Yeah, Colin, something stinks. And that's your trying to come out of all of this smelling like a rose.
Powell's hands just as bloody
-- and probably even bloodier
I wouldn't believe it, except that after "President" Bush recently stated that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is doing "a superb job," anyfuckingthing can happen in this upside-down, black-is-white-and-white-is-black, fucked-up-beyond-all-recognition, Orwellian state of ours.
"Secretary of State Colin Powell scolded Arab governments [today] for not expressing more outrage over the videotaped beheading of an American civilian in Iraq," The Associated Press reports today.
The AP quotes Powell as having said that he has told Arab leaders: "When you are outraged at what happened at the [Abu Ghraib] prison, you should be equally, doubly outraged at what happened to Mr. Berg."
This is yet another confirmation of my belief that the members of the Bush regime -- and perhaps most Americans -- consider one American life, especially a white American life, to be worth several Iraqi lives. Why else should Arabs, according to Powell, be "doubly" outraged over Berg's death when there were, reportedly, wrongful deaths of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib?
And who is Powell to be lecturing anyone on the turmoil in Iraq? This is the same man who told the United Nations Security Council, with a straight face, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction -- he was sure of it.
Connect the dots:
- Powell actively participates in "making" the Bush regime's "case" to the world that the Bush regime's war machine must attack Iraq because Iraq, with its weapons of mass destruction, poses an imminent threat to the United States and its allies. (See the photographic evidence above. That's Powell telling the U.N. Security Council in February 2003 that Iraq possesses anthrax. No evidence of anthrax or any other weapon of mass destruction has been found in Iraq a year after the sovereign nation has been torn asunder by the Bush regime's war machine.)
- In March 2003 the Bush regime invades Iraq anyway -- like we all knew it would -- after the U.N. Security Council refuses to rubber-stamp the Bush regime's invasion like a good little U.N. Security Council should. (The Security Council quite appropriately refused to sanction the invasion of Iraq.)
- Thousands of innocent Iraqis die as a result of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," which they should have called "Operation Iraqi Liberation," because that's what it's really all about: O-I-L.
- It is discovered that in Iraq, Iraqi detainees -- as many as 70 to 90 percent of whom are innocent, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross -- have been abused and tortured and even killed at the hands of American military personnel and contractors (torturers for hire) working with American military personnel.
- An opportunistic Jordanian-born (i.e., not an Iraqi) terrorist who is taking advantage of the chaos and turmoil in Iraq decapitates an Jewish American civilian who shouldn't have been there because it was too dangerous for an American or a Jew (as his murder proves).
- Powell chastises the Arab world today for not being outraged enough about the death of one American.
And we fucking wonder why they hate us.
Powell's hands are just as bloody as Bush's, Rumsfeld's, Dick Cheney's, Condoleezza Rice's, Paul Wolfowitz's, et. al.'s. He is just as responsible as they are for the deaths of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the deaths of thousands more Iraqi military personnel (who were just defending their nation from an unprovoked invasion, just as we Americans would defend ours from an unprovoked invasion), and the deaths of hundreds of American and "coalition" military personnel -- and, ironically, Powell is just as responsible as are the other members of the Bush regime for the death of Nicholas Berg, who wouldn't have been in Iraq if the Bush regime hadn't invaded and occupied Iraq on entirely false pretenses.
Yet Powell has the gall and the balls to chastise the Arab world for not showing, in his opinion, enough concern about one American death, a death which he himself helped make possible.
Nick Berg's murder was heinous and is inexcusable, as I have written.
But if Powell and other American Nazis think that Berg's murder makes us Even Fucking Steven for the thousands of Iraqi deaths that the Bush regime's war machine was wrought, based upon its fucking lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and thus had to be "preemptively" invaded and occupied -- or that Berg's murder makes us Even Fucking Steven for the American-committed atrocities against Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere -- they are woefully mistaken.
Just because Powell has been hiding for most of the past few weeks of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in his political fallout shelter and he emerges now, after an American has been savagely murdered, doesn't mean that he's the good cop to the Bush regime's bad cops.
Powell's actions and inaction throughout the past year-plus are just as evil as those of the rest of the members of the Bush regime. Probably his silence through most of this past year-plus of unnecessary death and destruction makes him even more responsible and reprehensible than his cohorts. He is the one person in the Bush regime that most thought had any conscience whatsoever, but what is he doing now? He's whining about the death of one American after his government, with his aid and abetment, murdered thousands of innocent people for no reason higher than the war profits of Dick Cheney's Halliburton and the other subsidiaries of BushCheneyCorp.
These evil fucks have got to go. They endanger all of us.
If you think that you are safe, that these neo-Nazi warmongers are keeping you safe by slaughtering innocents in the name of "freedom" and "liberation" and "democracy" and a "war on terror" -- and by doing it in our name -- then you deserve to reap the consequences of your incredibly stupid support of them through your action or inaction -- consequences that you will reap if you don't help stop this madness.
The members of the Bush regime are lucky. It will be a bloodless coup on November 2, and it's highly unlikely that any of them will be tried for the war crimes for which they are guilty. (Americans, you see, are never brought to justice for their war crimes.*)
They don't deserve to go that painlessly.
*Think Hiroshima and Nagasaki; while the Bush regime would have us huddle in terror over the threat of nuclear attack by "evildoers," the fact remains that the United, Hypocritical, Self-Righteous States of America is the only nation in the history of the world that has nuked another nation.
Update (Monday, May 17, 2004): Speaking of Powell, this news item, titled "Powell Irate at Camera Cutaway," is from The New York Daily News:
Secretary of State Colin Powell dressed down a press aide during a TV interview from Jordan yesterday when she suddenly pushed the camera away from him to a shot of swaying palm trees.
The abrupt attempt to cut off the interview by satellite with NBC's "Meet the Press" happened just as journalist Tim Russert asked America's top diplomat to justify his role in making the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq.
"You're off," deputy press secretary Emily Miller could be heard telling Powell.
"I am not off," Powell fumed.
"No. They can't use it, they're editing it," the unseen aide said in the unedited broadcast.
As the wind blew the palm fronds and the waves of the Dead Sea churned in the background, Russert glared into his own camera and Powell and Miller argued over whether the interview had actually ended.
"Emily, get out of the way," Powell finally snarled. "Bring the camera back, please."
The gaffe got a laugh when Russert asked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., if he'll join Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry's ticket.
"I'd like to have the camera move over to a palm tree to start with," McCain quipped.
State Department officials later complained that Russert had gone three minutes over the 10 he was given to talk with Powell, who was also interviewed by Fox and ABC. But Powell later called Russert to apologize, the host told CNN's "Late Edition."
Yeah, the Bush weasels always have an official excuse for everything. Just when Russert asks Powell a real question, Powell's grunt "coinky-dinkily" decides that the interview is over. If they were so adamant that Powell not go over 10 minutes, why didn't they cut the interview off right at 10 minutes?
Wish I'd been watching "Meet the Press" yesterday.
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