Date: June 28, 2005 1:37:39 PM PDT
Subject: [Spy News] Fallujah massacre and tsunami: hypocrisy and double standards
Fallujah massacre and tsunami: hypocrisy and double standards
Farhat Quammaquami, Tehran Times On-line
June 28, 2005
After the Thanksgiving massacre in Fallujah, which marked the beginning of
Death Squad Democracy in Iraq for the first time, ABC News broadcast a
sanitized report from the city of one thousand mosques. The most beautiful
city in Iraq laid in ruin and of the 300,000 original residents only a mere
8000 were actually struggling in the ruble of a city devastated by the
Imperial Tsunami.
Although our deep affection and sympathy towards the victims of the tsunami
must not distract us from our deep resentment and condemnation of the
nightmare that has been imposed on Iraq by the United States, it seems the
corporate mass media has become the publicity agent of the U.S. government
in order to divert world public opinion from the U.S. atrocities in Iraq.
A critical analysis of the propagated information about the tsunami gives
credence to our view that the media’s position is turning into a political
smoke screen, covert propaganda, and a publicity stunt of our corporate
rulers to shape world public opinion towards the corporate benevolence and
divert public attention from the tragedy in Iraq. The reality is that there
have been over 100,000 deaths, millions uprooted, and hundreds of mosques
destroyed as a result of the U.S. neocolonial invasion of Iraq which has a
population of 24 million. Yet, the covert propaganda machine of the media
diverted attention to the tsunami, which had 147,000 deaths in a population
area of 2.5 billion people. Iraq has proportionally lost 100 times more
lives than Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, disasters must be compared
proportionately and we should not allow the covert propaganda of the U.S.
media about a natural disaster to distort the reality of premeditated mass
murder of the people of Fallujah.
No one has ever seen a vivid report of how the U.S. forces separated all
males of military age in Fallujah from their families, who were forced out
of the city, then were hunted down like stray dogs and murdered in cold
blood. We had been inundated, daily, by vivid reports of the effects of the
tsunami immediately all over the world by the corporate media, yet as Sheik
Abbas al-Zubeini of Fallujah told IRIN: “The world should see the real
picture of Fallujah.”
Indeed, it’s been months since the “Thanksgiving Massacre” of Fallujah in
2004, which took place in memory of the first Thanksgiving Massacre of 700
Pequot Indians in 1637, and the world has yet to see an investigative report
from the scenes of death and destruction in Fallujah. All we know is that
the “city of a thousand mosques” was demolished so brutally that residents
spoke of even dogs not being able to live there. In the words of Captain
Paul Fowler to the Boston Globe: “The only way to root them out is to
destroy everything in your path.”
The “liberators” of Fallujah have not shown one picture of their presumed
“liberated” population. Their proclaimed aim of rescuing Fallujah from Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi was as phony and illusive as their overt propaganda about
Iraq’s WMD. Indeed the 300,000 people of Fallujah have disappeared from the
world radar scene. No one knows how many were murdered. The world has
forgotten the pains and suffering of citizens of this beautiful city, and
while the UN assistance is pouring for the natural tsunami, no UN agency has
bothered to help the suffering masses of Fallujah.
Indeed, a U.S.-made tsunami of bombs and missiles has been pounding the
small country of Iraq every day for two years, with more than 100,000 dead
and millions of displaced people, and the U.S. forces have successfully
prevented any report or body counts. The natural tsunami was over in one day
with virtually no long-lasting effects or long-term heath hazards to the
affected population, whereas the U.S. warplanes have dropped a half million
pounds of depleted uranium on Iraq, affecting the health, reproductive
organs, and well-being of millions of Iraqis for generations to come. The
tsunami destroyed shacks and flimsy beach houses whereas the U.S. invasion
forces in Fallujah destroyed the city of a thousand mosques and displaced
300,000 people. Why do the mass media not show the faces, lives, and the
cries for help of murder victims in Iraq?
Why is there a conspiracy of silence about Iraq, with nobody talking? On the
other hand, the mass media were fascinated by the feeding frenzy over the
tsunami, and the meager U.S. humanitarian assistance to its victims. Did the
tsunami provide the cover under which the suffering people of Iraq would be
buried? Suddenly, the covert propaganda machine of the American corporations
and American government found in the tsunami their greatest ally, not only
to try to put Christianity over Islam but also giving it an opportunity to
expand their business and global control overseas by improving the U.S.
image abroad.
While the whole world was mesmerized by their TV sets watching the images of
the tsunami in Aceh and Sri Lanka, U.S. invaders continued their campaign of
death and destruction in Fallujah, Mosul and elsewhere in Iraq at the rate
of one billion dollars every four days. Instead of condemning their own
government for their brutal campaign of terror and occupation of Iraq, the
U.S. media are condemning the Muslim world for not pledging enough help to
tsunami victims. The Muslim charities have been prevented from helping
anyone in Iraq and the Western media are wondering why the Muslim nations
are not pledging more money and pouring more help to the tsunami-stricken
world? U.S. forces are not letting any independent reporters inside
Fallujah, where they have put thousands of people in mass graves to
eliminate every trace of evidence of mass murder and destruction, while the
media showed pictures of the tsunami to desensitize the public toward death
and destruction.
The media has a great responsibility to expose the imperial design and to
not let the daily coverage by the corporate media bury the atrocities of the
U.S. invasion and colonial occupation of Iraq.
Unlike the natural tsunami, the Imperial Tsunami of death, destruction,
carnage, and torture is not producing any pictures or videos because every
unbiased reporter has been intimidated, murdered, exiled, bought out, or
banished from Iraq. As human beings we are responsible to become the voice
of the voiceless. We owe it to the brave people of the beautiful city of
Fallujah, who resisted the imperial domination of their country and were
murdered while defending their land, their homes, their dignity, their
families, and their honor against the shameless neo-crusaders.
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