Now I understand more:
Whose war is it?
By Hamid Golpira
What exactly is happening in Iraq and whose war is it, anyway?
Many argue that it is an imperialist war for conquest and control of vast oil reserves, but that does not seem to be the case.
The realpolitik of the 21st century is far more sophisticated than the colonialism of the 19th century.
Political analysts compare the occupation of Iraq to the Vietnam War. They are correct to make the comparison, but mostly for the wrong reasons.
The U.S. military and government lost the Vietnam War. Yet, it is said that some elements in the United States won the Vietnam War. How can that be?
The U.S. military-industrial complex earned billions and billions of dollars during the Vietnam War. This was the main objective of the major stockholders, and they didn’t care who won the war on the ground.
Now it seems that history is repeating itself, since the U.S. military-industrial complex is earning billions from the war in Iraq, with U.S. taxpayers footing the bill.
“No blood for oil” is the slogan of the peace activists, but this war is not about oil.
The extraction of oil requires engineers and oil workers.
The occupying forces have used over 500 tons of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq. On impact, a certain percentage of the DU fragments into dust, meaning thousands of kilos of uranium dust are blowing in the wind in Iraq, contaminating the people, the land, waterways, and crops and leaving large sections of the country an irradiated wasteland.
Very few engineers and oil workers will want to work in such an environment, so how can the war be about oil?
Yet, the so-called peace activists keep up the chorus about blood for oil. They do not realize they are being manipulated by forces that seek to neutralize the peace movement.
During the Vietnam War, peace activists were tricked into believing the peace movement was a one-issue struggle. Thus, when the war finally ended, most of them thought they had won, since their one issue had been resolved.
One day, the U.S. troops and their allies will leave Iraq, and most of the peace activists will retire from the struggle, just like an earlier generation of peace activists did after the Vietnam War, if all goes according to the evil plan.
The U.S. military-industrial complex will have made their billions, and those who sought to damage the gene pool of the Iraqi nation will also have attained their goal.
In addition, those who sought to neutralize the peace movement will have realized their objective.
However, there are still some things that peace activists can do now to prevent this bleak scenario from unfolding.
Many U.S. soldiers who served in Iraq have contracted Persian Gulf War Syndrome, a mysterious illness with no known cause, but which is probably caused by exposure to the uranium dust from DU weapons.
If a common struggle were to be established uniting the victims of depleted uranium munitions in the East and the West, maybe something could be accomplished.
An Iraqi citizen could very well say to a U.S. soldier: “GI Joe, don’t you get it? Wipe that uranium dust out of your eyes and take a good look at what’s happening. The same people who are killing us, are killing you, too.”
The military-industrial complex killing machine is basically a money-making machine. Therefore, it should be sued for damages.
And there could be very many plaintiffs.
At the height of the DU bombing, higher levels of radioactivity were even recorded in Britain.
Radiation detectors at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston and four other stations recorded a fourfold increase in uranium levels in the atmosphere within a few weeks after the attack on Iraq began in March 2003.
Furthermore, some physicians have put forth the theory that the worldwide rise in diabetes over the past few years is due to the use of depleted uranium weapons on battlefields across the globe, since the wind carried the uranium dust all over the planet.
Governments responsible for war crimes like the use of DU weapons and the targeting of civilians should be tried at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Charges should be filed against government officials and executives of the military-industrial complex involved in these war crimes at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Corporations that produce depleted uranium and other weapons of mass destruction that have been used against civilians should be sued for damages in national courts that have jurisdiction.
This won’t bring back the people who have been killed or cure the people affected by DU weapons or maimed, but it would be an effort to put the military-industrial complex killing machine out of business, which is what the peace activists say they are trying to do in the first place.
Oh yeah! Don't forget global warming either! When you wrote this, I hope you were wearing your aluminum foil hat.
Posted by: at August 22, 2006 6:51 PMI did not write this
I posted it because I had asked about why we were in Iraq and not really understood the 'blood for oil' slogans.
That conversation is now in the archives, but the topic came up again and was posted as a reaction to the incessant and mindless posts of kb and his irrelevancy.
With the mess this world is in now, I would think some mindless irrelevancy is just what we need!
Posted by: at August 23, 2006 3:04 AMThis post confirms exactly what I've been thinking, that we won't pull out of Iraq while there's still money to be made. As to commenter #1: are you trying to say that global warming is a myth? In that case, I have a question for you: exactly what kind of rock have you been living under?
Posted by: at August 23, 2006 3:12 AMAnother globalwarming fanatic. I guess you believe in the tooth fairy and santa claus too, huh. About as much eidence that they exist as there is for globalwarming. Only it is not really that politically correct to believe in the tooth fairy and santa claus.
Posted by: at August 23, 2006 9:44 AMYou see I am not about to 'dis' anyone's need for some irrelevancies just to get away from it 'all' some of the time. What the kb poster and the like do not seem to consider is that I am doing that on my own time by watching canned comedy or reading comics in the daily news-rag in my corner of this global village and I come here to rant about the idiocy of the village idiots or read about somebody else's village idiot.
I am using this as a communication tool. Remember Marshall's comments about the Television?: (The medium is the message), so what is it that kb posts are accomplishing even by their irrelevancy apart from denigrating the message that this medium is. Granted that they are by far better than the indy stuff (which made me want to get up and hose my computer down).
I am in accord with C#4 about the 1st commenter. Although I am less keen to attribute where he/she has been rock or not.
There are cataclysms, natural events that have not occured yet (not a prophecy) but based on statistical projections from 1970's-1990's (a real science I assure you) are not very far into our future in occurrence.
And if you beieve it and are afraid that it is too late to do anything about it, may I recommend an interesting movie called 'Down The Rabbit Hole'?
I can't believe that anyone is unaware that global warming is not a myth. Not only has it been widely reported in the media that global warming is, indeed, a fact, but our glaciers are disappearing. I suppose that commenter #1 thinks someone's been standing in front of the glaciers with an electric hair dryer on full blast?
And to the previous commenter: Who said that all discussions or postings on this blog need to be relevant to anything?
Posted by: at August 23, 2006 10:00 AMDo you believe everything you read in the media? Go to www.junkscience.com and you can get actual facts, not half-truths and whole lies. This is very important for the future of our country. We could get suckered into a treaty that greatly penalizes us and favors the rest of the world. There is no solid proof that "global warming" actually exists.
Posted by: manwithanactualbrain at August 23, 2006 4:11 PMWhat would you consider to be a solid proff?
Remember the Israelites' story ? After they witnessed the parting of the Red sea and various events before it they demanded that Moses get his God to show itself to them.
If you believe it or not is not something that I am trying to make a point of. What my point in mentioning this even as allegory is to illustrate that the nature of humans is such that sometimes no amount of 'hard' evidence is going to convince you, especially if you have a vested interest in not believing it anyway.
Little shop of horrors: 'Feeed me Morris'. Nevermind that I am a 15' tall alien plant eating stray cats and dogs and various unsavoury clients that come into your dentistry office...just 'Feeeeeed me Morris'
Proof
Posted by: at August 23, 2006 5:10 PMthe kb posts are irrelevent to the the medium (in my view, obviously).
And annonyblog is good in that it allows even for kb to be here, despite my personal views on the bear posts [and of course the poster(s) thereof].
And your point is?
Posted by: manwithanactualbrain at August 23, 2006 6:55 PMoh... something to do with the irrelevancy issue and why it has to be there.
I suppose that the message that this medium is (again in my view) could be sketched as naked truth with no consequences site.
Hell we even have had people post stuff here that would get a warrent for their arrest as a pedophile if it were to be posted elsewhere!
Uncomfortable to read to be sure.
kb posts have nothing, they take up space.
They are like the Sienfeld TV show (man I hated that show) about nothing. What possible value can there be for anyone to do the same on the internet?
There is not even a space for adverts.
I thought it was "Feed me, Seymour"????
Posted by: at August 24, 2006 4:12 AMIt is a new spelling, very new in fact I am starting a trend right now.
Is my face ever red... sorry to any Seymours out there.
Proof you say?
Additive factors logic.
Would you say that what comes out of the arse end of a car is the same as what you put into it?
What goes in useful is changing and coming out useless (we are not even trying to find a use for it). It can be multiplied by 240 million per day for let us say a round number of ten hours.
I hope you like math problems.
[I am not saying that 240 million is anywhere near the numbers worldwide, it is not. Nor is it representative of the number of factories belching stuff into the air.]
Back to the prrof:
Let us assume that 240 million cars using 240 million L of useful air and putting out 240 million L of useless air per day. Based on the assumption that 1 car converts 1 liter of air per day:
Is there an effect on a closed system's (that is Earth) air?
You do not need to even calculate how much air exchange happens with the diminshing rainforests, diminishing coral reefs and the expansion of concrete forests and beech resorts.
Is there going to be an effect or not?
"I say, therefore it is." there is no "closed system" Wea re not a greenhouse. A greenhouse is a manmade structure that artificialy keeps air in. Our atmosphere is constantly letting things out. Therefore this argument is invalid.
Posted by: at August 25, 2006 9:38 AMNot necesarily.
If you do not want to play this game it is fine, but let us try a different method:
Is there an effect or is there not an effect when you fart inside of your car or underneath your blankets?
Now take that number (one fart) and multiply it by 240000000, would you say there should be an effect? I did not volunteer to measure it, and I am not asking anyone to study it. Just as a thought experiment would you say there is an effect or not?
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Posted by: Martin Rafferty at December 11, 2006 2:58 PMkistov, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?
ARE YOU SOME KIND OF ANONYBLOG TERRORIST?
kistov, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?
ARE YOU SOME KIND OF ANONYBLOG TERRORIST?