Title: "Visiting" Iraq
Author: Ace R. Hayes
Type: Commentary / Op-ed
Length: 1,046 words
Release Date: March 12, 2001
Contact: Husayn Al-Kurdi
phone: (503) 625-7692
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fax: (503) 625-6150"Visiting" Iraq
by Ace Hayes
(This is what the late Ace R. Hayes had to say about the war against Iraq on January 30th, 1991, at his "Secret Government Seminar", versions of which he held for over thirty years until his untimely death on February 13th, 1998. Hayes was editor and publisher of the Portland Free Press from 1993 to 1998.)
One cruise missile officially costs 1.32 million dollars. They admit now to having shot over 300 into Iraq. They might as well have taken that Tomahawk and fired it straight into the state of Oregon's higher education system. The State is going to be laying off professors, raising tuition, cutting back on building programs and reducing scholarships. Education, housing, health care -- all of the things we have a vested interest in are being trashed by the president of the United States.
We don't hear of civilian casualties in Iraq. I heard on short-wave radio that there were over 200,000 civilian casualties so far. Now that is what I would expect. The amount of explosives that are being dropped in an area the size of California adds up to the most intensive bombardment ever experienced in human history.
How many of us have heard the US Marine Corps. hymn, which starts "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli?" The shores of Tripoli refers to killing people in the Middle East over 200 years ago. The great moment memorialized as taking place in the "Halls of Montezuma" refers to a school for Mexican military students, Chapultepec castle, built on a promontory. Being blockaded by the invading Yankees, they refused to surrender, with scores of cadets leaping off the back side of the cliff to avoid doing so. And that is the typification of U.S. corporate imperialism around the world for the last century and more.
Those cruise missiles might as well be fired directly into housing in this country. We don't have money for housing, but we have money to carpet-bomb Iraq. Why is it we have money to carpet-bomb people half way around the world, but don't have money for housing at a time when millions of Americans are homeless?
We are up there at 40,000 feet with B-52s carpet-bombing people who can't even shoot back. How noble, how courageous, how virtuous is shooting fish in a rain barrel? And yet the briefings from the Pentagon babble on about "sorties." We don't bomb people -- we "visit" them. And we "re-visit" them if the first "visit" didn't do sufficient damage. They're starting to degrade language to the point where it'll be impossible to think about what's happening. If you can accept General Schwarzkopf's description of the most massive, savage bombing campaign in the history of the human species as a "visit," then what can't they get away with in both their actions and the language they use to cover up their tracks?
An eleventh Century feudal monarch with 80 wives, 20 Rolls Royces and a dozen gold Rolexes, who drops millions of dollars on a Monaco crap tables and whore tables is a democrat? Actually judging by the standards of the Bush family, H.H. the Emir of Kuwait, is no less of a "democrat" than they. Democracy means power to the people, a notion which makes the Bushes wince. They are for power to the elite. What we have is a kakistocracy, rule of the state by the worst persons in it. I equate it to a cesspool, where the biggest ones float to the top. We've got to stop entertaining the proposition that mama is a "sex therapist." She is a whore. This is an emotional problem we have in this country. We can't deal with reality because it's too threatening.
In the history of evil s.o.b.'s, George Bush ranks very high. You want evil people to have as little power as possible. In the case of George Bush, we have the unfortunate circumstance of having an extremely evil individual with power beyond the wildest imaginings of any despot in history. Why is it that twice as much cocaine came into the Untied States after George Bush was head of the South Florida Task Force on the Interdiction of Narcotics? The only member of the Bush family who is not a Mafia scumbag is the dog. George Jr. got to make $230,000 by selling his shares in a Middle Eastern oil company before the "naked aggression." This indicates that maybe he knew what was coming. The shares took a nosedive the day of the invasion. "W" had a three-month lead time.
The U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie told Saddam that the United States had no treaty with Kuwait and would consider it an Arab border issue and not take a stand should Iraq attack Kuwait. She stated that her instructions came directly from the Secretary of state. Saddam was snookered, set up -- he was the Marion Barry of the Middle East. This was all engineered.
I hope everybody knows what "read my lips" really means. In the real world, what it means is that he's been telling you to kiss his ass since Day One. "Read my lips" does not refer to those on one's face.
Peace and justice are ever-incompatible with autocratic control and extortion. Thus autocrats will inevitably create war and prevent justice. There IS a "New World Order"; however, the title is Delphic. It is a sly misdirection to the unsophisticated and gullible. In plain languages, there will be DISORDER, manipulated by a few for their own power and privilege at the expense of the many.
The elite has finally understood that resources are limited. Thus the elite has had to consider how best to exterminate the peasants no longer needed for production or consumption. Several basic procedures were developed:
1) Maximize population growth in precisely those populations which will exceed their environmental survival limits.
2) Exacerbate lethal conflict among all groups of people throughout the world.
3) Degrade all health, education and community resources which reduce morbidity and mortality.
4) Introduce pathogens to set off massive epidemics.
5) Reduce the bulk of the population to barbarism through de-education, de-culturalization and dehumanization so that they will more effectively exterminate each other.
Welcome to the "New World Order." Hope you survive it.
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