Share this
Digg
Del.icio.us
Reddit
Slashdot
Furl
Yahoo
Blogmarks
Technorati
Newsvine
Googlize this
Facebook
Wikio
TagsDeath everywhere,
death every day, nothing but death and the stench of death and the
never-ending agony of the aftermath of death. This is the true and only
meaningful context of all the punditry and political posturing around
the "issue" of Iraq. While the White House maneuvers to "buy time" for the president and provide "political cover" for continuing the war – and the Democrats make plans to float some "proposals" on "beginning to
redeploy some forces" – the cry of an Iraqi grandfather whose entire
family was murdered in the bombing at Amerli rips like a knife to the
heart of the matter:
"We were wiped out mercilessly, and we blame the Americans, the Iraqi government, the criminals and all the politicians who brought us catastrophe and destruction. They have destroyed everything with their sectarianism and politics."
These
were the words of Zainulabideen Rustam Abdullah, who "lost his wife,
three daughters, his grandson and his daughter-in-law" in last
Saturday's attack, the Washington Post reports.
I have never read anywhere a more succinct and accurate portrayal of
the hell-hole that George W. Bush has created in Iraq with his
unprovoked invasion and destruction of that country. The war is indeed
a merciless act, a brutal act of hubris, of avarice, of cynical
deliberation and wilful ignorance. The sectarianism that it has
unleashed – and abetted – and the thuggish politics in both Washington, London and Baghdad have indeed "destroyed everything."
None of it was necessary. None of it was justified. Abdullah's grandson was shredded into fragments of meat and bone because George W. Bush wanted to be a "war president" and prance around in his "Commander-in-Chief" socks. Abdullah's wife had her brains dashed out because Dick Cheney wanted to impose American dominance over the oil lands of the Middle East, for the greater glory and profits for his oil cronies and his military servicing paymasters. Abdullah's daughters were mutilated and disemboweled by shrapnel because the blind, monstrous engines of barbaric militarism and greasy war contracting have spread their moral rot from the wasteland called Hell's Bottom where the Pentagon was built throughout the entire American Republic. Abdullah's daughter-in-law had her skin eaten away by ravenous fire because the leading lights of the American Establishment -- in government, in media, in business, in academia, in "think tanks" and "policy centers" – were giddy at the thought of empire, or dazzled by the prospect of loot, or maddened by ideological fervor, or driven by some private evil… or turned into cowards by 9/11, ready to sacrifice anything and everything – morality, reason, common sense, legality, the lives of their nation's soldiers and endless multitudes of innocent foreigners – in order to keep themselves safe, to keep living high on the hog, to stay well-wadded, cozy and comfy, forever protected from any adverse consequences of the destructive policies that have enriched them.
The Bush Faction's violence and extremism have been answered with violence and extremism. Their mass slaughter of civilians has been answered with the mass slaughter of civilians. The inherent criminality of their invasion has unleashed and begotten criminality on a massive scale. Their attempt to use war and death for political advantage in the region has been answered by other countries trying to use the Iraqi carnage for their own political advantage. As long as human beings are what they are – frail, foul, savage, broken, vulnerable creatures – there can be no other outcome to such brutal, senseless policies. Just death, everywhere, nothing but death.
This is the context of the "debate." This is what it's all about. Everything else is just posturing, just empty talk – empty talk from mouths dripping blood.
None of it was necessary. None of it was justified. Abdullah's grandson was shredded into fragments of meat and bone because George W. Bush wanted to be a "war president" and prance around in his "Commander-in-Chief" socks. Abdullah's wife had her brains dashed out because Dick Cheney wanted to impose American dominance over the oil lands of the Middle East, for the greater glory and profits for his oil cronies and his military servicing paymasters. Abdullah's daughters were mutilated and disemboweled by shrapnel because the blind, monstrous engines of barbaric militarism and greasy war contracting have spread their moral rot from the wasteland called Hell's Bottom where the Pentagon was built throughout the entire American Republic. Abdullah's daughter-in-law had her skin eaten away by ravenous fire because the leading lights of the American Establishment -- in government, in media, in business, in academia, in "think tanks" and "policy centers" – were giddy at the thought of empire, or dazzled by the prospect of loot, or maddened by ideological fervor, or driven by some private evil… or turned into cowards by 9/11, ready to sacrifice anything and everything – morality, reason, common sense, legality, the lives of their nation's soldiers and endless multitudes of innocent foreigners – in order to keep themselves safe, to keep living high on the hog, to stay well-wadded, cozy and comfy, forever protected from any adverse consequences of the destructive policies that have enriched them.
The Bush Faction's violence and extremism have been answered with violence and extremism. Their mass slaughter of civilians has been answered with the mass slaughter of civilians. The inherent criminality of their invasion has unleashed and begotten criminality on a massive scale. Their attempt to use war and death for political advantage in the region has been answered by other countries trying to use the Iraqi carnage for their own political advantage. As long as human beings are what they are – frail, foul, savage, broken, vulnerable creatures – there can be no other outcome to such brutal, senseless policies. Just death, everywhere, nothing but death.
This is the context of the "debate." This is what it's all about. Everything else is just posturing, just empty talk – empty talk from mouths dripping blood.
More from this author:
Immaculate Conception: A Squirt in the White House (10753 Hits)
George W. Bush's innumerable sycopants like to potray him as a down-to-earth man of the people: a man's man, tough and fearless, a good-ole-boy...
George W. Bush's innumerable sycopants like to potray him as a down-to-earth man of the people: a man's man, tough and fearless, a good-ole-boy...
Thunder on the Mountain: The Murderers of Democracy (9248 Hits)
“Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes. I tell you this right now, I don’t give a damn about your dreams.” -- Bob Dylan,...
“Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes. I tell you this right now, I don’t give a damn about your dreams.” -- Bob Dylan,...
War in Heaven: Woodward's Book and the Establishment Insurgency (9531 Hits)
Bob Woodward has long been the voice of the American Establishment – or of certain quadrants of it, at any rate. When Richard Nixon's...
Bob Woodward has long been the voice of the American Establishment – or of certain quadrants of it, at any rate. When Richard Nixon's...
Swing Blades: Don Rumsfeld Bats Both Ways (8044 Hits)
In February 2003, I wrote a column for the Moscow Times detailing Don Rumsfeld's personal – and profitable – connection with North Korea's...
In February 2003, I wrote a column for the Moscow Times detailing Don Rumsfeld's personal – and profitable – connection with North Korea's...
Red October: Killing the Truth in Moscow (9654 Hits)
I. Early October can be dismal in Moscow. The short, harsh summer is over, the brief and beautiful refreshment of September has passed,...
I. Early October can be dismal in Moscow. The short, harsh summer is over, the brief and beautiful refreshment of September has passed,...
Related Articles:
Terms of Use (10869 Hits)
V.O.F. Expathos Web Site Agreement
The materials that appear on this website are available free of
charge. They are published...
Dear Dubya: The Iraq Solution! (8431 Hits)
Hey there Georgie
Boy, long time no speak. From what I’ve been hearing, you’ve had
a rough time as of late. As always, I’m here to help. So...
Why does Thailand have all the Luck? (7035 Hits)
About 2 weeks ago, 10 Soviet-era tanks clanked-along the main thoroughfare in downtown Bangkok and stopped in front of the Presidential Palace. Once...
Why Bush Smiles: Victory is at Hand in Iraq (10388 Hits)
Despite George W. Bush's ostentatious bucking up of the Iraqi government yesterday, it is very likely that there will indeed be an...
U.S. Service Academy Graduates Unite Against Illegal Iraq War (10046 Hits)
Atlantic Free Press Netherlands – (October 26,
2006) –
The overwhelming
response by alumni of United States service academies to the...
Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites
Set as favorite
Bookmark
Email this
Hits: 3951
Trackback(0)
TrackBack URI for this entryComments (0)
Subscribe to this comment's feedWrite comment
