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10.03.06, 04:56
iz walcza tam dlatego ze Hussain jest winny ataku na WTC !!!!!
To doprawdy niesamowite jak mozna oglupic ludzi jak stado baranow.
The Deadly Delusions
Of America's Troops
Fighting For Their Lies
By Chris Floyd
Empire Burlesque
3-9-6
While much has been made of the recent poll showing that a majority of U.S.
troops on the ground in Iraq think we should get out heartening news for all
those who oppose Bush's bloodsoaked war crime the poll contained another
revelation that should disturb anyone anti-war or pro-war who still believes
in American democracy: the fact that some 85 percent of US forces in Iraq
believe they are fighting to avenge Saddam Hussein's role in the September 11
attacks. (Alex Sabbeth at Consortiumnews.com has more on this, and on Bush's
broader propaganda war, in America Anesthetized.)
Saddam Hussein played no role in the September 11 attacks, of course; even
the Warmonger-in-Chief has been forced to admit this indisputable fact, in
public. It has also been confirmed by multiple investigations by the
intelligence services, and even by the whitewashing, Bush-run, see-no-evil-
unless-it-speaks-Arabic 9/11 Commission. Yet American troops have been
thoroughly inculcated with this false notion no doubt deliberately.
The dangers of infecting the armed forces with such partisan propaganda are
immense. First, think of how this notion has skewed the reaction of American
soldiers to the Iraqi people, especially anyone accused or suspected for
whatever reason, or none at all of being an insurgent, or a "Baathist
diehard," etc. To an American soldier blinded by the deliberate Bush lies,
such people would appear to be nothing but evil terrorists complicit in the
murder of thousands of innocent Americans. And in fact, all Iraqis would be
tarred by this brush: for how could a soldier out on patrol distinguish which
of the seething mass of foreigners surrounding him had been a supporter of
the man who (supposedly) attacked America?
Putting deluded soldiers in such a position, fed with such lies, is a formula
certain to produce atrocities and abuse. No wonder we have seen so many cases
of American soldiers being quick on the trigger, quick with the boot and the
fist, belligerent and brutal in tumultuous house searches, eager to "soften
up" prisoners for CIA interrogators, and so on. Most of them believe they are
there to avenge murdered Americans, and that anyone who opposes their
presence or even looks at them wrong must be part of the system that
(supposedly) produced 9/11.
The evil of this deliberate policy is great in itself; but the broader
implications are perhaps even worse. For consider this: if American troops
can be propagandized to believe such a transparent lie about Iraq's non-
existent connection to 9/11 what can't they be manipulated into believing?
And remember, this mass military delusion has been manufactured in an age
when soldiers have far more access to outside information than ever before
(despite the Pentagon's strenuous efforts to clamp down on anything Don
Rumsfeld doesn't want them to hear). Can they be made to believe that, say,
the government of Hugo Chavez is directly tied to al Qaeda and must be
overthrown? Can they be made to believe that Saddam's non-existent weapons of
mass destruction are actually parked in Damascus and must be seized by force?
Can they be made to believe that Iran is sending agents across the Iraqi
border to kill them and is about to nuke their loved ones in the Homeland as
well? (The latter is in fact the latest propaganda campaign from the
Bushists: Rumsfeld rolled out the Iranian infiltration line just yesterday,
despite its utter and transparent foolishness: why would the Iranians seek to
destabilize an Iraqi regime that, thanks to Bush, is now dominated by Shiite
factions that were nurtured, armed, trained and financed by Tehran itself?
And of course, this week both Dick Cheney and John "I'm Not Foaming at the
Mouth, It's a Moustache" Bolton were pounding the war drums over the Iranian
nuclear "threat" at about the same time their boss was rewarding India for
its own secret nuclear arms program, with a deal that guarantees the
dangerous proliferation of nuclear weapons in one of the world's most
volatile regions.)
But why stop with new foreign aggression? If American soldiers can be
manipulated into believing the non-existent connection between Saddam and al
Qaeda why not a non-existent connection between some domestic faction and
terrorism? What if you convinced the troops that, say, some Democratic leader
was a traitor in league with terrorists? Or the anti-war movement in general?
Or environmentalists? Or Muslims? Or Mexicans? Or Jews? Or any other group
that some president down the line armed with the dictatorial powers seized by
Bush under the rule of the "unitary executive" decides to eliminate?
We have, once again, crossed a dangerous Rubicon. If American soldiers can
now be deliberately manipulated into fighting a war based on a transparent
and publicly proven lie, in the service of the political ambitions and
personal fortunes of a partisan faction, then we are well and truly through
the looking-glass. We have reached the same pitch of civic degradation as the
late Roman Republic, where the legions became the tools of ruthless warlords,
jockeying for dominance, despoiling whole peoples and slaughtering thousands
in the process. Once unlimbered, this weapon will be used again and again.
With each passing day, the Bush Factionists and all their many sycophants and
enablers, in both parties, throughout the Establishment are sowing a
monstrous future for America, and the world.
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