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Arma-geddon Sick of You : World to US as Americans prepare to level Fallujah

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 11 November 2004
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Edito Wars and conflicts International


Valid Outrage

by Daniel Patrick Welch

Bush’s Sword of Damocles is poised above the people and city of Fallujah, ready to wreak the pent-up wrath his addled brain thinks his tainted election victory permits. This is the bizarre world-in-a-bubble in which most Americans reside. With a chorus of Onward, Christian Soldiers and a vapid, cheerleading press, the crusade continues unabated, as the world’s revulsion continues to grow.

True, Americans do have elections, and candidates often take different stances on important issues. But forget the blue state, red state diversion, an artifact of the US’ antiquated, slavery-era electoral system. In this winner-take-all distortion, geography itself is given animus, allowing for a host of mini-nationalisms to permeate fallacies about the American mentality. The fact is that Americans in “blue states” are also quite likely to have voted for Bush, and almost as many in “red states” will have voted for Kerry, the “left” candidate. Does this change anything? Well, add to this soup the fact that a hundred extra votes are sprinkled onto the electoral college recipe because of representation in the Senate, note that Wyoming and California both get two votes in this medieval “democracy,” and the distortion is complete. American Conservatism, albeit profound, is exaggerated, and Cheney’s Corporate Crusaders march triumphantly on to a new wave of destruction.

Of course it is important not to forget the stench wafting from this rotten election. The American fascists, who already thought they had a mandate from God, now think they have one from the American people. Not that any true believer needs any imprimatur other than the former, but hey, it can’t hurt. Fortunately, this emphasis on what The American People want is an obsession which all parties to the electoral sham have in common. For better and for worse, a mandate from the American People is tantamount to a call from God, so they are now free to level Fallujah and tick off the other targets on their wish list.

However, like true warriors, the election for these crazies is no more than a blip on the screen, a hiccup on the road to world domination. What is the true fascist reaction to the recent news that your invasion has killed 100,000? Why, to prepare to kill another hundred thousand, of course. Remember Kissinger’s chilling exchange on the Nixon tapes where they casually discussed how many would die if they ordered the bombing of the dikes in the north of Vietnam: “?a few hundred thousand? That’s a lot of people.”

So, while American voters fret and fuss over the tiny problem of whether or not the will of the people actually matters, plans are on track to snuff out the breath of the people by the thousands oh-so-far away. The indifference to this coming massacre is as brutal as it is astounding. It’s no wonder that the more “esoteric” issue of depleted uranium dust doesn’t register on the radar screens. Most Americans cant even muster the courage to say that the pending Fallujah massacre is wrong. A recent segment on NPR, that bastion of liberal media, had pundits discussing how best to incinerate a city of 300,000. Would air power be most efficient, or would house-to-house combat be necessary? Hmmm..now that’s a puzzler!

Deaf to the coming terror for the residents of Fallujah, and blind to its inevitable consequences, we watch (or mostly, don’t) as air strikes reduce the small Nazzal Emergency Hospital, run by a Saudi charity, to rubble. Insurgents strike back with a range of attacks across a wide swath of central Iraq, killing more than 30 and wounding almost 60 others, among them over 20 Americans.

A nervous habit of mine is to replay a song over and over in my head, like a musical worry stone. The past couple days it has been Bob Dylan’s God On Our Side. And not for nothing. Some of the troops poised to pounce on Fallujah were praying to Jesus and playing Christian rock. Colonel Gary Brandl of the United States Marine Corps commented: ’The enemy has a face. It is Satan’s. He is in Fallujah, and we are going to destroy him.’

The sheer terrifying stupidity of these commanders is reflected in the mentality of those up the chain (obviously?hence Gitmo and Abu Ghraib). A recent eye opener came froom an interview of a Bush aide by Ron Suskind. The aide waxed philosophical about the great divide between those who make reality (Bush and his angels, I suppose), and those who simply study it. He actually used the term “reality-based community,” which I find pretty fitting and ironic in a strange way. I have always considered the fascist core of the Bush junta to be on the other side of a reality divide?I just didn’t mean it in quite the same way.

It isn’t really that funny, when you think about it. This is psychosis, a sort of mass hysteria which has sucked in tens of millions of Americans. The election, the votes, the campaign—it’s all largely irrelevant anyway, to be perfectly honest?a colossal wasste of time and money. Before a single vote was cast, the future of the US for the next generation had already been determined, not by the outcome of an election, but by the war in Iraq. This is still the focus of evil in the modern world, as Ronald Reagan might whisper from beyond the grave. Of course fraud matters. But we have to brace ourselves for the reality that the onslaught against Fallujah would be ready to go no matter who won. Majority and mandate are powerful weapons in the hands of the bullies; but how many fascists is few enough? Hitler only needed 30% to begin his slide into Armageddon.

And the Americans are already on their way. The slaughter at Fallujah will be a watershed event in the collapse of the American empire, echoing across the next hundred years. This is hardly hyperbole; the world is already sick of US arrogance and bullying. And it’s about to get immeasurably worse?. Sometimes my haabit goes into overdrive, and the songs form a medley in my head. Dylan asks “how many deaths will it take ‘til he knows?” An upswell of hoope convinces me that we might still avoid the slide into hell that seems our due, and the Sandinista hymn reminds me: “Nuestro pueblo es el dueño de su historia/Architecto de su liberación.” It doesn’t last long, and Paul Simon’s cynical ballad brings me back to the “reality-based” community: “God bless the goods we were given/And God bless the US of A/God bless our standard of living/—Let’s keep it that way/ Have a good tiiiiiime?”

© 2004 Daniel Patrick Welch. Reprint permission granted with credit and link to danielpwelch.com. Writer, singer, linguist and activist Daniel Patrick Welch lives and writes in Salem, Massachusetts, with his wife, Julia Nambalirwa-Lugudde. Together they run The Greenhouse School, www.greenhouseschool.org. Some of his articles have been broadcast on radio, and translations are available in up to 20 languages. Links to the website are appreciated at http://danielpwelch.com.

Forum posts

  • There are millions of us who think that what is happening in Iraq is wrong, Danny. The point to going after the election issues is because that’s how they got in there to do all this in the first place. We’ve been saying it’s wrong for the last two years, but with the electoral sham where has it gotten either us or the Iraqis? If you can’t shut off the sewage pipe you can’t clean out the cess-pit. There is no way for us to stop what is happening as individuals, especially if we can’t vote the @#@#$@$#@$#@$’s out. The issue of election fraud is at the heart of where we find ourselves, make no mistake. We have to clean that up and then we will have a very great deal to make up for what our "elected’ leaders have done. If the true "voice of the American people" were heard, it would be raised in utter detestation of what’s being done in their name. Falluja is happening now, right now. It is too late already, and for that we grieve - but in the midst of that we must take the necessary steps to clean our own house before we can clean the mess we’ve made of others. Falluja and many others will not be forgotten, either without the USA or within. It stares the honest among us in the face with dead black eyes.

    • Don’t forget, they had the same e-voting machines in the primaries, too. The same with the rigged system of who can run for office has been true for as very, very long time, if not since day one.

    • If all Democrat voters boycotted the elections in the future there would be no Democrats and no election as the Republicans would be the only party and that fact would invalidate the election...this is the only chance we have to change this sham of government by the people...... join the other 50% of the eligible voters in their wisdom and do not vote....do not lend any authenticity to this fraud that passes for American politics.

  • Fuck the South. Fuck ’em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they’d stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep.

    And now what do we get? We’re the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?

    Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn’t bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?

    No, No. Get the fuck out. We’re not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don’t get all uppity about how real you are you Johnny-come-lately "Oooooh I’ve been a state for almost a hundred years" dickheads. Fuck off.

    Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being fucking arrogant? What’s more American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don’t think so. Arrogance is the fucking cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn’t be so fucking arrogant if I wasn’t paying for your fucking bridges, bitch.

    All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you’re the ones who built on a fucking swamp. "Let the Spanish keep it, it’s a shithole," we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.

    The next dickwad who says, "It’s your money, not the government’s money" is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least... can you guess? Go on, guess. That’s right, motherfucker, they’re red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It’s too easy, asshole, they’re blue states. It’s not your money, assholes, it’s fucking our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago? Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own fucking stop signs, assholes.

    Let’s talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It’s fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marriage universe. Yes, that’s right, the state you love to tie around the neck of anyone to the left of Strom Thurmond has the lowest divorce rate in the fucking nation. Think that’s just some aberration? How about this: 9 of the 10 lowest divorce rates are fucking blue states, asshole, and most are in the Northeast, where our values suck so bad. And where are the highest divorce rates? Care to fucking guess? 10 of the top 10 are fucking red-ass we’re-so-fucking-moral states. And while Nevada is the worst, the Bible Belt is doing its fucking part.

    But two guys making out is going to fucking ruin marriage for you? Yeah? Seems like you’re ruining it pretty well on your own, you little bastards. Oh, but that’s ok because you go to church, right? I mean you do, right? Cause we fucking get to hear about it every goddamn year at election time. Yes, we’re fascinated by how you get up every Sunday morning and sing, and then you’re fucking towers of moral superiority. Yeah, that’s a workable formula. Maybe us fucking Northerners don’t talk about religion as much as you because we’re not so busy sinning, hmmm? Ever think of that, you self-righteous assholes? No, you’re too busy erecting giant stone tablets of the Ten Commandments in buildings paid for by the fucking Northeast Liberal Elite. And who has the highest murder rates in the nation? It ain’t us up here in the North, assholes.

    Well this gravy train is fucking over. Take your liberal-bashing, federal-tax-leaching, confederate-flag-waving, holier-than-thou, hypocritical bullshit and shove it up your ass.

    And no, you can’t have your fucking convention in New York next time. Fuck off.

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  • there was a great documentary by the CBC on Bush called ’ The World According To Bush " after you see this, it clarifies everything, and bottom line, it’s about money, business, and selling your product, in this case merchants of misery products, and if you want to sell this product, you will sleep with the devil, or fanatic christians or whoever, just to sell the product...the Carlye group, is a main focus point.....Bush and gang are just figure heads to sell product, WAR....because Bush and gang are involved with war industries, ....case in point, look at all the wars on earth since 1900, it was started by corporations and bankers in order to sell their war products, ...MONEY AND POWER, nothing more and nothing less, and these evil misery merchants will use whatever means to use any group , religion , culture, organization, just to sell their product...............

  • i think it’s interesting that the media always defines christians as people that are extremely bipolar and as though not living in the real world.maybe this why we they favor the underdogs like bush.maybe if the media didn’t constantly lump all christians into a ’mentally retarded’ catagory,then things might be different.after all,you never hear the media bash the new age religions...or witchcraft...or satanism...or other beliefs of our time...but in one form or another christianity is equivocal to a forcing of one’s morals on another.

    it’s the media that doesn’t have it right...not christianity..or bush btw

    • Oh so now you think the Christians are not guilty of forcing their beliefs on the others. Where were you during the gay marriage issue and the Christians wanting to make an amendment to our constitution? Where were you about the ongoing abortion issue? Where are you during this religious war in Iraq? Or are you too blind to your own beliefs? Some Christian religions (the Jehovahs for example) believe they can’t be let into heaven unless they go selling what they believe door to door, its not enough to be a good person who lives their life without sin, no they can not even get into heaven unless they push their beliefs on the others.

    • It’s like an Israeli "Bubba" said, without realizing how ridiculous he was making himself—
      "We need to take a big stick and beat the Arabs with it . . . beat them . . . beat them . . .
      and beat them some more—until they STOP HATING US!" Yeah, that’s the ticket!

  • ha ha what a bunch of cry babies i am a felon and i voted for bush so suck it. kill em all women and children first turn up the patriotic country jams and lets get it on while i read revelations to my two youngins[boys] whom im brainwashing to hate muslums and democrats we dont play cowboys and indians itscowboys and muslums.after work everyday we pick up cans and bottles and donate to us gov gen fund with notes saying we want to see the money go for bullets in iraq why so my kids dont have to fight the crazies later. and believe this i live in the bay area the liberal bastion our agenda goes like this house , senate, president supreme cout justices the united nations and then the liberal media then ya thats right its on to you liberal thinkers and seditionists sound like mcarthyism does to me too but thats ok its better than the mental disiese we all know as liberalism my god is greater hahahahahahah

    • Your poor little children, they are fighting fantasy with the craziest bastard that anyone could even imagine...you. I am sure they will grow up as sick as you obviously are. What a terrible thing to do to children teaching them such disgusting hatred, someone should turn you in to child protective services...where is your wife, these poor children’s mother? Have you driven her away with your sicko mind? If not then I am certain that the abuse you have metted out on her mind has completely broken her down to a zombie. And your poor children will wind up in prison or on the psychiatrists couch. You need to go get some Prozac or a labotomy.

    • coming from a self richous childless selfish anti procreationist that has spent the better part of thier life living for themselves well lets just say that says alot allready dont worry my small children are properly educated and speak 3 languages but will be fully aware of your kind to take with them on their journey in life they will be survivors like thier father and will not fall to prey like a sheep being led to slaughter wake up and stop living in a conspiracy world i have seen war , death destruction on an horrific scale and i know that if my father had not instilled toughness when all odds are against you in me then i would have died many times and if i had died i know inside me i would have died bravely fighting for what is right for mind body soul and country you dont live forever its all on what you pass on and i can be sure my children will survive or die honorably defending what they believe in and if you do have children then my boys will probably end up saving your little sheep without so much as aknowledgement and will continue to be ignorant of the sacrifices of the few for so many so put that in your pipe and smoke it napa california bring on the cpservices biatch my boys are scary smart and have the tools for survival but dont worry they know good from bad so keep tellin us how much you understand these terror muslum idiots and they will see why there needs to be brave and honest men in times of peril to save the sheep of our times god forgive them fo they know not what they do but give them the strength to see the truth i really do love mankind and that is why i am so harsh and callous

    • YOU ARE A TOTAL WANKER MATE.

    • If (??) your children are so smart why don’t they teach you to think and to spell simple words? Why don’t they run away from home to get away from a crazy bastard like you obvioulsy are? And where is their mother, did you murder her for trying to defend her children, or did you drive her away or drive her crazy? To teach your children blind hatred is only another form of child abuse and it will follow them through their lives marginalizing them in a society which will have no sympathy for their ignorance or their crazy anger. This is not love, this is not caring, this is just getting satisfaction for your own sick mind at your children’s expense. If they are smart it isn’t because of you, and if they are smart enough they will grow up and get away from you and try to forget growing up around a mad man.

    • onward christian soldiers joyfull and triumphant lalalala the scary thing is that there are many of us out there could be your nieghbor the guy that brings your water ya never know........ sleep tight sheeple