The United States of War Criminals

The United States of War Criminals By Mickey Z.

"People from poorer places and poorer countries have to call upon
their compassion not to be angry with ordinary people in America."
� Arundhati Roy

More than half (53.3%) of US tax dollars go to a criminal enterprise
known as the US Department of Defense (sic), a.k.a. the worst polluter
on the planet. We hear about tax cuts this and budget that and all
kinds of other bullshit from the US government and the corporations
that own it�but the reality remains: Roughly one million tax dollars
per minute are spent to fund the largest military machine (read:
global terrorist operation) the world has ever known. What do we get
for all that money? To follow, is but one tiny example that mostly
slipped through the cracks earlier this year.

On July 23, 2010, Tom Eley at Global Research wrote: �According to the
authors of a new study, �Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio
in Fallujah, Iraq 2005�2009,� the people of Fallujah are experiencing
higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual
mutations than those recorded among survivors in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in the years after those Japanese cities were incinerated by
US atomic bomb strikes in 1945.� For those unfamiliar with the US
attacks on Fallujah, first of all: You should be fucking ashamed of
yourselves. Secondly, here�s Patrick Cockburn�s basic description: US
Marines first besieged and bombarded Fallujah, 30 miles west of
Baghdad, in April 2004 after four employees of the American security
company Blackwater were killed and their bodies burned. After an eight-
month stand-off, the Marines stormed the city in November using
artillery and aerial bombing against rebel positions. US forces later
admitted that they had employed white phosphorus as well as other
munitions. In the assault US commanders largely treated Fallujah as a
free-fire zone to try to reduce casualties among their own troops.
British officers were appalled by the lack of concern for civilian
casualties.

Of crucial importance is this: A high proportion of the weaponry used
by the US in the assault contained depleted uranium (DU). And you and
I paid for it all. The aforementioned study found that the cancer rate
�had increased fourfold since before the US attack� and that the forms
of cancer in Fallujah are �similar to those found among the Hiroshima
and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors, who were exposed to intense
fallout radiation.� Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Yeah, Americans paid for
those bombs, too.

In September 2009, Fallujah General Hospital had 170 newborn babies:

� 24 percent were dead within the first seven days
� 75 percent of the dead babies were classified as deformed
Cockburn writes of a �12-fold increase in childhood cancer in
under-14s. Infant mortality in the city is more than four times higher
than in neighboring Jordan and eight times higher than in Kuwait.�

Dig this: After 2005, thanks to this �major mutagenic event� (DU), the
proportion of girls born in Fallujah has increased sharply likely
because �girls have a redundant X-chromosome and can therefore absorb
the loss of one chromosome through genetic damage,� explains Eley. And
you and I paid for it all. �The impact of war on civilians was more
severe in Fallujah than anywhere else in Iraq because the city
continued to be blockaded and cut off from the rest of the country
long after 2004,� adds Cockburn. While I could go on with the gory
details, I�d much rather you ask a few questions:

� Now that you know these facts (and they are just the tiniest
proverbial tip of a massive proverbial iceberg), how do you feel and
what are you going to do about it?
� Is it time you stop buying military video games, hanging yellow
ribbons, and allowing our hard-earned money to finance mass murder?
� Can enjoy �the holidays� while women in Fallujah are petrified to
have children?
� Are you still able to insulate yourself with all those cute puppy
videos on YouTube?
� Are you ready to stop believing there�s a difference between the two
wings of the same corporate/military party and start accepting that
they�re all accessories to heinous crimes?
� Will you still �support� the volunteer mercenaries as �heroes� or
will you recognize them as willing�and paid�accomplices to war crimes?
� Are you okay with 85.1% of US wealth being owned by the top 20%
while 53.3% of your tax dollars subsidize atrocities, torture,
oppression, occupation, and the literal destruction of the planet�s
eco-system?
� What is your threshold? Which taxpayer-funded horror story is the
one that will finally make you scream �enough�?
� When you�ve screamed �enough,� what can/will you do and how soon
will you start doing it?
You don�t have to tell me your answers. I�m a co-conspirator just like
you.
Save your answers for the children of Fallujah. I�m sure they�re
wondering why the fuck we all choose to remain silent and inactive.
Until the laws are changed or the power runs out, Mickey Z. can be
found on the Web here.

COMMENTS: Hedges describes how corporate entertainment encourages
people to desire to be rich and famous, devote themselves to material
things, reckless self-gratification and reckless consumer spending. It
encourages people to care much more about news relating to celebrities
than genuinely important news. Hedges analyzes episodes of WWE
wrestling, Survivor, The Swan and Jerry Springer to back up his
arguments about pop culture.  Chapter 2 is about porn. Porn actresses
are portrayed by porn mediums as nothing more than wild beasts whose
only desire is to satisfy the sadistic fantasies of men. Most porn
actresses are heavy drinkers and drug addicts as a result of the
mental pain and serious physical damage to their private areas, front
and back, caused by their line of work. Most of them appear to work in
escort services on the side. Hedges give an account of one porn movie
featuring an actress who engages in the very unhealthy activity of
engaging in sex acts with 65 different men over the six hour shoot of
the film. Porn is one of the biggest industries in this nation; a
great many of our male citizens appear to take pleasure in the
degrading and brutal version of sex found in modern porn.

I've been asking myself that question for the past 30 years. Other
than immigrate to another country what can you do with the all
powerful oligarchy. We need a revolution, honestly. We need to get
angry and start overthrowing the oligarchs, but we are too busy being
"entertained", mesmerized by right wing politicos, and too busy
watching porn like one poster spoke about. Think about this. This
country consumes more marijuana than any other and it's supposed to be
illegal. In Malaysia it IS illegal. Consumption is near zero. China
has had its entire population hooked on opium, and it nearly destroyed
their society. Look which culture sold the dope: Britain. It's a
common Anglo/American tactic. We are being medicated, drugged, and
inundated with propaganda that keeps us from throwing off the yokes of
the evil oligarchs.
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