue in regard for disease research, cloning and future patents on the human genome) Dubai ports (shut down), as well as the erstwhile boondoggle of the financial bailout (opposed by Americans but went through anyway).
The question of the day is how we should feel about our new crop of leaders? Think back to where Hillary Clinton was in 1974. At that time, then-President Nixon was fighting Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and their soon-to-come Killing Fields. As a young lawyer Hillary Clinton was actively working on Capital Hill to impeach Nixon and hamstring the war effort. Yet rightly or wrongly, be it the plain truth or the imaginations of the vast "right wing conspiracy,"
Hillary's husband got to stick around through LORAL's satellite technology and missiles to Red China, "Coke Daddy Supremo" in Mena, Arkansas, the alleged rape of Juanita Broderick ("You've got two problems honey, one you're credible and two you're very credible"), helping "Father" Aristide in Haiti, propping up the ANC, Wen Ho Lee, Monica's dress, Ron Brown, Vince Foster, organizing demonstrations vs. the U.S. during the Vietnam War in the UK, editing Communist and Soviet propaganda documents in Eastern Europe and the rest of it.
William Jefferson even went back to Eastern Europe at the end of his second term to visit his old Commie friends. These are our leaders? Couldn't one man or woman in the United States Senate have asked Hillary about any of this at her confirmation "hearing?" Are they that cowardly or that pathetic? Why should these wicked, sick and evil Marxist animals (think of Winnie Mandela on crack) get a free pass?
Instead of fighting the enemies of God and humanity, Hillary was on the front line to undercut Nixon. And of course the Khmer Rouge were given a huge boost by Nixon's impeachment. They took over Cambodia and murdered 25 percent of the population -- around 2 million people. Now this woman will be in charge of the State Department. And to think, what kind of a man would select this woman, drenched in blood -- legalizing late term abortion and the bombing of Serbia -- to represent our nation? And they invoke the name of Abraham Lincoln in doing so. They are delusional beyond human imagination. Pity them as you pray for them. Yes they're only human and no one can be perfect.
It's just that they lie to themselves as they "play the great role" (as do many Republicans) while the remnant of real Americans know better vis-a-vis Marxism, late term abortion, cloning, DNA, stem cells, GE/GM foods, United Nations, EU, African Union, Big Pharma, public schools, open borders, replacement migration, Tower of Babel, ANC, MFN for China, the financial "bailout" and the rest of the never ending nightmare.
Behind the media spin they most often seem anti-Christian, anti-Bible, anti-family, anti-patriarchy and anti-white. They wage war on everything that is pure and good and noble left in the world. All normal people, black, white, gay, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Korean, Arab, Jewish and so forth should see through their lies and agenda. They won't be happy until we're all starving, homeless serfs dressed in rags and pleading for them to "save us." It's already starting.
As for McCain and Bush Jr., their cluster bombs for Iraq and Afghanistan, use of depleted uranium and arms for Lebanon and Gaza; they are beyond the pale on those anti-life issues. It's sad how the Christian right waved the banner for them. What real choice did Orthodox Jews, Muslims, Catholics and Protestants have for a true, 100 percent pro-life agenda in this past Presidential election? All of our institutions are corrupt. It's no longer good vs. evil. It's corrupted good vs. evil. What ever happened to "Thou Shall Not Kill?" Arab blood is real -- they're not computer characters in a violent video game.
Hopefully the Republicans will enjoy their next twenty years in the political wilderness. Just as he destroyed his oil company, Bush Jr. has destroyed our nation, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Republican Party, the rightist Evangelical block, the border with Mexico, Iraq ("God told me to strike them!" Sure bro ...) Afghanistan, New Orleans and our economy. Add to that the happy times at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. And remember, just a few weeks before 9/11 Bush Jr. went to New York City to tell us "immigration is not a problem to be solved." How crazy was that? Didn't one of the 9/11 pilots get a visa renewal form in the mail the following April? I think we're talking about Narnia. We talking serious institutionalization.
As for President Obama, consider the message of the International Herald Tribune of December 20th, 2008. In an article by John L. Allen, the senior correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter entitled "The Pope's Real Message for Obama" we read; "Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, Missouri, for example, warned voters that their eternal salvation might be at stake if they supported Obama ... Cardinal Francis Stafford, a former archbishop of Denver who today heads a Vatican court, described Obama's rhetoric on abortion as "aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic," and compared the election results to the Garden of Gethsemane -- the spot where according to the Bible, Jesus agonized before his crucifixion."
In the end, the nightmare in Iraq is merely a symptom of a far greater American disease. Where there is no love, no honor and no shame, there can be only false pride and ultimately, a decay into evil and unreality. More bombs for Afghanistan and Pakistan are not the answers. If "God is love" then in those three words alone will we find the answers to the questions we seek. For now, we can only join Cardinal Stafford in weeping for our once great nation.
Good words by Christopher Dowd. Like his predecessor, Obama is a heartless empty suit just smart enough to know that he works for the political and media establishment, not for the American people. Before the end of his term he will be parroting that doing to Iran what was done to Iraq is the only way to go (or standing aside while Israel does it).
worse than the old boss?
Anthony LoBaido - lol you post is twice as long as the actual article
csuntres says:
worse than the old boss? much worse becuase at least the most of the anti war movement in the country was able to see bush for what he was, a soiled little brat with out a serious thought in his head.
on the other hand obama by promising to end the war has bought the empire 3 years of no questions. until then there will be nothing happening in congress and the center left can be though of as the far right under bush
delusional counterproductive.
the only question i have any more is when will the supreme court rule that an executive order is above Congressional legislation.
A girl who has had acid thrown in her face, does not require that others use this crime to deride her religion. Talk about adding insult to injury. And if you feel so strongly about the little others other giving up everything they have for Israel, make your property over to the Zionists.
Campbell H says:
im not sure if its your point but throwing acid in peoples' faces is not a matter of islam rather it is a common tradition threw out central asia and india
It is a refreshing change to have some honest journalism emanating from the U.S.
Keep it up!
Fascist amerika @ work - NO change- Obommers hands now drip with blood ! Sadly, most of the fascist empire goes right along with the continued terrorist acts by amerika in the middle east ! They remain clueless that this IS the FALL of the Empire !
Extraordinary piece: truthful and especially honest.
Carlos,
Here you go.
Lorenzo
There are no Christians in the USA; there are only fake Christians.
Anthony,
Thanks for your reply (which I would encourage others to take the time to read.) I especially like your closing thoughts:
"In the end, the nightmare in Iraq is merely a symptom of a far greater American disease. Where there is no love, no honor and no shame, there can be only false pride and ultimately, a decay into evil and unreality."
There is indeed little left for Americans to cling to but false pride and unreality- mixed with our collective national inability to empathize with anyone- this is a toxic mix which does not bode well for the future.
You want to know the "why" behind Iraq? There is no one "why". The official "whys" are all false. All the official "defensive" and "good intention" reasons were deliberate and calculated lies.
But there is no one reason. When you have a huge military/intelligence/government apparatus with lots of toys sitting around politicians and the people who vie for the favors of politicians are going to find ways to use those toys.
Israel? Sure. That's some of the reason- but if Israel didn't exist does anyone honestly think that DC would be not be in the ME? Or have 700 plus military bases all around the world?
DC is an oligarchy- and behind the scenes they hammer out policy between their little factions and then when they have reached consensus- they unite to pump out the lies to the rest of us as to why "we" need to invade "X" country.
I commend Mr Dowd for his courage and insight for speaking the truth, where truth is needed. He is a credit to his profession, something that is lacking in his field. His article hits the bullseye and is right on target. I think him for his integrity. Semper Fi from a grateful former Marine.
There is no democracy here. As a sign i saw on at the g20 protests on tv, "Democracy is an Illusion".
Maybe this whole economic disaster is just staged so the people can be distracted from our facist government's crimes. Sept 11th criminals still remain at large. Criminals as in GWB, Rumsfeld, the whole crew, the world bank and the media. WE WILL NOT FORGET! WE CANT FORGET!
Think about it what is the difference between Economic crisis then and now. NOTHING DESPITE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, NOTHING!!!
THE FED STILL PRINTS MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR, BACKED BY NOTHING AND YET THAT SEEMS TO NOT BE DISCUSS.
If we printed out own money and eliminated the FED, we would then eliminate the eternal DEBT.
The media is part of the murderous cartel. They sit silent while the people of the world remain powerless against our murdering govt.
We murdered 1,000,000 Iraqis
on top of the 6,000,000 vietnamese
on top of the 500,00 koreans.
Where were the media's voice in any of this???
When will we wake the f@#! up??? When will we take out country back????
FED UP!!!!
Excellent, that is how you get the Boston Libertarian Examiner bookmarked.
Exactly, they need to be labeled what they are, deranged sociopaths.
Why any Americans could think they would not murder them too after everything they have done to Iraq before and after 911 as just one example is completely out of this world.
They do whatever they can get away with at the time that is the only thing that stops any psychopath.
this is what I wrote way back in 1997!
year--1997
Irak is right in demanding ouster of anglo-saxon spies from hollowed Iraki's soil.In name of uno, and before that leage of friends ,and now Amnesty International, this heyena country called england has installed a lot bof speis all over World and has virtually hijacked Americans to do their domestic and foreign policies for furtherance of british (england's ) interest than even American 's interest.
These days for last few years a lot of Kurdish refugees(who by the way are more aryans than all the europeans combined-though it is irrelevant here)are escaping from Turkey because of Turkish pressure. But nobody has ever stopped Turkey from having her air space nor has anyone bobed them. and why should anyone?Who has given right to a handfull of countries to be a policeman? Could they dare demand such thing at time of so called cold war? Every december,ever since gulf war there is a show of bullying tactics by anglo-saxons in middle east. There is really no ground but excuse is created because this race feels uplifted when others are insultated. Also there is a low cost exercise in bullying any other nation by military postures. Why should Iraq not have weapons as he desires?in 1981, when the israelis had bombed the iraqui nuclear reacto(a few days before going critical) it was britain)govt, and british media) who had vwhemently opposed Israeli daring action and did a lot of anti-jewish propaganda. Atleast Begin had a reason to fear from the arab enemy of israel. even in '82 Lebanon war it was britain which was most vociferous in criticizing Isreali militay action at the same time minimizing the Isreali Airforce's achievement in destroying Bacca's valley missiles through high tech method.In fact What americans did in gulf war was what Isreali had achieved way back in '82 in Lebanon war and America obtained that military know-how from Israelis after Lebanon war. But gulf war is justifiable on basis of military superirity but not Lebanon war. In fact when an american general said that america learned a lot from Israelis' achievement then the american defense minister Winnberg said that itAmerica learned not from Israeli but from British. Ofcourse we all know that Wnnberg was (awarded sir) more of anbritish defense minister than american one. He was pro-british and anti-jewish (and antirussian and all others aswell). In fact in lebanon war the american foreign secratary was changed because the british did not like Hague's attitude. This much britain exercises influence in american affairs. Now having installed all the stooges in Arab world britain has discarded her sham veil of Arabists and openly insults(through america ofcouse because on own britain is not even a fourh grade power)the arab world.Talking about the stooge, have you wondered why these days even Yeltsin's bad health no longer makes any headline news in anglosaxon world?Before any cold that Yeltsin had was niticed and still before that any peon from Russia had a headline news ' material. The reaon is simple. Britain has installed in Russia not only a mad man likes yelstin but also a second line of stooge successor to him. After Yelstin usefullness is over then he will be replaced by those second line of british stooge who at the moment are already controlling Russia and destroying her everyday. Democracy ,as understood today, basically means any system which gives free hand to britain to exploit other races. If their is one example of what an evil this so called capitalism is and what a saviour communism(britain does not dislike communism, she dislikes other's prosperity and independence whether it comes from communism, nationalism or what ever)is: this ruinous example of Russia is the real lesson. China is right to hold on to her nationalistic pursuit. It really is a war between anglo-saxons and the rest of the world. It is a race war.Sooner the rest of the world realizes that better it would be and this danger would be sorted out.
You remember that at the height of cold war in mid 80's there was a lot of activities of C.N.D. You would expect that with so called cold war finished, this C.N.D. would be asking to the british peoples to leave the nuclear weopons given to her,out of pity and filiaty, by the United states. But exactly opposite happened. C.N.D. has been defunct since than. It is as if that was a front of the british govt. to show by way of propaganda that that country had some moral voice.In other words, C.N.D. was a sham created by the british to give them respectability. Ofcourse when a non-anglosaxon country aould perfect their nuclear weopon,as France rightly did, then there would be a lot of hue and cry by the anglo-saxons' media. France and china are right in strenghtening their independent military power. The real danger to world comes from england and her anglosaxons agents. France understand that and Germany was a fool in not supporting France in Nato meeting this Summer. Just as Cnd has been proved a sham of british propaganda, more so is the sham which goes by the name of amnesty international. It is interesting that as soon falkland war started, within a few weeks this amnesty international presented a dozier on Argentina. In the same way as soon gulf war started(soon after Iraqui's intervention in kuwait) the same amnesty international presented a dozier and report on Iraqui's atrocities. an fact many of the amnesty allegations were just a copy of what british media was saying and which later on proved to be fabrication and great big lies. But bthis did not dent the reputation of amnesty international. british propaganda ensured that. IN '88 when Dalia lama,at the height of Tibetan disturbances, visited west, the then british prime minister refused to meet Him. Later on with the demise of Russia and usefullness of China gone and with manipulation to keep power in Hongkong somehow intact, the same british media and government ,like dog, started barking at China. It is interesting that amnesty international selectively targets those very countries(as it did china after cold war) who are out of faviour(because they would not be a brtish sttoge)of the british media and govt. This is not surprizing as amnesty international is the creation of british govt, and british media. england with the most appaling record of human rights in last 200 years of her evil rule, needed some organisation to keep the others from chrging england off her past and current evil practices. In other words it went for aggresive posture in propaganda war so that others can be demoralized and stopped from ponting out the real evil which is england. That is why amnesty international is one armour of the british lies to exploit the rest of the world. Amnesty international must be ignored and an independent human watchdog (which england will simply ignore) created. One purpose of amnesty international is to create an atmosphere for hatred towards the would be vitims of british exploitation so that a victim could be blamed to have deserved the consequences. That is why ,now amnesty international sometimes threatens China, sometimes India and etc. India because india needs to be cowed down and also so that India does not make nuclear wepon and thus feel free from future american(read english and anglosaxon)aggression. This is all to create an atmoshphere of mis information. The other countries are also responsible(out of sheer inferority complex) for giving these instuments of british propaganda so much imporatance. If they simply ignore and then the british lies and then themselves go in offensive(they can do it-no problem)against british exploitation and propaganda then tose countries would not in such dire strait as they are now. Think, this deteriration has happened in only last 20 years(thogh the british have been at this game for a long time but they were not always succesful when others have been vigilant).Ignoring and fighting all this anglosaxons propaganda, the other races(yes it comes to that) must unite and support each other against this common enemy england. The other nations should also go nuclear and assemble as much arm as possible ,collaborate on it and ignoring this anglosaxon race they must be prepared for war which tjhen would be prevented otherwise it would come inevitably. The other nations need to arm themselves to protect themselves from anglo saxon race. Thinking any other way is simply kidding oneself. And it can be done and will be done.
WE throw a challenge to these low lifes-if the English feel themselves
ao powerful them let them attack and win even Irak(already weaken by u.n.sanctions)without the help of u.n.sanctioins(that means Irak would have same freedom to acquire arms and means and Arabs and Israeli had in thier war)
and with out u.s.a. England is neither Isreal of today nor Sparta of yesterday.Let them be reminded that at height of thier empire in 1917, England was almost defeated
by Germans when German army's 3/4 th division was concentrated on Eastern front. These english are that weak and coward people.But thir mouth will have to shut for ever
when all the whites ,European and Thirld world unite against this english disese.
There is no point in telling them truth, they understand only one thing which they will soon get-tatal beating physically-the only language these animals understand. Hitler,who these worship
was wrong about the jews who were only british agents-what Hitler said about jews applied not to jews but to the english(anglo-saxons).race-pity he did not do the the british what should have been done instead. Well It is never too late.
For all those who talk of globalization and protection of intellectual property right, a small news which was never in prominent place in any of english speaking papers or news but was very much reported in French media. In the last weeks of October 98 was reported in French papers that 4 different French members of European Parliament were going to raise the question of industrial espionage of some 100 each of French and German companies by england in collaboration with u.s.a. and other anglo-saxon countries like Autralia and new zealand. In other words they same countries who made a lot of hue and cry over Indias nuclear test and who are the ones pushing for intellectual property rights and globalization. Thier modus operandi? Checking all satellite bases communication(telephone, fax, internet,etc)with help of klistening devices in anglosaxon countries and spying ao all the talks and messages all over world.This illegal activity is cordinated in england. European countries are loosins billions of dollars each years through leak of confidential techiqe and discovery. Apart form the fact that for tea,china, spices and plants this thief country england never paid anything for others' intellectual property right(why does royal doulton or british tea company not pay royalty to China?) this thief country england has done theft of German technology like urea making ang consequently ammunition making. In fact Standarsd oil company of america made a lot of theft of BAAs. a Germany company and many of the bombs which fell on Germany came from german tech. stolen by anglosaxon thieves england and america. That is not counting stolen from germans the tech. to make nuclear bomb and rockets. With these stolen technology has this anglo-american race been able to bully the rest of the world. And it wants to freeze the DIFFERENCE between it and other races in stone-for ever so that it can rule others unhindered. By the same mechanism it destroyed japanes and other Asian econmis. That is why India and others need very badly neclear deterence against enemies of the rest of the world.And the rest of world wants to break from ythier cluthes but has no courage because most of thirld world is governed by the likes of traitors like manmohan singh and Ahulliavala and spineless people like Jaswant Singh and Gujral and Atal bihari Vajpaye types
Excellent analysis. Also sickening was the sight of Obama embracing the troops and them coming towards him for a hug, just like children to their Daddy. And then he's going to send them off to Afghanistan! Sick, sick, sick.
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