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The U.S. Lost the War Before It Started

Lloyd Hart | 09.04.2003 16:06

Undoubtedly the U.S. will experience a military victory in Iraq as well as a complete and thorough occupation of the entire country but a military occupation does a society not make.

The U.S. Lost the War Before It Started

By Lloyd Hart

Undoubtedly the U.S. will experience a military victory in Iraq as well as a complete and thorough occupation of the entire country but a military occupation does a society not make. The Bush regime and their puppet Tony the "BP" Blair (BP standing for British Petroleum as opposed to British Prime Minister which is BPM) used the word "vital" to describe the U.N.'s role in postwar Iraq but was still not using the word "central". "Vital" is closer to "central" but still nowhere near the proximaty of the exiled refugee word "central". After you translate the Bush regime doublespeak spewed in the ironic location of Belfast, Ireland, I mean, Northern Ireland, where the British empire was brought to its knees and forced to negotiate a settlement after the IRA nearly cooked Thatcher's ass and lobbed a couple mortars rounds into the backyard of 10 Downing Street from inside a van parked just the outside Whitehall, what the Bush regime is really saying when Blush, I mean Bush and Blair insisted that "Iraq would be ruled by Iraqis for Iraqis, is "Ok you dirty rotten germ infested Europeans, get in here and clean up this mess we just made and hurry up about it. We're going to install a puppet government of sleazy and corrupt Iraqi exiles only we, the U.S. will control, who in return the for the power we bestow on them, will privatize Iraq's state owned oil company into U.S. hands." "And even if we have to kill every journalist in Iraq that didn't go down on a general, we're going to get this message across goddamnit" Bush himself was putting on his favorite press corp shtick of late, making as if all the journalists and the entire world they report to were so brain-dead that absolutely none of us could smell the stench of crude oil dripping out of every orifice in Bush's body. At least Blair gargles before he does press conference.

Because the conservative elites in America have turned away from innovative technology development as their economic savior and are setting out on a whole new wave of aggressive, colonial, military economic conquest of the Arab world's only bargaining chip in order to save the American economy, the first fatal wound in this most American of all Americans adventures. The Bush regime has revealed that the U.S. economy is so weak, so terribly weak, that the slightest shift in the U.S. sponsored labor camps in so-called developing nations toward human rights will bring the house of cards that the U.S. economy is, tumbling down. These days information travels so fast that you can't hide inherent economic weakness from anyone. So it really is as though the Bush regime in their blind lust to remain top dog after both the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. lost the Cold War socially, economically and environmentally, that by going into Iraq, the U.S. is really throwing itself on its own sword. I means let's be real, what is the Bush regime going to do? Force the world to love America at gunpoint? Put a marine on every street corner on the planet? The cost of of military control of the entire world will dismantle the entire social fabric in the U.S., a wet dream of the conservative elites in America but nightmare scenerio that will have liberals loading guns once they finally snap and snap they will without the social programs that take care of Grandma and Grandpa. The world is going to vote economically just how they feel about America's new global colonial adventure. The fact is, the mother ship Europe is going to continue to win favor with the victims of U.S. controlled IMF and World Bank economic policy while the U.S. continues to cap yo ass and stick a fist in. The Bush regime might have temporarily stanched their Ebola infested economy with the theft of Iraqi oil, but as the global food and water supply continues to collapse the U.S. stranglehold on the rest of the planet will be "loosened a finger by finger" as the 4.5 billion people who've had enough of U.S. Global hegemonic power, refuse to starve to death according to the Bush regime's neo liberal economic policy time table.

Economic Sanctions Against the U.S.

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Dead and Wounded Iraqi Civilians

 http://dadapop.com

Lloyd Hart
- e-mail: dadapop@dadapop.com
- Homepage: dadapop.com

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Solidarity to the attacked nations

09.04.2003 16:18

Syria Might Be Next

The American administration wants to change the Syrian government

According to the latest information from Iraq, the war is far from being over. However, the American administration already develops variations of repression against those Middle East countries, who stood against the war. As a matter of fact, all Mideast countries set out their protest or dissatisfaction about the army campaign in Iraq. However, there was only one country, the government of which set out an aggressive anti-war protest - Syria. It deems that Syria will have to become a scapegoat.

The Washington Post published an article yesterday, from which it was clear that the administration of the American president was determined to do something about Syria. It does not go about an army campaign, not in the nearest future, at least. Conservative officials of the Bush-s administration, the newspaper said, would wish to change the government of Syria. Yet, it was added that they would like to achieve this goal in a peaceful way, without a military force. Conservatives are the US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his first deputy Paul Wolfowitz, who have repeatedly accused Syria of rendering military support to Saddam Hussein. By the way, there is some information, which says that there were several Syrian servicemen killed or taken captive in Iraq (they waged war on the side of the Iraqi army).

Nevertheless, there can be very big problems with changing the Syrian government in a peaceful way. Both Previous President of Syria Hafez Assad and his son Bashar al-Assad pursue the opposition in a rather tough way. Speaking of the opposition, Washington is not likely to like it, for radical Islamists are the most explicit adversaries of the current political regime in Syria. By the way, Syrian special services helped Americans to arrest several outstanding members of Al-Qaida terrorist network after acts of terrorism of September 11th. One of them was an organizer of attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon - Mohammed Haydar Zamar. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received a letter of gratitude for that from American President George W. Bush. On the other hand, Syria is on the list of America's "axis of evil," taking into consideration the fact that official Syrian authorities did not conceal their sympathies for Hizbollah.

Nevertheless, the tendency to get closer to each other was gone after the USA started getting ready for the war against Saddam Hussein. As it was mentioned above, Syria was one of the few countries of the region, which harshly criticized Washington for that policy. Of course, citizens of all countries expressed their dissatisfaction with the war. Yet, in contrast to Syria, the official criticism was not that harsh. It seems that Syria will have to pay for their critics.

There is another aspect, which attracts attention of the White House. Syria has a lot of chemical weapons (sarin, mustard gas), as well as Scud missiles, which were acquired from the USSR and from North Korea. It is a paradox, but the Syrian government acquired North Korean missiles owing to its participation in the war against Saddam in 1991. As a token of appreciation, Saudi Arabia transferred one billion dollars to Syria for its help to oust Iraqis from Kuwait. Well, Syria never considered its chemical weapons as weapons of mass destruction. According to the official defense doctrine, poisonous substances were the means to fight with Israel, so they could only be used at war with Israel. This means that Israelis have every reason to wish for a change of the Syrian regime, taking into consideration the fact that the current leadership of the country is still devoted to Hafez Assad-s course not to sign a peace treaty with Israel until the latter returns the Golan Heights.

Of course, the question pertaining to the change of the Syrian regime is a hypothetical question so far. Washington is not ready to use the military force, for it would have fewer allies in this case. However, considering this issue as a perspective allows to assume that the White House is going to watch Syria's every step. President Bashar al-Assad and his team are unlikely to favor such attention. By the way, according to a recent opinion poll, 42 percent American people support the idea of an army operation against Syria.

el Greco
- Homepage: http://english.pravda.ru/world/2003/04/09/45838.html


twat boy

09.04.2003 16:48

listen here twat boy the "Empire" as you call it was not brought its knees, but because of defence cuts we could not afford to be there and commit troops all over the World to help clean up all the spaks of the planet at the same time, shame really because it was a good training ground and made our troops some of, no the best in the world(apart from being under equiped and under funded!)

Blair and the rest of his gang need to get off the soap box and sort out this country and as for you all hippies should be used for testing instead of animales then everyone would be happy

I still think your a twat

Father Brown


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