Friday, March 28, 2003

Saddam Blogs the War! Word has gotten out that our brave, loyal, dedicated troops are kicking in doors and forcing all males to take up arms. This is another example of the vicious propaganda put out by the western media, which everyone knows is a puppet of the Pentagon, which everyone knows is controlled by the international zionist conspiracy. The truth is that while males over the age of six are being ENCOURAGED to fight on behalf of Iraq, it is NOT by any means compulsory! Potential recruits are given a choice: Join the valiant struggle to repeal the invaders, or my security forces will shoot your entire family, your neighbors, the people in your email address book, your goats, and that cute little puppy you bought the kids because they absolutely promised to take care it themselves but of course don't. So as you can see, it's complete freedom of choice!   :: Saddam "No Nukes Here" Hussein 2:12 AM  (03/28/03) Reality Divides New York Magazine -- Michael Wolff writes: War is exciting. Everything seems sharper, tauter, more on the surface. Television itself has become a tinderbox. Everybody is more responsive. And more fragile. And touchier. All sorts of new sensitivities are exposed. There’s both an intensity and a tentativeness to the war talk. A reluctance to ask but a need to know. It’s all still so new that you can’t be sure which direction people will go (years into Vietnam, for instance, you could look at a person and instantly know his views). ... Reality divides, Jekyll and Hyde: (A) Bush is decisive, steadfast, methodical, nonequivocating, focused, unfickle, not brilliant perhaps, not well-spoken, but an honest—even far-thinking—steward of national security, surrounded by the best military thinkers ever to have occupied the White House. What you see is what you get. (B) Bush, the illegitimate president, is a religious authoritarian with a total disregard for (and inability to grasp) nuance, who has obvious testosterone issues and is strutting about on the world stage oblivious to his own high-risk behavior. What you don’t see are family grudges, ulterior motives (Halliburton already lining up its Iraq oil-field contracts!), and vast messianic ambitions. Each second, someone chooses a side and becomes ever-more righteous about it. It may even be, against all the odds, that after a quarter-century of political somnambulance, people have come alive again—either ominously or hopefully. That a new, passionate opposition is in play (with each side maintaining that the other is really the would-be usurper). That something great and terrible is being born. (03/28/03) Hearts and Minds Nicholas D. Kristof writes: KUWAIT — With Americans and Iraqis killing each other just north of here and many of my friends at risk, I've been pained by some e-mail that has trickled over my laptop computer. Some of it came from an old Egyptian friend, Ikram Youssef, a Harvard-educated scholar who has a natural empathy for the United States — and since he once lived in Kuwait, a rich understanding that Saddam Hussein is a monster. Yet Professor Youssef hopes that this war will end with an Iraqi victory over America. "I certainly hope that this campaign will fail," he declared. And when even a thoughtful internationalist like Professor Youssef is siding with Saddam's army against America, I want to leap out of my hotel window. The war that the rest of the world sees is different from the one Americans are viewing. The Pakistani newspaper Awami Awaz exults that "Iraqi leadership has humiliated the Americans." The Egyptian newspaper Al Wafd titles an editorial "The U.S. Empire of Evil." Muslim figures who sided with the U.S. after 9/11 and denounced Osama bin Laden are now urging "jihad" against Americans. (03/28/03) The War Against Ourselves Yes! Magazine -- Dr. Doug Rokke says: At the completion of the (first) Gulf War, when we came back to the United States in the fall of 1991, we had a total casualty count of 760: 294 dead, a little over 400 wounded or ill. But the casualty rate now for Gulf War veterans is approximately 30 percent. Of those stationed in the theater, including after the conflict, 221,000 have been awarded disability, according to a Veterans Affairs (VA) report issued September 10, 2002. Many of the US casualties died as a direct result of uranium munitions friendly fire. US forces killed and wounded US forces. We recommended care for anybody downwind of any uranium dust, anybody working in and around uranium contamination, and anyone within a vehicle, structure, or building that’s struck with uranium munitions. That’s thousands upon thousands of individuals, but not only US troops. You should provide medical care not only for the enemy soldiers but for the Iraqi women and children affected, and clean up all of the contamination in Iraq. And it’s not just children in Iraq. It’s children born to soldiers after they came back home. The military admitted that they were finding uranium excreted in the semen of the soldiers. If you’ve got uranium in the semen, the genetics are messed up. So when the children were conceived—the alpha particles cause such tremendous cell damage and genetics damage that everything goes bad. Studies have found that male soldiers who served in the Gulf War were almost twice as likely to have a child with a birth defect and female soldiers almost three times as likely. (03/28/03) 9:44:39 AM

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