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To tell the truth
Iraq will be occupied by America, forever
by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News
April 23, 2004
When anyone suggests that the American military is about to pull out of Iraq, it's a canard. When you hear someone say that Iraq will be “granted” sovereignty on June 30, 2004, it's claptrap. The President says it and reporters repeat it, but that doesn’t make it true.
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In fact, it's just more lies.
Let's speak the truth instead, loud and clear:
Iraq will not have “self-rule” on June 30, 2004, or at any time in the foreseeable future. America owns Iraq. It’s for sale to the highest bidder, but nobody will be allowed to rule Iraq without America’s explicit permission. Not on June 30, 2004. Not in 2010, or 2020.
The American military isn’t pulling out of Iraq. Ever. Not under Bush, not under Kerry, not under any conceivable American administration, Republican or Democratic. The United States will have huge concentrations of troops in Iraq -- at least tens of thousands, more likely hundreds of thousands -- as many as are needed to keep Iraq subjugated -- for as long as anyone reading this is alive. And probably, for as long as the United States remains a nation.
If you imagine that the American military will pack their dufflebags and leave Iraq to the Iraqis, say hello to Korea. Visit Cuba. Look at Germany. Japan. Kosovo. Bahrain. Belgium. Colombia. Say hello to planet Earth: America has military bases in dozens of nations, and in many of those nations the natives want the Americans out. But if the base serves an important strategic purpose, the Americans don’t leave. This pattern should be obvious to anyone who’s awake.
Quick, name three countries where America used to have a military base, but doesn’t any more... I’ll step out for a cup of coffee while you scratch your head.
Let’s quit pussyfooting around and simply tell the truth, even if it’s unpleasant.
In Iraq, the truth is: American authorities will be providing “guidance” behind the scenes of any Iraqi so-called “self-government.” “Sovereign” Iraq’s policies will be pre-approved by American officials, and policies that aren't pre-approved will not be policies. Iraqis who hold high-level positions will be pre-screened by American officials, and Iraqis who don’t meet with American approval will not be permitted to hold high-level positions.
Iraqis know all this, of course, because Iraqis are not stupid.
The rest of the world knows this, too, because it’s remarkably obvious to anyone watching events unfold …unless you’re watching through red white and blue blinders.
The truth is: You're wearing those red white and blue blinders, if you're getting your news from American mainstream media.
And for as long as America wears those blinders -- as long as good, patriotic, middle-of-the-road Americans are willing to swallow whatever lies they’re told, all common sense to the contrary -- the dying will continue.
Iraqis won’t “get used to” American occupation, any more than Americans would “get used to” living under Red Chinese occupiers. They won't willingly surrender their weapons, any more than you'd willingly surrender yours if a hostile enemy army occupied America. Iraqis will fight, in whatever way they can, for as long as there are Iraqis.
They will fight back, because Iraq belongs to Iraqis. And the next American killed in Iraq, like the first, will be dead for nothing.
Sorry. If you can't handle the truth, there's always Fox News.
Hundreds of Americans who joined their nation’s military -- men and women bravely willing to put their lives on the line to defend America -- have sacrificed their lives for squat. "Support the troops," some people shout, but it doesn't seem very "supportive" to order soldiers to fight, kill, and die for nothing.
America has invaded and occupied Iraq for lies. The reasons listed for the war before the war were all bogus. The reasons mentioned after the war are also bogus:
"Democracy in Iraq." Yeah, as if democracy or freedom comes at the point of a gun, like a stick-up.
"Saddam was bad." Indeed he was. And at Hussein's worst, while Hussein was killing Kurds, Iranians, and Iraqis, America was underwriting it.
"The war on terror." Hussein's Iraq, of course, had little or nada to do with terrorism. But America's Iraq will be infuriating Iraqis, Arabs, and Muslims worldwide -- a source of terrorism, probably for many generations. Thank you, Mr. President.
If Americans remain stubborn and gullible, then thousands instead of hundreds of Americans will die for nothing before it's over, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis instead of tens of thousands. If it ever ends at all.
© 2004, by the author.
What do you think?
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Let’s quit pussyfooting around and simply tell the truth, even if it’s unpleasant.
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Hundreds of Americans who joined their nation’s military -- men and women bravely willing to put their lives on the line to defend America -- have sacrificed their lives for squat.
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The American military isn’t pulling out of Iraq.
Ever.
Not under Bush, not under Kerry, not under any conceivable American administration, Republican or Democratic.
The United States will have huge concentrations of troops in Iraq -- at least tens of thousands, more likely hundreds of thousands -- as many as are needed to keep Iraq subjugated -- for as long as anyone reading this is alive.
And probably, for as long as the United States remains a nation. |
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