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"Black Elk" |
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23 Aug 2005 08:09:59 PM |
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Neo-fascists-- Iraq is YOUR war. |
It defines who you are-- intellectually, emotionally and spiritually.
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Iraq: The Unseen War
By Gary Kamiya
Salon.com
Tuesday 23 August 2005
The grim reality of Iraq rarely appears in the American press. This photo
gallery reveals the war's horrible human toll.
This is a war the Bush administration does not want Americans to see.
From the beginning, the U.S. government has attempted to censor information
about the Iraq war, prohibiting photographs of the coffins of U.S. troops
returning home and refusing as a matter of policy to keep track of the
number of Iraqis who have been killed. President Bush has yet to attend a
single funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq.
To be sure, this see-no-evil approach is neither surprising nor new.
With the qualified exception of the Vietnam War, when images of body bags
appeared frequently on the nightly news, American governments have always
tightly controlled images of war. There is good reason for this. In war, a
picture really is worth a thousand words. No story about a battle, no matter
how eloquent, possesses the raw power of a photograph. And when it comes to
war's ultimate consequences - death and suffering - there is simply no
comparison: a photo of a dead man or woman has the capacity to unsettle
those who see it, sometimes forever. The bloated corpses photographed by
Matthew Brady after Antietam remain in the mind, their puffy, shocked faces
haunting us like an obscene truth almost 150 years after the soldiers were
cut down.
"War is hell," said Gen. Sherman, and everyone dutifully agrees. Yet the
hell in Iraq is almost never shown. The few exceptions - the charred bodies
of American contractors hanging from a bridge in Fallujah, the
blood-spattered little girl wailing after her parents were killed next to
her - only prove the rule.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082305O.shtml
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They Knew...
Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned
before the war that its Iraq claims were weak
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
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"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the
country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag
the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a
parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have
to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for
lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm
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"What good fortune for those in power that people do not think!"
- Adolf Hitler, as quoted by Joachim Fest.
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| User: "Topaz" |
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| Title: Re: Neo-fascists-- Iraq is YOUR war. |
24 Aug 2005 03:19:42 PM |
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In March 1937 Mussolini made a spectacular state visit to Libya, where
he opened a new military highway running the entire length of the
colon., He had himself declared protector of Islam and was presented
with a symbolic sword.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Libya/History
the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini arranged for Muslim notables
from Italian-ruled Libya to gird him with the "sword of Islam" during
a visit to Tripoli. "Muslims may rest assured," Mussolini intoned on
that occasion, "that Italy will always be the friend and protector of
Islam throughout the world." His foreign minister declared Muslim
values perfectly compatible with fascism: "The Islamic world, in
accordance with its traditions, loves in the Duce the wisdom of the
statesman united to the action of the warrior."74
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/90
Mussolini vows to help the Palestinian cause against the Jews.
http://www.stern.de/community/forum/thread.jsp?forum=35&thread=57402&message=840948
www.spearhead-uk.com http://www.natvan.com
http://www.thebirdman.org http://www.RealNews247.com
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