- What fury and outrage, especially when one considers
the source! I mean, that Newsweek report about American soldiers flushing
the Holy Koran down the crapper. Not only did the Pentagon brass get really
bent out of shape, but even resident White House white washer and Mighty
Mouth, Scott McClellan, conveyed the Bush administration's anger and outrage,
almost losing it himself! Clearly, the issue couldn't be the absurdity
that falsehoods and lies kill people - the Bush administration has demonstrated
its total contempt for human life since it maneuvered itself into power.
This outrage is about its sensing of rebellion and disloyalty to the state!
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- American soldiers flushing the Koran down the drain?
Maybe our troops might blow up a dozen or so mosques, schools and hospitals;
and maybe they'd cut off Fallujah's water supply and electrical service
before carpet-bombing and napalming every living soul within the city walls.
And maybe we might hang two innocent Afghanis by their wrists from the
ceiling of their cells for days, and beat their legs with bats until their
bones became mashed potatoes. They're the enemy, no?
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- We've been trained by the media to hate, loathe and despise
these rag-headed camel stinkers; they're not human. They deserve to be
humiliated and tortured. We are learning, day by day, to enjoy their screams,
especially when they are suffering and appealing to their maker for mercy.
So maybe we might torture innocent, helpless prisoners at Guantanamo and
Abu Ghraib, or kill twenty [?] or so - so what?! These vermin are Untermenschen!
Gott mit Uns! Zeig Heil!!!
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- So, it is completely understandable that members of the
Bush administration and the neocon Pentagon would become so outraged when
the truth is revealed. Where's Newsweek's loyalty to our Republican form
of Government? As Frank
Rich of the Bush-supporting New York Times points out, quoting Mighty
Mouth McClellan: "'Our United States military personnel go out of
their way to make sure that the Holy Koran is treated with care.'"
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- The Koran is treated with care, but Iraqis, Afghanis,
Muslims and Arabs can be beaten to death, have electric shock treatment
administered to their genitals, have their faces smeared with fake menstrual
blood, can be made to crawl while naked and chained wearing a dog's collar
and led on a leash by a wimpy female "soldier," and can be forced
into a river by Coalition heroes where non-swimmers are drowned. But this,
by no means at all, should lead anyone to the erroneous conclusion that
the great United States of America, and its "duty-honor-country"
military, would ever condone any display of contempt or disdain for the
venerable Holy Koran!
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- Rich's May 22nd commentary, entitled "It's All Newsweek's
Fault," points out the wording used by the administration in denouncing
the magazine: "Yet there's something weirdly self-incriminating about
the language it uses to do it. Richard Boucher, the State Department spokesman
whose previous boss, Colin Powell, delivered a fictional recitation of
Saddam Hussein's weapon capabilities before the United Nations Security
Council, said it's 'shocking' that Newsweek used 'facts that have not been
substantiated.' Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, attacked Newsweek
for hiding 'behind anonymous sources,' yet it was an anonymous source,
an Iraqi defector known as Curveball, who fed the fictions that Mr. Powell
spouted to gin up America for war. Psychological displacement of this magnitude
might give even Freud pause."
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- Did I read that right? News isn't news until The New
York Times reports it? And now it is I who wish to point out that there
is "something weirdly self-incriminating" regarding Rich's choice
of words. In fact, Rich does a little backward stretch when he cites the
analogy of an "anonymous source" referring to "Curveball"
feeding "fictions" to Colin Powell. Are both Frank Rich and the
editorial board of The New York Times aware of the news? Aren't they aware
that a Sunday London Times article exposed the Bush administration and
provided conclusive, irrefutable proof that Bush engineered the false intelligence
himself?
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- If Rich is so disgusted with the Bush regime's bullying
of the press and Newsweek's cave, why doesn't his venerable newspaper report
on what is now termed the "Smoking Gun Memo?" Even after the
establishment media's own watchdog group, FAIR,
protested this spiking of what could easily be termed as the greatest blockbuster
headline of the 21st century, Rich has to fumble his way through his published
outrage by employing the term "anonymous source." There is nothing
at all anonymous about the President of the United States, George W. Bush!
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- Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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Alton Raines
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- Nothing has been more ridiculous and disgusting than
to watch the Fox news pundits gape and gasp in shock and awe at the very
notion of some of our fine fighting men desecrating the 'all-sacred Koran.'
What a bunch of f*cking phonies! Some even didn't bother taking the snide
sneer off their faces while arguing with counterpoint talking heads on
the issue. They behaved as if the very idea was so foreign and remote that
it was beyond ridiculous to even consider. One regular Fox channel talking
head repeatedly pointed out how careful our military has been not to fire
at or upon any Mosques. That is not only a blatant, outrageous lie, but
represents the very incredulity produced by the NeoCons on every level
of this malaise. I'm quite sure our pride-filled, all-american superboys
have done everything from flushed a Koran down the loo to setting copies
up for target practice. There is no widespread respect for Islam among
the troops, and what little there may be isn't enough to keep them from
pulling the trigger, and sure as hell isn't enough to make a grunt think
twice about flushing a Koran down a toilet, especially if he thinks the
agony it will cause some Iraqi 'detainee' to spill the beans about 'whatever.'
I keep hearing about "a few bad apples," whether its a reference
to Abu Gharib or some other hell pit of US domination in Iraq -- a few
bad apples?? One need only sit in a bar or in the stands of a major sporting
event or listen carefully in a restaurant and you'll hear it... you'll
hear the little comments about towel-heads and camel-jockies and Allah
jokes and Muhammed snipes and how we should just kill 'em all and let God
sort 'em out or nuke 'em and get it over with. The level of hatred and
bigotry developing in the US against Islam and Muslims and Arabs is phenomenally
evident, so to suggest that "our boys" would never defame or
desecrate the sacred Islamic holy book in the same place they genitally
tortured and humiliated the believers of that book is asinine, revolting
and insulting to the intelligence of any clear thinking individual.
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- Some days it feels like Archie Bunkers brain has taken
over the United States like some alien force. It's nice to find clear heads
like Ted Lang still clinging to reality.
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