In a talk at Harvard University’s JFK School of Government in February 2002, scholar Noam Chomsky quoted from the 1984 US Army Manual the definition of TERRORISM. It is “the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious or ideological in nature.” Chomsky said he uses this definition every time as he always uses the definitions of the “authorities” and bends over backwards to accommodate the “official statements” of the powers that be”.
From the US Army’s definition of Terrorism, George W. Bush is the world’s and even maybe history’s greatest TERRORIST. Bush, Jr., head of the world’s only superpower, terrorized the world when he threatened, “You are with us or against us.”
This was echoed by many of his supporters all over the world including Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who said something like “If you are against us, you are a terrorist.” His number one supporter was of course, Tony Blair.
BUTCHER OF AFGHANISTAN
George W. Bush, son of former CIA Director and former US President George H. W, Bush, blamed the destruction of the Twin Towers on Osama Bin Laden, a former CIA fundraiser for the mujahideen in Afghanistan against Russia. Because Bin Laden, a Saudi Arab, was residing in Afghanistan, Bush, Jr. overthrew the Taliban government which the CIA helped create and put in power and bombed the country to kingdom come killing countless people – men, women and children.
Mr. Bush blamed one man – Mr. Bin Laden. The Afghanistan government did not even prevent Mr. Bush from arresting Bin Laden. The Taliban were Bush’s allies. A few months previous to 9/11, Mr. Bush himself welcomed a Taliban delegation to the US. But instead of sending an FBI or CIA team to arrest the alleged criminal, he sent aircraft carriers, jets, thousands of troops, etc.
Yet seven years later, Mr. Bush’s men have butchered tens of thousands and made millions miserable, but they have not captured the man they allegedly came to get.
Of course, Mr. Bush’s friends got what they came for – petroleum (oil) and massive business contracts to allegedly rehabilitate the country as well as massive contracts for military equipment and services.
DESTROYER OF IRAQ
Mr. Bush’s friends, who got a taste of what it was like to be conquering heroes, wanted more — more oil, more contracts for military hardware and services, more contracts for infrastructure, etc. To oblige them, Mr. Bush the Liar, cooked up a scenario that only idiots would believe. He said that Saddam Hussein was in cahoots with Bin Laden.
Intelligent and knowledgeable people laughed. Saddam Hussein is a Baathist (akin to socialist) while Bin Laden is allegedly a Muslim fundamentalist. Unfortunately, most Americans and Westerners did not (and still do not) know that.
Then Mr. Bush forced even the good man Colin Powell to lie to the United Nations and tell the leaders there that Saddam Hussein has Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Notwithstanding Mr. Powell’s arguments, the United Nations disagreed with Mr. Bush. But Mr. Bush formed his own “Coalition of the Willing”, with his sidekick Tony Blair and some helpless countries like the Philippines. The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq “ILLEGAL”
BUSH THE TORTURER
For a country whose president (Jimmy Carter) put Human Rights as the guiding principle in its foreign policy, Mr. Bush deprived Americans of basic human rights like right to privacy with its wiretappings, surveillance, etc. in the name of “Homeland Security”. They could also be “interrogated”outside the country.
According to the Bush-Cheney doctrine, torture only occurs when it results to the death of the “interrogatee”. Water boarding, electro-shock treatments to the genitalia and other parts of the body are not torture if the person remains alive.
But even according to the very generous definition, Bush’s and Blair’s armies are guilty as at least one documented death due to torture has been published.
Bush’s name is now immortalized together with Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
See guantanamo video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1403370850111668271
BUSH THE BIG TIME SPENDER
Americans and Europeans are now reeling under a Financial Crisis and a Recession. This is mostly due to the policies of Mr. Bush. The Big Time Spender Bush has spent almost 600 Billion Dollars in Iraq alone. Add to that Afghanistan and it goes to almost a trillion dollars.
And to “bail out” the big financial firms, he authorized the spending of another 750 Billion dollars. This does not include the money given to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
BUSH, THE IDOL OF BLAIR
For the life of me, I could not understand how a seemingly unintelligent man could become the idol of a seemingly intelligent leader. Mr. Blair shamelessly fawned on Mr. Bush.
In the 1980s, I was amused when I read that then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has a word for then US President Ronald Reagan: “provincial”. Obviously, Thatcher was not awed by the superpower president. In the 2000s, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has a word for US President George W. Bush: “Idol”.
BUSH THE ILLUSIONIST
David Copperfield the illusionist made the Statue of Liberty disappear but only for a few minutes. George Bush the Illusionist made the World Trade Center Twin Towers, a building next to them (Building no. 7), and four jumbo jets disappear – forever.
Two jumbo jets allegedly hit the Twin Towers. Like magic, the towers collapsed very neatly as if it were a controlled demolition project. Not a trace of the two jumbo jets were found.
More amazingly, WTC Building 7 also collapsed in a similar manner as the Twin Towers. But it was not hit by a jumbo jet. There was not even a fire! It was pure magic performed by the The Great George Bush the Illusionist.
The Great Bush had the cooperation of his sidekick, Tony Blair. But it seems like the assistant made a blunder. BBC announced the collapse of Building 7 or the Salomon Brothers Building 23 minutes BEFORE it actually collapsed! The announcer was reporting the collapse of Building 7 when the building could be clearly seen behind her - - still intact.
See http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/260207building7.htm
The BBC reporter announced the collapse of Building 7 while the building was still standing (with arrow). The building collapsed at 5:20 pm EST.
Two more jumbo jets disappeared. One hit the Pentagon. The other crashed somewhere on its way to the White House. And again, by the magic of the Great Bush, there were no traces of the jumbo jets. The gigantic airplanes vanished into thin air. See http://www.serendipity.li/wot/wtc_other.htm
The Web is full of documentary evidence that 9/11 was a huge illusion act by the Great Bush, the magician. Just Google 9/11.
BUSH, THE YALE AND HARVARD MAN
Believe it or not, George W, Bush got his undergraduate degree from Yale and graduate degree from Harvard. Funny thing, a less prestigious law school refused to accept him. It makes one wonder.
Now, nobody can say that all Yale and Harvard graduates are intelligent. George W. Bush is clear proof that even in prestigious schools, money and power talk.
GOOD BYE, MR. BUSH, JR.
Finally, the world is rid of George W. Bush. May the world now live in peace and prosperity.
The US-Israel aggression in Gaza is a war crime. It is a systematic genocidal campaign against the Palestinians. More than six hundred are now killed, mostly women and children, thousands are wounded and one and a half million Palestinians in Gaza are living their worst nightmares.
The freedom-loving peoples of the world must clamor for a stop to this holocaust.
VENEZUELA EXPELS ISRAELI AMBASSADOR
Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, expelled the Israeli Ambassador and his staff from Caracas and called on the UN Security Council to "apply urgent and necessary measures to stop this invasion." Chavez was quoted saying. "How far will this barbarism go?…The president of Israel should be taken before an international court together with the president of the United States, if the world had any conscience."(See Venezuela expels Israeli ambassador over Gaza)
If only the Arab leaders have the balls of Hugo Chavez!
ISRAEL, MERE U.S. EXTENSION
Israel is not a truly independent sovereign state. It is a mere extension of the United States. Its military hardware is 100% supplied by the US. Its intelligence information is also supplied by the US and its diplomatic moves are orchestrated and approved in Washington, D.C.
According to the respected scholar Noam Chomsky, the Israeli air force is more modern and sophisticated than any NATO country. And, according to Dr. Chomsky, that is because Israel is the Middle East extension or military base of the US.
MESSIANIC COMPLEX
Echoing George Bush, Jr.’s Messianic vision for Iraq — invading Iraq was done to save the Iraqis for democracy and deliver them from Saddam Hussein–, the Israeli leaders shamelessly proclaim that they attacked Gaza to save the Palestinians in Gaza and deliver them from Hamas.
Bush, Cheney, Olmert, Livni and Shimon Peres are really in dire need of psychiatric treatment.
LAST TRICK (HULING HIRIT)
The clique who controls the Bush-Cheney administration are obviously playing their last trick before the start of the Obama administration. Theywant to achieve as much political mileage as they can (like destroying the Hamas party) and at the same time intimidating the incoming US President with the worst scenario they could think of.
WHERE ARE THE ARABS?
About 300 million Arabs in more than 20 countries could do NOTHING to help stop the massacre of their fellow Arabs. This is a crying shame! What is the Arab League doing? My Arab forebears must be turining in their graves right now.
And how about the non-Arab Muslim countries? They should at the very least follow President Chavez’s example and kick out the Israeli embassies from their countries. What is the OIC doing?
SOME HARD FACTS
The following is an article from allvoices.com
ISRAEL INVASION OF GAZA: SOME HARD FACTS
So far what we have seen and heard about the current crisis in Middle East, it is quite evident that Israeli government is at fault and are now being considered as the worst terrorists in the Middle East region.
Here are some hard facts:
Israeli claim that Hamas initiated the rocket attack is frivolous to say the least. These attacks are a direct consequence and retaliation to Israeli governments terror tactics of indiscriminately bombing targets within Palestine over the course of many months prior to this conflict. Those bombs have been responsible for countless deaths of civilians including women and children.
So far, only four Israelis have lost their lives since the conflict began. However, over 600 innocent civilians have been murdered and another 3,000 maimed by indiscriminate Israeli bombardment in Gaza. What is frightening is the fact that more than 50% of the victims are women and children. As the conflict continues the death toll among civilians will rise further. The hospitals are already over stretched to help the thousands of injured residents of Gaza as they stream in. They are running out of medicines and live saving drugs. It is truly a gigantic humanitarian crisis.
Gaza is a tightly packed area. In fact, one of the most dense areas in the world with over 100,000 people compressed into one square kilometer. Gaza is totally surrounded and enclosed by Israel. Which means nothing can go in or out without Israel’s permission. Gaza citizens are virtually imprisoned by Israel for the most part of this decade. Since 2007, Israel has not even let Palestinian Authority have any control over the area by their strict blockade. In short, Israel has not only caused a human rights violation but has provoked Hamas to take matters in their own hands. Imprisonment of free people and a nation by Israel in Gaza is analogous to a Nazi concentration camp. How can we let such a heinous crime go on for so long?
Israel has broken away and stalled from more peace talks than any other nation in the Middle East. They have failed to recognize Palestine and given them the right to live peacefully according to Oslo agreement of 1993 recognized by all parties including Israel itself. They have also not given back any territory to Palestine or accepted their right to live in their homeland. Today, Israel is using all its powers to stall United Nations from taking any positive action in implementing a ceasefire. It is once again proving without doubt that Israel is not interested in peace but only in a complete carnage and annihilation of Palestinian people.
Did you know that Israel has failed to acknowledge or live up to 90% of all United Nations resolutions in the Middle East. They have actually worked with their allies like US to block or veto them if they would ever reach the security council. Israel, does not want peace. They are seeking a war and war in which they would annihilate every living soul within Middle East.
Israel has let only 80 trucks with food, fuel and medicines into Gaza since the conflict began. Let me repeat, only 80 trucks for a population of over one million. So how long does Israel expect each human to live and eat? One bread per person for a whole week! No fuel, no medicines to treat thousands of sick, maimed and injured Palestinians. And of course, as no one can go to work due to the imposed war, how do the citizens earn a living? Truly, it is a sad state of affairs and a humongous humanitarian crisis.
There is no electricity, no water, no basic amenities for the citizens of Gaza since the conflict began in the last week of December. For the past two weeks the people have been starved, battered and pushed to the limit. The peaceful citizens have no place to run. They are imprisoned from all sides and are being targeted by the Israeli war machinery whose only aim is a genocide.
For every one Israeli dead, there are over 150 Palestinian dead. These numbers will only rise as Israel continues its illegal invasion of Gaza. They have even surpassed all terrorists in killing the highest number of civilians in a shortest possible time using government machinery. They are definitely the worst terrorists in Middle East. And the only nation not serious about peace in the whole region.
Those who continue to support this war and Israeli policies are but analogous to being termed as Nazis. Israeli government is bordering on becoming the modern Hitler to the people of Palestine. It is ironic that they are resorting to such Gestapo tactics of Nazi regime as they were the original victims.
Such irresponsible wars will not bring peace to the region. It will create yet more disgruntled and angry youth, who will take up arms and resort to violence to overcome the tyranny of Israel.
The world is standing by and doing nothing. Bush administration, as has been their policy of promoting death and destruction in the Middle East, has no intention to help the Palestinians but what about the rest of the world? Their intention to veto in United Nations Security Council gives us a clear indication that they would rather see death and destruction than peace in Middle East. Russians, Europeans and Arab leadership has done nothing except lip service. Even Chinese government has been quiet. The world is watching in horror as this holocaust is allowed to continue unabated.
One wrong does not make another right. If Hamas is being termed as the aggressor, the past two weeks have shown Israel is no different. Rather they are worse than Hamas as they murder and injure thousands of civilians. They deserve the same treatment as any terrorist organization.
Prime Minister of Israel should be charged with war crimes and be tried in the international court of justice. Every single general in the Israeli war machinery be tried in the same manner as were the Nazi military leadership after World War 2. Anything less will not be acceptable.
Since this is the start of the year, I look into my crystal ball and here is what I see:
Barack Obama to make great moves for a better world. Hopefully, he’ll do a Gorbachev, i.e., strip his country of imperialistic ambitions and create a more transparent (glasnost) American government. Perhaps he will give back some of the civil liberties the Americans had given up in the name of “Security”. He’ll close down the Guantanamo torture center.
Obama ran under the platform of Change. The time to make changes is this year.
End of US/UK - Iraq War
End of Afghanistan War. If this happens, it would not be because America wants to, but because the Taliban would have huge success in the battlefield and in Afghani politics.
Arab-Israeli War. The present Israeli “all-out war” in Gaza could escalate into a bigger war involving other Arabs. This year, a full-blown Arab-Israeli war is a great possibility.
There’ll be another world oil crisis brought about by the Middle east conflict.
Bangsa Moro struggle for self-determination to intensify and to reach new heights.
China vs US. The US would be increasingly paranoid over China.
Cuba vs US (End of Fidel Castro). US would try to redeem itself from the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Great advances in the space industry. We will be seeing another first in the space industry.
There’ll be technological advances in airline industry but there would be plane crashes, too.
Great advances in Genetic Engineering.
There’ll be riots in Europe to protest government actions, esp, in England
Harry Potter movie another blockbuster
More breakthroughs in computer industry. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs will continue to lord over the industry
Films: sci-fi and socially relevant films to be popular.
Stock markets to crash further in the US, Europe and Japan
A British royal would probably marry or die. Anyway, it will be all over the media
More political – corruption scandals in Philippines
More massive anti-government demonstrations this year (2009) which would determine whether there would be elections in 2010 or not.
MAY 2009 USHER IN PROSPERITY AND PEACE FOR ALL!
