America
Must Destroy
The Wall Of Fear And Isolation
By Ibrahim Ebeid
03 October, 2006
Countercurrents.org
Most
of us, Americans, are forced to stay stagnant as if we were destined
to live behind a huge wall that prevents us from seeing beyond it. This
wall has been erected by past administrations and in the present one
we have allowed President Bush Jr. to force us to live in a Republic
of Fear. Whenever we look at television, we hear the “experts”
parroting President Bush’s lies about a threat that is coming
to us, and if we do not react in advance to prevent such a threat from
occurring then the war will be here on our door steps. The Republic
of Fear created by our Administration is producing wars and chaos in
the rest of the World, especially in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine.
Afghanistan was occupied, Iraq turned into chaos as a result of occupation,
and a sectarian regime was created and nourished by the US, Anglo Saxon
and Zionist Triangle of Evil.
Since the beginning of the
brutal invasion of Iraq, the President, members of his Cabinet and advisers
have been trying to keep us, Americans, in darkness. They are bombarding
us with the idea of a terrorizing enemy of their creation, described
as Islamist fascists and Islamist terrorists, Saddamists or Baathists
who are indoctrinated to attack us, because they hate us and they hate
democracy. In reality we attacked the Muslim and Arab countries, and
we destroyed their institutions. We are trying to eradicate and distort
their values that have their roots in history for thousands of years,
values that were the fundamental basis of Western Civilization. . With
our help and support “Israel” was created in Palestine and
the Palestinians were forced into refugee camps facing death, starvation
and misery while foreigners took over their lands, homes and defaced
the history of Palestine. He arrogantly accuses the freedom fighters
who resist tyranny and occupation as extremists who spread propaganda
claiming that the West is engaged in a war against Islam. He claims
that he respects Islam and yet his war in Iraq killed and still is killing
Muslims, Christians and others by the thousands. He brought anti-Arab
sectarian fascists to legitimize the occupation, the robbery and mass
killing in Iraq under the protection of more than 140,000 US troops.
The sectarian militias of the thugs that he brought from Iran are killing
people with acid, electric drills, saws, and fire, under the eyes of
his commanders. The United Nations affirmed that 6600 Iraqis were butchered
in the last two months; most of them carrying signs of torture before
they were brutally killed.
A friend of mine who was
a scientist in Iraq had to flee her country a month ago with her husband
and two children. She told me “the Baghdad you know does not
exist. Wherever you look there are destruction and concrete piles. We
were afraid to go out or drive around; women have to cover their heads
and are not allowed to continue their education. At present, very few
go to higher education. The sectarian government is against any one
who is educated and they are assassinating scientists whenever and wherever
they find them. Shahristany was my boss in the seventies. When it was
discovered that he was an agent to Iran and to the CIA he was arrested,
then in 1991 he ran away to Iran and took with him all the names of
the scientists and employees in the department he was part of. After
the occupation he came back to Iraq and now he is the Minister of Petroleum.
This sectarian man gave all the names of the scientists to the sectarian
militias and they started killing the scientists, some times three or
four a day. They do not distinguish between a Sunni or a Shia, to them
an educated Shia is more of a target than a Sunni. Before the Occupation
we never experienced the difference between Shia and Sunni, we felt
like were all one family, and religion never played a role in discrimination.
My husband and I were alarmed, especially when we were witnessing the
killings of our friends at the hands of the sectarian militias of the
“government” that Bush forced upon us. We received a serious
threat and we were forced to escape. We lost our workshop, our car,
beauty salon, our apartment and house, we had to escape. Now, we are
scattered and live in different parts of the World”. One of my
brothers was a Colonel in the Iraqi Army and the other one was a professor
at one of the universities in Baghdad. Schools were very advanced, all
of us got our education under the Baathist government, and education
was free at all levels. Then I asked her about the Resistance, she said,
“the Resistance is very strong and it is gaining more strength,
the people are behind it and it is our hope.” Then she added “the
Iraqi people are missing the golden days when Saddam was in power.”
(The Scientist happens to be a Shia.)
We Americans are not Liberators,
we are brutal occupiers. Just on the 27th of September the Associated
Press reported that American troops killed eight people from the same
family, four of them were women, and two were pregnant. Manal Jassim
was in a different room, when she heard the shots and the screaming
of the victims. She ran away, but when she came back she found eight
members of her family brutally massacred. The American Occupation Command
shamelessly claimed that these victims were “terrorists”.
Manal said that the family members were sleeping when the soldiers entered
the house at dawn and committed the crime
Certainly, the relatives,
friends and neighbors of this murdered family and the rest of the Iraqis
will hate American values enforced upon them by President Bush. American
values to them mean terror, mass graves and genocide and a war against
Arabs and Muslims.
US guns and bombs supplied
to “Israel” are killing Palestinians and Lebanese by the
thousands. And he dares to say that he desires peace and prosperity
for the “Middle East”? UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland
said the UN Mine Action Coordination Center had assessed "nearly
85 percent of bombed areas in south Lebanon" and identified "359
separate cluster bomb strike locations that are contaminated with as
many 100,000 unexploded bomblets." "What's shocking and I
would say completely immoral is that 90 percent of the cluster bomb
strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict when we knew there
would be a resolution, when we knew there would be an end," he
said. "Every day, people are maimed, wounded and are killed by
these ordnances," the UN relief coordinator said. He also stated
that the bombs may have been manufactured "in a number of places,"
including the United States.
In an interview with Der
Spiegel on August 15, 2006, former President Jimmy Carter was very critical
of the Bush Administration. He affirmed that hatred to the United States
through the Arab World was as a result of the invasion of Iraq, and
” the matter have gotten even worse now with the United States
supporting and encouraging Israel in its attack on Lebanon”.
We wonder why President Bush
always justifies any “Israeli” aggression while the wiser
former President said “I don't think that Israel has any legal
or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation
of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners,
so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers,
Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian
population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no”.
We, Americans, must realize that President Bush’s irrational support
to the colonialist racist entity, “Israel”, is causing a
perpetual war against the Palestinian people. The Palestinian people
and the Arab nation are not our enemies. Their ideology is not hostile
to anyone but the ideology of Mr. Bush is.
In his speech to the General
Assembly of the United Nations President Bush was misleading us and
far away from truth and reality. There has been no progress and democracy
on the march in Iraq or in Afghanistan as he was claiming.
His speech was another attempt
to dupe us and force us to stay in darkness. He pretends that he respects
the United Nations and its Charter while he was the one to challenge
the rest of the World and the World’s Organization and blatantly
violated its charter when he invaded Iraq and ruined it. Now he is caged
in and he is trying desperately to convince the World Body to come to
his rescue.
Pakistan's President Pervez
Musharraf, a dictator who was not favored by the Bush Administration
until he received a threat to join the war on “terror” or
else, confirmed that the United States threatened to bomb his country
back to the Stone Age after the 9/11 attacks if he did not help America's
war on “terror”. The threat was delivered by Richard Armitage,
the then deputy secretary of state, to Musharraf's intelligence director,
said the Pakistani leader to CBS-TV's "60 Minutes." Musharraf
said he reacted responsibly, i.e. he succumbed to the threat.
It is very hard to believe
that our President was stunned and shocked and that he had no previous
knowledge of the threat that his Under Secretary of State delivered.
Has he forgotten his infamous message:” if you are not with us
then you are against us”? This message speaks for itself and reflects
his threat to the nations who disagree with him. Should we believe Musharraf
or our President who always hides the truth from us?
“As liberty flourishes, nations grow in tolerance and hope and
peace. And we're seeing that bright future begin to take root in the
broader Middle East”, the President told the General Assembly
of the United Nations! But the reality is the opposite, the Palestinians
and Iraqis are not experiencing progress, prosperity or security. They
are experiencing poverty, chaos destruction and fear imposed upon them
by us and by our allies. Security is part of the past that does not
exist in the “new Iraq”.
Why do we allow President
Bush and his extremist neo-conservatives fortify this wall and keep
us living under fear? This question haunts me wherever I go and every
time I watch our President, or the experts of the media, theorizing
and distorting the facts without any remorse.
Will America destroy the
wall of fear and isolation? Can we be part of the civilized World? Can
we be more productive than destructive? The answer is with you America!
* The author is a US veteran,
Vietnam era.
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