Sunday, March 13, 2005

Kaminski: Peace groups continue to miss the real issue

US Secretary of State Colin Powell: 'It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the
policies of the state of Israel'. In a speech at the 'Conference on Anti-
Semitism of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe'
German Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Berlin - April 28th - 2004 -
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22p6c



KAMINSKI: one of the FPF's favorite american writers:

Day of demonstrations guaranteed to accomplish absolutely nothing

Insanity is doing the same thing over and
over againand expecting different results.

— Albert Einstein


Kaminski: Peace groups continue to miss the real issue

By John Kaminski - skylax@comcast.net

I received an e-mail notice the other day informing me of a worldwide
day of protests March 19 to focus public attention on America's
neverending massacre of innocent Iraqi civilians and the continuing
lies that attempt to justify this needless and shameful carnage.

The e-mail focused on the agenda of the local social event in Sarasota,
Florida, and listed speakers, sponsors, activities, locations, and times.
Conspicuously absent from this list were reasons.

Nevertheless, I replied to the notice by inquiring if organizers had been
adequately briefed on the latest revelations about 9/11, and if they
hadn't, I offered to happily volunteer my services. After all, it doesn't
take a genius to realize that if 9/11 hadn't happened, the bogus Iraq
invasion wouldn't have happened.

And therefore understanding what really happened on 9/11 would
significantly improve anyone's perception of the colossal crimes the
United States is committing in Iraq (and in a list of beleaguered
countries that is now practically endless) — after all, the USA is
now waging war on the entire world, and our so-called leaders
are not ashamed to admit it.

But I never received a response to my inquiry, because these peace
demonstration organizers completely avoid talking about 9/11. They
have accepted the government's fantasy explanation about Arab
hijackers and the need to conquer Muslim countries, and yet they
still insist they are against the Iraq war.

I regard this as a profound psychotic break in the American
consciousness. You can't accept the first and advocate the
second and still be regarded as either sane or honest.

So in order to properly understand what you are protesting, you must
understand why it happened in the first place. But all these trendy
yuppies who sport peace buttons only on socially acceptable occasions
are in reality confessing their stupidity for all to see if they demonstrate
against the Iraq war but don't want to hear anything about 9/11.

How does it come to be that people will admit the government
lied about Iraq and Afghanistan, but not admit it lied about 9/11?

And that is exactly the situation with this group called International
Answer (and even more perfectly pathological with the pathetic
Democratic Party organization named moveon.org).

These groups, which have millions of members, are deliberately designed
to be appear to be progressive and peace-loving, but really they are
cleverly constructed take the well-meaning concerns of average people
and divert them into activities that are guaranteed to fail (because
ultimately, the people who create these groups are actually working for
the people who are committing the crimes they are protesting).

These are the same cynical clowns who got so many honest people worked
up about the integrity of John Kerry, or the calm decisiveness of Howard
Dean, and used up a zillion hours of brainpower only to take the fall last
November and avoid contemplating the obviously tragic fact that with a
little chutzpah that they could have overturned the election based on the
crimes that were committed in Ohio and Florida. Only Kerry and Dean
convinced them not to even try, further demonstrating why neither
should ever have been supported in the first place.

Not that overturning the election would have mattered, because there
is only one political party of any consequence in this country:
— the party of the banks.

You may have attended one of these peace demonstrations in
the past. They are moving experiences. Ineffectual, but moving.

There is no doubting the sincerity or ardor of virtually all the participants.
As motivated people, they have my admiration. They rail against the evil
powers that be in all manner of creative ways, and when the day is done,
they all (or, at least those who have not been pepper sprayed by the local
Gestapo and thrown in jail) go home happy, delighted that they have
expressed their freedom of speech and schmoozed with thousands of
like-minded consciences.

Trouble is, as the unprecedented (in size) peace demos
immediately prior to Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq so
clearly proved, they accomplish exactly nothing.

The powers that be and their pimped media completely ignore them!

[HR: Falsifying figures - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/43cau]

The true purpose of a peace demonstration is not to have a good time
and go home happy. It is to kindle each other’s anger and go home as
pissed as possible, ready to follow through with every fiber of your
being until the objective of your protest is achieved.

It is safe to say that, since Vietnam, the objective of no major protest
in America has ever been achieved, especially since Bush the Dumber
took office (and I do mean took).

The disintegration of America’s Constitutional protections, the computerized
pollution of America’s electoral process, the poisoning by food and drug
manufacturers of people all over the world, and the neverending robbery
of the American people by repeatedly criminal Congressional fiat are just
a few of the focuses that would provide more relevant protests.

Those made ill by deliberately poisoned vaccines or depleted
uranium ammunition would be two other good reasons.

But seriously, maybe you’d rather wait until one of your relatives —
perhaps a son or daughter — succumbs to one of these sadistic
scams before you decide to get upset about them.

The real focus of all our protests, all our outrage at every public official
we can lay our hands on, should be the greatest crime in American
history, which has changed the way our country does business,
which has changed, perhaps irrevocably, who we are as a people.

Americans are now known around the world as the torturers, as the
sexual perverts who go out of their way to profane the sacredness of
life by raping Muslim children and sexually traumatizing Muslim adults.
Who are these troops we say we support as they mow down innocent
families in Fallujah while they listen to heavy metal music and take
drugs to dull their senses? Who are these alien neighbors of ours who
refuse to hear this statement, and say “Support Our Troops!” as they
close their eyes and drive off to Wal-mart to save a few pennies and
destroy their own way of life.

Gee, I wonder in which chapter of Leviticus or
Deuteronomy we learned to do that?

Americans are the people who plan on starving the rest the world with
this Monsanto seed conspiracy, in which subsistence farmers on every
continent will be deprived of their traditional method of survival
because the seeds they are now forced to use (in order for their
corrupt government functionaries to receive their proper bribes from
soulless multinational corporations) cannot reproduce themselves.

When their governments are plundered by their own feckless facsimiles
of Bush or Clinton, these people will die of starvation. But you won’t hear
their moans in Wal-mart, at least not for a little while.

Gee, I wonder which smug rabbinical commentary told us it was OK to
ignore the death rattles of dying Gentiles?

Americans are the people who didn’t protest when their government
refused to investigate what happened on 9/11, despite the 3,000 of
their countrymen who were crushed in the rubble of deliberately
demolished skyscrapers.

Americans accepted the media-spun story that Arabs run by a madman in
Afghanistan did it. These fantasy bad guys got the U.S. air defenses to
stand down, they got on airplanes without any identification or any
record of them getting on, they performed aerobatic maneuvers that
could not have been performed by Top Guns, and they defied the laws of
physics by knocking down buildings that could not have fallen in ten
seconds without the help of considerable explosives. We know that from
the building that fell the same way that was not hit by an airliner.

Gee, if we don’t care about our own fellow citizens being suddenly buried
in concrete by the pervs in Washington, why should we care about dark-
skinned Arabs being turned into puddles of blood thousands of miles away?

Americans accepted the lies their leaders told them, first about 9/11,
then about Afghanistan, then about Iraq. Most Americans to this day
still don’t know that the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq were planned
before 9/11.

Most Americans don’t know that the PNAC report, which yearned for “a
new Pearl Harbor” to turn American citizens into enraged warmongers,
was written by a high American official who was also an Israeli
intelligence agent, Dov Zakheim.

Most Americans don’t know that their new head of Homeland
Security, Michael Chertoff, is an Israeli intelligence agent.

Most Americans don’t know that their new intelligence czar,
John Negroponte — he of the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran
death squad fiascos — is also Jewish.

Most Americans don’t know that all the TV networks are owned by Zionist
Jews. Most Americans don’t realize that all the major newspapers, like
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, are
owned by Zionist Jews.

Do you understand that Iraq was no threat to the United States?
Do you understand that Iraq was a threat to Israel?

Do you understand that American children are killing innocent people
and being killed themselves to protect Israel, not the United States?

Or are you one of those lily-livered Yankee dogs so terrified of losing your
income or some friends who don’t really care about you anyway that you
feel compelled to say, “People aren’t ready to hear this yet. You have to
bring them on slowly to tell them about the problem with Israel.”

We’re looking at the end of civilization because of the silence of honest
Americans over the most important issues of our day, and you’re telling
me that I have to wait til people get used to the idea we are being
totally polluted by the demonic influence of Zionist warmongers, who
take their authority from a holy book that says it’s OK to kill non-Jews
with no penalty because they’re animals?

Take a wild guess as to what I have to say to cowards like
that — which are the majority of the American people.

The real issue to protest March 19 is not the Iraq war,
colossal crime though it is.

The real issue to protest is that George W. Bush and John Kerry are
accomplices in the same series of crimes. The real issue is to realize
that our country has been sold out from under us, and that Israel,
thanks to the neocons, now owns us.

Have you observed how the Palestinians live? Scrambling in their rubble,
constantly avoiding bombs and excuses to murder them on a whim.
This is the future of America run by the Zionist monsters who control
the White House, and most other aspects of your life, as well.

The real issue to protest is that the entire U.S. Congress is guilty of
treason for destroying the Bill of Rights to our own Constitution by
participating in this charade that there is some terror threat that
justifies these police state measures.

The real issue to protest is that al-Qaeda was created by the CIA and
the Mossad in a proxy war in Afghanistan and then later at a CIA
training camp in the Philippines, and that 9/11 was planned, executed,
and then covered up by levels of American society that are actually
more powerful than the president, who is only a bobble-head doll fed
lies, stimulants and quite possibly little boys (or at least big boys)
as a reward for his mindless obedience to his masters with the big
money.

But even more than that, the real issue to protest, in the silence of
your own ravaged heart, is your own silent complicity in the savage
system that kills innocent people every day so that rich Zionist Jew
manipulators and their conscienceless Zionist Christian dupes can
steal money from YOU.

Just to be clear, these people are Americans, British, and Israelis, and they
have no real consciences, which makes them dangerous sociopaths —
which is why we have a sociopathic culture that feels no guilt when we
kill innocent people overseas. It is no coincidence that this attitude
perfectly reflects what is written in the Talmud and the Old Testament.
Now that would really be something to protest about.

A peace protest without a serious component investigating the lies
about 9/11 and the predatory dominance of Israeli influence on a
severely crippled America is like a body without a brain, which I
suspect is what many of those protesters on March 19 will be like.

And as the world continues to burn, they’ll go home happy that they
did something for freedom, when in the reality of this new and ugly
police-state world, they will have done nothing of consequence,
because they still fail to realize what really happened on 9/11,
or who is really controlling them.

[and end]

John Kaminski’s Internet essays can be seen on hundreds of websites
around the world. They have been collected into two anthologies, the
latest of which is titled “The Perfect Enemy,” about how the Zionist-
controlled U.S. government created the terrorist group knowns as
al-Qaeda. His booklet “The Day America Died: Why You Shouldn’t
Believe the Officlal Story of What Happened on September 11, 2001”
was written especially for those who cling to the government’s false
explanation of the events of that tragic day. For more information go
to Url.: http://www.johnkaminski.com/

Fwd in agreement by:

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/4f6u
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/5zmhl
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl

The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for
international media as a foreign correspondent, of which 10
years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the
Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every
bomb breeds more terrorism ! - At present 'Persona non
Grata' in Holland :-)

He who travels far will often see things
Far removed from what he believed was the Truth.
When he talks about it in the fields at home,
He is often accused of lying,
For the obdurate people will not believe
Inexperience, I believe,
Will give little credence to my song.

'Journey to the East' - Hermann Hesse

'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary
General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

A 55' seconds 'sound bite' concerning the US-Israeli 'Dogs of War'
'bringing democracy' everywhere. Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5u98v

Former PM 'Wim Kok' and other Dutch Govt's Warcriminals in Court:
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/662pp - Sued: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
Over U.S. Torture Policies - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3tgo3
It can and must be done!

Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org
We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments':
Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

HR

Kaminski: Peace groups continue to miss the real issue

US Secretary of State Colin Powell: 'It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the
policies of the state of Israel'. In a speech at the 'Conference on Anti-
Semitism of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe'
German Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Berlin - April 28th - 2004 -
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22p6c



KAMINSKI: one of the FPF's favorite american writers:

Day of demonstrations guaranteed to accomplish absolutely nothing

Insanity is doing the same thing over and
over againand expecting different results.

— Albert Einstein


Kaminski: Peace groups continue to miss the real issue

By John Kaminski - skylax@comcast.net

I received an e-mail notice the other day informing me of a worldwide
day of protests March 19 to focus public attention on America's
neverending massacre of innocent Iraqi civilians and the continuing
lies that attempt to justify this needless and shameful carnage.

The e-mail focused on the agenda of the local social event in Sarasota,
Florida, and listed speakers, sponsors, activities, locations, and times.
Conspicuously absent from this list were reasons.

Nevertheless, I replied to the notice by inquiring if organizers had been
adequately briefed on the latest revelations about 9/11, and if they
hadn't, I offered to happily volunteer my services. After all, it doesn't
take a genius to realize that if 9/11 hadn't happened, the bogus Iraq
invasion wouldn't have happened.

And therefore understanding what really happened on 9/11 would
significantly improve anyone's perception of the colossal crimes the
United States is committing in Iraq (and in a list of beleaguered
countries that is now practically endless) — after all, the USA is
now waging war on the entire world, and our so-called leaders
are not ashamed to admit it.

But I never received a response to my inquiry, because these peace
demonstration organizers completely avoid talking about 9/11. They
have accepted the government's fantasy explanation about Arab
hijackers and the need to conquer Muslim countries, and yet they
still insist they are against the Iraq war.

I regard this as a profound psychotic break in the American
consciousness. You can't accept the first and advocate the
second and still be regarded as either sane or honest.

So in order to properly understand what you are protesting, you must
understand why it happened in the first place. But all these trendy
yuppies who sport peace buttons only on socially acceptable occasions
are in reality confessing their stupidity for all to see if they demonstrate
against the Iraq war but don't want to hear anything about 9/11.

How does it come to be that people will admit the government
lied about Iraq and Afghanistan, but not admit it lied about 9/11?

And that is exactly the situation with this group called International
Answer (and even more perfectly pathological with the pathetic
Democratic Party organization named moveon.org).

These groups, which have millions of members, are deliberately designed
to be appear to be progressive and peace-loving, but really they are
cleverly constructed take the well-meaning concerns of average people
and divert them into activities that are guaranteed to fail (because
ultimately, the people who create these groups are actually working for
the people who are committing the crimes they are protesting).

These are the same cynical clowns who got so many honest people worked
up about the integrity of John Kerry, or the calm decisiveness of Howard
Dean, and used up a zillion hours of brainpower only to take the fall last
November and avoid contemplating the obviously tragic fact that with a
little chutzpah that they could have overturned the election based on the
crimes that were committed in Ohio and Florida. Only Kerry and Dean
convinced them not to even try, further demonstrating why neither
should ever have been supported in the first place.

Not that overturning the election would have mattered, because there
is only one political party of any consequence in this country:
— the party of the banks.

You may have attended one of these peace demonstrations in
the past. They are moving experiences. Ineffectual, but moving.

There is no doubting the sincerity or ardor of virtually all the participants.
As motivated people, they have my admiration. They rail against the evil
powers that be in all manner of creative ways, and when the day is done,
they all (or, at least those who have not been pepper sprayed by the local
Gestapo and thrown in jail) go home happy, delighted that they have
expressed their freedom of speech and schmoozed with thousands of
like-minded consciences.

Trouble is, as the unprecedented (in size) peace demos
immediately prior to Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq so
clearly proved, they accomplish exactly nothing.

The powers that be and their pimped media completely ignore them!

[HR: Falsifying figures - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/43cau]

The true purpose of a peace demonstration is not to have a good time
and go home happy. It is to kindle each other’s anger and go home as
pissed as possible, ready to follow through with every fiber of your
being until the objective of your protest is achieved.

It is safe to say that, since Vietnam, the objective of no major protest
in America has ever been achieved, especially since Bush the Dumber
took office (and I do mean took).

The disintegration of America’s Constitutional protections, the computerized
pollution of America’s electoral process, the poisoning by food and drug
manufacturers of people all over the world, and the neverending robbery
of the American people by repeatedly criminal Congressional fiat are just
a few of the focuses that would provide more relevant protests.

Those made ill by deliberately poisoned vaccines or depleted
uranium ammunition would be two other good reasons.

But seriously, maybe you’d rather wait until one of your relatives —
perhaps a son or daughter — succumbs to one of these sadistic
scams before you decide to get upset about them.

The real focus of all our protests, all our outrage at every public official
we can lay our hands on, should be the greatest crime in American
history, which has changed the way our country does business,
which has changed, perhaps irrevocably, who we are as a people.

Americans are now known around the world as the torturers, as the
sexual perverts who go out of their way to profane the sacredness of
life by raping Muslim children and sexually traumatizing Muslim adults.
Who are these troops we say we support as they mow down innocent
families in Fallujah while they listen to heavy metal music and take
drugs to dull their senses? Who are these alien neighbors of ours who
refuse to hear this statement, and say “Support Our Troops!” as they
close their eyes and drive off to Wal-mart to save a few pennies and
destroy their own way of life.

Gee, I wonder in which chapter of Leviticus or
Deuteronomy we learned to do that?

Americans are the people who plan on starving the rest the world with
this Monsanto seed conspiracy, in which subsistence farmers on every
continent will be deprived of their traditional method of survival
because the seeds they are now forced to use (in order for their
corrupt government functionaries to receive their proper bribes from
soulless multinational corporations) cannot reproduce themselves.

When their governments are plundered by their own feckless facsimiles
of Bush or Clinton, these people will die of starvation. But you won’t hear
their moans in Wal-mart, at least not for a little while.

Gee, I wonder which smug rabbinical commentary told us it was OK to
ignore the death rattles of dying Gentiles?

Americans are the people who didn’t protest when their government
refused to investigate what happened on 9/11, despite the 3,000 of
their countrymen who were crushed in the rubble of deliberately
demolished skyscrapers.

Americans accepted the media-spun story that Arabs run by a madman in
Afghanistan did it. These fantasy bad guys got the U.S. air defenses to
stand down, they got on airplanes without any identification or any
record of them getting on, they performed aerobatic maneuvers that
could not have been performed by Top Guns, and they defied the laws of
physics by knocking down buildings that could not have fallen in ten
seconds without the help of considerable explosives. We know that from
the building that fell the same way that was not hit by an airliner.

Gee, if we don’t care about our own fellow citizens being suddenly buried
in concrete by the pervs in Washington, why should we care about dark-
skinned Arabs being turned into puddles of blood thousands of miles away?

Americans accepted the lies their leaders told them, first about 9/11,
then about Afghanistan, then about Iraq. Most Americans to this day
still don’t know that the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq were planned
before 9/11.

Most Americans don’t know that the PNAC report, which yearned for “a
new Pearl Harbor” to turn American citizens into enraged warmongers,
was written by a high American official who was also an Israeli
intelligence agent, Dov Zakheim.

Most Americans don’t know that their new head of Homeland
Security, Michael Chertoff, is an Israeli intelligence agent.

Most Americans don’t know that their new intelligence czar,
John Negroponte — he of the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran
death squad fiascos — is also Jewish.

Most Americans don’t know that all the TV networks are owned by Zionist
Jews. Most Americans don’t realize that all the major newspapers, like
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, are
owned by Zionist Jews.

Do you understand that Iraq was no threat to the United States?
Do you understand that Iraq was a threat to Israel?

Do you understand that American children are killing innocent people
and being killed themselves to protect Israel, not the United States?

Or are you one of those lily-livered Yankee dogs so terrified of losing your
income or some friends who don’t really care about you anyway that you
feel compelled to say, “People aren’t ready to hear this yet. You have to
bring them on slowly to tell them about the problem with Israel.”

We’re looking at the end of civilization because of the silence of honest
Americans over the most important issues of our day, and you’re telling
me that I have to wait til people get used to the idea we are being
totally polluted by the demonic influence of Zionist warmongers, who
take their authority from a holy book that says it’s OK to kill non-Jews
with no penalty because they’re animals?

Take a wild guess as to what I have to say to cowards like
that — which are the majority of the American people.

The real issue to protest March 19 is not the Iraq war,
colossal crime though it is.

The real issue to protest is that George W. Bush and John Kerry are
accomplices in the same series of crimes. The real issue is to realize
that our country has been sold out from under us, and that Israel,
thanks to the neocons, now owns us.

Have you observed how the Palestinians live? Scrambling in their rubble,
constantly avoiding bombs and excuses to murder them on a whim.
This is the future of America run by the Zionist monsters who control
the White House, and most other aspects of your life, as well.

The real issue to protest is that the entire U.S. Congress is guilty of
treason for destroying the Bill of Rights to our own Constitution by
participating in this charade that there is some terror threat that
justifies these police state measures.

The real issue to protest is that al-Qaeda was created by the CIA and
the Mossad in a proxy war in Afghanistan and then later at a CIA
training camp in the Philippines, and that 9/11 was planned, executed,
and then covered up by levels of American society that are actually
more powerful than the president, who is only a bobble-head doll fed
lies, stimulants and quite possibly little boys (or at least big boys)
as a reward for his mindless obedience to his masters with the big
money.

But even more than that, the real issue to protest, in the silence of
your own ravaged heart, is your own silent complicity in the savage
system that kills innocent people every day so that rich Zionist Jew
manipulators and their conscienceless Zionist Christian dupes can
steal money from YOU.

Just to be clear, these people are Americans, British, and Israelis, and they
have no real consciences, which makes them dangerous sociopaths —
which is why we have a sociopathic culture that feels no guilt when we
kill innocent people overseas. It is no coincidence that this attitude
perfectly reflects what is written in the Talmud and the Old Testament.
Now that would really be something to protest about.

A peace protest without a serious component investigating the lies
about 9/11 and the predatory dominance of Israeli influence on a
severely crippled America is like a body without a brain, which I
suspect is what many of those protesters on March 19 will be like.

And as the world continues to burn, they’ll go home happy that they
did something for freedom, when in the reality of this new and ugly
police-state world, they will have done nothing of consequence,
because they still fail to realize what really happened on 9/11,
or who is really controlling them.

[and end]

John Kaminski’s Internet essays can be seen on hundreds of websites
around the world. They have been collected into two anthologies, the
latest of which is titled “The Perfect Enemy,” about how the Zionist-
controlled U.S. government created the terrorist group knowns as
al-Qaeda. His booklet “The Day America Died: Why You Shouldn’t
Believe the Officlal Story of What Happened on September 11, 2001”
was written especially for those who cling to the government’s false
explanation of the events of that tragic day. For more information go
to Url.: http://www.johnkaminski.com/

Fwd in agreement by:

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/4f6u
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/5zmhl
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl

The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for
international media as a foreign correspondent, of which 10
years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the
Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every
bomb breeds more terrorism ! - At present 'Persona non
Grata' in Holland :-)

He who travels far will often see things
Far removed from what he believed was the Truth.
When he talks about it in the fields at home,
He is often accused of lying,
For the obdurate people will not believe
Inexperience, I believe,
Will give little credence to my song.

'Journey to the East' - Hermann Hesse

'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary
General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

A 55' seconds 'sound bite' concerning the US-Israeli 'Dogs of War'
'bringing democracy' everywhere. Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5u98v

Former PM 'Wim Kok' and other Dutch Govt's Warcriminals in Court:
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/662pp - Sued: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
Over U.S. Torture Policies - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3tgo3
It can and must be done!

Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org
We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments':
Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

HR

Saddam's Capture: Just Another Bush Lie?

The account of American troops capturing Saddam and pulling him from his subterranean hovel has turned out to be just another Bush lie.

By Mike Whitney

03/12/05  - Sergeant Nadim Abou Rabeh, who participated in the operation that netted Saddam, was quoted in the Saudi newspaper "Al-Medina" saying that the Iraqi leader was actually captured the day before and that "the public version of his capture was fabricated." The entire event was apparently choreographed by a Pentagon public relations team.

"I was among the 20 man unit who searched for Saddam for 3 days in the area of Dour near Tikrit, and we found him in a modest home in a small village and not in a hole as announced," Rabeh admitted. (UPI )

"Not in a hole"? You mean Saddam actually stood up and faced American Marines?

"WE CAPTURED HIM AFTER FIECE RESISTANCE DURING WHICH A MARINE OF SUDANESE ORGIN WAS KILLED," he said.

Uh, oh. This could be trouble. After all, the American version presented Saddam as trembling coward cringing in his spider-hole afraid to face the American warriors. Now, Rabeh is saying that he stood and fought "like a man". This is not the image that the Washington spin-meisters wanted to convey. They wanted to humiliate the deposed tyrant by showing him recoiling from the American ubermenschen. That way they could show the virtuousness of the invasion and bolster the importance of the White House chicken-hawks who follow the campaign from their bunkers on the Potomac.

Unfortunately, the entire story turned out to be bogus. Saddam may be a genocidal maniac, but anyone who knows the details of his personal history, knows he's no coward. He scaled the ranks of the Ba'ath party through audacity, coercion and treachery. No one gets to the top spot on the Ba'ath food chain through squeamishness. The portrayal of Saddam as disoriented and fearful is pure performance-art; just like the suggestion that he was living underground is probably just a sham. (That part always seemed fishy) Most likely, he was drugged and dumped in the "spider-hole" to meet the requirements of (Bush's) Hollywood production team. In fact, members of the Kurdish Peshmerga, who were operating in the vicinity at the time, disputed the administration's sketchy narrative from the get-go. Their story was much more consistent with Sergeant Rabeh's.

So, we can add another fairytale to the Bush chronicle of deception. The Saddam capture will feature prominently along with the other wartime fictions like Pat Tillman, Jessica Lynch, the phantom WMDs, and the toppling of Saddam's statue in Fidros Square. Every one of these was skillfully fashioned by a Bush PR team trying to maximize public approval by creating a storybook narrative. It's 100% baloney.

The whole incident smacks of Rumsfeld's "Strategic Information" program; a new department entirely devoted to stage-managing events like Saddam's arrest. Apparently, the War Dept wants to downplay the daily carnage by orchestrating phony "docu-dramas" for the folks at home. Well, they'd better turn it up a notch. Bush's clumsy vaudeville may be designed to draw more support for the war, but box-office flops like this can really take a chunk out of one's credibility.

Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He can be reached at: fergiewhitney@msn.com

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