I Am Become Death - The Destroyer Of The Worlds

[RBHam]

Saturday November 27, 2004 (1257 PST)
by Anwaar Hussain in the Pakistan Tribune

excerpt:

Though the carnage carried out by Hitler’s regime was on a different scale than that now being committed by the Bush administration, there are striking parallels. For the first time since the Wehrmacht swept through Europe, the world is witnessing a major imperialist 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 US media’s wretched connivance in this deception is incredible, as incredible 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.

To be honest, George Bush is not the first US president ordering the state’s machinery to pulverize nations and peoples abroad. Even a hurried analysis of the American’s government’s conduct in the last century makes for a most damning indictment. Out of the US’s past foreign policy woodwork, crawl out numerous invasions, bombings, overthrowing governments, suppressing movements for social change, assassinating political leaders, perverting elections, manipulating labor unions, manufacturing "news", selling blatant lies, death squads, torture, biological warfare, depleted uranium, drug trafficking, mercenaries ... you name it.

This terrorizing of nations and individuals by various US governments has been going on full bore since at least the late 1890s, when Americans obliterated a million Filipinos to keep them safe from the Spanish. 60 million Native Americans, the children of a lesser God, were exterminated by the orders of earlier administrations throughout the 19th century. The difference with past is that George Bush does it in the name of his God, a God far superior to any other and sanctioned fully by his coterie. Ironically, both George Bush and his nemesis, Osama Bin Laden, refer to God almost equal number of times in their public pronouncements.

The United States went into Afghanistan to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden. They killed 10,000 innocent Afghans but could not find their man. They went into Iraq to discover and eliminate Saddam’s WMDs. They killed tens of thousands of Iraqis but found no WMD. They laid siege to the city of Fallujah to kill or capture Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. The city and its inhabitants have been blown to smithereens but there is no Zarqawi. Is it not only too convenient? Next when they want to attack Pakistan, or Iran, they simply have to say that Bin Laden is taking refuge there. Just like the next Iraqi city awaiting the fate of Fallujah will be the latest refuge of Zarqawi; the WMDs too could next fly to Syria or may be even Saudi Arabia. Is one imagining things here? Or is it that the US imperialism is indeed now riding full time on the back of gargantuan lies?

After granting George Bush a carte blanche to do what he likes the American citizens, of course, continue their daily lives oblivious to what is being done in their name. Between their work places and the nearest fast food joints, they just do not have enough time to check back on the activities of the man who is playing the Terminator in the name of God and in their name.


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http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=84915

[Dancing_Dave]

1. Great Piece!

Pity we don't have anyone so brave and honest writing for our corporate "news" disinfo media!

[LibertyorDeath]

2. The best analysis of the way it is & has been that I've read

in a long time.

Thanks RBHam much appreciated.

[concord]

3. It's disturbing

that the author assumes all Americans are in denial or are apathetic. It was a moving piece, but like all propaganda, had an agenda. The consequences of our actions in Iraq will be visited upon Americans regardless of our level of awareness.

[LisaL]

11. Well, what are we doing to stop this? Nothing.

[shadowknows69]

15. clearly not enough

Every day we let it continue the world has less and less hope that any of us are redeemable. And tens of thousands of ukranians just marched upon their seat of government and said "do the right thing or we're tearing down the walls around the throne. And it's getting done."

[enough]

4. Nominating for front page.

snip>

Those who do get to know a little are in a constant state of denial. One thing is sure though. Just like in post-war Germany where some even denied the holocaust. "We didn't know what was happening" is bound to become a cliché that will one day be used to ridicule Americans who claim ignorance of the atrocities committed by their administration in their name. Ironically, Khomeini died trying to get people to see America as "the great Satan,” It took George W. Bush and his cohorts just four years to do exactly that, and not just in the eyes of the Muslim world.

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Fallujah will enter history as the place where US imperialism carried out an offense of heinous proportions this November, a monstrous crime far beyond any possible forgiveness. The crimson waters of the Euphrates are now emptying into the Persian Gulf the hopes and aspirations of innocent people whose lives were snuffed out on the orders of a man rewarded for his monumental crimes by his great nation.

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[RBHam]

5. Operation Barbarossa and Operation Phantom Fury

Operation Barbarossa and Operation Phantom Fury: Different Only by a Matter of Degree

Reading about the destruction of Fallujah, now that details are trickling in (mostly in the European press), I am reminded of Hermann Goering who said, during Operation Barbarossa (Germany’s doomed invasion of Russia), that the Germans had no problem killing civilians and POWs because Germany had not signed the Geneva Convention. In Fallujah, the United States is also killing civilians and POWs (as video attests), but Bush and the Pentagon are not offering excuses like Goering did. Instead, the Geneva Convention is totally irrelevant, not even worth mention (we have come a long way since the Nazis).

“Nazi propaganda had convinced the men in the army to view the Russians as a ‘conglomeration of animals,’” writes Paul Fleming, Jr.

The Germans under their Nazi leaders were “insanely bent upon the enslavement or butchery of all Untermenschen.” This policy was implemented in …"criminal orders” which provided the German army with a “blank cheque for the mass killing of civilians.” And this they did. A resident of Leningrad at the time noted that the Germans “killed without regarding age or sex.” … In an effort to hamper partisan activity, houses in which the Germans thought partisans were hiding were burned with the occupants inside. … With the Germans treating the civilian population like this it is no small wonder they quickly lost the support of the people who once looked to them as “liberators.”

Fast forward more than sixty years.

On November 24, Kim Sengupta reported for the UK Independent: “Allegations of widespread abuse by US forces in Fallujah, including the killing of unarmed civilians and the targeting of a hospital in an attack, have been made by people who have escaped from the city.”

They said, in interviews with The Independent, that as well as deaths from bombs and artillery shells, a large number of people including children were killed by American snipers. US forces refused repeated calls for medical aid for injured civilians, they said.

The refugees from Fallujah describe a situation of extreme violence in which remaining civilians in the city, who have been told by the Americans to leave, appeared to have been seen as complicit in the insurgency. Men of military age were particularly vulnerable. But there are accounts of children as young as four, and women and old men being killed.

“One of things we noticed the most were the numbers of people killed by American snipers. They were not just men but women and some children as well. The youngest one I saw was a four-year-old boy. Almost all these people had been shot in the head, chest or neck.”

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http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?p=434

[ilife]

6. it reminds me of Nanking

right down to ILLEGAL COMBATANTS and all under the banner of bringing PEACE, PROSPERITY and SECURITY to the region, GECAPS.

thanks for the post, great read :toast:

[Eloriel]

7. Ah, it is SO bracing

to read or hear the truth, the awful but exquisite truth.

We have done so much harm in the world. I want it to end, end for all time.

[RBHam]

8. IRAQ: Political blowback from Fallujah begins

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/607/607p14.htm

The excuse for the leveling of Fallujah was "to enable Iraq to hold elections."

Yet, this action could clearly be predicted to have exactly the opposite effect.

The Carlyle-Halliburton Administration WANTS chaos...

The longer they can have a WAR, the longer they can control their own populace and advance their agenda...

[ilife]

12. "The Carlyle-Halliburton Administration WANTS chaos..."

they figure they can't loose that way :argh: :crazy:

our media is GROSS and if our got damn 'LEADERSHIP' doesn't stand up to the TORTURE AUTHOR to head justice after a$$crack and everything else we've witnessed ABU GHARIB :puke: i gotta make plans for me and my family to leave.

[leftchick]

14. "10 years in Iraq"

notice how repukes and the Iraqi puppets have been saying the US needs to stay at least 10 more years in Iraq. The chaos is necessary for the BFEE.

[OneBlueSky]

9. a damning indictment of, among other things, the US media . . .

"Not a single major voice has been raised in the American media against the ongoing destruction of Fallujah. While much of the world recognizes something dreadful has occurred, the US press does not even bat an eyelash over the organized leveling of a city of 300,000 people. In none of the US media commentaries is there a single phrase of unease about the moral, or legal, questions involved in the attack on Fallujah. None have dared say it in as many words that the American military operation in the city is an unlawful act of aggression in an equally illegal, criminal, aggressive war."

how true . . . and how disgustingly tragic . . .

[OneBlueSky]

10. George Bush should be required to go to Fallujah . . .

to walk the streets and see what his war has done to these people . . . but he is a coward who orders their destruction from behind a desk thousands of miles away . . . and the worst kind of coward, one pulled strings so he wouldn't have to see combat . . . he is a disgrace not only to his country, but to humanity . . . he should be tried as a war criminal, convicted, and sentenced accordingly . . .

[Karenina]

13. Kick!

:kick:

[xchrom]

16. good read

too bad it won't be read by most americans.

[Vidar]

17. Good article. Full agreement here.