- This is a massacre, not a war in Iraq. The U.S. bombing
Samarra, Fallujah, Baghdad and other cities, killing hundreds of civilians
and calling them terrorists is like the massacres of the Native Americans
during America's push westward.
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- In this case, it has to do with America's push eastward.
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- What is also troubling is that no major media outlet,
no major politician--none are callig this what it is, an immoral, unmitigated
killing of hundreds of Iraqi civilians every week.
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- Those who are experts in Arabic have claimed for months
that the man alleged to be Zarqawi is not really Zarqawi because he does
not have the real Zarqawi's Jordanian accent. But, the American military,
we are positive by now, has created this mythical Zarqawi to allow it to
mercilessly attack Fallujah and punish its inhabitants because they withstood
the American ground attack and chased the Americans out. Even today, the
Fallujhans have said aloud to Al Jazeera and other outlets, that they will
come out into the streets and fight the Americans--but our country, America,
is immoral and cowardly, every day attacking Fallujah by F16, Apache and
long range cannon fire. In the process, killing hundreds of civilians,
but as in the Viet Nam war, saying, "It's just collateral damage and
we are not responsible for that."
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- My question then, is who is responsible for the killings.
I point my finger at General Abizaid, a man who should know better. I also
point the finger of guilt at his subordinate commanders in Iraq and all
the way up to the two devils at the top of the pole, George W. Bush and
Donald Rumsfeld. By now, it is obvious why Bush and his cronies do not
want to support the International Criminal Court and are even attacking
the court at the Hague--because they know that they are breaking international
laws and that they would be pulled up, kicking and screaming ala Milosovich,
to that court for their war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq.
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- It is time for Americans to speak up to stop this massacre.
- We are killing Iraqis in the name of "Freedom"
and "Democracy!"
- How absurd, must we kill the Iraqis to "save them".
This sounds almost like the old Salem Witch Trials, where they put people
to death in order to save them. But it also smells of the aforementioned
slaughter of the Native Americans by the jolly good American cavalry--ironically,
it's the same cavalry that is repeating its deeds 200 years later, but
this time against Iraqis. For shame.
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- Also, shame our media outlets, our church leaders, those
phony Christians, Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson--men who shall
certainly be condemned to hell by God on the day of judgement. Some may
say, I have no right to say such a thing, but all you have to do is see
how they are supporting these atrocities--especially Billy Graham and his
son, both men who had built reputations for decency but have now destroyed
them with this endorsement of slaughter in Iraq.
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- As for Falwell and Robertson, they not only endorse the
Iraq slaughter, they also are doing all they can to praise Sharon and Israel
for their slaughter, on a daily basis for the past 3 years of Palestinians.
They also cheer when Palestinian homes are bulldozed, as in the 200 taken
down in the past month.
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- In the process, some at the UN have spoken out, even
Kofi Annan, but people in America are not hearing. Instead, America is
trying to distract the public with stories about Darfur, about the non-existant
Zarqawi, about "staying the course" (as if there is a course
and as if it is justified), and few are asking, "Just why are we in
Iraq, after all, Saddam is gone?" We hear such nonsense as, "We
have to stay to settle things down in Iraq." But President Jimmy Carter
and most international experts say that we are the problem and that Iraqis
could solve their own problems if we'd leave.
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- But, as most know, and this has been pointed out by Jane's
of London and other experts in the U.S. such as Chalmers Johnson, America
intends to build at least 2 dozen bases or more in Iraq to stay on--never
to leave.
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- I want to say again, as I said in articles since Bush's
invasion of Iraq, we shall pay a heavy price for this slaughter of Iraqis
who are Arabs and Muslims. This slaughter, this massacre has incensed the
entire Muslim world.
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- America is no longer respected in any part of the Muslim
world.
- In fact, a recent poll in Egypt, one of our strongest
allies in the Arab and Muslim world, showed that over 90% of the Egyptians
are now angry at America. But what of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world,
many of them are so incensed that they will become militant against us.
Our behavior has taken away any credibility moderates had, now the radicals
can say, "See, moderation got you nowhere with America. They even
kicked Cat Stevens out of America, a leading moderate in England, a man
who had even given advice to the White House on how to deal with radicals."
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- Samuel Huntington in his book, The Clash of Civilizations,
claimed Islam was intent on making a war on the West. This was not true,
but what has happened is that Bush and his fundamentalist Christian friends
are making war on Islam--it can be seen with American troops attacking
Muslims in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in the Phillippines, in Indonesia, in
Malaysia, in Yemen, in assisting Israel with money, weapons and expertise
in their killing of Palestinians.
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- America may win some battles, but it losing the larger
war.
- The entire world is condemning our behavior in Iraq as
illegal and immoral. What is coming is the long term hatred of America
by the majority of Muslims in the world, and some will become combatants
in time--not necessarily in Iraq, but in their own countries. Bush and
his massacre of Muslims is sowing anger, hatred, desire for revenge--in
time, America will reap a whirlwind that the ignorant GW Bush has sown.
Make no mistake about it.
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- America has played its last cards as a moral world leader.
- Our moral arguments now are laughable to the rest of
the world.
- The word has gotten out on how we tried to remove Chavez
from office in Venezuela, have placed a puppet regime in Iraq to lord over
the people ala Vichy in France in WWII, have supported Israel in its massacres
of Palestinians, and the continued killing and bombings of innocents in
Iraq and Afghanistan, while now threatening Syria, Iran and Lebanon. It
is obvious to any intelligent and moral observer that our the Bush team
has gone out of its mind.
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- And one last point, have you noticed two important things
that never get into the news: 1. Israel has the second largest supply of
atomic weapons in the world and has threatened to use the, but you never
hear that criticized or even admitted by America. 2. Bush is afraid of
North Korea because it has atomic weapons, but also because China told
him in uncertain terms, "Keep your nose out of this area or we'll
bloody it for you and wreck your economy as well."
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- Our fearless leader is only good at killing innocent
civiilans through attcks from the air with F16s, Apaches and long range
missiles, then calling those killed "enemy combatants," "terrorists,"
r "insurgents." I hope more people in America will wake up before
things get much worse. It is already too late in most cases for America
to recover its place in the world. But, if we kick Bush out of office and
replace his military commanders in the field, especially Myers and Abizaid,
we may be able to salvage something--but it's going to be long, hard road
and will take us decades and maybe centuries to ever again be trusted by
any Muslims in the world.
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- Let's call it what it is in Iraq and Palestine, massacres,
not wars. Somehow, it is as if Bush and Sharon are joined together at the
hip and in their immoral hearts and minds.
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- Both are guilty of war crimes. We knew this about Sharon
by recalling his infamous invasion of Lebanon in the 1980s; but we didn't
know how much Bush would follow his lead and take America down with him.
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- Just remember this one line, "This is a massacre,
not a war."
- The Iraqis have no planes, helicopters or tanks; the
Palestinians have no planes, helicopters or tanks; but America does and
uses them indiscriminately, as does Israel. America should take a cue from
the resistance to Israel, some day it will come here, when the people in
the Muslim and Arab worlds have had enough and decide to strike back.
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- Woe unto us for allowing the madman Bush to kill people
in Iraq, Afghanistan and by proxy, in Palestine. Some day, as Malcolm X
prophesied, "The chickens will come home to roost."
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- Sam Hamod is an expert on Islam and the Middle East;
he is a former advisor to the State Department, editor of 3rd World News
and Director of The Islamic Center of Wash, DC. Watch for his new book,
in 2005, ESSAYS IN TIMES OF WAR. He may be reached at shamod@cox.net .
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