That accident was pretty horrific but still just a modicum of the horror the American military has caused thousand-fold in Iraq and Afghanistan. For example, “There is yet more news from Afghanistan about the killing of civilians by foreign forces' air attacks... ‘Angry villagers took 18 bodies - including badly mangled bodies of women and children... [T]here might be more bodies trapped under the rubble. A BBC reporter in Lashkar Gah said he saw the bodies - three women and the rest children ranging in age from six months to 15...’ Ho hum; just another day in the war for freedom” (“Massacre by Drone in Afghanistan: Kid Killers are Barbarians,” Brian Cloughley).
But who gives a shit about these women and children since their kids probably would have grown up to be terrorists fighting for their homeland against the mechanized armies of the American Empire and the mothers were therefore nothing more than breeders of terrorists. And who knows maybe one of those mysterious “suspected Al-Qaida” operatives or “what was believed to be a high ranking Osama bin Laden operative” was killed. Have you noticed that rarely say, for example, three Al-Qaida terrorists were killed? The terrorists whom the bombs, special ops, missiles, and drones kill are for the most part ghost kills. What are always real are the bodies of innocent men, women, and children.
FOR EXAMPLE: “A missile strike by a SUSPECTED U.S. drone killed at least three people on Friday in a Pakistani tribal area, a security official said.”
“ A missile fired by a SUSPECTED U.S. drone killed three people outside the town of Mir Ali in Miramshah district.”
Oh the HORROR of the crash in San Diego. Yet, how many deadly drone attacks has the U.S. launched that have killed innocent men, women, and children?
Some answers: “U.S. commanders in Iraq have ordered an unprecedented number of airstrikes by unmanned airplanes in April to kill insurgents in urban combat and to limit their ability to launch rockets at American forces, military records show.”
“The 11 attacks by Predators — nearly double the previous high for one month — were conducted as the Pentagon has intensified efforts to increase the use of drones, which play an increasingly vital role for gathering intelligence and launching attacks in Iraq.” Yadda, yadda, yadda.
“The military has dozens of Predators in Iraq and Afghanistan. In all it operates 5,000 drones, 25 times more than it had in 2001.”
From the New York Times: “The strike was part of an escalating campaign by the Bush administration to hit the Taliban and their Qaeda backers at their bases in Pakistan’s tribal areas.”
“The attack appears to have been the 19th by a remotely piloted Predator aircraft in the tribal areas since the beginning of August. In the first seven months of 2008, there were five such strikes.” In this attack that killed 20, supposedly 2 Taliban fighters were killed. What about the other 18? Doesn’t really matter. These brown skin, infidel hill-dwellers are not fully human anyway; otherwise they would be wearing a cross and possess a credit card. They are to the U.S. military collateral damage, and apparently that was what the Marine generals at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station were thinking when they told the rookie pilot to bring in the plane over residential areas even though one engine was gone. In other words, they were worry more about plane than the people. I guess the slaughter in Iraq and Afghanistan has desensitized them to human death and suffering. Or are desensitize people the one who join the military?
In a recent edition of the San Diego Union Tribune we read, “With the help of CIA spotters, the Peruvian air force shot down 15 small civilian aircraft SUSPECTED of carrying drugs, in many cases without warning and within two to three minutes of being sighted.” Of course, anyone who has watched the movie Taxi to the Dark Side knows what kind of monstrous organization the CIA has become, something like the Nazi SS. We’re told further that, “most of the 15 planes shot down with the help of the CIA crashed in the jungle. The wreckage has not or could not be examined to ascertain whether narcotics were aboard the aircraft.”
Who fucking cares? We know that the CIA doesn’t give a damn whether they torture the innocent or the guilty, and most the time it’s the innocent. And we know that the American military doesn’t give a damn about the millions of innocent Iraqi lives that have been destroyed in George Armageddon Bush’s little war. These people think it’s a video game, and throwing Silver Stars at the soldiers doesn’t compensate for the harm they have done (do and will continue to do) or improve the image of the American military, which has apparently gone over to the dark side—that is, except in the minds of the America-right-or-wrong (mostly wrong) true believers who don’t give a damn about how many innocent people the America war machine slaughters as long as they can keep stuffing themselves with beer and fast food and watching the Sports Channel.
By the way is that the civilization we are bringing to the land of the barbarians who require their women go out into public tented? You know a lot of American women should be tented—that about the only size many of them can wear anyway. Getting back to the civilization topic, wasn’t that the argument used by the Europeans to justify their intrusions into native territories—in addition to giving them a new and improved form of superstition, Christianity? Okay, for the sake of argument, let’s say that what would become the American way of life is far more civilized than that of the Native Americans, who were always on the warpath (hohoho, like America ain’t, and what about the 2 million people in American prisons, well that how you keep civilization civilized) and hunting and fishing and growing stuff, rather than working the good life at General Motors, and living outdoors, well like a lot of Americans (they’re called the homeless), and so on.
The thing is the Native Americans got a new and improved way of life but lost THEIR way of life. Interestingly, Americans like to bitch (sorry Laura) all the time about their way of life disappearing, like secularism taking over in the schools, and the theory of evolution replacing divine creation, like gays wanting to play house and get married, like TV shows such as Leave It to Beaver being replaced by shows like Sex and the City, in which beaver is what the main characters can’t wait to give away, like the transformation of the classy American female (remember Grace Kelly) into slutty money whores (did you see Jennifer Aniston on the cover of January 2009 issue of GQ? or that cultural toxin Britney Spears has climbed back to number one in record sales—Americans really do suffer from a virulent celebrity addiction),and so on and on and on. That might be just what bin Laden didn’t want to happen to his people because he believed, like most of the world, American civilization is really based on a pretty decadent, even pathological culture—a cultural no less violent than that in Afghanistan, a culture of iPods, TV, Hollywood, video games, cell phones, tattoos and piercings, punks, goths, skinheads, gangbangers, drive-by shootings, drugs and alcohol abuse, rapes (“The United States has the highest rape rate among countries which report such statistics. It is 4 times higher than that of Germany, 13 times higher than that of England and 20 times higher than that of Japan” (google “Sexual Assault Statistics”)), gun ownership (the envy of the Islamic world), and of course obeasity (remember that movie Elephant Walk, that’s exactly what you see at most American shopping malls, elephants trampling anyone who gets in their way of their Christmas shopping.
Enough. My point is that America’s version of civilization looks pretty sick to any normal person. Let’s face it, it did produce that Brotherhood of Butchers George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice (do you think she has a red hourglass on her stomach?), Donald Strangelove Rumsfeld, and lots of sicko supporting characters—such as the warmongering Zionists like Paul Wolfowitz, David Frum, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Randy Scheunemann, Ari Fleischer, and on and on ad nauseam. (Check out http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/bushlist.htm if you really want to get sick). Imagine the U.S. government as a Jewish roach motel, but the roaches don’t die. They trash the motel and use the poison against their enemies.)
And anyone who thinks the American military is heroic isn’t paying attention.(Remember, being heroic is about more than just being brave and risking your life for your fellow warriors. Heroes must also serve the good. Firefighters who enter a burning building to save and protect lives are heroes. They serve the good. However, if firefighters served an arsonist by starting fires and then putting them out, all to benefit the arsonist, but at the expense of innocent life, they would not be heroes. They would be villains. For the past six or seven years the arsonists have been George Bush and his nefarious crew and the U.S. military their agents of destruction.) The military is a killing machine, like the Terminator. Soldiers enjoy shooting people and blowing up stuff. They are not defending America. If they wanted to defend America they would have joined the Border Patrol. No doubt they deserve some praise when they really are protecting America, like the soldiers of W.W.II, but what they are willing to do for George Bush is truly evil, and unlike the soldiers drafted into the idiotic war created by Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, the soldiers today didn’t have to join up. Or they could refuse to participate in the slaughter, but that would have taken guts.
One of the very few academics who have had the guts to speak out against the war is Professor Marc W. Herold, who asks, "What causes the documented high level of civilian casualties—3,000-3,400 [October 7, 2001 thru March 2002] civilian deaths— in the U.S. air war upon Afghanistan?” His answer: “The explanation is the apparent willingness of U.S. military strategists to fire missiles into and drop bombs upon, heavily populated areas of Afghanistan."
He concludes, “Afghanistan has been subjected to a barbarous air bombardment which has killed an average of 41 - 47 civilians per day since that fateful evening of Sunday, October 7th When the sun set on December 10th, at least 2,700-3,000 Afghan civilians had died in U.S bombing attacks [roughly equivalent to about 30,000 U.S. civilian or the equivalent of eleven World Trade Center attacks].”
He tells us further, “50 fatalities in four strikes in a single week [occurred], all at the hands of unmanned vehicles. An impressive warning from the bloodless killers of tomorrow. Even before the hit on Tole Khel, the Washington Post reported, ‘The number of Hellfire missile attacks by Predators in Pakistan has more than tripled, with 11 strikes reported by Pakistani officials this year compared with three in 2007.’ According to the Wall Street Journal, ‘One official in Afghanistan estimated that drone usage in Pakistan has doubled since the summer, and he said missiles are now being fired at Pakistani targets virtually every day.’"
And apparently it’s going to be more of the same under President Obama. We know Obama is salivating for bin Laden’s blood. That will do a lot of good, just as hanging Obama namesake Hussein did a lot of good. He proved to be a tar baby who, if you do a cost-benefit analysis, beat America in the war America started. And will getting bin Laden mean that that me we won? No way. Let’s be very clear about one thing, “David” Osama bin Laden beat goliath America, not with a slingshot (the weapons the Afghan freedom fighters use are the equivalent of slingshots) but with America’s arrogance and overweening pride and stupidity.
What has happened is that the rest of the world no longer sees bin Laden as the villain, the 9-11 attacks have been pretty much overshadowed by America’s HORRIFIC (torture, murder, millions innocent people dislocated, billions of dollars wasted, etc.) WAR ON TERROR, which in fact has become a kind of terrorist producing assembly-line. And now goliath America is on her knees financially, and most Americans are worrying a lot more about keeping their jobs and homes than killing that Islamic Pancho Villa, bin Laden. By the way, apparently when a young man Pancho Villa killed a landowner for raping his sister. Isn’t that kind of like what bin Laden did, punish America for, raping the Middle East for oil and Israel? Haven’t the Jews been raping Palestine, which they claim is theirs because it says so in an old book they wrote over 2000 years ago!
Because of America’s gift of freedom, delivered in the form of bombs and bullets, Iraq is in much worse shape today than it was under the warlord Hussein, and I predict that it will get even worse because the U.S. government has made sure that everyone in the region is mad as hell at us and when we are not around they take it out on each other. And apparently the new administration will continue to stir the madness with America’s own creepy weapons of mass destruction (if you use enough bombs, they become weapons of MASS destruction). Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned the rest of the world not to mess with Tupac Obama because he’s coming to the White House strapped: “So anyone who thought that the upcoming months might present opportunities to ‘test’ the new president would be sorely mistaken... President Obama and his national [hit squad] security team, myself included, will be ready to defend the interests of the United States and our friends [what friends?] and allies from the moment he takes office on Jan. 20.” But the drive-bys will be replaced with drone fly-bys.
And what is our interest in Iraq. To fix a country we broke? And what about Afghanistan? Are we going to stay there forever blowing up villages and killing villagers? Or do we just want to continue to use the country as a test site for our new weapons of remote destruction that are forever being produced by America’s military-industrial complex? What makes idiot Gates and his new boss think that they can do something that couldn’t be done by the British, by the Russians, or by the Bush administration during the past seven years? Why don’t we just leave? Hubris, that’s why.
JUST OUT TODAY IN SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE:
HEADLINE: “Iraq Rebuilding Full of Blunders”
“BAGHDAD – An unpublished, 513-page federal history of the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure.” “HA, HA, HA, HA, HA”—what is that sound I hear coming from bin Laden’s cave?
WARNING TO AMERICA’S YOUNG MEN: If you see that advertisement for the U.S. Marines, ignore. It is often seen in video game magazines and at the movies, but playing video games and watching movies are a lot more fun than playing soldier, and not as immoral. The advertisement says: IN LIFE, IT’S NOT WHO YOU REPRESENT BUT WHAT.” Well just ask yourself what the America military has represented under George Bush. If you are clueless, and you probably are if you’re thinking about joining the armed forces, at least watch a few movies if you don’t read books, magazines, or the newspapers, movies such as Taxi to the Dark Side, In the Valley of Elah, Stop-Loss, No End in Sight , and yes Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Or just remain stupid and uninformed. “Ah aint smart nough to do nauthin else but killin.” If you think that, then I guess your only choice is the military or the local street gang. However, if you do have a brain cell you might consider other options, like going to college, studying philosophy, video-game design, music, literature, or something that will get you a good job in a shitty economy, or like George Bush and Sara Palin be college slackers and just hang out in the student lounge getting drunk and shooting the shit. You could still end up being president or a governor. Or how about just working and enjoying life rather than participating in an industry whose business is taking life. Oh, but you want to protect America. Well, like I said before, join the Border Patrol if that’s your mission in life. They’re the guys protecting America, and they’ve been shorthanded forever. Or become a police officer, a CSI, a nurse, firewo/man, or lots of other cool jobs keeping Americans safe and healthy or protecting them from the bad guys, which America has an abundance of on its own soil (and we’re letting more in everyday).
Right now, America, you are hypocritical and sick, sick, sick. Let’s face it, you’ve been okay with having a torturing, warmongering mass-murderer (and eco-terrorist) for president, even re-elected the monster, but oh how you lament the loss of a single family destroyed on American soil. Maybe it’s bad karma created by America’s military sickness. All you ever read and hear about is war, the military, heroes killed in action, suspected terrorists killed, bombings, civilian deaths, the WAR ON TERROR (a weird abstraction, like war on death), new and improved weapons constantly being cooked up in American weapons laboratories, and on and on and on. You are sick, America. You have war, violence, death, destruction, and killing on the brain. Take for example, the movie starring that tattoo billboard Angelia Jolie: Wanted. Another horror fest as sick as the cinematic sewer that produced it: Hollywood. Still, it does provide a glimpse in to the very dark place, the American subconscious (or noconscience).
As a result, America has nothing to offer the world except fear and trembling. Its weird culture is a combination of medieval religious thinking (today the heretics are gays and women who have an abortion) and a postmodern fascination with lurid sex and violence. Grown men paint their faces into hideous mask for football games where they partake in a kind of group hysteria. As a culture America is headed backward and downward at the same time. If America had a patron Goddess she would be a ghastly combination of Angelia Jolie, Sarah Palin and Andrea Yates (must be something in the water in Texas).
One final note. The man who lost his wife, two children, and mother-in-law the San Diego Jet crash said, “I know God is taking care of my family.” He can believe anything he wants and I do feel sorry for him, though I feel sorrier for the two babies who will never have a chance to live. And I hope he does sue the military for billions of dollars, punitive damages for all the carnage they have also been responsible for in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the fact is that his family is not in heaven and God is not taking care of them because he doesn’t exist. Humanity’s Holocaust experiment proved that. If God wasn’t willing to step in to prevent the systematic slaughter of his chosen people then either he doesn’t exist or it doesn’t give a damn. It’s just a matter of a little logic and empirical thinking, which Americans don’t seem to be very good at anymore. More important, this kind of religious thinking (Judeo-Christian-Islamic thinking) has been shown to be dangerous for thousands of years. Suicide bombers blow themselves up because they think they are going to heaven. Boy-George Bush believes that he did the right thing because God told him on the prayer phone to let the killing begin. God has said that a lot over the centuries.
Oh yeah, I guess you heard that Bush gave a speech at Texas A&M University. You are probably wondering who in the world would invite him. A Hispanic alien of course—Elsa Alina Murano. The Hispanic Nation loves the Bush clan because no one has done more to turn the country over to the Hispanic invaders. Bush told the crowd to honor their role models. His must be Benedict Arnold and Attila the Hun. He also said, "If you go home at night, look in the mirror and (are) satisfied that you have done what is right, you will pass the only test that matters." How in the fuck can Bush look in the mirror and think that? Well, a lot of psychopaths do, like Hannibal Lecter and Adolf Hitler.
