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Post by james on Nov 5, 2005 12:24:56 GMT 4
Originaly posted Fountainhead blog, By Anwaar Hussain. Thursday, August 18, 2005
The Irony is…
The irony is that when you are pro-war and anti-peace you are ‘Right’ but when you are pro-peace and anti-war you are ‘Left’.
By Anwaar Hussain
The irony is that the world’s biggest hoarder of weapons of mass destruction, the United States of America, moralizes sitting smugly atop huge heaps of these and threatens to lay waste to any other country even dreaming of these.
The irony is that the rationale given for all those WMDs was the Cold War yet the USA continues to deploy 6000 nuclear warheads fifteen years after the end of Cold War.
The irony is that the only ever user of the nuclear weapons, the USA, blames countries not even possessing these of having intent to use them and chaperons the only other country, Israel, that has them and openly threatens their use.
The irony is that North Korea has been shouting from the rooftops for the past so many years that its nuclear program is weapons oriented yet Iran’s declaredly peaceful nuclear program is being targeted.
The irony is that Israel, a state bristling with nuclear weapons, not a signatory to nuclear pacts and baring its nuclear fangs at the slightest of provocations, becomes the prime accuser against Iran. A double irony is that she openly urges the United States to attack Iran without an undue delay and her suggestion apparently falls melodious on certain American ears.
The irony is that Iraq is being blown into smithereens for violating a few trumped up UN resolutions yet Israel, the world’s record holder of violations of UN resolutions, does not even get a rap on the knuckles.
The irony is that the biggest user of chemical weapons, 70 million liters of Agent Orange in Vietnam (1962-1971), the USA accused Iraq of using such weapons against Kurds. A double irony is that those chemical weapons, four deadly strains of Anthrax, were handed over to Saddam from United States’ military Bio Weapons Lab in Fort Dedtrik.
The irony is that the US claims to be the chief champion of democracy the world over and yet was, and continues to be, the biggest friend and sponsor of the most crooked and brutal dictators the world over. Idi Amin of Uganda, General Augusto Pinochet of Chile and Pol Pot of Cambodia are just three names out of more than two dozen such names. A double irony is that, yes, Saddam Hussain of Iraq too was once America’s bosom buddy.
The irony is that in 1983 Donald Rumsfeld, that shuffling little man with a brief case, presented Saddam Hussain a pair of golden spurs as a gift from the government of United States yet is now the most avowed enemy of the ousted Saddam.
The irony is that Iraq’s Saddam Hussain was first ordered through the UN to destroy what few weapons he was left with then attacked when he was disarmed.
The irony is that the US has killed over a million Iraqis in the past decade or so and yet does not tire of advancing the banner of its great liberating tradition the world over.
The irony is that principal champions of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, the United States of America, became the architects of the darkest dungeons in Guantanamo Bay.
The irony is that the despite being the most traditional castigator of human rights violators before the United Nations each year, the United States’ own record of transgressions of civil liberties including arbitrary detentions, torture, renditions and abuse of prisoners of war in Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan, shames even those of certain banana republics in the Third World.
The irony is that the current President of United States is able to force his nomination of John Bolton to the same UN, a man known for affectionately keeping a mock grenade in his office and being on record for having said that "there is no such thing as the United Nations" and later that "if the UN Secretariat building in New York lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." A double irony is that there is nary a peep from the Democrats’ Representatives, by now well versed in the fine art of rolling over.
The irony is that the country that holds itself as the “land of freedom” incarcerates a higher percentage of its own citizens, around two million men and women, than any other country in the world.
The irony is that the United States ranks no.1 worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions yet within days of taking office in 2001 the incumbent US administration decided not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty to reduce greenhouse gases.
The irony is that America’s comic side kick, the Great Britain, once the biggest imperialists of them all that traveled far and wide to colonize peoples all over the world and slaughtered millions of innocent human beings in the process now feigns hurt at the loss of 54 of its own innocent citizens.
The irony is that the United States and Great Britain produce the full range of chemical and biological weapons, export them to dictators the world over and then attack the ones who fall from their favor for possessing such weapons.
The irony is that the world over the United States wants to disarm the unarmed yet continues to arm itself to the teeth by spending almost half of the entire world's military spending on its own defense. A double irony is that despite having the most fearsome military machine on planet earth, it attacks the most defenseless of countries e.g. Afghanistan and Iraq.
The irony is that in the 80s, to decimate the occupying Russian military juggernaut in Afghanistan, the United States raised, groomed and nurtured the Osamas and the Zarqawis and called them heroes. Yet now they term their own self created heroes as ‘terrorists’.
The irony is that the United States has terrorized unarmed civillian populations in no less than 67 places on the globe since WW II and dropped over a hundred million tons of bombs on foreign lands over the last 50 years yet calls a single suicide bomber as the ‘terrorist’.
The irony is that a former slave, the United States of America, has become a party to its former master, the Great Britain, and they together now hunt for new territories and peoples to vanquish.
The irony is that despite telling the American nation lies of almost mythical proportions regarding Saddam’s WMDs, his links to Al Qaeda and 9/11, and which are now fully exposed, the current US president continues to be believed by a significant portion of the US population.
The irony is that a man, who dodged the draft for fear of trudging the silent jungles of Vietnam with a rifle, is now the supreme Commander of the same Armed Forces that he avoided getting into.
The irony is that this Supreme Commander now refuses to see a grieving mother, whose son’s life was brought to a violent end in the sham war in Iraq, with the words that, “I have to get on with my own life”. A double irony is that Cindy Sheehan, the mother of that dead American soldier, is being called a fraud by the Bush supporters rather than calling the Iraq War a fraud that has now been proven as such beyond any shadow of doubt. A triple irony is that a woman who has lost her flesh and blood is being hounded by the American free press, and the Right wingers, and the corporate scoundrals who have gained every thing from this war are being extolled.
The irony is that when you are pro-war and anti-peace you are ‘Right’ but when you are pro-peace and anti-war you are ‘Left’.
The ultimate irony is that there are too many people in this world fully aware of all these ironies yet they do nothing but sit on their hands and repeat ad nauseam, ‘the irony is that….’
By Anwaar Hussain
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Post by by proxi on Nov 5, 2005 12:50:16 GMT 4
Comments: Anonymous said... The real irony is that even if you could get this information into the heads of every man and woman in the United States, the majority simply do not care. And herein lays the real problem. In the end what is deserved always gets served and there is not a damn thing you, I or anyone else who DOES care can do about it. Not until the blood of many many more has first been spilled. This does not mean that I won’t die trying. Have a nice day :-) 10:41 PM Evelyn said... The irony is that we are so suffocated with lies and perversions and false gods that the meaning of 'irony' escapes us. Anwaar, your catalogue of ironies is comprehensive and accurate - I'm sorry to say. Were that there were nothing to catalogue. Thank you for continuously telling the truth. 11:14 PM Eve said... Dear Anwaar, Terrific, one of your best. Heartiest congratulations. Unfortunately the world will keep on sitting on its collective hands as long as the USI is allowed to keep its incredible war machinery which can and does annihilate all who dare to oppose it. The only thing left out of the ironies is the fact that the guttersnipe, lying Anglosaxons are still bleating about "democracy" whilst practicing Stalinist totalitarianism at home and abroad. Elections, the rule of the majority and other pretty sounding slogans blind and brainwash moronic voters into casting useless pieces of papers into urns "choosing" between one Skull and Bone masonic billionaire and another. Ditto for Lord Bliar v. the Rumanian Jew Howard. Ditto for our Howard and the fat Teddy Bear. The biggest irony is "democracy" and "our way of life". The latter is of course nothing but a pathetic and empty robot existence, strangely undesirable to other races. What I would like to know is WHY doesn`t any western country have a half way effective opposition? Why did we sink into a one party dictatorship the world over? Is there a percievable difference between the AIPAC ruled Bush administration and that of ,say, North Korea? Is it possible that in the US, UK, Australia and other "enlightened" western countries we simply run out of brain power, talent and even the trace of ideals? Is it possible that more than half a century of mis-education and dumbing down achieved the results desired by its architects and our world is populated by Beta Minuses? Kindest regards Eve Metz 11:44 PM Michelle L. Zewe said... We are at a point where war is constantly on the agenda in Washington. In the front lines of the pro-war crowd are an assorment of politicians, generals, and corporate excecutives who will give us noble and selfless reasons for war: democracy, freedom, justice, and peace. In reality it is for: contracts, markets, natural resources, and power. If there is anything on earth, more than any other,which resembles hell, it is war. Stated by a US special forces officer in Afganistan, Feb. 2002: "We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation." Please read THE GATES OF HELL by: Jamal Mudhafar, 8/7/05 and see for yourself what this war, in reality, has accomplished at: www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=opinion%5c2005-08-08%5c10477.htm 12:05 AM Michelle L. Zewe said... This post has been removed by a blog administrator. 12:06 AM Mel said... It's time to call this off. The US government spokespersonsn have zero credibility -- too many lies and too many bodies now to believe anything they say. Call it off. The blood on our hands will never wash off, of course, but that doesn't mean we cannot stop and attire ourselves in sackcloth and ashes. And then put Bush on trial for war crimes (I think that would go a long way towards making amends, especially if he received capital punishment! What better way to say you are sorry and show that you mean it!) 12:28 AM Jon said... How does the Lord say it, "The love of money, is the root of all sorts of evil." Its been this way from ancient days right through to today, "nothing new under the sun", says the preacher. The cast of character changes, but the story stays the same, when will the average person, quit idolizing other people, and think for themselves, and act in their own best interests. People are basically stupid, is a conclusion I draw from history, and if they don't smarten up fast, this whole beautiful world is going to be blown right out from underneath us all. Jon 5:54 AM Anonymous said... The real irony is that the right of the people to criticize our government is protected by the same people who some use their supposed free speech right to viciously attack. Well, sedition isn't freedom of speech. And when the next 9-11 happens people are going to realize that too. Perhaps all you liberals don't realize the anger that is out there against you. You are isolated in your little circle of liberal friends and might think that everyone thinks the way you and your friends do. Well, they don't. People are getting upset. They aren't upset enough to do anything. Not yet. But when the next 9-11 happens, this anger will be focused upon the left. They will finally get what they deserve. 6:21 AM Michelle L. Zewe said... Anonymous, Just exactly do you mean when you say we will get what we deserve? Come on, show your true colors. Such anger in you! "The man who is at perfect ease is never suspicious, but the disturbed and discontented spirit is upset by many a suspiction. He neither rests himself nor permits others to do so. He oftens says what ought not to be said and leaves undone what ought to be done. He is concerned with the duties of others but neglects his own." "Direct your zeal, therefore, first upon yourself; then you may with justice exercise it upon those about you. You are well versed in coloring your own actions with excuses which you will not accept in others, though it would be more just to accuse yourself and excuse your brother. If you wish men to bear with you, you must bear with them. Behold, how far you are from true charity and humility which does not know how to be angry with anyone, or to be indignant save only against self!" From: The Imitation Of Christ 7:17 AM Anonymous said... Michelle L. Zewe said... If you wish men to bear with you, you must bear with them. Behold, how far you are from true charity and humility which does not know how to be angry with anyone, or to be indignant save only against self!" It would be lovely if you could have Bush all to yourself, bear with him and give him your charity. The world does not need him and what he is doing to it. 7:46 AM Roger Clark said... This post has been removed by a blog administrator. 9:06 AM Anwaar Hussain said... I am finding it hard to keep pace with the advertisors here. No sooner have I deleted one, that another one posts his ad. 9:15 AM The Editor said... The irony is that I agreed with you so much, so painfully, that I had to quit reading. 10:03 AM Downtrodden1 said... I will not quit reading...this anonymous tool will probably give up and go away eventually. or perhaps he will read something that makes him reconsider.. Makes him THINK...The splendid wizard in Tolkien's greatest work reminds us:"Many that live deserve death,and some who die deserve life.Can you give it to them?No?then be not so hasty to deal out death in judjement.As for me,I pity even his slaves." 11:03 AM the olive ream said... Mr. Hussain, another superb article! The irony is that as you boldly highlight the truth for others, your blog gets spammed by advertisers. The mainstream websites that promote and propogate the Western Government lies rarely run into such problems. I guess reality offends... Please continue your writing, it is inspiration for us all. 1:36 PM Bryan said... Dear Anwaar, Who could argue with your comments? Yet, you avoid laying the blame at the feet of the real source of all these outrages: the jewish race. The masters of the Lie. It's ironic that you mentioned Idi Amin. His downfall was due to his support for the Palestinians. Once you fall foul of God's special pets your days are numbered. Pol Pot did not get into power with direct American aid. That came from the Chinese. The right conditions for the Khymer Rouge to capture Cambodia were created by the jew Kissinger. No, unless the people of the world realize the lethal threat this monstrous parasitic race pose for everyone, indeed for all life, and take appropriate action then the situation will only get worse. Regards, Bryan 4:17 PM
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Post by by proxi on Nov 5, 2005 12:55:19 GMT 4
Evelyn said...
Bryan, Are you able to distinguish between Zionism and Judaeism? Or is that distinction too complex? 5:15 PM
Anonymous said...
One more Irony;
CIndy, and the vigils, have been featured as front-page news, the world over, and have deflated the Bush propaganda bubble, while simultenously exposing the right-wing media machine as the hateful, desperate animal that it is.
Bush has no safe option, now. I agree with the statement that appeared on the This Divided State Blog:
I think that Cindy Sheehan has offered George Bush an amazing opportunity. Think about what would happen if George came down to Camp Casey in his truck all by himself except for his dogs. In the back of the truck is the fixin's for a barbecue. And he spent the afternoon out there, without his handlers, talking to these people, showing him that he is human, let them know that he cares. I think that would be an amazing presidential moment that would make it onto all of those "Best Presidential Moments" reels and lists and what not.
Indeed, he could have, but Bush has no respect for human life, and thus, he finds himself being buried, and it makes my heart soar with a joy I haven't felt in over a year.
Pat Buchanan was on MSNBC tonight, and pointed out the obvious: Even if Bush tucks his tail between his legs, and meets with Cindy, now, it will universally be hailed as a surrender, and a capitulation. He has NO WAY OUT, other than to wait it out, and look like an even bigger coward, when he ducks out, at the end of his vacation.
Rove- he's lost it. He obviously spent a few hours on the phone with Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, and the rest of these vipers, giving them their marching orders: attack, defame, cast apersions, and insult. And so they did- the hatred and vitriol that has dribbled out of the right, in recent days, has been of such a foul and odious nature, that even conservatives and diehard republicans are turned off by it. Seeing their grasp on the sheeple slipping away, these sowers of hatred and division redoubled their attacks, to no avail. Today, the last few peeps emerging from their dark netherworld have reeked of- yep- FEAR.
The Fox/Talk Radio machine that was able to defame and villify the junior Senator from Massachusetts into "defeat", in our last "election" has been effectively neutered, by one woman, sitting outside of a tent, in Crawford, Texas. When Cindy's been asked about the statements of Limbaugh/Beck/et al, all she does is say "well- that's unfortunate", and gets on with life- she refuses to give their statements the dignity of a response, and they break apart like dry autumn leaves.
The best of this? Even the pro-Bush folks who have been dogging Camp Casey have been cowed into showing civility. While eating lunch, today, I was leafing through today's paper, and in their coverage of last night's vigil, they featured an amazing photograph:
A few days back, some callous yahoo drove his truck over the miniature crosses and american flags that were posted, adjascent to Camp Casey. The photograph was of a Camp Casey protestor, and a PRO-BUSH counter-protestor, working together, to put the flags and crosses back up. Considering the deep divide over this war, seeing such a thing was nothing short of amazing.
Don't EVER tell me that one person can't make a difference. 7:36 PM
The Stark Raving Viking said...
Let's be honest. Americans fighting for America, aren't fighting for freedom, they're fighting for corporate liars.
Whether we are talking about small town politics or national politics America is getting to be a scary place to express Free Speech and to expect our officials and police to act as advertised.
Try putting "Ritt Goldstein" in a search engine. He was an up and coming political force in Connecticut and successful small business owner. He proposed Civilian Oversight of Police and want police held accoutable for illegal acts. It got so bad for him he fled to Sweden asking for political asylum.
I proposed Civilian Oversight of Police was attacked by a police informant on my property and put in prison for being beaten on my property based on Police perjury. I lost $500,000 in real estate, my freedom and my family.
Try putting "Steven G. Erickson" in a search engine 11:23 PM
Anonymous said...
I am with you in spirit from the land down under. Unless the American – and Australian – people take the power to create their money supply, from Mammon (the money gods of this world) and regain that power themselves – like they had with their National Bank and we had with our Commonwealth Bank – then, our sons and daughters will continue to be sacrificed to Moloch, fighting economic wars for private bankers.
The only person I know with the political backing and guts to impeach Cheney and Bush is Lyndon LaRouche in America but, the power behind Cheney et al is the Synarchists, aka private banks.
Kangaroo Jock, Australia 3:14 AM
Anonymous said...
A Letter From a Veteran to the Lunatic in Crawford
Mr. Northern:
I am a Veteran of the Iraq war, having served with the 4th Infantry Division on the initial invasion with Force Package One.
While I was in Iraq, a very good friend of mine, Christopher Cutchall, was killed in an unarmored HMMWV outside of Baghdad. He was a cavalry scout serving with the 3d ID. Once he had declined the award of a medal because Soldiers assigned to him did not receive similar awards that he had recommended. He left two sons and a wonderful wife.
On Monday night, August 16, you ran down the memorial cross erected for him by Arlington West.
One of my Soldiers in Iraq was Roger Turner. We gave him a hard time because he always wore all of his protective equipment, including three pairs of glasses or goggles. He did this because he wanted to make sure that he returned home to his family. He rode a bicycle to work every day to make sure that he was able to save enough money on his Army salary to send his son to college. At Camp Anaconda, where the squadron briefly stayed, a rocket landed inside a tent, sending a piece of debris or fragment into him and killed him.
On Monday night, August 16, you ran down the memorial cross erected for him by Arlington West.
One of my Soldiers was Henry Bacon. He was one of the finest men I ever met. He was in perfect shape for a man over forty, working hard at night. He told me that he did that because he didn't have much money to buy nice things for his wife, who he loved so much, so he had to be in good shape for her. He was like a father to many young men in his section of maintenance mechanics. They fixed our vehicles with almost no support and fabricated parts and made repairs that kept our squadron rolling on the longest, fastest armor advance ever made under fire. He was so very proud of his son-in-law that married the beautiful daughter so well raised by Henry. His son-in-law was a helicopter pilot with the 1st Cavalry Division, who died last year.
Henry stopped to rescue a vehicle belonging to another unit on what was to be his last day in Iraq. He could have kept rolling - he was headed to Kuwait after a year's tour. But he stopped. He could have sent others to do the work, but he was on the ground, leading by example, when he was killed.
On Monday night, August 16, you took it upon yourself to go out in the country, where a peaceful group was exercising their constitutional rights, and harming no one, and you ran down the memorial cross erected for Henry and for his son-in-law by Arlington West.
Mr. Northern - I know little about Cindy Sheehan except that she is a grieving mother, a gentle soul, and wants to bring harm to no one. I know little about you except that you found your way to Crawford on Monday night in August with chains and a pipe attached to your truck for the sole purpose of dishonoring a memorial erected for my friends and lost Soldiers and hundreds of others that served this nation when they were called. I find it disheartening that good men like these have died so that people like you can threaten a mother who lost a child with your actions. I hope that you are ashamed of yourself.
Perry Jefferies, First Sergeant, USA (retired) 5:57 PM
jay paulson said...
Some of you might be interested in the analysis my uncle—an old man in his 70’s—made about comments on this article and a number of other articles he read on the Fountainhead website. But his analysis was really about the writers, not so much their comments.
You have to understand that uncle lives near a small town way up in northern British Columbia, no electricity, no plumbing, water from a mountain stream and so on. He’s an old man (he came down to our city to have a medical checkup) but he's pretty sharp, learned how to use the computer keyboard and mouse pretty quick when visiting me, even with his arthritc fingers. He reads a lot but isn’t too interested in the current sad state of the world.
I urged him to look at some of the things on the internet, and we finished with articles by Anwaar Hussain, and the numerous comments on them.
But here’s what he said:
You know, Jay, I respect people like this Anwaar fellow, and others like him . They all seem to be real sincere and serious and honest kind of fellows in what they write. And all those people writin’ in to show their opinions—Lordy! they’re serious too, and wanna be heard.
He paused a minute. Scratched his head.
But you know, there seems to be a problem here. Everybody’s an expert. Everybody knows all the facts. Everybody knows exactly what the problem is and everybody’s got the only true right solution for it. I never seen so many experts who know all the facts! The only thing is, almost all of them seem to be sayin’ between the lines, and sometimes right straight out: I’ll kill ya, ya stupid swine if you don’t agree with me!
Uncle's leaving tomorrow for his cabin up north. I asked him if he didn't want to post a comment before he left.
Jay, I aint no preacher. Or a psychologist. But you know, all those people writing in like that. Seems to me like a lot of them are really looking for God, for Truth, for Love. I ain't sure they're going to find it, though, without having the right kind of quiet and the right kind of feeling in their heart. 10:47 PM
Anwaar Hussain said...
Jay,
Give my love to your uncle and thank him on my behalf for hitting the nail with a sledge hammer right on its head.
Tell your uncle, Jay, that I feel that God resides in all of us, I am only trying to show my God to people with a a hope that they show me theirs.
And tell him, Jay, that if the two Gods even remotely resemble, I will be a loyal faithful to that person for life, the dissimilarities of his God not withstanding.
Tell him Jay that I am with him in his trout fishing and in his clean fresh-air-fed thinking and that the day he leaves this world he will be leaving it to scoundrals like us feeding on others' carcasses and breathing the last breaths left by those dying human beings.
Tell him to leave his innocent, untainted prayers for us all, Jay, though I pray that he outlives all of us. This world deserves him much more than rat poison like us all.
Tell him that Jay.
Anwaar 11:04 PM
Anonymous said...
This made me cry. What a burden you carry. You're a good man, Anwaar.
Anonymous 11:34 PM
Jay Paulson said...
Anwaar,
Your kind message received and passed on. Thank you.
Jay 7:10 AM
lugnut said...
Thank you Anwaar, I deeply appreciate your insight and observations. I am both extremely angry and heartsick over the current state of the world and in particular the United States position and actions in domestic and world affairs and international trade. I am not an American but the United States has been a second home having spent a great deal of time there due to visiting relatives and family that are Americans. Some of my relatives immigrated to the US from war torn Europe at the end of WWII looking for a better life and some of my Canadian relatives moved to the US as a result of career opportunities having been offered lucrative positions with American firms.
My current position is that I have absolutely no desire to set foot on American soil as I despise what has happened to the country since 9/11. The rise of what I perceive to be fascism in the US, a propaganda blitz that would make Joseph Goebbels envious and a gullible populace that swallows this nonsense hook line and sinker while lashing out at former friends and allies as cowards while promoting “freedom fries” instead of French fries only adds to the absurdity.
We now live in an Orwellian world based on a platform of lies and deception and it is only going to get worse. What is your neighbour up to, can you trust that co-worker, what does that person have in his knapsack or briefcase? Is that man with the olive colour skin a terrorist?
I see it all unfolding like a map and the direction that events are headed is becoming ever more clear. I have in my possession a tape-recorded circa 1987 of a man speaking of coming world events. I believe that certain individuals were given genuine prophetic unction for a time so that those who had an ear to hear what they had to say would prepare themselves.
In 1987 he said that the US would have a series of presidents, every one being more corrupt than his predecessor. He also stated that one of the presidents would be a womanizer and that the US would have a president that was not elected, BINGO!
This is interesting in light of the fact that I used to subscribe to a publication whose main purpose was analysis of world economics and international investment opportunities. Former CIA director William Colby was a contributing writer to that publication and in one of the last articles he wrote prior to his suspicious and untimely death he made a bold significant statement. He stated that as far as he was concerned the governments of virtually every nation on earth are either directly controlled or severely influenced by organized crime. At no time did he add the clarifying statement “with the exception of”. So much for what we perceive of as freedom and democracy!
He also stated, “keep your eyes on the middle east” as it is where the events he spoke of would begin to unfold. He predicted a series of events that would trigger outrageous fuel prices, a total world economic collapse and lastly a nuclear exchange between the US and the partnership of Russia and China. He also stated that soldiers of China’s Peoples Army would be on American soil.
It is most interesting to see Russia and China currently holding joint military manoeuvres and a recent statement ‘off the record’ by a high ranking officer of China’s ‘Peoples Army’ that as far as he was concerned any move by the USA against any Chinese sovereignty would justify a retaliatory strike against the USA and that the cost would be 100 US cities.
He also predicted climate gone wild, and a significant increase in earthquakes and volcanic activity. Does any of this sound like the evening news?
I am not a survivalist and have not stockpiled a cache of weapons. I have however, several months of non-perishable food, water, gasoline etc, stored away and in recent years have moved away from large population centres to a rural location.
Good luck in these coming times to anyone who is troubled by and disagree with the events that are unfolding. To those who agree with and endorse the policies of the current administration, enjoy!
Regards, Lugnut 8:31 AM
Anonymous said...
In my opinion, pro-war and anti-peace, or pro-peace and anti-war is much too simplistic a view. There are simply those who "don't get it" vs. those who understand the danger we are all in. People, who, when the bombs go off and the heads are severed, can recognize that there is an evil enemy out there, and it isn't the Jews who are on the menu this time.
Are some of you thinking of the tragic Mr. Dilwar now? I agree, his death was beyond horrible and shamefully evil. Also, it occurred at the hands of Americans. His tragedy was greatly covered here on Fountainhead, I noticed. I also noticed there was no blow by blow description of the beheadings of Mr. Nicholas Berg, Paul Johnson, and all the others who were also beheaded, tortured or blown up.
Why is it when I research one of Fountainhead's posts, whether written by Mr. Hussain or someone else, it is so frequently from the "leftist/progressive/radical" position?
I am aware that I am in the wrong place to speak of this particular post, but I just happened to think of it - again. It's the "prayer" where American soldiers are portrayed as sodomizing children? With the full support of most of the American readers here, I might add.
Have you no friends that are soldiers? No relatives? Do you not know of someone who is a soldier and an honorable person? If you do, how can you let that statement stand? Or would a soldier you regard as a friend agree with with the accusation? Or, do you simply regard your soldier friend as one who sodomizes children?
BTW, the source for the shameful sodomy claim was, http://.cflweb.org/about_us_.htm., published by Pluto Press and distributed by the University of Michigan. (Isn't that nice?) C. Cook, A. Haniel and A. Kay, barring any misspells, are the authors.
The "principles and issues" of the site are quite interesting:
1. End Aid to Israel & all other countries which are oppressive and guilty of violating International Human Rights laws.
2. End the occupation of Palestine
3. The right of return for all refugees (Palestinian or others)
4. Protect Civil Liberties of Arab Americans by influencing national legislation.
Sounds O.K., doesn't it? Except for one thing. They present the sodomy charge against US and Israeli soldiers as very convincing fact. Problem is, there is absolutely no way to prove it.
They speak of themselves as a proud progressives with many articles written in regard to leftist labour. You can look it up.
I wonder if some you ever read anything that is not from the left or gives you another view. Yes,I do remember seeing a few posts or sources that appear to be from a fair and balanced site. Am I sounding like FOX?
As I have so often said, I read both sides. That is why I am here at the moment. I am just wondering what the left has to say.
Because I refuse to turn my mind, therefore my soul, over to anyone, simply because they agree with me, I do subject myself to reading the shameful sodomizing type of article from time-to-time.
I am aware that I do show up at Fountainhead rather frequently and I know I irritate some of you. I'm sorry about that. May I also add, that, as an admirer of the spirited people I encounter on Fountainhead, I do include your blog as one of my favorites from the left. I have four favorites and you are at the top of the list. Not too thrilled about that? I understand. I really do.
In any event, though I can't wish you well in your endeavors, I can wish you peace.
May I also caution you to beware of those who "sit on their hands?" They are the sleeping giant and you just might awaken them. You will wish you hadn't.
Since Fountainhead doesn't much like me, I will simply enter my post as anonymous.
But that would be silly. Some of you know full well it's Carollane, just down from her ivory tower for a moment. When I say this, I am laughing at no one - except myself.
Delete me if you wish, Mr. Hussain... 9:22 AM
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Post by by proxi on Nov 5, 2005 12:59:05 GMT 4
Michelle L. Zewe said...
Lugnut, There are many of us who watch a multitude of prophecies, and they all tell pretty much the same story. As do the prophecies of the past; the great flood is particular to many religious beliefs. Even the neo-cons are following their own "divine" path, twisted as it might be.
The thing about prophecies is that a fullfilled prophecy is a doomed prophecy. We are given them as a warning, a chance to change direction. And, the various prophecies all speak of an awakening in the people. Do you not see that happening now?
There has always been Americans, many more now, who have had eyes to see what has been happening. And we have been more active than at anytime before. It has been the people who have uncovered and exposed the deceit. And our global brothers and sisters have joined with us and help to strengthen our hold against this labyrinthian system.
These are the fruits of the prophecies; we are taking the other path towards our salvation, by Free Will. Much wisdom in that corny little phrase, "God helps those who help themselves."
This system is a creation of mankind; a materialisation of what mankind was capable of. It can't hold together anymore because we are seeing all now; how it built up over history. And, how the people of this planet have been cornered into an existence which amounts to slavery to a very few. Even our politicians, their lackeys, are used by this higher cabal; except they seem to enjoy all the bloodlust.
So, all I'm trying to say is why believe in the doomed path? There is another choice. 9:36 AM
David Coyle said...
Dear Anwaar,
There are only four things which I can control, and not one of them is clear. The things I mean are virtue, modesty, understanding and compassion. I acknowledge that I have little of each, and try to improve. I ask a little patience for the time it takes me to explain my understanding of these words.
'Virtue' can be usefully understood as that which is becoming to a man. To clarify, he is virtuous who behaves in ways that are universally recognized as desirable and worthy of emulation. There is no need, and it is perhaps impossible to catalogue the aspects of virtue. I declare simply and provisionally that a good man is one who does good, leaving all questions of definition in abeyance. This is important, for one must be prepared for the eventual critiicisms: And such and such another monster, did he not believe himself to be doing good, and was he not admired by his followers? On the other hand it is easy to begin to create fundamental lists of actions which do not constitute virtue, but yet appear again and again.
Nonetheless, the virtuous man is known and feared. Known by his actions, feared for the reflected light he throws on the "Scheinheilige", the 'show virtuous', the Sunday Christians. Every man knows that to do right is to do evil according to the canons of Walt Disney.
'Modesty' is the simplest to explain. It means, as I understand it, simply taking to heart the understanding that we are all prey to the same impulses. A tiger is a tiger, a man is a man; the devil within greater than the devil without. And from this understanding springs the possibility not of perfection but of doing better.
By 'understanding' I mean raw knowledge of the world and its history, and the ability to synthesize this knowledge into a coherent whole. For me this has always been the greatest good. And correspondingly great care is required to know that the synthesis is a creation, always subject to change and re-evaluation. There is an element of modesty here, and I believe an element of virtue.
Let's read Brecht: "For the human heart has the remarkable ability to harden itself against suffering. A man will see a cripple on Monday, and in horror throw him five dollars. On Tuesday he will give fifty cents. On Wednesday he will remember the by-law against begging and call the police." 'Compassion', intelligent compassion, is the greatest and hardest of all. Without compassion a man has no strength, without compassion how will a man forgive himself his failings and strive to do better?
You Anwaar, seem to me to be fighting your blessed struggle to make life worth while, and you set an example for others to follow. Assuredly there are evil days to come, and they will bring evil choices. The hope of the future lies with honest efforts like your own. Would you be perfect and outshine the heavens?
An atheist may still recognize the beneficient, the merciful, and pray for the peace of your spirit,
David 2:42 PM
Victor Davis Hanson said...
August 19, 2005 The Biteback Effect Do we even have a word to describe the new criticism? by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online
Sometimes even the English language is without the right word to describe a commonplace occurrence. We don't, for example, have a term quite like the German schadenfreude: "Taking malicious delight in someone else's misfortune." The Arab world has no real word to denote constitutional democracy, and so uses our Anglicized form of the Greek dêmokratia.
Take the recent boomerang effect of those critics who critique the war, but in the process achieve the exact antithesis of what they intend. After the spring 2004 butchery of American contractors, we went into, and then withdrew from, Fallujah — apprehensive that global media scrutiny would portray us as storm troopers.
In fact, the enemy considered us too equivocating and claimed the retreat as a great victory. So until we retook the city in November, we fretted that the Fallujah encirclement was an example of our blunt-headedness, while our enemy equated it with softness.
Indeed, throughout this conflict the United States has been apprehensive that it was becoming too brutal in its effort even as the Islamic fascists were convinced that we were too weak to fight such a war.
The Greeks might offer us a term for such ironic turnabout; perhaps something like antiepistrophe — "a turning back against oneself" — since the self-appointed moralist usually ends up looking stupid when his own examples refute the very reasons he adduced them.
But in the interest of simplicity, I'll call it the "biteback" effect. Every time one hears a strident censor bring up a purported American sin, expect that he'll be bitten right back by proving the opposite of what he intended — and looking foolish in the bargain.
Examine a few recent examples of biteback.
We endlessly quarrel over the Patriot Act as an infringement of civil rights. "We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night," John Kerry intoned to Iowa voters during the 2004 presidential primaries. "So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time."
Yet few Democratic senators, including John Kerry, now seem to want to repeal it. But in terms of what either the British or Dutch are doing, the Patriot Act is pretty tame.
We are hardly arresting Americans for inflammatory speech, closing down madrassas, or stripping suspect naturalized Americans from the Middle East of their citizenship — even in a war where the only real danger to the homeland seems to come from Islamicists who are planning our destruction through cells so far undetected often due to our past laxity.
Our European friends used to equate the Patriot Act with over-the-top cowboyism; now in their brave new judicial landscape it is becoming passé. After the London bombings and the recent American apprehensions of terrorist suspects from New Jersey to Lodi, those who still demonize the Patriot Act prompt the opposite effect of what they intend; rather than safeguarding our liberties, they endanger them.
On the basis of an FBI agent's e-mail alleging loud rap music, cold room temperatures, and the rough handling of a Koran, former president Jimmy Carter and Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin advanced Guantanamo as a national scandal and proof of our amorality in this war.
"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the USA," Pius Maximus Carter pontificated, adding that the detention center had "given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists." Sen.Durbin earlier had assured us of Guantanamo that, "You would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings."
But the more one learns about Guantanamo, after having it raised constantly by such self-righteous and anguished censors, the more it seems unlike any wartime detention center in recent memory — but in ways exactly opposite from the Stalag its detractors imply.
Rules of interrogation, Korans, prayer arrows pointed to Mecca, visits by U.S. congressmen, Middle Eastern food, inmates as voracious readers of Harry Potter, and the absence of a single inmate lost in captivity: All of that suggests humane treatment toward terrorists — often caught in combat, always out of uniform, and not subject to the Geneva Convention. Guantanamo seems radically different from any prison run by any other current wartime state, much less like anything in our own past when, for example, we summarily shot German agents not in German uniforms during the Battle of the Bulge.
Indeed as a general rule, the more hysterically Guantanamo is cited, the more it seems, after introspection, to be a sensible wartime jail under nearly impossible conditions.
The sexual humiliation at Abu Ghraib was reprehensible, but the reaction of its critics was equally so — as in Ted Kennedy's assertion that "Saddam's torture chamber reopened under new management.
Americans did not systematically kill or torture tens of thousands of innocents. Apprehended terrorists still prefer to be captured by American troops rather than by Iraqi militia and security forces, since it means a trip to a supervised Abu Ghraib — and air conditioning and regular meals where they will not be shot or tortured.
We bandy about Abu Ghraib as something out of the Inquisition, but for those on the frontline it means something far different from the ritual beheading, torture, and murder that characterize the enemy's way of doing business.
Every time Cindy Sheehan tries to adduce another writ against the current administration (a.k.a., "Bush crime family," "evil bastards in the administration," "f***ing hypocrites," "biggest terrorist in the world") — whether demanding a second private presidential meeting before so many other grieving families have had even one, or blaming Israel for the deaths of American soldiers — it has the opposite effect of what she intends. Under the sad logic of biteback, she reverses her own original position from the legitimate lament of a grieved mother trying to make sense out of the tragic loss of her brave son, to a deeply disturbed object of cynical partisan manipulation by the Michael Moore/Moveon.org Left.
So why do we see so much biteback these days?
In the age of utopianism we demand impossible standards of perfection. Then when they cannot be met, we conclude that we are not good at all, but the equivalent of a Pol Pot, Hitler, or Saddam himself — an elected American president who is a worse terrorist than Osama bin Laden.
And in a war with enemies like few other in our recent history, the contrast between rhetoric and reality is only accentuated: panties over the head of an Iraqi inmate, no head at all on an American prisoner; Korans given to the enemy terrorists in jail, Bibles outlawed for visitors to our friends the Saudis; our elected president becomes a member of the "Bush crime family" as we worry about proper barristers for Saddam Hussein's genuinely criminal family. As we fear that we have fallen short of the postmodern therapeutic age, Islamic fascists brag they are avatars of the Dark Ages.
Second, we don't believe that we are in a war anymore. Jimmy Carter thinks that something we do in Guantanamo galvanizes terrorists, as if the camp had been in existence since 1979, when under his watch this present quarter-century cycle of killing and terrorizing Americans with impunity in the Middle East began in earnest. Thus instead of joining in the effort to defeat Islamic fascists, the opposition and our pundits nitpick and moan, hoping for media attention and political points, convinced that none of their triangulation aids the enemy — since we aren't really in a war at all.
There is a third reason as well for biteback. The offenders are often old-line partisans like Sen. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, or Sen. Durbin, in addition to the more hysterical Left like Michael Moore or Moveon.org. For the most part, under our system of democratic majority rule, despite sizable support in the electorate, they are currently without real political power, lacking majorities in the House and Senate, without the presidency, behind in the state legislatures and governorships, and losing the Supreme Court.
Instead of advancing a comprehensive counter-agenda to the president's, too many on the Left turns to hysterics.
Yet the United States itself has not changed its character under Republican hands. Its government and people are as they were, thus ensuring the more the Left lashes out about losing the republic, the more their charges seem strident and extremist — bringing them shame as the additional wage to their irresponsibility.
Biteback occurs because the truth cannot be warped or distorted by its assailants: We are waging a moral war involving rules of engagement, the promotion of democracy, freedom from fascism, and billions of dollars in aid to others.
Once one is familiar with the nature of biteback, it hardly seems so bothersome since it only damages those who induce it.
There is also the biteback not just of hysterical slurs, but equally of counterfeit praise.
More pious praise for the United Nations? Thanks for conjuring up the memory of the Annan clan, Oil-for-Food, and the slaughter in Darfur. When Jimmy Carter talks of morality, I brace for even more amorality — like his contrived 2003 broadside against a sitting president in order to win a Nobel Prize from anti-American European judges. Dan Rather still lectures on journalistic standards — which reminds us of the protocols of forged memos.
Anticipate that when the full complexity of biteback is mastered, future allegations from Sens. Durbin and Kennedy that we are Saddam-like or Nazis will be taken as proof that, on the contrary, we are probably too naïve and too lenient — and that they still sound unhinged.
©2005 Victor Davis Hanson 1:41 AM
Anwaar Hussain said...
Please avoid repititious postings Victor. I have seen your post above elsewhere too. 5:56 AM
Anwaar Hussain said...
And welcome to FH Victor. 6:02 AM
Anonymous said...
The irony is that Anwaar claims to be for peace but is so full of hatred towards America and white people in general. 8:52 PM
Anonymous said...
You know what the irony is Anwaar. Your friends, the ones who want to destroy us, they might actually be our salvation.
Because of them we might all pull together and lift ourselves by the bootstraps and become stronger.
All those who have had free reign in all their Hate America Speech, like that crazy lady Sheahan, the public will become angry at these people and we will finally lock them up like we should have done long before now. There's a difference between free speech and sedition.
Americans will finally see the harm that organizations like the ACLU and CAIR has done to our country, and people will demand that something be done about them.
Your attacks (and yes, we know we are going to have to be hit one more time) will make us stronger. America was decaying from within and would have destroyed itself within a generation or so. But thanks to you a new spirit of patriotism will arise in our land.
So, while I know it's not your intent, you and your friends might just save America. 9:35 AM
Anonymous said...
The Irony is that when Clinton attacked Serbia, the so called "anti-war" movement remained silent. They are not "anti-war" but Leftist (socialist) agenda. 12:39 AM
Anonymous said...
The Irony is that when Clinton attacked Serbia, the so called "anti-war" movement remained silent. They are not "anti-war" but PRO Leftist (socialist) agenda. 12:40 AM
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Post by Anwaar on Dec 9, 2006 9:13:56 GMT 4
US casts sole ‘no’ vote against proposed treaty restricting arms tradeBy Kaleem OmarThe United States, which is the world’s biggest exporter of arms and accounts for more than 50 per cent of all arms exports, on Wednesday became the only country in the United Nations to vote against letting work begin on a new treaty to bolster arms embargoes and prevent human rights abuses by setting uniform worldwide standards for arms deals. The vote in the 192-nation UN General Assembly was 153-1, with the United States casting the sole “no” vote. Twenty-four other nations abstained, including major arms sellers Russia and China and emerging exporters India and Pakistan. The rest here : tinyurl.com/yfztqv
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