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With the Toronto Sun, you are either anti-Slavic and working class (e.g., Eric Margolis), anti-Muslim and working class (e.g., Lorrie Berstein), or just pure anti-working class. But, whatever the case, every Toronto Sun "reporter" specializes in some sort of lie. On 5 Dec 01, at 21:44, Nancy Hey wrote: > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------- > > The anti-Slavic racism in this piece by Margolis is so thick you could > cut it with a knife! > > Peacefully yours, > Nancy Hey > > Miroslav Antic wrote: > > > > > > > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > > --------------------------- > > > > > Published on Sunday, December 2, 2001 in the Toronto Sun > Bush's Inexperience is Showing > Dire Threats Emanating from Washington Have Horrified > America's Allies > by Eric Margolis > > Crusades are messy, bloody affairs, and it's often hard to > tell the good guys from the bad guys. > > Exhibit A: Afghanistan, where the United States just > suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the wily > Russians. Happily for the White House, neither the media nor > the American public understand what just happened. They > continue to cheer on the president, who is mighty thankful > he is leading a jolly little war against Muslims instead of > having to explain to voters why the economy is nose-diving > and hundreds of thousands are losing their jobs. > * The Northern Alliance is not a merry band of pro-American > freedom fighters battling the wicked Taliban, but a Russian > front organization run by leaders of the revived Afghan > Communist party. It has also reopened the heroin trade the > Taliban had shut down. > > The Alliance proclaimed itself Afghanistan's legitimate > government last week. Moscow recognized the Alliance, and > rushed "advisers" and troops into Afghanistan. > > On Sept. 11, Alliance forces were a mere 10,000 men. A month > later, it fielded 30,000 with an array of Russian armour and > artillery. It's likely regular troops from neighbouring > Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan - all Russian > satellite states - were sent into Afghanistan. > > OIL AND GAS RESOURCES > * Russia now dominates Afghanistan, thus reversing its > historic defeat of the 1980s, shutting the U.S. and Pakistan > out of Central Asia, and ensuring future Russian control of > the Caspian Basin's oil and gas resources. Bush was too busy > trying to "smoke out" outlaws Osama bin Laden and Mullah > Omar to notice his new best friends, the Russians, had > drygulched him and grabbed the lion's share of Afghanistan. > * The much ballyhooed Afghan unity conference in Germany last > week, hailed by the U.S. and UN as a "breakthrough" and the > beginning of a viable "democratic" government in > Afghanistan, was a farce. > > The U.S., UN, and Europe are waiting to shower tens of > millions in aid on a "new," non-Islamic Afghanistan. The > Northern Alliance realize they need a few women and some > toothless royalists to create the illusion of a multi-party > government in order to cash in on western aid. Armed, > supplied and guided by the Russian Army and KGB, the > Alliance remains the real power in Afghanistan. > * Last week, hundreds of Taliban prisoners of war were > reportedly massacred in the Mazar-E-Sharif fort by soldiers > of communist warlord Rashid Dostam, assisted by U.S. and > British special forces, and air strikes by U.S. warplanes. > Our side says the prisoners tried to break out and had to > die. Some more neutral observers claim the prisoners were > murdered en masse. Amnesty International is calling for an > investigation. U.S. troops also watched while 140 Taliban > prisoners were executed in southern Afghanistan. > > The U.S has been using fuel-air munitions that rights > organizations claim are inhumane weapons that should be > banned. > * Last week, bin Laden's holy war syndrome seemed to infect > the White House. Bush proclaimed a new jihad against Saddam > Hussein, warning Iraq was next on his hit list. Saddam was > moved into the terrorist column by Bush for allegedly > planning to produce weapons of mass destruction to threaten > his neighbours. The president forgot to mention Israel and > India, who have also threatened their neighbours with > nukes. > > While Bush was preaching a new crusade against Iraq, other > high administration officials were warning that Iran, Libya, > Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Somalia and even Pakistan might be > added to Bush's jihad list. A decade ago, this would have > been called warmongering. Now, the frightful Sept. 11 > attacks on the U.S. are being used to justify all sorts of > adventures abroad, and the curtailment of civil rights and > free speech at home. > > Bush's anti-Muslim crusading policy is being advocated by a > group of Dr. Strangeloves, hardline "neo-conservatives" - > the Washington chapter of Ariel Sharon's far-right Likud > party. They want to use America to destroy all of Israel's > enemies and block peace between Israelis and Palestinians. > > RESTRAINT > > Sensible Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and the > administration's sharpest mind, Secretary of State Colin > Powell, are trying to restrain the Sharonistas, who seem > dangerously close to convincing Bush to launch a crusade > against much of the 1.2-billion-person Islamic world. They > failed with clever Bill Clinton, but are succeeding with the > unworldly Bush. > > America's European, Asian and Muslim allies are horrified by > the dire threats emanating from Washington, but so far no > one has dared to publicly break ranks and tell the president > to holster his sixguns and simmer down. America is not > refighting World War II. > > In fact, it is not even at war, since none has been declared > by Congress. It is fighting a handful of small but deadly > international criminal organizations. This is not D-Day, nor > the Alamo, and certainly no reason to launch America on the > 21st century's first world war. > > Copyright © 2001, Canoe Limited Partnership > > ### > > > > > > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
