In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Coming Soon: Civil War
From this eyewitness's Iraq Diaries:
"On BBC we watch footage of Americans gunning down Iraqis as they ran from the armor clad vehicles. Gunned down in the street as they tried to run away, red tracer bullets leaving laser-like trails as they flew past bodies falling upon the cement. This was told to be in Ramadi, by the BBC, then later the same footage was told to have occurred in Falluja. As usual, the truth is hard to come by, even here, unless it is witnessed personally -- or residents of an entire neighborhood or city are all telling the same story."
"Do we need yet another reason for Iraqis who have been attacked by US soldiers to be enraged? Unfortunately, there are more. One being that the Americans sealed off the hospital in Al-Aadimiyah today after removing all the bodies of Iraqis killed last night in the fighting. The wounded were taken directly to prison. No journalists were allowed inside."
"Reports are streaming in of Iraqis being killed in demonstrations in Samarra, Falluja, Tikrit, and around parts of Baghdad. Some of the demonstrations have turned violent, this being the reason for American force -- while most haven't until Americans opened fire first."
I realized something this morning (when epiphanies are rife): no matter what the spin de jour, the next spin is right around the corner, always. No one ever claimed that the capture of Saddam Hussein meant back to life as we knew it before the Bush crowd officially redefined reality; now, further war and further complications and murder and mayhem are all a permanent part of the picture, as planned, as far as the eye can see, forevermore. The warmongers' casus belli, as far as Saddam is concerned, cannot be impinged; can you recall, even for a moment, anybody in the White House or the Pentagon ever claiming that the capture of the Iraqi dictator meant the end of hostilities, for even one hot minute? This is just the beginning. There's more where that came from, and if you don't believe me, just ask Joe Lieberman. Or Seymour Hirsch. Or the New York Times.
The New America's "just cause" as implemented and defined by this administration henceforth can never be impeded, encroached on, restricted, or held to any other standard than that according to the official White House daily pronouncement, no matter how contradictory, self-serving, nonsensical, hypocritical, or life-threatening to every man, woman and child on earth. No international body, court of law, other branch of government, or media can touch or in any way arbitrate or question America's "mission," which is no less than Good versus Evil, everywhere on the planet, as Bush sees it, and the reason given
for this is that he was personally annointed by God, who is bigger and badder than any other god in any other religion. We have Bush's word for it,
and since honor and integrity are de facto qualities of this administration, and of Bush in particular, we just have to trust him, and if you don't . . .
well, then get the Hell out of my country. You're not a good Christian.
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