Bush’s Lynch Mob "Milestone" & the Smoking Guns of Baghdad

In the oily recesses of the Bush brain trust, this end-of-the-year "execution" (a grand Bush Texas tradition) stomps its fat cowboy boots directly on the UN retirement of Kofi Annan— Friday’s doom Bush’s 5 ton elephant on Annan’s Sunday retirement. What better way to say "Fuck You and take your conscience with you"?

The radio (Coast to Coast) & web (check our blogs! Burning Bush: http://burnbush.blogspot.com) are buzzing with still-smoking loose ends of Saddam’s CIA-woven rope. Like the forensic & photographic evidence that the man on trial & in custody was one of Saddam’s hired doubles. Seems entirely like a classic CIA /Mossad maneuver, after making multi-million deals all around for "resource distribution"— which is really what the whole deadly mess is about.

Enclosed some very profound images & evidence: Copy them for future reference RE: the Bush regime war crimes trials!

CHOOSE ONE:

* Kill him right away, preferably today.
* Restore him to his rightful position as ruler of Iraq.
* Put him in prison for the rest of his life, preferably in one of the deep underground bunkers he built.
* Turn him over to the Iraq Governing Council for a fair trial.
* Turn him loose on the streets of Baghdad and let his own people decide what to do with him.
* Let him buy a mansion in Beverly Hills, where he will write his memoirs.
* Turn him over to the United Nations for a War Crimes Trial.
* Torture him until he tells us where all the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD’s) are located and until he reveals his hidden assets and secret bank accounts.
* Take him to Guantanamo Base in Cuba and hold him there indefinitely.
* Keep him in a secret location and never tell anybody what happened to him, or whether he is even dead or alive. (This is actually the most likely outcome).

(CBS) Twice since the shooting started the world has been shown videotape from Baghdad of a man who looks, acts, and talks like Saddam Hussein. But, as CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reports there’s an ongoing debate within the Bush administration over whether this is actually the man himself or just a darn good imposter.

Several hours after the first cruise missiles struck Baghdad late Wednesday, Iraqi television showed this tape of Hussein allegedly answering the challenge. He even made reference to the date to prove this wasn’t an old videotape.

But is it really Saddam? Veteran Hussein watchers were thrown by the thick glasses the heaviness in the face, and the uncharacteristically narrow shoulders.

"My initial reaction was, ’Gee. That does not look like him,’" said Jerrald Post, who created the CIA’s psychological profile unit and has studied Hussein intensely.

"Either that was a really quite drawn and stressed out, puffy-faced from not getting enough sleep Saddam, or it represented a double," he said.

Iraqi defectors have long insisted that Hussein uses doubles to throw off his enemies and maintain an air of secrecy. The look-alikes reportedly had plastic surgery and were trained in the dictator’s mannerisms, including the way he walks, and even down to his facial tics.

Over the years the CIA has kept careful watch as well, from his first Gulf War days of usually wearing a uniform to the more presidential Hussein usually seen in business suits and matching ties.

A German forensic pathologist studied hundreds of Hussein photos and videotapes, concentrating on his mustache and eyebrow measurements.

Then he used computer software to locate specific points such as the tip of his nose and the cheekbone creating a face print which was compared to the Hussein photographs.

His conclusion: that there are three Hussein impersonators, all with small, distinct differences.

Interestingly, the German pathologist reportedly has carefully examined these latest tapes from Baghdad and concluded that this is the real Hussein. The truth, obviously, is hiding somewhere in Baghdad.

Russian Convoy Caught In Crossfire
Unclear Whether U.S. Or Iraqi Forces Were Responsible For Attack
MOSCOW, April 7, 2003

(CBS) Russian diplomats who came under fire while trying to flee Iraq entered Syria on Monday, after leaving behind an injured diplomat in an Iraqi-controlled hospital, the Foreign Ministry said.

It was unclear whether U.S. or Iraqi forces were responsible for the attack Sunday.

Nine Russian diplomats, including Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko, left the Iraqi city of Fallujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad, on Monday en route to Syria, where a medically-equipped Russian plane was headed to bring them back to Moscow.

Syrian border officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the delegation from the Russian Embassy in Baghdad crossed the Tanef crossing point on the Syrian-Iraqi border. Tanef is 187 miles northeast of Damascus.

"They are on the Syrian side of the border," said the officials.

One diplomat injured in the attack was left behind in a Fallujah hospital, Alexander Yakovenko, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, told Russia’s NTV television. Another diplomat also stayed behind to help the injured Russian, who underwent surgery in the Iraqi hospital, Yakovenko said. Others among the 23 diplomats and journalists in the convoy traveled to the Jordanian border on Sunday.

The Russian convoy was fired upon as it headed out of Baghdad toward the Syrian border, injuring at least four. A journalist in the convoy said it was caught in crossfire while passing Iraqi positions near the city’s outskirts.

Alexander Minakov of state-run Rossiya television said it appeared that the U.S. forces had fired first, unleashing a heavy barrage on the Iraqi positions, and the two sides then exchanged fire.

The United States had been aware of the Russian diplomats’ evacuation plans, and the convoy was flying a Russian flag.

Yakovenko did not comment on Russian media reports that bullet holes in the vehicle and a bullet removed from an injured diplomat matched the caliber of bullets from an American M-16 rifle.

He said Russia had not yet received any official information from either side, and was awaiting their conclusions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on Monday to keep him informed of the convoy’s movements and the status of the injured, Russian news agencies reported.

Dmitri Rogozin, head of the lower house of parliament’s international affairs committee, suggested that Russia should have evacuated its diplomats from Baghdad earlier. Russia, which firmly opposes the war, had been reluctant to close its embassy, and announced the decision to evacuate the ambassador only Saturday.

The evacuation came three days after Russia alleged that American airstrikes had targeted a Baghdad neighborhood where the Russian Embassy is located.

"Clearly there was a desire to have full and objective information about developments in Iraq," Rogozin was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying. "In this case, it would have probably been sufficient to keep a smaller group of diplomats and not leave the ambassador until the last moment, because he is a political representative of the country, after all."

In spite of Russia’s opposition to the war, Putin has adopted a softer tone toward the United States in recent days, saying a U.S. defeat would not be in Russia’s interests and pledging continued cooperation with Washington.

U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was in Moscow for talks Monday on deepening U.S.-Russian cooperation.

Royal Wombat :

CentComm said we were nowhere near the route the Russians were taking.

I also find this quote from the Russian ambassador rather curious. After claiming that "American armored vehicles, tanks and artillery" were present, he said:

"We were about 40 meters away from the [American] vehicles. We tried to talk to them but they opened fire directly and continuously for 40 minutes," he said.

I guess with the route change, the convoy did pass within range of US forces (or US commandoes working with Kurdish/Iraqi forces) after all.

What was a Russian convoy doing in Iraq anyway?

Although just about anyone with eyes could tell that the knock-kneed man hiding in his custom-designed funk hole was not the real Sadda Hussein [full report linked at the bottom of this page], the Americans got away with the false-flag public relations stunt until April of this year, when disaster approached in the formidable person of Sajida Heiralla Tuffah, Saddam’s wife and the mother of his children.

After the Russians applied enormous diplomatic pressure, America was finally obliged to allow Sajida Heiralla Tuffah access to her husband in Qatar, where he had been flown in some luxury aboard a United States Air Force VIP jet. The facilities at Baghdad Airport were considered to be sub-standard, besides which, people were beginning to talk about the laughing and bourbon-swilling Muslim prisoner, who was the only one in sight not wearing a hood and sensory deprivation earphones, and not being sexually abused by Ricardo Sanchez.

Well, you could have heard a pin drop all the way across Qatar. Sajida arrived from Syria with her official escort Sheikh Hamad Al-Tani, and then entered the prison, emerging only moments later pink with rage and shouting, "This is not my husband but his double. Where is my husband? Take me to my husband".

American officials rushed forward to shield Mrs Saddam from perplexed Russian observers, trying to insist that Saddam had changed a lot while in custody and she probably didn’t recognise him. This was certainly not the best way to handle the Iraqi President’s wife. "You think I do not know my husband?" Sajida shouted furiously, "I was married to the man for more than twenty-five years!" Then she stormed off, never to return.

This remarkable confrontation was reported by Pravda and four other newspapers in the east between 13 and 17 April, but the New York Times and others made damn sure you didn’t read or hear about it in the west. After all, this was an integral part of Wall Street’s psychological campaign to convince the public that America was "Winning the War", so please to send more sons and body bags to Iraq.

Sometimes it is difficult to remember how thin the ice really is in Iraq, because Wall Street relies heavily on the limited memory-span of most readers and viewers, successfully thinking that each new exciting and thus distracting Orwellian lie it presents to the public, obverwhelms the one before it, and so on.

by Der Voron
December 15, 2003

Maybe the U.S. military has itself created a full double for Saddam? It is not as hard as may seem. Today’s technologies allow many possibilites.

Finally, compare the behavior of captured dictators Saddam Hussein
and Slobodan Milosevic. When Milosevic was arrested, he behaved quite adequately and no TV channel showed him like half an idiot. But
Saddam, or "Saddam", said different unclever things, for example:

Q: "How are you?"
A: "I am sad because my people are in bondage"

(Offered a glass of water)
A: "If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom, and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?"

Repetitive "bondage" makes think that the conversation is unnatural. Indeed, I am sad as my people are in bondage, and how can I drink if I will need to go thereafter to the bathroom (maybe restroom?), and how can I use the bathroom or restroom if my people are still in bondage?

Q: "If you had no weapons of mass destruction then why not let the U.N. inspectors into your facilities?"
A: "We didn’t want them to go into the presidential areas and intrude on our privacy."

Yes. Saddam was disturbed about his presidential apartments, but
certainly not about military units where he allowed the inspectors into. Don’t TV watchers and newspaper readers see that he is an idiot?

Did Milosevic say anything similar to this when he was arrested? Saddam was a dictator of Milosevic’s level, or better to say, Milosevic was a dictator of Saddam’s level.

It is either a Saddam double who was created by the US military and said all these answers to show the audience what an unclever person Saddam was and is — or it is his own double whom Saddam himself arranged to be caught (please see about this version below). It resembles the "public relations" practice in some backward countries when a double of, say, a candidate to mayor or parliament’s deputy (arranged by the candidate’s rival) comes to you in person and says some very "clever" things; often such a "double" is drunk. Some people don’t understand that a candidate to mayor or deputy just cannot come to inhabitants in person, moreover drunk, and get a very poor impression of this candidate.

I don’t defend Saddam, but let us be unbiased. Our enemies cannot be as silly as we want them to be. For example, when shah Reza Pehlevi ruled Iran, you could think that it was 45,000 American military and other specialists that were the principal support to his regime. But the reality showed that things were absolutely contrary. When in 1979 Iranians insurged against Reza Pehlevi, 45,000 Americans couldn’t do anything to help his regime. Evidently, it was the regime and its security service "SAVAC" who made American presence in Iran possible, and not American specialists who made the regime’s presence possible in Iran.

It may also be that it is Saddam’s own double (not made up by US
military), who was captured, and he maybe intentionally responds so
silly, for Saddam his boss. An old rule of war says:

1) If you are weak then show that you are strong;
2) If you are strong then show that you are weak;
3) If you a-far then show that you are close;
4) If you close then show that you are a-far; etc.

Continuing this row of strategems, we can compose the 5th one:

5) If you have something on mind then show that you don’t;
6) If you have nothing on mind then show that you do.

Because of this, I dare to believe it is somewhat more probable that
it was Saddam’s own double whom we got in a not very deep hole with a minimum of commodities.

To say that New York’s latest propaganda initiative got off to a bad start would be the understatement of the year. Initially, journalists who had personally viewed the prisoner stated that when an Iraqi judge asked whether or not he was Saddam Hussein, the response was affirmative. The journalists further described the prisoner as, "in good health and shorn of the long hair and gray beard he had when he was arrested in December in a bunker near his hometown in Tikrit," who afterwards "acknowledged that he was Saddam Hussein." We were then shown fanciful artistic sketches of the alleged clean-shaven tyrant and other members of his co-accused legitimate government ministers because, "no photographs of Saddam Hussein are allowed due to high security."

Clearly these accredited journalists from San Francisco and Sydney must have been hallucinating badly, or simply mistook a clean-shaven court janitor for the alleged President of Iraq, because less than two hours later they were swiftly cast aside in favor of the "A" team from New York, headed by Mossad favorite Christiane Amanpour of CNN, a hard-nosed chief correspondent who never let truth get in her way during Gulf War One.

Christiane had photographs all right, in fact she had several hundred feet of edited video footage direct from the ’courtroom’, though we have no proof of where the mock courtroom actually is, or where the video footage was shot. But as we will see quite clearly in a moment, Amanpour’s damning footage actually proves that the prisoner cannot be President Saddam Hussein, leaving us with the problem of how to label the different players in this bizarre Orwellian tableaux. So let us shorten the name of the Mossad imposter from "Sham Saddam" to simple "Shaddam", and refer to the absent Saddam Hussein as "President Hussein", which was and still is his correct title in international law.

Psychological flooding of this sort is not new, and has been around almost as long as Sigmund Freud. In this particularly crude example, you were flashed more frames per second of Shaddam than you had been flashed frames per month of President Hussein when he was still visibly present in Iraq. This sheer weight of numbers then forces your brain to accept Shaddam as President Hussein, even though you may be deeply skeptical. Once you realize what has been done to you, unraveling the illusion becomes easier, because behavioral psychology in itself is merely a series of manufactured stage tricks.

Allowing Shaddam to open his mouth at all in court was a serious error of judgement, because like fingerprints used by law enforcement agencies, teeth and dental work are absolutely unique, in this case proving one-hundred-percent that Shaddam never was and never could be President Hussein. If you look closely at the photo-composite at the top of this page, you will see four small inset photographs of President Hussein. In all of them you can clearly see his neat white even teeth, made possible in part by the fact that Iraq has [or had] more dental surgeons per head of population than any country in the world apart from Libya. This expert dental service was free to all Iraqis, and President Hussein’s teeth were and are in pristine condition.

Now look again closely, and you will see that President Hussein’s upper teeth naturally close in front of his lower teeth, known in professional dental circles as ’overbite’. This condition is normal for nearly all of us, but sadly not for Shaddam, who in at least fifty of Christiane Amanpour’s separate video frames proves he suffers from a rare condition known as ’underbite’, where a defective or misshapen jaw bone causes the lower teeth to close in front of the upper teeth. This single forensic fact is absolute proof that Shaddam is not President Hussein. The additional fact that Shaddam has ragged uneven teeth when compared to the even teeth of President Hussein is interesting of course, but unnecessary because we already have absolute dental proof that Shaddam is an imposter.

Two hours later while Christiane Amanpour was still furiously flooding your startled and thus receptive senses with hundreds of flashing quasi-hypnotic video frames of Shaddam via CNN, an American Marine corporal on a road west of Ramadi suddenly exploded in front of his terrified platoon. One second the corporal was standing there quite cheerfully, and the next he suddenly and without warning transformed into more than a thousand bloodied fragments of body armor, tissue and bone.

Lying motionless more than 1,000 yards away, the Republican Guard counter-insurgency sniper responsible for this execution continued to peer through the telescopic site of his South African Truvelo .50 caliber rifle. The Guardsman had fired a single devastating Norwegian Raufoss round which hit the corporal in his chest body armor, instantly compressing and heating the bullet’s internal incendiary tip, which then ignited the high explosive charge, in turn fragmenting the bullet’s outer casing, the corporal’s body armor, and the corporal himself in less than 10 milliseconds.

Please note that this highly demoralizing trauma in the American Marine platoon was caused by a single .50 Cal armor-piercing explosive Raufoss rifle round, and the Republican Guard still has a minimum inventory of 2.2 million Raufoss rounds secreted across Iraq. No doubt these highly-trained snipers will use these awesone Raufoss rounds sparingly, and with the same deadly accuracy every time.

Back in the mock courtroom, more than a few people were wondering why Saddam Hussein, a real stickler for being clean shaven and having short hair since he was a teenager, should suddenly choose to change the habits of a lifetime and appear like a tramp with long matted hair and a bushy unkempt beard. Though we no longer need the extra details because we already have 100% dental proof that Shaddam is an imposter, here are those details for readers who still want to know the answers.

Rather like fingerprints and teeth, every human on earth has a uniquely shaped skull. The shorter the hair the more obvious the shape of the individual skull becomes, and because we have already proved that Shaddam is an imposter, mismatched cranial comparison as well would have made the Zionists a complete laughing stock. That takes care of the inexplicable long hair, essential to conceal this particularly revealing element of the deception.

Whilst it would be nice to speculate that the Iraqi people will one day be able to uncover this gross deception for themselves, I can assure you this will not happen, if only because Zionists [and in particular the Mossad] never leave any loose ends lying around. On the same day that the mock trial was announced, American Dictator Iyad Allawi [a former Mossad operative himself], declared that the death penalty had just been placed back on the Iraqi statutes. So we can take it as read that President Hussein, who was never captured by the Americans at all, will be ’executed’ at a classified location for security reasons, then buried in quicklime at an equally classified location to prevent pilgrimages to the grave of a ’martyr’.

Of course, Shaddam is hoping that it will only be a mock execution and a mock burial, because he has been promised the usual Mossad perks of a new identity, two million bucks, a fast car, and free airline tickets to Monte Carlo. This would normally be honored if Shaddam had further vital work to do afterwards [like James Bond], but sadly this is not the case. When the "Tyrant Saddam" has been officially executed by the victorious Zionists, poor old Shaddam will fall into the category of someone who knows far too much for his own good, and in particular far too much for the greater good of the Jewish State. So, one dark night, a Mossad assassin will pump a couple of bullets into the back of his head, and Shaddam’s lights will go out forever.

Though this and earlier reports have proved and still prove that President Hussein was never captured by the Americans, nor his sons killed by them in the manner claimed, readers should be very circumspect in assuming that all three are necessarily alive and well today. Since America first illegally invaded sovereign Iraq, it has killed an absolute minimum of 5,500 civilians with random fragmentation weapons, and targeted various areas with deep penetration bunker-busting bombs.

Thus the total number of Iraqis murdered by the Zionists is currently unknown, as are their individual identities. Under such circumstances, no serious analyst would stick his neck out and claim that Saddam, Uday and Qusay are still alive out there, because it is impossible to tell for sure. The only people likely to know the truth of the matter are very senior members of the Republican Guard, and possibly the Kremlin.

US President George W Bush slept through the execution of Saddam Hussein after learning that the former Iraqi dictator was about to be hanged.

Presidential spokesman Scott Stanzel said Bush was informed of the impending hanging Friday afternoon and went to bed shortly before it took place at 9 p.m. Washington time, with instructions not to be woken up.

In a brief statement, the president acknowledged the execution would not end the violence in the country. However, he said it was an "important milestone in Iraq’s course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain, and defend itself."

Saddam’s execution came as US troop losses in December were the highest for any month of 2006.

Bush, who has been conducting an internal review of his policy aimed at halting the deteriorating situation, is expected to publically outline a new plan for Iraq early in the new year.

Neither Bush nor members of his inner circle showed any compassion for the fate of Saddam or expressed doubts about the death penalty, which was criticized by many European governments.

During Bush’s term as Texas governor, some 152 persons were executed, more than under any other US state governor.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke of "a great day" for the Iraqi people after the death sentence was carried out.

White House spokesman Tony Snow said Saddam had the lives of between 500,000 and 1 million people on his conscience, adding that his death was a warning to other dictators that they could also be held accountable for their actions.

Right up till the end the US administration had sought to convey the impression that it was not involved in any way in the events surrounding the trial of Saddam.

"We are only observers," said one official. But the US financed the special tribunal that sentenced him to death, trained the judges and helped formulate the charges against the deposed leader.

US troops guarded Saddam until shortly before his death when they handed him over to his Iraqi hangmen, according to television reports.

Bush said that "despite his terrible crimes against his own people, Saddam Hussein received a fair trial." Saddam’s lawyers and the rights organization Human Rights Watch see things differently.

"The injustices will remain in memory for a long time," said Curtis Doebbler, a lawyer for Saddam.

Vali Nasr from the Council on Foreign Relations said the execution was not a good omen to bring the rival Sunni and Shiite communities in Iraq closer together.

But Mike Newton, an advisor to the special tribunal, said he believed the death of Saddam would lead to a process of reconciliation and greater stability in Iraq.

The execution of Saddam brings to a close one of the most controversial chapters of the Bush presidency.

The main reasons he gave for the March 2003 invasion that toppled the Iraqi leader proved groundless. No links to al-Qaeda were proven and no weapons of mass destruction were found.

Deutsche Welle
30.12.2006

Britain: Saddam ’held to account’

Britain on Saturday said Saddam Hussein had been "held to account" but reiterated its opposition to the use of the death penalty.

"I welcome the fact that Saddam Hussein has been tried by an Iraqi court for at least some of the appalling crimes he committed against the Iraqi people," said Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett. "He has now been held to account."

Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Britain still has over 7,000 soldiers in Iraq

Britain was the US’ main ally during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and still has some 7,200 troops in the country.

Saddam’s execution has put Blair’s government in a difficult position however because of its opposition to the death penalty.

"The British government does not support the use of the death penalty, in Iraq or anywhere else," Beckett said. "We advocate an end to the death penalty worldwide, regardless of the individual or the crime.

"We have made our position very clear to the Iraqi authorities, but we respect their decision as that of a sovereign nation," she added. "Iraq continues to face huge challenges. But now it has a democratically-elected government which represents all communities and is committed to fostering reconciliation."

Bush: "An important milestone"

US President George W. Bush meanwhile hailed Saddam Hussein’s execution as "an important milestone" on the road to building an Iraqi democracy but warned it would not end deadly violence there.

"Saddam Hussein’s execution comes at the end of a difficult year for the Iraqi people and for our troops," Bush said in a statement released as he prepared to usher in 2007 at his Texas ranch.

Europe condemns death penalty

Others in Europe also commented on the execution.

"The EU condemns the crimes committed by Saddam and also the death penalty," Cristina Gallach, a spokeswoman for Javier Solana, the EU high representative for foreign affairs, told news agency AFP.

France, a staunch opponent of the death penalty as well as the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, called on Iraqis to work towards reconciliation and national unity after the execution.

"France calls upon all Iraqis to look towards the future and work towards reconciliation and national unity," the French foreign ministry said in a statement. "Now more than ever, the objective should be a return to full sovereignty and stability in Iraq.

Vatican: "tragic news"

The Vatican called the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein tragic, saying it could feed a spirit of vengeance.

"There is a risk that it feeds the spirit of vengeance and plants the seeds for fresh violence," Vatican spokesman Frederico Lombardi said. The hanging of Saddam Hussein, early on Saturday, was "tragic news", he said on Vatican Radio.

"This is a reason for sadness, even if this is about a person who is guilty of serious crimes. The position of the Catholic church, which is against the death penalty whatever the circumstances, needs to be repeated again," he said. "Putting a guilty person to death is not the way to rebuild justice and reconcile society," Lombardi added.

Human rights group condemns hanging

However US-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the hanging, saying history would judge Saddam’s trial and execution "harshly."

"Saddam Hussein was responsible for horrific, widespread human rights violations, but those acts, however brutal, cannot justify his execution, a cruel and inhuman punishment," said HRW’s international justice program director, Richard Dicker.

"The test of a government’s commitment to human rights is measured by the way it treats its worst offenders," he said. "History will judge the deeply flawed Dujail trial and this execution harshly."

This trial was perhaps the most idiotic & criminal miscarriage of justice in the past century... What idiot can believe Saddam would be scruffy and hiding in a hole, when he had millions & global connections, tunnels, bunkers & elite police?

Look at your own picture on DW-World to see the most convincing forensic evidence: Those teeth do NOT belong to the REAL Saddam Hussein! The real Saddam had the most expensive dental work available, as he was a very vain Tyrant— now any doctor can tell you dental work doesn’t change to crooked and brown in a matter of months!

The real Saddam was convoyed out of Iraq as the US was invading, by mercenary forces & the Russians— his wife even said the person in the notorious "examination" was NOT her husband!

Now that the "Iraqi Oswald" is dead, the US puppet govt. & CIA are going to keep their "evidence" literally buried in secret!

What a massive, idiotic SHAM this entire Bush/CIA war machine has been!

The Brits are largely responsible, Blair in particular— since they’ve enabled & encouraged the "invasion" and occupation of Iraq, which will prove to be a war crime over the course of WWW history...

Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:14 PM IST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of Indians, most of them Muslims, took to the streets in sporadic protests across the country against the execution of Saddam Hussein on Saturday, accusing U.S. President George W. Bush of murdering him.

The protests came as New Delhi, which had friendly relations with Saddam’s Iraq, said it was disappointed he was executed and hoped this would not hurt the process of reconciliation and restoration of peace in that country.

Thousands of Muslims and communist party activists marched in the eastern city of Kolkata and the northern city of Lucknow after news of Saddam’s execution broke on TV channels.

The protesters shouted anti-American slogans, burned straw effigies of Bush and briefly blocked trains at Lucknow’s main train station, police and witnesses said.

"This was a glaring example of America’s dictatorship over the rest of the world," said Imam Maulana Khalid Rasheed, a cleric at a local mosque.

"It is ironic that those who claim to be champions of human rights and justice do not practice what they preach," he said.

India is home to an estimated 140 million Muslims, the world’s third-largest Islamic population after those of Indonesia and neighbouring Pakistan.

In the eastern communist stronghold of Kolkata, thousands of leftist activists marched through the city carrying portraits of Saddam, waving red flags and stopping traffic as they shouted slogans against Bush and the U.S. "occupation of Iraq".

"Bush is the one who should be hanged. They have killed a man without even giving him a fair trial," said Ramesh Pyne, one of the protesters. Some Muslims offered prayers at mosques for Saddam’s soul, witnesses said.

Leftist students also protested in the technology hub of Bangalore while demonstrations were planned for later on Saturday in the financial centre of Mumbai, police said.

Massive Protests in India: No Bakri-Id this Year

New Delhi: There have been massive protests following the execution of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

Saddam was hanged before dawn Saturday for crimes committed in a brutal crackdown during his reign.

CPI activists and its allied organisations "hanged" an effigy of US President George W Bush in Hissar on Saturday to protest the execution.

Addressing the protesters, various leaders criticised the US administration for attacking Iraq and Afghanistan in the name of fight against terrorism.

In Junagadh, Over 45,000 Muslims will not celebrate Bakri-Id on Monday as a mark of protest against Saddam’s execution.

Congress leaders belonging to the minority community, Iqbal Hussein Motanvala, Pathan IC Khan and Hussain Hala was quoted by news agency UNI as saying that they are declaring that Saddam died a "martyr’s death".

In this connection, they will also hand over a protest note to district collector Ashwin Kumar on Monday, they added.

Meanwhile, Kozhikode witnessed demonstrations by various organisations to vent their anger against "US imperialistic designs".

Hundreds of activists of Pro-CPI DYFI and the National Development Front, a Muslim fundamental oufit, Sunni Students Federation and outfits affiliated to the Indian Union Muslim League took out protest marches condemning the "heinous murder" of the former Iraqi President and the "imperialistic designs" of President George W Bush, police sources were quoted by news agency PTI as saying.

At a Millennium Summit in September 2000, he spurred world leaders to adopt a blueprint to wage a global war on poverty and bring the United Nations into the 21st century.

Five years later, he called a follow-up summit to mark the U.N.’s 60th anniversary. Hoping to complete the bold changes, he sought to promote development, ensure international security and end human rights abuses. History’s largest gathering of world leaders took a first step, but it fell far short.

Unlike the upbeat atmosphere at the dawn of the new millennium, the World Summit in 2005 took place after a year of almost daily attacks on the United Nations over allegations of corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, bribery by U.N. purchasing officials, and widespread sexual abuse by U.N. peacekeepers.

World leaders agreed to create an internal ethics office but they did not give Annan the authority to make sweeping management changes. The major overhaul of the U.N.’s outdated management practices and operating procedures will be left to Annan’s successor, Ban Ki-moon, who takes over on Jan. 1.

In what was considered a major summit achievement, world leaders pledged to protect civilians from genocide, war crimes and ethnic cleansing — but before stepping down earlier this month U.N. humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland accused leaders of failure to translate their pledge into action, especially in Sudan’s Darfur region, Iraq and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The 2005 summit also approved a fund to promote democracy and a new Peacebuilding Commission to help countries make the difficult transition from war to peace, and it renewed a commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals including cutting extreme poverty by half and achieving universal primary education by 2015.

A new Human Rights Council was highly touted as a replacement for the discredited Human Rights Commission — but in its first year, the council disappointed Annan and human rights activists by following the commission’s tradition of focusing its attacks on Israel and ignoring abuses elsewhere.

At a farewell news conference earlier this month, Annan said he considered his top achievements the promotion of human rights, fighting to close the gap between extreme poverty and immense wealth, and the U.N.’s campaign to fight AIDS and other infectious diseases.

"His greatest accomplishment was to set a framework that moved the U.N. from one century to the next — the response to mass atrocities, the central role of democracy, the importance of human rights, and a priority to development," said Lee Feinstein, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Under Annan, U.N. peacekeeping has expanded with nearly 80,000 U.N. troops and international police currently deployed from Africa and the Mideast to Kosovo, Haiti and East Timor.

Annan’s first five-year term culminated in 2001 with the Nobel Peace Prize — shared with the United Nations — for "their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." Annan himself was lauded for "bringing new life to the organization."

But Annan’s second five-year term was not without shadows. An investigation led by former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker blamed shoddy U.N. management and the world’s most powerful nations for allowing corruption in the $64 billion oil-for-food program in Iraq to go on for years. Volcker’s final report in October 2005 accused more than 2,200 companies from some 40 countries of colluding with Saddam Hussein’s regime to bilk the humanitarian program in Iraq of $1.8 billion.

Annan was besieged with questions about his son’s involvement with a company that won an oil-for-food contract, and U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican, called for his resignation.

Annan told reporters that one of his worst moments was the way oil-for-food "was exploited to undermine the organization."

Feinstein said that "Annan was perhaps the most pro-American secretary-general who nonetheless was never accepted by U.N. critics in the Congress."

"His greatest failings were clearly the failure to rein in the U.N. Secretariat and streamline management more broadly," Feinstein said.

Professor Edward Luck, director of the Center on International Organization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, said he thinks "historians are going to give Kofi Annan relatively high marks."

"He’s certainly someone who aimed high and sometimes failed to achieve what his rhetoric promised," Luck said. "But he certainly did succeed in restoring the individual to the center of the U.N.’s agenda, both in terms of human security and human rights and the responsibility to protect."

Annan, 68, said he will maintain all those U.N. concerns — and many more — in his new life, likely to be divided between Switzerland and his native Ghana.

BuzzFlash.com’s Review (excerpt)
updated on 12/30/2006:

We normally don’t offer a book a second time around on BuzzFlash, but we decided to bring back the excellent psychiatric profile of Bush by Dr. Justin Frank, a D.C.-based psychoanalyst. We also were able to obtain the original hard-cover version of "Bush on the Couch" at a reduced cost and pass the savings onto our readers.

Recently — with the euphemististic adoption of the Bush "surge" in lieu of calling it what it really is: the escaclation of a war without end — we came to realize even more that our nation is being driven by one person’s psychiatric problems, not concerns for our national security.

How ironic that a man touted for his affability and outward empathy is devoid of any inner empathy, the true ability to feel the pain of others.

That is why he keeps sending GIs — including young women and grandmothers in the reserves — to their deaths. Bush feels only self-righteousness and that nothing will prove him wrong, even if others must die for his mistakes. His face must be saved at all costs, including the deaths of others.

We tend to think of Christians from the Midwest and South — as far as stereotypes — as regarding pschoanalysis as some kind of self-indulgent weakness. It is viewed by many of the fundies and red staters as the nefarious territory of that cosmopolitan Jew, Dr. Freud. Texans don’t need psychological self-exploration; they just need guns and wars to blow away people who get in their way.

Such is the case of one George W. Bush.

"Bush on the Couch" received a brief buzz a couple of years back, but it deserves much more than that. It is, in essence, the Rosetta Stone to George W. Bush, a man who will not confront his inner demons. As a result, the world will be destroyed because he is unable to admit that he is capable of error or guilt.