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Thread ID: 9169 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2003-08-20
2003-08-20 11:10 | User Profile
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OP-ED COLUMNIST Magnet for Evil By MAUREEN DOWD
ASHINGTON
The Bush team has now created the very monster that it conjured up to alarm Americans into backing a war on Iraq.
Rushing to pummel Iraq after 9/11, Bush officials ginned up links between Saddam and Al Qaeda. They made it sound as if Islamic fighters on a jihad against America were slouching toward Baghdad to join forces with murderous Iraqis.
There was scant evidence of it then, but it's coming true now.
Since America began its occupation, Iraq has become the mecca for every angry, hate-crazed Arab extremist who wants to liberate the Middle East from the "despoiling" grasp of the infidels.
"Increasing numbers of Saudi Arabian Islamists are crossing the border into Iraq, in preparation for a jihad, or holy war, against U.S. and U.K. forces, security and Islamist sources have warned," The Financial Times said yesterday, quoting a Saudi dissident who noted that Saudi authorities are concerned that "up to 3,000 Saudi men have gone `missing' in the kingdom in two months."
One of the things the terrorists in Baghdad and Jerusalem blew up yesterday was the credibility of the Panglossian Bush version of what's happening in the Middle East.
The administration's optimism was exposed as a fantasy when the two efforts it holds most dear ââ¬â the reconstruction and democratization of Iraq, and advancing the Palestinian-Israeli peace process ââ¬â both went up in smoke yesterday, literally.
Before the Iraq war, the Bush team inflated the threats to America; since the war, the Bush team has deflated the threats to America.
In yet another spun-up government document on Iraq, the White House listed 100 ways that things were going great in the 100 days we've been on the scene. The report burbled with gimcrackery about the "10 signs of better infrastructure" ââ¬â days before an oil pipeline and then a water pipeline were blown up ââ¬â and about soccer balls and science textbooks.
"Most of Iraq is calm, and progress on the road to democracy and freedom not experienced in decades continues," it said. "Only in isolated areas are there still attacks."
Even the Bush people, who tend to look at excruciatingly difficult problems and say no prob, were shaken by yesterday's carnage, which delivered a terrible truth: just because we got Uday and Qusay, Iraqi militants are not going to stop blowing up Westerners. Even if we get Saddam, the resistance will no doubt keep at it, hoping the dictator will enjoy the carnage from paradise.
"The dynamics have really changed," said an administration official on the reconstruction team. "Now we're dealing with a guerrilla war, not terrorism."
Osama bin Laden was inspired to attack us partly by his hatred of the American military presence in Saudi Arabia. Now foreign zealots from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria, enraged about the American military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, are slipping over the Iraqi border to help Saddam loyalists.
Bush officials, who before the war also overdramatized the connection between Saddam and the Ansar al-Islam militants in northern Iraq, have now become spooked about hundreds of fighters coming back from Iran to attack Americans.
The Qaeda and Ansar zealots, along with old Baath soldiers and new foreign recruits, are intent on keeping Iraq in anarchy, even as Afghanistan also slips back into chaos, with a reconstituted Taliban fighting machine killing 90 in the last month.
The democracy dominoes are not falling as easily as Paul Wolfowitz and other neocons had predicted.
It's hard to believe that this is just a few "dead-enders," as Rummy says. It's hard to believe that it's going to be easy for America to get control of the streets. It's hard to believe the occupation is not going to last a very long time. It's hard to believe that liberal institutions will flourish where basic security is a distant dream.
Some United Nations experts have been saying that we have only half the number of troops we need to subdue Iraq, and Senator John McCain and others agreed yesterday that we need more reinforcements.
The countries that could help us out with more troops won't do it unless Iraq is turned over to the U.N. And Rummy & Co., always doctrinaire, doesn't want turn Iraq over to those wimpy guys with blue helmets.
So where are we? We can't leave, and we can't stay forever. We just have to slug it out.
=================================================== 9/11 was a dream come true for the Zionist/NWO/neocon gang. The warmongering adventures of the ZOG puppet in the White House against Israel's enemies have not only wasted the lives of a growing number of US troops but also threaten to bankrupt the US Treasury. The Muslim world is up in arms and America is the target. Our Zionist masters in Washington will not back off. They would have us kill every Muslim in the world, all 1.5 billion of them, all in the name of Democracy and the God of Israel.
Zionism is America's form of national suicide, is her idoltary, is her insanity. Jewish supremacy is its cult.
-Z-
2003-08-20 11:32 | User Profile
-Z-
Reading this column and thinking about this "great war president" makes me think of what Forrest Gump said: "Stupid is as stupid does." And people though Gore was Gump.
They were warned that this crap would happen and with all their smug arrogance said "don't worry about it. We know what were doing." bin Laden accomplished his objective, he's got us right in the middle of this mess and the indians are coming out of the woodwork. Bush is damn lucky that he has more troops than Custer.
I believe that in the end that this war will be exposed as a neo-con-likud plot despite their best efforts to be disingenous, obfuscate and lie about it. Next year should be an interesting election.
2003-08-20 12:11 | User Profile
Sert,
Some real crazies, arm-chair warriors who have never seen the real thing, are in charge now, Genghis W., of course, and creeps like Rummy and Ashcroft. I believe they'd go to the wall for their Zionist masters. The question then becomes how far their masters will push them. Nukes on Iran? Perhaps, there's not enough American and British troops to launch an invasion and occupation of Iran, which has three-times the population of Iraq.
Genghis W. Bush and the War Party aren't about to withdraw American troops from Iraq, either. And if the situation there becomes unmanageable, would chemical and biological weapons be employed? I woundn't bet against it.
Additionally, the Zionists have their eyes on Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia, and they will not hestitate to use American blood and treasure to take out these nations.
In the final analysis, America is nothing more than a colony of Israel. Even if there is an election in '04 and Bush goes down, his successor will be Israel first. If common Americans rebel, it's martial law and off to the camps. The Bolsheviks did it in Russia, and the Zioniists will at least try it here.
-Z-
2003-08-20 13:55 | User Profile
Sert: Bush is damn lucky that he has more troops than Custer.
{sigh} Can't say the same for the troops... :unsure: :crybaby:
2003-08-20 17:30 | User Profile
** Rushing to pummel Iraq after 9/11, Bush officials ginned up links between Saddam and Al Qaeda. They made it sound as if Islamic fighters on a jihad against America were slouching toward Baghdad to join forces with murderous Iraqis.**
Translation: We lied about why we wanted to invade Iraq.
** There was scant evidence of it then, but it's coming true now. **
Translation = After we conquered a small, defenseless Arab nation we bombed weekly for over a decade we managed to make the Iraqis hate us as well as the rest of the Arab word.
** Since America began its occupation, Iraq has become the mecca for every angry, hate-crazed Arab extremist who wants to liberate the Middle East from the "despoiling" grasp of the infidels. **
Translation = We Americans should never be oppossed in our efforts to build an empire for Isreal. Those that disagree are insane terrorists.
** "Most of Iraq is calm, and progress on the road to democracy and freedom not experienced in decades continues," it said. "Only in isolated areas are there still attacks." **
Translation = We lied about the situation in our newest colony.
** So where are we? We can't leave, and we can't stay forever. We just have to slug it out. **
Translation = No cost in American lives and tax dollars is too great for building a greater Isreali empire.
2003-08-20 18:48 | User Profile
*Originally posted by Zoroaster@Aug 20 2003, 05:10 * ** There9/11 was a dream come true for the Zionist/NWO/neocon gang. **
There is the distinct possibility they did it themselves.
The warmongering adventures of the ZOG puppet in the White House against Israel's enemies have not only wasted the lives of a growing number of US troops but also threaten to bankrupt the US Treasury.
THAT is the Good News. They have so grossly mis-navigated the ship of state they may now well be on the way to go down with it. Be thankful that Bush is so incompetent, and that his leaders are so reckless. It would be much worse if they were prudent men led by a genius.