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April 5,
2003
Biblical
Vengeance in the 21st Century
Iraqis
Slaughtered, Islam Slandered, Humanity Demeaned
By JOHN STANTON
As American made projectiles rip through Iraqi
tissue, fracture bone, severe heads and scatter what was once
a human body onto fields, floors and walls, the Bush fascists
in business and government are salivating for a bite of the carcass
that is Iraq. European and Arab leaders want their share too
and, as of late, are distancing themselves from the anti-Bush,
anti-war stance they held not so long ago when the US bypassed
the United Nations to grab Iraq for itself in clear violation
of international law. The world over, corporations and governments,
hardly distinguishable anymore, are playing the same dreadful
game.
Even as the US daily mocks the Geneva
Convention, impugns the Law of Armed Conflict and Rules of Engagement
through the use of cluster bombs and indiscriminant murder of
Iraqi men, women, children and livestock, it has accelerated
the pace of the conquest to arrive more swiftly to its end-game.
The finish will see US corporations--along with an assortment
of dubious support organizations--making "liberated"
Iraqi's market-friendly. They will control the price of oil decimating
the one bargaining tool that remained for the Arab world, that
being OPEC. Already, as widely reported, the US House of Representatives
is trying to ensure that wireless carrier Qualcomm of California
be allowed exclusive rights to the "Iraq market". In
Basra, with the encouragement of the US, bottled water is being
sold rather than given freely to the needy.
US weapons makers see a great new market
in the forthcoming remake of Iraq's military forces. Their products
are field tested and ready for the big defense trade exhibitions
like the 4th LAD, the International Exhibition and Conference
on Defense Technology to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil in
April, and the Paris Air Show to be held in June. With America
under Bush no longer bound by arms agreements, every country
will want to stock up. US oil companies like ExxonMobil are already
hard at work in Southern Iraq getting product on line. McDonalds
and other fast food chains are eager to open up shop in Iraq.
The Southern Baptists and other militant
evangelical Christian organizations headed by the likes of Rev
Franklin Graham who called Islam a "wicked religion"
are on the border in Jordan waiting to setup new ministries in
Iraq, as reported by Matt Engel in the Guardian. The starving
will be enticed with food and water to "praise the Lord"
and reject Islam, which these US based militant groups despise.
No doubt they will sign a sheet saying they are praying for "President
Bush" too.
Vomit Bag Please
This wanton slaughter of a people, its
national identity and the ongoing crucifixion of Islam at the
hands of the Bush Regime is a sickening chapter in humanity's
young history. Watching the nauseating spectacle in Iraq unfold
is the same as watching television programming on the Nature
Channel in which a slain water buffalo is ripped to shreds by
hungry Hyena's, Vultures, Lions, Cheetah's and assorted other
creatures. Absolutely nothing separates the mentality of those
hungry creatures from the human species (except that we are wiping
them out too).
And what of this vaunted precision military
technology? Are the F/A18, the cruise missile submarines, the
M1 Tanks, anything more than high-speed catapults tossing metal
and flames at the enemy? The Tartars--who in 1349 catapulted
plague infested bodies into the city of Caffa in the Ukraine--would
appreciate these new means of destruction. The 21st Century is
only inches removed from the days of the Tartars.
And to this day, most Americans still
believe that Iraq is responsible for the rebel attack on New
York City and Arlington, Virginia on September 11, 2001. The
most vociferous American supporters of Bush indicate that much
of this is about those "3,000 that died on 9-11" at
the hands of the Iraqi leader and the hypothetical amount who
would have died without this divinely inspired preemptive conquest.
But wasn't the Biblical "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"
satisfied by the deaths of thousands of civilians in Afghanistan,
the capture and detention of hundreds of "enemy combatants"
dying in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the thousands rotting away
in jails throughout the US because they had the misfortune to
be from the many Arab and Persian cultures throughout the world.
Battle Plan for World
War IV in Bible
There should be little doubt about what
the Bush plan is for Iraq and the rest of the region. As CNN
reported, one of Bush's henchmen James Woolsey, former CIA Director
under Bill Clinton and likely player in the new government of
Iraq, stated recently of regimes in Iran, Syria, Egypt and Saudi
Arabia, "We want you nervous. We want you to realize now,
for the fourth time in a hundred years, this country...is on
the march and that we are on the side of those whom you -- the
Mubaraks, the Saudi Royal family -- most fear: We're on the side
of your own people." Woolsey is part of the militant, stridently
pro-Israel group that advocated attacking Iraq back in 1998.
The US government in Iraq may include another of this sect; Jay
Garner, a defense contractor and retired military officer whom
once applauded the Israel's brutal treatment of the Palestinians.
In short, the new government of Iraq will be culled from Bush
loyalists from the Project for a New American Century, Center
for Security Policy, Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and
the omnipresent American Enterprise Institute. All of who advocate
imperious global US rule and a greater Israel and who are on
record on that score.
So it should come as no surprise to learn,
again, that on April 4, 2003, Israel's Haaretz's Aluf Benn obtained
a communiqué from Bush to Sharon indicating that "the
American administration says the United States is operating with
strong resolution to neutralize the Iraqi threat to Israel. After
the war, the message continued, the United States will deal with
other radical regimes in the region - not necessarily by military
means - to moderate their activities and fight terrorism."
Woolsey is making millions of Americans and thousands in Israel--whom
oppose this new adventurism--very nervous indeed.
There is good reason for them to be nervous.
Yahweh and the Christian God, being warlike, outlined long ago
how to treat the followers of "wayward" religions like
Islam or those who dissent from the Bush's WW IV campaign. In
Numbers 31, "God" gives his followers their marching
orders including how to divide the spoils.
"The Lord said to Moses, "Take
vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you
will be gathered to your people." So Moses said to the people,
"Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites
and to carry out the Lord's vengeance on them. They burned all
the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their
camps. "Have you allowed all the women to live?" he
asked them. "They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice
and were the means of turning the Israelites away from the Lord
in what happened at Peor, so that a plague struck the Lord's
people. Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept
with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never
slept with a man.
The Lord said to Moses, "You and
Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the community are
to count all the people and animals that were captured. Divide
the spoils between the soldiers who took part in the battle and
the rest of the community. >From the soldiers who fought in
the battle, set apart as tribute for the Lord one out of every
five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep or goats.
Take this tribute from their half share and give it to Eleazar
the priest as the Lord's part. From the Israelites' half, select
one out of every fifty, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep,
goats or other animals. Give them to the Levites, who are responsible
for the care of the Lord's tabernacle."
So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as
the Lord commanded Moses. The plunder remaining from the spoils
that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000
and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man. The half share
of those who fought in the battle was: 337,500 sheep, of which
the tribute for the LORD was 675; 36,000 cattle, of which the
tribute for the Lord was 72; 30,500 donkeys, of which the tribute
for the Lord was 61; 16,000 people, of which the tribute for
the Lord was 32."
Bush takes his orders from the Lord.
So beware Islam. And beware all of you who do not believe in
Bush's divine mission.
John Stanton
is a Virginia based writer specializing in national security
matters. He can be reached at cioran123@yahoo.com.
Today's Features
Uri
Avnery
A Crooked Mirror: Presstitution and
the Theater of Operations
David
Vest
Can You Hear the Silence?
Anthony
Gancarski
Colin Powell Telemarketer
David
Lindorff
Takoma: the Dolphin Who Refused
to Fight
Michael
Roberts
War, Debts and Deficits
Ramzy
Baroud
Now That Iraqis Are Being Killed Is Israel Any More Secure?
Jo Wilding
From Baghdad with Tears
Anton
Antonowicz
Cluster Bombs on Babylon
Alison
Weir
Israel, We Won't Forget Rachel Corrie
Bruce
Jackson
Hating Wolf Blitzer's Voice
Eliot Katz
War's First Week
Steve
Perry
War Web Log 04/03
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