THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD

by Malik Isasis

















Iraq’s civilian population continues to sink beneath the blood soaked soil of Iraq like quicksand. The death and destruction is almost unimaginable to the average American citizen. The sanitized visuals and omissions of the occupation are transmitted by the corporate media to help Bush and his corporate raiders and the neocons in Israel, bide time so that they can continue to colonize the country for future wars in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the civilian population is caught in the middle of a violent and destructive civil war and a violent and destructive occupation and colonization effort.

Bush has knelt before the Gods of War and offered tens of thousands more troops, and in addition, 90-day extensions for the troops he claims he supports and honors. The mass human sacrifice has already created one of the bloodiest months in the Occupation of Iraq. The Democratic Party’s feeble attempt to stop Bush’s offerings of flesh and blood to the gears of war, has only encouraged his recalcitrance, and contempt.

The Blueprint

Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian people is the template for which Bush and his neocons are using for the Bush-McCaine surge in troops.

In Robert Fisk’s article in The Independent, Fisk reveals the truth about the real intentions of the Bush-McCaine surge.

Faced with an ever-more ruthless insurgency in Baghdad - despite President George Bush's "surge" in troops - US forces in the city are now planning a massive and highly controversial counter-insurgency operation that will seal off vast areas of the city, enclosing whole neighbourhoods with barricades and allowing only Iraqis with newly issued ID cards to enter.

The campaign of "gated communities" - whose genesis was in the Vietnam War - will involve up to 30 of the city's 89 official districts and will be the most ambitious counter-insurgency programme yet mounted by the US in Iraq.

Bush’s goal is to create massive imprisonments of the Iraqi people throughout Baghdad to quail the insurgency. Bush’s strategy of solving terrorism is a two-prong approach: mass incarceration and mass murder.

The troop surge in part is setting the stage for an attack on Iran. Although Bush appears more and more isolated by his distorted worldview, he is not isolated from the support of the neocons, AIPAC, Christian Zionists and the government officials in Israel, all encouraging the continuation of the Iraq Occupation and planned attacks on Iran.

It now appears that the US military intends to place as many as five mechanised brigades - comprising about 40,000 men - south and east of Baghdad, at least three of them positioned between the capital and the Iranian border. This would present Iran with a powerful - and potentially aggressive - American military force close to its border in the event of a US or Israeli military strike against its nuclear facilities later this year.

The Yellow Brick Road

The corporate media has laid down every yellow brick along this path of delusion and perpetual war that Bush and the neocons are skipping along on. It is also the road to the end of America’s superpower status. Like superpowers before it, the United States government is under the illusion that it can hang onto power, by keeping others from obtaining it through world dominance. Ultimately, it will be the United States who will be dominated by its over stretched economic and military abilities, which inevitably will result in its economic collapse.

If the Democratic Party were a viable opposition, maybe they would understand this Greek tragedy and heed the lessons of previous failed superpowers.

How the Bush Administration Destabilized the ‘Arc of Instability’

by Tom Engelhardt, Tom's Dispatch











Chaos is the inevitable result of the U.S. quest to conquer the world. Nothing else could possibly result. Defeat is also inevitable, but millions of deaths will be left in the wake. The real "rogue nation" is the United States, which has under George Bush launched a poorly planned and criminal assault on human civilization. Tom Engelhardt gives a blow-by-blow account of the ideology behind the crude aggression that went so wrong for the perpetrators, but which is, like a snake, coiled to strike once again. It's in its nature. The imperative to conquest can only be countered by the fact of defeat.

"Iraq is the poster-boy for the Bush administration's ability to turn whatever it touches into hell on Earth."

One night when I was in my teens, I found myself at a production of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. I had never heard of the playwright or the play, nor had I seen a play performed in the round. The actors were dramatically entering and exiting in the aisles when, suddenly, a man stood up in the audience, proclaimed himself a seventh character in search of an author, and demanded the same attention as the other six. At the time, I assumed the unruly "seventh character" was just part of the play, even after he was summarily ejected from the theater...read on.

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