STUPID FUCKING WHITEMEN & NIHILIST MUSLIMS

Dialogue before bullets, The Guardian

2004-08-16T05:41:00.000+00:00

Except for military briefings, the US government has said little of substance about the Najaf crisis for the past 10 days, even though nearly all the fighting has been done by 3,000 American soldiers.

The US and Mr Allawi are insisting that Iraqi troops, not Americans, will be used if necessary to storm the holy shrine in Najaf, yet this ruse only tarnishes Mr Allawi's regime further without diminishing Shia anger against the US. If Iraq is embarking on the road to democracy, as was claimed in Baghdad yesterday, honesty is the first requirement.

An Israeli / Rove Connection? The McGreevey Scandal, By WAYNE MADSEN

2004-08-15T15:24:00.000+00:00

Cipel was also a former Israeli naval officer, leaving the service with the rank of lieutenant. How a person goes from an influential position with one of the most important Israeli diplomatic missions abroad to a mere Jerusalem area tour guide seems, on the surface, extraordinary. But in the world of intelligence, such career changes are driven by political necessity, not by choice.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' Provokes Arab Reactions

2004-08-14T20:25:00.000+00:00

Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is provoking strong Arab reaction. Kuwait banned it, Jordan tried to cut it, Syria has not decided, and Saudi commentators are denouncing it.
Many Arab moviegoers say with a twinge of envy that they wish the region, where free speech is for the most part restricted, had its own Moore. Some say it reinforces their bad image of the United States and shows Americans what their own media does not.

For Radwan Rizk, a 47-year-old Lebanese gym owner, the message was double-edged: Moore's presentation shook his idea of American democracy, yet reinforced it, too.
"I hope that we can come to a point where we can criticize our own governments the way he did — freely," Rizk said.

Those they can't co-opt, they destroy , by Kamil Mahdi, Guardian Op-ed

2004-08-14T17:22:00.000+00:00

For more than a week, an aggressive foreign power has addressed an essentially domestic political question by means of tanks, helicopter gunships and F16s.

A thoughtful article from the UK Guardian. An article that no American media outlet will ever publish.

BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS, WHATCHA GONNA DO? WHAT CHA GONNA DO?

2004-08-14T14:08:00.000+00:00

Here's my analogy of the Iraq War.

Saddams the wife beater, constantly beating his wife and family while the neighbors ignore it. The people of Iraq would be both the wife and children. Like many that suffer abuse, they tolerate it, hoping with time or some great action on their part or the oppressors something will change. Anyone that grows up with abuse sees it almost as a normal occurence. The abused also fail to run away, call the cops or any other matter that may stop the violence. For some it is economic, "I can't afford to leave" or any number of reasons that women will stay and take the abuse.

So in the effort of being the "Noble Gentleman" America took it upon itself to come knocking on the door of the tyrant, issuing a decree that if Saddam came out of the house with his hands up, the police wouldn't have to break down the door and possibly hurt any of the family. Of course it was expected that Saddam would not surrender, so what did America do?
In the effort of liberating Iraq something around 16-20,000 people were sacrificed for the greater good of the nation. That's like busting through the door, machine guns blowing holes everywhere all in the best interest of the small family. Well some of the kids got dead, Saddam got captured and the wife you understand is very upset. See some of her children died.

So now the bad guy is captured, some of the kids are killed and the rest of the family is now more angry and upset at the police. They blame the police and in their grief are shouting and screaming at the police to leave, just get the hell out now won't you! The police now have quite a situation on their hands, it would not be good enough to leave now, we must insure that peace and happiness is restored before they leave the premises. Meanwhile two officers are busy upstairs in the bedroom pocketing some of the nice twinkets and jewelry left around, just for safe keeping you understand. Another cop is in the fridge making a sandwich, all the while the mother and her sons feel humiliated. It's not pure love for their tormentor that grieves them, it's the fact that while they wanted to find an end to the violence in their own way, these police just destroyed much of their way of life. Now the police captain comes in and offers his best friend as the new husband. He's a nice guy, the captain tells the wife, he'll take care you, you are in no shape now to go looking for a suitor, so it's best you take my friends hand in marriage.

Saddam was not a nice guy, we all know the brutality etc. etc. BUT the real reason I believe Iraq is not working out the way the Bloodlusters thought, was that the people of Iraq needed and deserved to come to terms with their oppressor in their own way. They needed their own liberating experience, They needed to rescue themselves, not suffer the indigity of having their culture swamped with 150,000 TV fed, pop culture kids on a mission of mercy from some policy wonks.

Anything earned is much more valuable than gifts given with a price.
This is what is driving the stupid fucking whitemen crazy, nobody appreciates having a "gift" tossed back them

-Citizenofearth

WHY ARE WE IN NAJAF? Op/Ed - Richard Reeves

2004-08-14T10:05:00.000+00:00

So what are we doing in Najaf? Is killing the followers of a nasty Shiite preacher, killing them at the gates of the most holy shrine of Shiite Muslims all over the world, vital to the national interests of the United States and its allies?

Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda have made effective use of Sun Tzu's thought, By Scott D. O'Reilly

2004-08-13T11:35:00.000+00:00

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
-- Sun Tzu

Written some 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is one of the most penetrating and relevant works on the subjects of leadership and waging war. Its most timeless lesson, perhaps, is that “in all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.” Presently, the United States is engaged in two protracted wars--in Iraq and Afghanistan--and an ongoing conflict with a shadowy army of Islamic extremists who threaten American interests across the globe. So how does Sun Tzu's advice bear on America's predicament, and more particularly on the strategic vision of our leaders and that of our enemies? Unfortunately, bin Laden and al-Qaeda seem to have absorbed the lessons of Sun Tzu to a far greater extent than has the Bush administration.

Sun Tzu's strategies and thoughts on war, were written with the goal of winning a decisive military victory. If you wanted to provoke chaos and spread bloodlust play any Sun Tzu record backwards.

The Shared Bloodlust of Stupid Fucking Whitemen and Nihilist Muslims

2004-08-12T09:54:00.000+00:00

Here we are in this brave new world. Welcome to the America of the 21st Century. Much has changed and then much has not. A few years ago a bunch of people decided to fly airplanes into the World Trade here in NYC. Who knows what they were thinking but, the story goes they wanted to provoke America into unleashing the Dogs of War, along with the Horsemen. If America can be provoked into lashing out against Islam, then moderate Muslims would be forced into joining the "resistance" a confrontation on a world-wide scale never imagined before will materialize and so forth and so on. Seems they got their wish. America has now slipped down the slippery slope. After one war in Afghanistan and another one in Iraq, more and more of the self-styled patriots of freedom are screaming for more. Onto Iran, onto Syria! In the effort of fighting terrorism people in America are sounding very similiar to the terrorists. Calls for internment camps, civil liberties swept aside, disdain for any opinions other than their own, the vilifying of people, the deification of their leaders, the bloodlust.

Bloodlust in the sense that when Fox News can report 100 or 200 Iraqis killed by the efforts of the Military that these are deaths of only evil, tyrannical Muslims bring relief and accomplishment on this "War on Terror" Of course the U.S. Military doesn't do body counts of civilians, that's too messy. Civilians conjure images of regular ordinary people, The Military doesn't kill innocent people, neither does Al-Quaida. Al-Quaida announced after Sept. 11 that all those killed were not innocent or civil as long as they paid taxes and supported the American government. Bloodlust. Earlier this month, the president of Iraq declared amnesty for any of the resisters/dead-ender/guerillas in Iraq, but that was quickly changed, as long as they were not involved in any of the attacks on Americans. Again we human life is not created equal, and the dead are still not equal.

3,000 people died in NYC, in retaliation/justice America has killed about 10,000 in Afghanistan and according to the conservative numbers at Iraqbodycount.net, somewhere like 16,000 in Iraq. These are civilians, like those killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but not quite the value of Americans. The anniversary of the only atomic bombing on a people occured this week without any reflection here, maybe a 30 second brief on MSNBC. America was able to reason this as a quick way out of the war along with the notion of showing the Russians how bad ass they are.

So here we are, while the Muslim fanatics get their sermons from the nihilist Immans, the Americans get fired up by the Rush Limbaughs and Michael Savages, as the Muslim Fanatics rationalize their actions by how they interpret the Koran, the Americans can rationalize their war as the "war to end all wars" again.

sadr, sitting bull, che

2004-08-11T12:34:00.000+00:00

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George W. Bush sucker-punches a rugby opponent at Yale

2004-08-11T12:27:00.000+00:00

As long as we're re-examining the 1960s, looking for signs of character, trying to decide if a man who volunteered for combat and was decorated five times was more or less courageous than a guy who didn't even show up for his own medical exam... here's George W. Bush during his college days, hitting a fellow sportsman in the face.

this is part of the appeal, especially what White American Males can appreciate. The Win-at-all-costs manner, the swagger, the tough-guy, the cowboy, the, the , the

Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War Department's Timesman Won a Pulitzer

2004-08-11T10:24:00.000+00:00

General MacArthur had gone to pains to restrict journalists' access to the bombed cities, and his military censors were sanitizing and even killing dispatches that described the horror. The official narrative of the atomic bombings downplayed civilian casualties and categorically dismissed reports of the deadly lingering effects of radiation. Reporters whose dispatches convicted with this version of events found themselves silenced.

Laurence quoted General Groves: "The Japanese claim that people died from radiation. If this is true, the number was very small."

Laurence then went on to offer his own remarkable editorial on what happened: "The Japanese are still continuing their propaganda aimed at creating the impression that we won the war unfairly, and thus attempting to create sympathy for themselves and milder terms . . . Thus, at the beginning, the Japanese described 'symptoms' that did not ring true."

See post below from Japantoday.com regarding the lingering effects of Depleted Uranium.

Controversy over 'Israelis' roads only' ( or Welcome to Michelle Malkin's World )

2004-08-11T09:40:00.000+00:00

Some roads are "sterile" and Palestinian traffic is completely prohibited there. Manned roadblocks ascertain that only Israelis use those routes, B'Tselem said.

Routes linking those roads to Palestinian villages are blocked, the report noted.

Some roads are "sterile", great language. Sterile meaning clean of any of the dirt, dirty Arabs, dirty Muslims, etc.
Welcome the new Apartheid, when do the embargos start?

Fallout remains from photos of troops' coffins

2004-08-11T09:36:00.000+00:00

On April 7, she took two photographs with her digital camera. She intended to keep the images as a personal memory. She e-mailed a photo to a friend in the United States, Amy Katz, who brokered its use by The Seattle Times. It was published on the front page April 18. For some, it came to represent the rising death toll in Iraq and sparked debate around the country.

Within days, Silicio and her husband, David Landry, also a Maytag employee, were fired, she for taking the picture, he for helping her. Disseminating photos of war dead goes against military and company policy.

They returned home to Everett, Wash., where Silicio is still looking for work. Disillusioned, a bit hurt and angry, she feels permanently marked by her decision to release the photo, which she meant as a gesture of respect for the families of the soldiers in those coffins.

"That picture should have been about compassion for our fallen heroes," said Silicio, 50. "It should have nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with firing anybody . . .

"I might as well just change my name. I was thinking about that the other day."

Hey all you Pro-Iraq War people, any outrage over this? Any at all? Didn't think so

Iraqi doctor learns from Hiroshima's past

2004-08-11T09:30:00.000+00:00

The U.S. military uses depleted uranium-tipped shells, known for their armor-piercing capability, against tanks and other hard military targets.

Although Iraqi doctors allege DU weapons cause leukemia and cancer, U.S. authorities deny direct links between DU and the cancer on the rise in Iraq since the 1991 war.

The medical community in Japan, a U.S. staunch ally, is also reluctant to admit a connection.

The DU story will come out over time, relunctantly at first, but when it does it will be huge.

How Portland Paper Got Iraq Abuse Story (and Shocking Photos)

2004-08-11T09:27:00.000+00:00

A reporter for the newspaper that broke a story about human rights abuses in Iraq after the U.S. handover of sovereignty said that the news emerged from his recent stint as an embed, and required three weeks of intensive checking.

This past weekend, Mike Francis, a reporter for The Oregonian in Portland, exposed the high-level U.S. military decision ordering Oregon National Guardsmen to return abused Iraqi prisoners to their Iraqi jailers after the American soldiers had come to their aid. The incident occurred on June 29 -- Iraq's first official day as a sovereign country. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has now asked the Pentagon to investigate.

A creepy place to wage war, U.S. troops, militia clash in cemetery

2004-08-11T09:12:00.000+00:00

NAJAF, Iraq—Bats flapped out of crypts, startling soldiers creeping through the cemetery with guns up. Graves opened beneath their combat boots. And an old enemy displayed a new professionalism, darting in clearly practised moves between tombstone and mausoleum to stalk the Americans from above ground and below.

In the battle to control one of the world's largest graveyards, U.S. Marines and soldiers say they are coping with a lot, including lingering regret. The vast cemetery in Najaf is sacred to Shiite Muslims, perhaps 2 million of whom lie buried in miles of desert adjoining the shrine of Imam Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.

Soldiers involved in the fighting described how many of the most recent graves are marked by photos, which crumble when U.S. forces shell the cemetery walls to reach the militiamen hiding within.

"Wives, daughters, husbands," said Sgt. Hector Guzman, 28, of the 1st Cavalry Division's 5th Regiment. "You just know you're destroying that tomb.''

The Houston native shook his head. "It doesn't feel right sometimes.''

Review: 'Checkpoint' unsettling anti-Bush book

2004-08-11T05:49:00.000+00:00

The deeply unsettling "Checkpoint" (Knopf, $15.95) 128 pages ,a slim work with a red-and-black bullseye target on the cover, takes the form of a spare, almost Socratic dialogue captured on a digital recorder between two friends, Ben and Jay. Their tension: Jay is determined to do away with the president. An appalled Ben doesn't want him to.

16 bucks for 128 pages? That's unsettling to me

Deaths Mounting, As Is Indifference

2004-08-11T05:26:00.000+00:00

Onwordi, 28, a Nigerian immigrant, and Shondee, a 19-year-old Navajo, were on duty with the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq when, early last week, they gave their lives for their country. The Pentagon did not have much to say about their deaths. In a terse news release of some 100 words, the government announced that the two Arizonans had been killed "when an improvised explosive device detonated near the vehicle they were traveling in." The attack took place in Baghdad on Monday. Onwordi died that day. Shondee fought for life, then succumbed Tuesday. Their deaths came with news that four other American soldiers were also killed in Iraq in the same 24-hour cycle.

From London to Iraq - the latest recruits to the Madhi army

2004-08-11T05:04:00.000+00:00

Both were at pains to point out their disapproval of Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida network and insisted their presence in Mr Sadr's militia did not amount to terrorism, because they were fighting against uniformed soldiers.

"Bin Laden and his group are totally against our belief, killing innocent civilians," said Abu Haqid. "Killing innocent people we cannot do. That is terrorism, this is defending your country."

(A LOOK BACK) 'Who knows, it'll get done" Goss defends pace of Intel report as Dems cry foul

2004-08-10T20:15:00.000+00:00

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss (R-Fla.) has ignored repeated Democratic requests to begin work on the final stages of a report on failures in the intelligence community to assess Iraq's weapons capability accurately.

If the Chalabis Were Corrupt, They Weren't Alone

2004-08-10T16:26:00.000+00:00

Strong indications of victory for President Hugo Chavez

2004-08-10T15:08:00.000+00:00

Brought to you by Castro...

PW Views: Hugo Chavez is heading towards total defeat

2004-08-10T15:06:00.000+00:00

Brought to you by Petroleum World....

Decisive Chavez win could telegraph stability to international decision-makers

2004-08-10T15:03:00.000+00:00

Toronto-based Financial Correspondent Al Emid writes: If an important person can be conspicuous by his or her absence, an important political event can be conspicuous by its absence in international media coverage ... a sad fact proven again by the relatively low amount of international attention paid to the recall referendum in Venezuela.

Fighting under way in Najaf cemetery

2004-08-10T14:43:00.000+00:00

Fresh fighting was reported Tuesday in the holy city of Najaf
can someone please help me understand how in fighting Al-Queda America ended up in a Holy city of Najaf fighting the same people that Saddam persecuted?