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No More Mr. Nice Guy:
Bush Gets Serious About Killing Iraqis
by Kurt Nimmo
www.dissidentvoice.org
December 18, 2003
When Robert Dreyfuss of the American Prospect asked an unspecified
Bush neocon "strategist" how best to deal with the resistance in
Iraq, the response he received was chilling, "It's time for 'no more
Mr. Nice Guy.' All those people shouting, 'Down with America!' and
dancing in the street when Americans are attacked? We have to kill
them."
It's not only Iraqis dancing in the streets and elusive resistance
fighters that deserve to be killed, but pro-Saddam demonstrators as
well.
"While Washington and London were still congratulating themselves on
the capture of Saddam Hussein," writes Robert Fisk in Baghdad, "US
troops have shot dead at least 18 Iraqis in the streets of three
major cities in the country. Dramatic videotape from the city of
Ramadi 75 miles west of Baghdad showed unarmed supporters of Saddam
Hussein being gunned down in semi-darkness as they fled from American
troops. Eleven of the 18 dead were killed by the Americans in Samarra
to the north of Baghdad."
The United States doesn't even pretend to respect the Geneva
Conventions these days. Obviously, shooting unarmed demonstrators in
the back as they flee is a war crime. But then neocons don't do
international law.
As Bush has repeatedly made clear, he believes international treaties
are for wimps, appeasers, and the irrelevant. International law is
for pantywaists such as the French, not intractable and
self-righteous Americans engaged in a forever war against "terr'ism,"
otherwise known as the Islamic religion.
Of course, it's not a war crime if the media reports the murder of
unarmed civilians as fair and square combat against "armed
demonstrators," as the Boston Globe did. Naturally, the Globe didn't
bother to mention the video Robert Fisk witnessed, but then they are
receiving their information straight from the Pentagon, not
unembedded journalists on the street.
It wasn't the Boston Globe or other members of the Bush Ministry of
Disinformation that reported Hussein al-Jaburi's death threat to the
people of Tikrit. It was al-Jazeera, the Arab news agency twice
bombed by the Pentagon for the heresy of telling the truth.
"Any demonstration against the government or coalition forces will be
fired upon," said Jaburi, the US-imposed regional governor. "This is
a fair warning."
So much for democracy -- but then the sort of democracy the Bushite
neocons have in mind does not include the right to demonstrate.
The Bush version of democracy includes "privatization" of the Iraqi
oil industry and other covetable natural resources by foreign
transnational corporations, but not the right for Iraqi citizens to
complain about it. Grousers and people in possession of Saddam's
portrait will be shot.
No more Mr. Nice Guy.
According to Robin Pomeroy of Reuters, demonstrations are illegal in
the province surrounding Tikrit. Demonstrators will be sentenced to a
year or more in jail. "They are not allowed to go around kissing
pictures of Saddam in this city," Lieutenant Colonel Steven Russell
told Pomeroy. "It will not happen... We cannot hand out lollipops, it
does not work."
Last week Iraq's Health Ministry ordered an abrupt end to the count
of civilians killed during the invasion and occupation, according to
the Associated Press. "We have stopped the collection of this
information because our minister didn't agree with it," said Dr.
Nazar Shabandar, the Health Ministry's director of planning. "The CPA
doesn't want this to be done."
In other words, there will be no official confirmation of the number
of civilians killed by the US, such as those mowed down recently in
Ramadi, apparently for nothing more than expressing their support for
Saddam Hussein, although the Pentagon would have us believe they were
engaged in murder and mayhem or releasing pigeons to signal to
comrades.
Is it possible the CPA and the Pentagon don't want you to know the
exact number of people killed in Iraq because those numbers are about
to escalate dramatically?
As Robert Fisk notes in his report about the Ramadi mass murder
video, masked gunmen have appeared in Baghdad and at road checkpoints
outside of Samarra. "They wear militia uniforms and, although they
say they are part of the new American-backed 'Iraqi Civil Defense
Corps', they have neither badges of rank nor unit markings," writes
Fisk.
It's no secret the CIA has assassinated numerous Iraqis since Bush
set his sights on their country. Recently-leaked plans to kill even
more, possibly many more, in much the same way the CIA killed 40,000
Vietnamese under the Phoenix program. As Dana Priest of the
Washington Post reported on 29 March, CIA covert teams are "one
feature of the largely invisible war being waged in Iraq by the CIA's
and Pentagon's growing covert paramilitary and special operations
divisions."
If we are to believe Seymour Hersh over at the New Yorker, the US has
summoned the Israelis to help murder Iraqis who resist occupation.
"The Israelis have been training us in some of their tactics," Hersh
told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
"By now, we have put together enough sophisticated former Iraqi
intelligence [Mukhabbarat] officers, we think, to form ad-hoc
advisory groups that would travel with our special forces," Hersh
explained. "They'll also have an Israeli adviser, I think, pretty
much undercover in the country advising them, too. So, that's the
next step, you know. Bang, bang, bang."
And yet decades of bangs in the West Bank and Gaza have not put an
end to Palestinian resistance to Zionist occupation and brutality.
The Palestinians have actively resisted Zionist hyper-colonialism for
well over thirty years. There's a good chance they will continue to
do so for another thirty years.
The CIA, with Israeli help, will kill more than people directly
involved in the resistance. "Compare America's conquest of Iraq with
Israeli's conquest of Palestine, and you begin to understand,"
explains author and researcher Douglas Valentine. "In each case the
strategy is massive war crimes on the one hand, and targeted kills of
inspirational leaders on the other."
In other words, the CIA hit teams now roaming Iraq will assassinate
intellectuals and "inspirational leaders," just as they did in
Vietnam under the Phoenix program. "Under Phoenix," writes Valentine,
"due process was totally non-existent. South Vietnamese civilians
whose names appeared on blacklists could be kidnapped, tortured,
detained for two years without trial, or even murdered simply on the
word of an anonymous informer." No doubt many Iraqis will face much
the same.
It won't be the first time the CIA has targeted civilians in Iraq. In
the 1963 military coup that eventually resulted in the US-sanctioned
dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, the CIA provided lists of
"communists" to be slaughtered. According to author Said Aburish
(<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312302088/ref=ase_dissidentv
oic-20/102-4777967-2851306>ABrutal
Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite, 1997), 5,000 people were
killed, including many doctors, lawyers, teachers, and professors who
comprised Iraq's educated elite.
"No one was spared. Even pregnant women and elderly men were killed.
Some were tortured in front of their children," writes Mohamoud
Shaikh in a review of Aburish's book. "According to the author,
Saddam 'had rushed back to Iraq from exile in Cairo [where he labored
as a CIA asset] to join the victors... [he] was personally involved
in the torture of leftists in the separate detention centers for
fellaheen [peasants] and the Muthaqafeen or educated classes.'"
Murder is second nature for Dubya, the son of a former CIA director
who targeted over a million people (with the help of Clinton) for
death through illegal bombing raids, starvation, and disease in the
wake of the first Iraq invasion. As an
appointed-president-in-waiting, Bush the Minor sharpened his
murderous instincts in Texas by condemning nearly 150 people to
death. Now he says he wants the same for Saddam.
"I think he ought to receive the ultimate penalty," Bush told ABC
News, "for what he has done to his people... [he is] a disgusting
tyrant who deserves justice, the ultimate justice."
Ultimate justice, for our Christian Zionist president who spends much
of his time marooned in the Old Testament, is nothing short of the
death penalty.
Indeed, Saddam was "a disgusting tyrant," one enabled by the United
States and Europe. The US does not have an aversion to disgusting
tyrants per se, so long as they do what they are told and remain
obedient clients.
Maybe Bush should call for the execution of William Lakeland, the US
assistant military attachi in Baghdad at the time of the coup that
eventually brought Saddam to power. Lakeland was the main
orchestrator and contact for the Ba'athist thugs the CIA now wants to
hunt down and assassinate.
If Bush is truly disgusted by the rape rooms and mass graves of
Saddam, he would have every person involved in the CIA-sponsored coup
arrested, sent before a tribunal, convicted, and executed. At
minimum, he should call George Tenet on the carpet and tell him no
more Saddams, no more coups, no more mass-assassination programs.
Of course, that will never happen. Only clients who run afoul of the
Master Plan -- making damn sure every profitable corner of the earth
is sucked dry by neoliberal exploitation -- will be hunted down,
rounded up, rushed before a tribunal, and executed (or if lucky
slammed into prison like another US client and CIA asset gone bad,
Manuel Noriega).
The Bushites over at the Pentagon have their work cut out for them.
However, a spanking new Phoenix program aimed at Iraqi guerillas,
intellectuals, or those who get in the way of what Halliburton and
Bechtel want, will not put an end to the resistance, nor will US
soldiers cutting down demonstrators "kissing pictures of Saddam" put
an end to Iraqi outrage over the occupation and planned looting of
their country.
If Bush gleans anything from the Israelis, it should be that
brutality in the name of colonialism does not put an end to
resistance, it only redoubles it. But then the Israelis do not
understand this themselves, so how can we expect them to teach the
Americans anything -- that is an anything except how to kill people
in large numbers.
History books are filled with repeated examples of successful
resistance to invasion and occupation -- from the Persian emperor
Darius facing Scythian guerrillas to Fulgencio Batista's overthrow by
a threadbare group of revolutionaries in Cuba.
But then Bush doesn't bother to read books.
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Kurt Nimmo is a photographer, multimedia artist and writer living in
New Mexico. To see his photo work and read more of his essays, visit
his excellent "Another Day in the Empire" weblog:
<http://www.drmenlo.com/nimmo/>http://www.drmenlo.com/nimmo/
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