NYC EDITORIAL

Signs Editorial:
Bush Reveals Real Iraq Policy: Mass Slaughter Of Iraq Civilians
Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
13/04/2007

I used to have a little sympathy for those people who were still sitting
on the fence over the justness of the Iraq invasion. I understood that
the US government and mainstream media talking heads made an effort to
imbue their official claims with a semblance of logic and reason, and
that the American public could, to some extent, be forgiven for
sanctioning illegal war and suffering. They were, after all being
deceived.

Not anymore.

It seems that the years of government double-speak and subtle
manipulation have led the Bush administration to feel confident that the
ability of the average American to think critically has now been
compromised to such an extent that they will easily swallow blatant and
verifiable fantasy.

The Iraq invasion, we were told, was all about protecting the world
against the threat of Saddam's WMDs, yet it was a claim that was
inherently flawed because the logical response was to attempt to prove
or disprove it - either Saddam had WMDs or he didn't. As we all found
out too late, the claim was little more than the product of the minds of
American and British spin doctors. A few more hours in the spin room
however, and they were back on track, but the back-room boys had learned
their lesson, they weren't going to make the mistake of throwing around
allegations that were based on something as empirical, and therefore
provable or disprovable, as the existence or otherwise of WMDs. This
time, it was going to be something much more intangible, like the needs
of the Iraqi people and how much happier they (and the rest of the
world) would be under American style democracy and without the 'tyrant'
Saddam.

This second claim had the potential to fool the American people at least
a little longer than the first, appealing as it did to their
artificially pumped egos as well as their morbid fear of the unknown
i.e. anything outside America's borders. After all, look at how happy
the American people are! But really look, not at the details, but the
broad panacea of American life, such as it is displayed in Hollywood
movies for but one example. Who would not wish such hedonistic revelry
for the whole world? In the end however, it seems that the true
intention of the Bush cabal towards Iraq is, in its nature, so depraved
and far-removed from their claimed altruism, that its face was never
going to take long to manifest.

That face today is seen in:

the fact that 655,000 Iraqi people have been murdered since the
beginning of the invasion, at least 50% by US forces directly.

that 1.6 million Iraqis have fled the country as a result of the
presence of US troops.

that Iraq's health service has disintegrated, with even the most basic
treatments unavailable, and that up to half of the aforementioned
655,000 deaths might have been avoided if proper medical care had been
available. 2,000 doctors and nurses have been killed with 18,000 more
choosing to leave the country in fear of their lives.

the 'Iraqization' of the conflict, where US-sponsored deaths squads
being run out of the Iraqi interior ministry are murdering dozens of
innocent Iraqi civilians daily in an attempt to twist the root cause of
Iraq's problems - the invasion of a sovereign nation by a foreign
aggressor - and create the appearance of an internal 'sectarian'
conflict between rival Iraqi ethnic and religious factions, when no such
serious sectarian strife has ever existed in recent Iraqi history.

the chilling report that the Bush government and its generals are
planning to "penalize Iraq if it fails to stop the violence", violence
for which the Bush government itself is responsible.

Under this last, the US military would launch an assault on the densely
populated neighborhoods of Baghdad, beginning with Sadr City, the home
of some 2 million impoverished Shia and the stronghold of the
anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia, that
is, one of the groups representing the will of the Iraqi people.

In layman's terms, this means that the Bush government has decided that
to "win the Iraq war" and "liberate the Iraqi people", it must wage a
wholesale war on the Iraqi people in order to coerce them to accept US
government rule over their country and lives. Those that submit will
live, those that do not, will die. It couldn't be more simple. Iraq has
been destroyed, not liberated.

Here, of course, we are a long way from what "folks back home" believe
is being done by their government in their name. Yet there is no real
reason that such should be the case, because all of the information I
present here is freely available in mainstream publications to the
American and 'Western' populations. If there is one thing lacking, some
piece of data that is preventing many people from fully awakening to the
horror and brutality that is being wrought by their (un)elected
officials, then it is perhaps the hard evidence that not all human
beings are like you and I - not all human beings possess an innate
tendency towards the rejection of mass murder of the innocent. Some of
them actively engage in acts of depravity, and seek out positions of
power from which they can give vent to their deviant natures with
impunity.

Remembering all I have just said, can you think of anyone, or any group,
that fits this profile?

Take your time.

ShadowEagle when ever you post about the Iraq War I question whether
you're actually against the war or against which ever authority is in
power.

So which is? Are against the war or are you an anarchist?

Shadow

your writing is very clear, well writen and thought out.
Having said that, your numbers have been scued, to suit the purpose of
your claims, much like that of the national mainstream media. Your
assertion that the people of iraq are being "coerced" into being ran by
america is just about one of the more ludacris theories that have been
made on the subject of iraqi independence.
Having myself served in iraq, Ramadi specifically, i can tell you that i
have seen more on the subject than you have been privilaged to not see.
every one wants to be a sunday quarter back on not only the politics of
war but the military actions going on there as well.
although I am in no way saying not to have an opinion on this very
devicive and touchy subject I would ask that when you do write of it
that you use correct numbers and not something arbitrarily grabbed out
of mid air.


there is a lot of independant information on the web garnered by people
who were there and not safely behind a desk in the comfort and safety of
the US, I personally would tend to believe first hand information rather
than wishful retoric.

but thats me, and obviously im not a condensending pretend intellect.


doc


airborne!!

armydoc you rock!!! that was an editorial from a new york
paper. I am not impressed. just someones OHHHPINION!!!!

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Thanks big sis-

The papers as well have their own agenda's, what those agenda's are, are
not always known, especially by me. we could speculate on everthing, but
we still know for sure only what they want us to know. its the way it
has been unfortuatley for to long a time.

ssometimes i just wish we could for a day or two try the whole honesty
route, and see where that leads. it'll never happen, im not niave enogh
to believe it could, given the fact that one side is always held to a
higher standard than the other.

so.... we go on, and the world keeps spinning around, and for me it
seems lately that all i can do is count down the days to when im all
used up and free for the only real truth....