- operation iraqi liberationthe level of ignorance is incredible and almost unbearable. everyday, we receive news from allied casualties, but we see this ass-monkey bush grin into cameras, when giving interviews on the state of affairs. us-media casualties always are lower than on any other tv-station’s report and essentially they occur one day later and under totally different circumstances. as i said it before, i am glad to have the www and manifold european and overseas‘ news media at my disposal to get as close to truth as possible. still, i believe that every american citizen should spend at least 30 minutes a day reading what the world’s papers write, not only what us propaganda tells them. take for example the latest blooper of us marines who attacked a convoy of iraqi refugees, including mothers and children, in the best rambo-manner. the cars were perforated with gunshots – and so were the bodies of 12 innocent, non-threatening iraqi humans. luckily, mark franchetti, a reporter from london’s sunday times, enriches the world with his article on that incident and teaches us what it means to have the world’s greatest army: „[…] Their mistake was to flee via a brigde of strategic importance for the supplylines of the coalition – running into a group of scared to death young american marines who had order to shoot everything that moves.“ phantastic! impressive! — what really strikes me is that the invasion of the world’s greatest army does not work out as planned. again and again, they receive proof for what i said from the beginning: you cannot simply pack your bags, invade another country and assume that you will be welcomed with open arms and that regime-averse groups and parties become allies! maybe the us have a false understanding of war, but who can reproach a nation for rejecting and fighting against the path towards the chance of a better life without a tyrannically regime at some time in the future while strangers invade your fatherland, bombs destroy your city, rockets and missiles hit your house, and bullets kill your family? every status quo is better than being bombed and killed. as a matter of fact, it’s our natural impulse to defend our lives to every kind of threat that appears.
„the west won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. westerners often forget this fact, non-westerners never do.“
– Samuel P. Huntington
now, mr rumsfeld, shouldn’t you better have listened to you generals and military experts? as read in an australian paper, many casualties could have been avoided if planning would have been better. besides, as often controverted by us officials, the supply of troops is everything but perfect. being of particular interest to a logistics-student that i am, armies can theoretically move up to 300km (absolute maximum) into a country. then, they must have a logistics center with a well-working distribution network in order to move on. now, what kind of plan is it to move to baghdad via the iraqi motorways, avoiding enemy contact wherever possible and let supplying trucks follow days after?! as seen on german television, in an interview a marine said he was glad to receive his first warm meal in 3 days….. — yesterday night, i could have puked over the incredible, unthinkable ignorance of dutch youths debating in a tv-program over the war. this, my friends was the most idiotic, european-continental bullshit coming out of people who are of my age that i have ever witnessed. it is no secret that the netherlands are heavily ass-kissing with the us. but how they spill us propaganda bullshit arguments all over the country and even into schools really scares me. wouldn’t the program have been in dutch, i would have felt like following the president of the poor people of the united states himself. if balkenende & co want to forget who buys 90% of dutch exports and what is more important, the one voice of a united europe or the big cowboy, go ahead, but leave it to your otherwise so liberal people to get an accurate picture of what operation iraqi liberation really means. if europe is ever to gain the power in the world it earns because of manifold motives, then we should now use this kind of shock therapy and move towards that goal. — to round up today’s blog, i present the most insane sentence i have heard for long (though everything in this war is insane):
„the iraqi people are diseased – and we are the chemotherapy. i begin hating this country.“
– us marine subofficer.
for your readings:
bush administration readyring for 2004 invasion of iran
warblogging.com
warblogs.cc
iraqbodycount.net
back to iraq 2.0
where is raed? (blog from baghdad)
al jazeera english pages (down quite a lot)