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by Anwaar Hussain
 It all happened while America slept.
As America slept, airline jets appeared in the azure blue New York Skies some five years back and within minutes bumped through tall wonders of human achievements reducing them and their occupants to a tangled mass of steel, concrete and human flesh. While the world stood horror-struck and frozen from the pain of the victims and the sheer scale of the crime, somewhere in some dark unlit corners of America, a small leering cabal of malicious, hateful and warmongering few backslapped each other. But America slept.
As America slept, this small but ruthless group of men stole democracy from the American people and almost knocked her over with a noxious blow of fascism. The political philosophy of these creatures sent instant shivers up the collective spine of global citizenry. But America slept.
As America slept, their liberties were curtailed, their freedoms taken away, their economy bankrupted, their private lives spied upon and their nation kept in a constant state of fear. Riding on the wings of ‘terror’, their leaders sleep marched America into history's hall of shame. But America slept.
As America slept, its citizens' liberties were
curtailed, their freedoms taken away, their economy bankrupted, their
private lives spied upon and their nation kept in a constant state of
fear. Riding on the wings of ‘terror’, their leaders sleep marched
America into history's hall of shame. But America slept.
As
America slept, not very much later these humanoids had firmly hurled
their country on a perpetual warpath not of self defense, but of fear,
insecurity, suspicion, hatred, anger, reprisal and a blind, jingoistic
patriotism that continued to take its toll on humanity. But America
slept.
As America slept, for the first time since the Wehrmacht
swept through Europe, the world witnessed a major power launching an
unjustifiable war, placing an entire people under military occupation
and carrying out acts of collective and visible punishment against
civilian populace. The American media’s shameful collusion in this
deception was unbelievable, as unbelievable as the fact that this war,
based on undeniable lies as it was, was sold to the American people as
the gospel truth ordained by God. But America slept.
As America
slept, they failed to realize that the logic of occupation was
naturally despotic, that the brutalized and impoverished people of Iraq
and Afghanistan needed facilitators to help them decide their own fate
not occupiers, that the world, having finally taken off the blinds of
9/11, had now seen through the plot and the world now knew that far
from benefiting the Iraqi and Afghan peoples this whole operation was
an unashamed imperialist robbery of their resources. But America slept.
As
America slept, its leaders misspent in a hurry the international
sympathy and goodwill it had earned on 9/11. The distasteful
dramatization and gloating of America’s main stream media not
withstanding, the images of the crumbling World Trade Center were soon
replaced in the world's mind by images of horrific explosions in
Baghdad and gruesome images of dogs snatching bites out of dead Iraqis
in cities like Fallujah. By acting as the lackeys of the miniscule
Zionists and fighting their wars, its leaders deliberately alienated
1.3 billion Muslims making them a target for the Muslims' wrath. But
America slept.
As America slept, the malicious cabal of
villainous rogues that took over the reins of their great country,
along with a supporting cast of bloodsuckers, money grabbers and human
lowlifes, speedily put on the world stage a gaudy show full of sadism,
trickery and revolting absurdity. These charlatans destroyed the lives
of millions of individuals and, sure enough, now that curtain is
finally coming down on their repugnant acts, the stage is invariably
full of blood and gore. Of course the dead of this one show will never
ever rise again. But America slept.
As America slept, its media
slept too. They couldn’t see the horrendous atrocities that the United
States military was visiting upon unarmed Iraqis who never posed any
danger to their beloved country. They couldn’t catch on their eagle
eyed lenses the raining cluster bombs, the showering napalms, and the
tortures in the dungeons. They couldn’t report the rising death toll in
Iraq when it shot past the half million mark. They couldn’t inform of
Fallujah that was razed to the ground and its citizens-men, women and
children alike-gunned down by the valiant American troops and left on
the streets for the dogs to feed on. But America slept.
As
America slept, their G.I. Joes were pumping up Iraq with depleted
uranium, napalm bombs, cluster munitions and poisonous gases while its
leaders weaved a torture trail across the world telling Americans to
stay the course. Under the malevolent watch of these men, intense
sessions of pain were conducted in distant dark dungeons spread around
the globe with such regularity that America became the biggest patron
of torture by proxy in the history of planet earth. But America slept.
As
America slept, along with their well fed children, the rate of birth
defects, leukemia and cancer among Iraqi children under the age of 15
in those districts where the use of DU had been the most concentrated
increased dreadfully, ensuring that a generation of beautiful babies
was going to turn into one of unsightly cripples. But America slept.
As
America slept, their great nation continued to sink deeper into the
heart of darkness. With each passing day their beloved America scaled
ever greater heights of hideous glories. The waters of the Euphrates
were made crimson with the blood of innocent people whose lives were
snuffed out on the orders of a man rewarded for his colossal crimes by
his great nation. But America slept.
As America slept, a
thousand cuts were delivered to it by its own. Now that it is half
awake and hemorrhaging heavily, it reels and stumbles from these deep
incisions. But is it awake really?
Now as America awakes, with a
sickening sense of reality, it finds itself moored in pools of innocent
human beings’ blood. And as the death toll in Iraq reaches the
three-quarter of a million mark, it finds its leaders debating whether
or not it is a civil war going on in Iraq. Is it awake really?
Now
as America awakes, it finds itself tottering at the abyss of moral
bankruptcy while its leaders continue their feverish globe trotting hat
in hand begging all and sundry to be saved from their own follies. In
merely five years, the big mouths have become beggars and their once
great nation, heaving from under the massive pile of more than half a
million corpses, stands discredited, dishonored and humiliated in the
court of world opinion.
But is America awake now? Where are the hangman’s ropes if it is?
Copyrights : Anwaar Hussain
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