Bush or Kerry: The Atrocity
Will ContinueBy Ghali Hassan
17 October, 2004
Countercurrents.org
On November 02, 2004, the people of the United States of America will "elect" their president for the next four years. Historically, American elections changed nothing. One businessman leaves another takes over. Thousands of miles away from the US, the Iraqi people will continue to suffer and killed in large numbers at the hands of US soldiers. It is America's atrocity in Iraq.Watching Bush-Kerry debates, I came to the conclusion that the two sides of American politics are actually, one. Bush and Kerry are out-competing on who took part in the atrocities of Vietnam, and on who will kill more Iraqis if elected. Can you "imagine German candidates [campaigning] for the Chancellor of Germany competing on who participated more actively in the Holocaust", wrote the Palestinian political analyst Omar Barghouti in an open letter to the American people. Both Bush and Kerry pledge unconditional support to Israel for its genocidal and illegal occupation of Palestine.
Recent world survey reveals that the majority of people around the world favoured Kerry's win because people reject the Bush doctrine. Overall, Kerry was favoured globally by a 2-to-1 margin. According to Tom Engelhardt, "[e]ven in countries whose governments had contributed troops to Iraq, significant majorities favoured Kerry and believed strongly that U.S. foreign policy was 'on the wrong track'". This gives hope that the majority of people reject violence, and are prepared to live in peace if giving the chance.
Kerry is not a pacifist or a peace activist. He is pro-war. In addition to his vote for the War on Iraq, Kerry has voted on many of Bush's foreign and domestic measures. Kerry's strategy is not to back off Fallujah and other towns and villages resisting the US Occupation. Kerry will repeat the Vietnam atrocity. He will send B52s to carpet bomb Iraqi towns and villages. Kerry wants the "Vietnamisation" of the War on Iraq by bribing unemployed Iraqis to join the army and police in order to protect the occupation and provide fodder for the grinding stones.
It should be borne in mind that Bill Clinton was a "democrat" president, but Clinton was the most violent president. Sugar-coated wars are the most violent wars and they are hard to stop. Like Clinton's, Kerry's wars will be more sugar-coated and sold to friends and foes.
Overall, Kerry's foreign policy has been very vague and incoherent. He is very supportive of Ariel Sharon fascist crimes against the Palestinian people. Kerry's policies on the Middle East will not win him many friends. The Bush administration is the most isolated and if Kerry will succeed and changed this, it is not for the advantages of world peace. Isolated America is less feared America than America in alliances with other nations, wrote the historian Gabriel Kolko recently.
With only few weeks to the US election, the Bush administration is on a mission of committing more massacres in many parts of Iraq. There is no safe heaven for the innocent unarmed men, women and children. Mosques, schools, hospitals and even restaurants are the latest killing sites. George Bush wants to win the election by all means, even if the price is killing all Iraqis. Allawi and his gang of criminals are doing just that for him.
Iyad Allawi, the US-appointed spokesman for the Occupation, found a suitable pretext to invade Fallujah. He told his selected gang on Thursday 14 October 2004, "[w]e have asked Fallujah residents to turn over al-Zarqawi and his group. If they don't do it, we are ready for major operations (aka
massacres) in Fallujah". The bombardment of the town is continuing, and the people of Fallujah started to flee the town this morning.Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the one-leg elusive Jordanian, is the latest lie sold by the US and its allies and quislings. Iraqis are massacred on daily basis because the world is told that al-Zarqawi is somewhere in Fallujah, derailing the elections of Bush and Allawi. If the US mass media can sell the lie of the lost WMD, they can sell the al-Zarqawi phantom. It is another lie for atrocity.
The pro-war US media pundits, led by Christopher Hitchens, think that the Iraq invasion, and the massacres of Iraqis that followed are justified. The Iraqi people should be happy living under US terror, Mr Hitchens said recently. He believes every thing the US is doing in Iraq is justified. Power pundits are in complete denial and unable to deal in reality. Like other power propagandists, Mr. Hitchens finds al-Zarqawi very convenient propaganda to label Muslims as "fascist", let alone the Iraqi Resistance.
According to Hitchens' deranged mind, everyone fighting America's terrorism is a fascist. His latest attack on honest and professional people like Naomi Klein proves that Hitchens is not very different from al-Zarqawi.With the help of Mr Hitchens and the likes of propaganda agents, the Iraqi people are far worse today than before the war, and that the world is less safe and more dangerous place than before the war. According to the Washington's Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Americans failed to deliver decent living conditions, and the aggressive behaviour of US troops damaged their standing with the Iraqi people. There is no drinking water and no electricity. The health system is collapsing and infectious diseases, including typhoid and tuberculosis are on the rise throughout Iraq. Furthermore, since the invasion of Iraq, the US is more despised and terrorism is on the rise.
Many years ago, the German journalist and socialist theorist Rosa Luxemburg wrote from her prison cell, "[t]his madness will not stop, and this bloody nightmare of hell will not cease, until the people...wake up out of their drunken sleep, clasp each others hands in brotherhood and drown the bestial chorus of war agitators and the hoarse cry capitalist hyenas". She paid very dearly for her honesty.
The War on Iraq is unjustifiable act of aggression and in violation of international law. If the US and its "coalition of the willing" respect the law, they should pay reparation and compensate the Iraqi people for their loses.
If Senator Kerry is elected on November 02, 2004, and insists on returning America to the community of civilised nations, Kerry should withdraw US forces from Iraq and put an end to this horrific atrocity.
Ghali Hassan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He can be reached at e-mail: [email protected]
