oh, this is just so anti-american
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Genital Torture For Dummies
Hey, it's a war -- what did you expect, flowers and bunnies and hopscotch in the Baghdad streets?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
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Just in time for your morning breakfast sausage, it's all-American rape and torture and rampant entirely condoned military sadism. Mmm, patriotism.
The pictures are worth a thousand disgusted moans. It's all flag-draped coffins and dog chains and forced masturbation and pistol whippings and miserable bloody hooded Iraqi men -- not terrorists, just men -- with wires attached to their fingers and genitals and made to stand up for hours and days on end until their feet swell and their lungs collapse and their livers fail, and you can hear our stunned death-drunk nation cry: Hey, whatever happened to our nice, clean little war? How did it get so ugly and out of hand? And isn't the "Frasier" finale on soon? Sigh.
Isn't the nation just so very outraged -- outraged! -- over the nasty rogue's gallery of photos gushing forth from the stunned media of late (with frightening promises that the worst is yet to come), all those snickering U.S. Army guards and sickeningly abused Iraqi POWs and dead U.S. soldiers and scowling generals.
And there's BushCo blaming Rumsfeld and Rumsfeld blaming the military and the military blaming miserable 21-year-old female trailer-park scapegoats and once again there stands Dubya, looking angry and baffled, like a kid who just got grounded for getting another D on a spelling test.
Did you really think war would be all light spankings and fur-lined handcuffs and afternoon tea, George? All happy giggling soldiers blasting each other with squirt guns and playing jacks in the streets of Fallujah?
Did you really believe your second war in as many years would be all neat and tidy and bloodless and gift-wrapped and lacking in gruesomeness and bile and disfiguring genital mutilation? What are you, a puppet? Oh wait.
This is the thing about wars, Dubya. They are worse than a fresh cow pie on the heel of your shiny Tony Lamas. They are bloodier and uglier and nastier and more heinous and more over budget than your worst Texas oil deal (and you had plenty of those), and that's before you even press the Start button. As the saying goes, You want to make Satan laugh? Tell him you're planning for a polite, orderly little conflict. Watch him blast oil through his nose.
But let's not be too hard on the least articulate, least intellectual, least accountable president in U.S. history. After all, Dubya's just like much of America. He is the prefect embodiment of our world-famous myopia, a selective type of dangerous tunnel vision whereby if we don't see it and don't really feel it and the media doesn't splash it all over us, it must not be true.
And, really, what Bush-votin' flag-wavin' God-numbed patriot wants to hear that the U.S. is a world-class hypocrite, committing many of the same crimes and tortures, rapes and humiliations that Saddam himself did, in the very same prison? Who wants to hear that, in many ways, we've done no better by the Iraqi (or Afghan) people than their former leadership, and in some ways have made things far worse?
And who wants to know that we have become the violent, unwanted clown on the global stage, justifiably ridiculed and thoroughly unsympathetic, as the world boos and hurls rotten foreign policies? Who wants to know that we are, in short, losing the war? Look there, isn't that Dick Cheney, hiding behind an American coffin, fondling his Halliburton portfolio and snickering quietly? Why yes, yes it is.
The Powers That Be know one thing: This lack of perspective, of the gruesome details of war, keeps the nation stupid. It makes us compliant. It makes us all go, well sure, I know war is heck and all, but we're the good guys therefore any bloodshed is in the name of democracy and any rapes are necessary evils and all those dead Iraqi women and babies are unfortunate casualties in the quest to protect our president's corporate interests and life goes on and hey "American Idol" is down to three finalists! Woo!
Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is also Bush. This is a man who goes on Saudi television to claim rape and torture and sadism is not the American way of conducting a war (but not, actually, to apologize -- never that), that such behavior is contrary to our God and our principles and our morals and our happily imbecilic black-and-white, good-versus-evil worldview.
Good one, George. Here's some words to stick in your craw, Dubya: Vietnam. Guantanamo Bay. Somalia. El Salvador. World War II. Show me a U.S.-led battle, Shrub, and I'll show you some nifty n' horrific American-made abuses of prisoners and detainess and innocent civilians that would makes your skin peel. Hey, it's war. You asked for it. You don't invite the Devil to the table and not expect him to spit in the mashed potatoes, you know?
By the way, Dubya, why have you never attended a single funeral service honoring any U.S. soldier who died in Iraq or Afghanistan? Why have you distanced yourself from the war dead like a snake avoids roadkill? Sorry, is that an inappropriate question right now?
Look. Everyone knows the Abu Ghraib nightmare isn't an isolated incident. These pictures merely stir that sickening, deep-down feeling that the atrocities are far worse than you can imagine and far more widespread than anyone wants to admit and they happen during every single war and Rummy and his crew not only knew it was happening but they also condoned it, promoted it, never made a move to stop it. So? Standard operating procedure, baby. It says so all over Rummy's pinched, sour face: It's an ugly, savage world, people. Now please just shut up and let us devour it in peace.
Even the Red Cross is coming forth and saying, oh man, you think those Abu Ghraib pictures are bad? You think it's just that hideous little nightmare prison where American soldiers and American-funded commandos and mercenaries are torturing and abusing and grinning for the camera? You have no idea.
Cut to a close-up of Jack Nicholson's beady eyes, boring straight into the smirking simpleton that is Bush, and then scanning over the pro-Bush American voting public, so inured and sheltered and flag waving and sucking down SUVs like baby seals. You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!
And what is that truth now? What have these photos, these glorious wartime atrocities, accomplished? Why, nothing short of guaranteeing that the United States has never been so violently hated among Middle Eastern nations as it is right now.
Nothing short of massacring any last vestige of remaining 9/11 sympathy. Nothing short of supplying a whole new generation of enraged terrorists with all the proof they need that their cause is entirely valid and just.
And nothing short of proving, for the 10,000th time, that BushCo has dug us a grimy, violent, blood-soaked hole so deep we may never fully emerge.
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allerdings, wenn du das nicht kannst oder nicht möchtest... es zwingt dich auch niemand dazu.
oder fragst du in einem buchladen auch, wozu die fremdsprachige literatur haben, nur weil du sie evtl. nicht lesen kannst ?
schade, wenngleich auch immer nur mit den selben, dummen, alten sprüchen.
Ode an Stalin
Du schützt mit deiner starken Hand
den Garten der Sowjetunion.
Und jedes Unkraut reißt du aus.
Du, Mutter Rußlands größter Sohn,
nimm diesen Strauß mit Akelei
zum Zeichen für das Friedensband,
das fest sich spannt zur Reichskanzlei.
(Letzte Zeile bezieht sich auf Hitler-Stalin-Pakt)
Vorwärts Genosse und hoch die Faust!
Gruß BarCode