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REVOLUTIONARY AFRICAN TRUTH

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IRONIES AND IRRATIONALITIES IN IRAQ

{I dedicate this column to all of the American military soldiers who feel exactly as I do about the war in Iraq. I know that there are thousands who share my beliefs completely and precisely. They fight only because they are obligated to do so. I love America deeply and conditionally. My ancestors built America. Its soil is forever rich with centuries of their blood. I will never ever love America unconditionally. I pray daily for all of America’s soldiers and their families as they continue to make choices that could never be my own...}

As I watch planet Earth’s final and foremost superpower exert extreme and curious violence against Iraq, I am filled with intense sadness and horror. I am very proud to see so many rebels dare to protest this war. They have spoken or penned my sentiments exactly. I have delayed this column as I have nothing significantly new to say. But, I do have many lingering questions:

What is the real reason that Iraq was attacked? Why does King Shrub (President Select George W. Bush) have more alibis and cheerleaders for this war than O. J. Simpson had for the murders of Nicole Simspon and Ronald Goldman? If Iraq was attacked due to nuclear weapons, where are they? If Iraquis were attacked for housing Osama Bin Laden or other Al Quaeda agents, where are they? Where is Saddam Husein?

If none of the alleged reasons for the war have been fulfilled or exposed then how is the war over?

If alleged American fears of Iraq’s invisible nuclear bombs are real, could those fears be fueled by the fact that America is, to date, the only country that has actually ever exploded nuclear bombs? Was the Japanese leader of Hiroshima or Nagasaki an evil clone of Husein? Since Korea is actually flaunting nuclear bombs, why did King Shrub choose not to attack Korea?

Since America possesses nuclear weapons, is it right or fair to demand that all other countries be denied their right to do the very same?

If Iraq was attacked to free its people from an evil leader, then why have so many other countries been allowed to languish peacefully under other viciously oppressive leaders? Why have the Haitians, Sudanese, Palestinians, Bosnians, or Zimbabweans never been freed so dramatically from their evil leaders? Could it be that their leaders do not lord over any major oil reserves?

Why is America the only country bold enough to declare itself the global police? Are there any other countries considering similarly policing America? As many Americans despise King Shrub and we feel that he is oppressive, are there any countries planning to free us from our evil leader? Will any foreign leaders rescue oppressed Americans from poverty, bigotry, the prison industrial complex, the biological war of AIDS etc...? If so, will they attack American states with oil wells first?

How can King Shrub be brazen enough to declare war to free Iraqis, as he simultaneously declares war on the freedoms of Americans who are black or poor or voters or gay? Are his attacks upon affirmative action, the impoverished, national political election processes, all civil liberties, and homosexual humanity any less brutal than his annihilation of Iraqis?

How do you simultaneously murder and feed people? What is the proper sequential procedure for the simultaneous insertion of gauze and bread into bleeding and wounded mouths?

How many American soldiers enlisted only to obtain living wages or tuition? Did they truly willingly trade their lives for medical benefits and text books? Is a nominal salary worth the cost of one’s life and soul or the life of a single capriciously designated fellow human target?

If a radio station programmer refuses to play music by the “Dixie Chicks” because one brave group member dared to ”make entertainment political”, is that radio station programmer not daring to do the exact same thing? Is this media mimicry punishment or redundancy?

Are hypocrisy and blindness both synonymous with patriotism? Must one condone gangster politics, turbo capitalism, or mass murders to demonstrate love for one’s country?

Does anyone really fully grasp the political significance of formal and public blacklists in Hollywood? As life is eternal, is Joe McCarthy’s soul smiling about the new brand of rabidly selective censorship in Hollywood? Was the recent Oscar broadcast and the silencing therein not akin to a high tech regression or time warping special effect? Why is it OK for celebrities to practice free speech only when it is pro-war? Why should free speech be restricted only to warmongers and rabid Republikkkans?

I pray...incessantly. I pray for clarity beneath the thickening fog of propaganda. I pray for honesty beneath the global lies of insatiable greed. I pray for all of the soldiers who know the whole truth about the slaughters that they endure and enact under order...

King Shrub is arguably the most evil president select ever. His war upon Iraq is an evil slaughter for oil. The karmic debt that he has incurred in our collective names will be paid by collective global fallout. Watch the skies as you watch his lies.

Today, Iraq is the target. Who will suffer under King Shrub’s next edicts tomorrow? Who will our selected president select to destroy next? Who will dare to tell our emperor that his evil deeds are naked? Speak now or forever betray Peace...


First They Came for the Jews

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller, 1845


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