It is always nice to hear from someone who has been inside the savage beast of corruption, what you already know, it adds that little bit more weight to the view that the system stinks from top to bottom.
Showing posts with label Iraq war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq war. Show all posts
Sunday 16 October 2016
Wednesday 31 August 2016
The Voice of An Imerialist Soldier.
We all know, or should know that the invasion of Iraq was based on a false picture, an illusion created by the Western imperial states and propagated by that vile babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media. However it is still good to keep hearing it, and driving home the truth, that wars are about resources, power and wealth for that secret cabal sitting in the marble halls of power.
I saw this personal account of the vile nature that inevitably creeps into the individuals that find themselves caught up in these imperialist brutal wars, on the arrezafe site.
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Monday 26 December 2011
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED -- AGAIN!!!
In 2003 George W. Bush stood in all his military regalia and with
that daft Hollywood salute proudly stated, “Mission accomplished”,
which was his announcement telling the world that the war in Iraq was
over and they had won. Here we are in 2011 and Obama has announced
that the US troops are leaving Iraq, the war is over and they have
won, "Mission accomplished", again. Well it is now true, they have won, they have won the oil and
that was what it was all about, the rest is of no consequence to our corporate world. What price have the people of Iraq
had to pay for this Western oil adventure? What sort of country is
Iraq now, after the West has “liberated” them? Saddam was no
angel, but who is that rules over a country? Under his rule there was
a considerable movement to get more women to participate in the
affairs of society. His government was a secular government and
didn't tolerate religious fundamentalists. From 1970 to 1980 the
Iraqi economy grow by 11.7%, this after they finally nationalised the
oil, which was the real problem with the West, they don't allow
nationalised oil. The economic growth all came to an end with the
Iraq/Iran war, aided and abetted by the US. The first Gulf war and
the 10 years of sanctions imposed by the West, all but destroyed the
country. The death toll from the sanctions varies form 500,000
upwards. One comment made about two years ago by a young Iraqi tells
us something of what they might be thinking, "When the
Americans started this whole war issue, we started to see the light
at the end of the tunnel, and we walked toward it. But when the war
happened, that light was the American train coming the other way that
ran us over."
What has more than 8 years of occupation
cost? In cash terms it has cost the USA over $1 trillion, roughly
about $5,000 a second. In coalition deaths, over 5,000, and in
injured approaching 40,000. One other figure that doesn't seem to get
much headlines is the fact that 30% of US troops suffer some form of
mental illness within 3 to 4 months of going home. No matter what it
cost those troops of the coalition it fades when compared to what the
Iraqi people have suffered and they didn't ask to be “liberated”.
Estimates, and that is all we can get as nobody seemed to be
interested in recording the true numbers, of Iraqi civilian deaths
vary from 600,000 to 1 million. Those Iraqis displaced but remaining
in Iraq number approximately 3 million, those displaced to Syria and
Jordan approximately 3 million. Those Iraqis injured, the number is
just not available and would dwarf any of the figures already given.
We
could say the war is over so everything is fine, but unemployment is
running about 60%, child chronic malnutrition approximately 30%. The
number of hours that the average Iraqi has electricity to their homes
(Ryan Crocker, US Ambassador to Iraq 2007) 1 to 2 hours. The number
of Iraqi homes connected to sewer system 37%.
Another tragedy of this war is that
just prior to the war Iraq had 34,000 physicians, today it is less
than 12,000, though the need today is far greater than ever. One
poll shows that 82% of Iraqis are “strongly opposed to the presence
of the coalition troops. Only 1% believe that the coalition forces
are responsible for any improvements in security. 67% feel less
secure because of the occupation and 72% have no confidence in the
coalition forces.
In
your own analysis, do these figures look like a success story, does
it look like the “liberation” of a people? Or does it look like
the decimation of a country and its people for the sole reason of
getting our hands on that nationalised oil?
Wednesday 26 January 2011
BEST ACTOR AWARD!!!!
I know it's a week or so late but I just couldn't resist this one, I nicked it from that wonderful vibrant bunch at SchNews
The only reason he is not playing at the Royal Shakespeare Company is he is far too expensive. In all honesty we shouldn't pock fun at him, he is far too dangerous and should be taken more seriously, like for example through a war crimes tribunal.
Saturday 15 January 2011
WORKERS KNOW YOUR HISTORY - IRAQ.
January 16 marks the twentieth anniversary of “Desert Storm”, a massive American bombardment against the Iraqi civilian population, mainly around Baghdad the Iraqi capital. The bombing consisted of more than 100,000 sorties dropping more than 85,500 tonnes of bombs. It was the precursor to the the first American lead invasion of Iraq. After this first invasion the people of Iraq suffered more than 10 years of American lead economic sanctions, during which it is estimated that over 500,000 Iraqi children died as a result of these sanctions. This was followed by Operation “Southern Watch” which began in August 1992, operation “Vigilant Warrior" began 1994, then “Desert Strike, 1996 which expanded the “no-fly zone over parts of Northern Iraq, then of course there was operation “Desert Fox” which was a 4 day bombing campaign that started on December 16 1998.
It is estimated that between 1992 and 2001, 2 years before the so called war on Iraq is supposed to have started, American and allied pilots flew over Southern Iraq some 153,000 times. The Americans have never stopped military operations in Iraqi over the last 20 years and have been meddling in Iraqi internal affairs since they helped put Saddam Hussein in power in 1963. That is 48 years of the Iraqi people have been suffering because of American Imperialism. So don't accept the myth that is peddled that the Iraq war is heading for its 8th anniversary, it is 48 years of American meddling of which 20 years has been brutal military oppression.
They are still there, still exerting their military might on the Iraqi people. Think of a generation growing up their entire lives spent under these conditions, will they have any love of the Western world? The people of Iraq must be allowed to determine the future of their own country without the interference of Western Imperialism lead by the American military machine. The Iraqi people have suffered a brutal hell because of US policy through four different US Presidents, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and now Obama. The Iraqi people have suffered more than enough, they have the right to SELF determination, not forced to live their lives according to some Western ideology.
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