The occupation of Iraq continues to this day. The fact that war doesn’t exist in Iraq is fundamental to even the most casual viewer. There is no other nation attacking Iraq, nor defending Iraq. There is no opposite governmental power in Iraq trying to implement change. The only thing we have in Iraq is a “Green Zone” in the middle of Baghdad that allows all coalition-friendly people to coexist. Whenever the Iraqi government meets, a rare event in and of itself, they meet there. Whenever Bush and company go to Iraq, they are sure to meet in the Green Zone. There is no safe place in Iraq outside of the Green Zone. Secular violence is rampant and old tribal boundaries are being arbitrarily established. Today the American public is very divided about the continued occupation of Iraq, but a lot of this consternation is due to their misconception that there is still a war in Iraq. War has been over in Iraq ever since April 9, 2003. Americans who continue to call the occupation of Iraq a war are delusional at best, and ignorant at worst.
For over three years the US has been fighting a battle of occupation, and it has been losing it. Much like Afghanistan, the US is inching closer to the day it removes its forces, and allows the installed chaos to overwhelm the country. Today, it’s easy to see that the US government will never honor its commitment to Afghanistan nor to Iraq. Both countries are destined to fall into civil chaos thanks to the intervention of the US, but since this process will be off the radar screens of most American TVs, most Americans will feel little remorse about the fact that they helped assassinate over two million people.
The ol’ adage rings true once again, “Out of sight, out of mind.” And that brings us to the most outrageous lie of modern times. This lie is so egregious as to make all previous lies merely cannon fodder for the new mensonge. Previously, we have heard the American public announce stupid wars. First, there was the War on Poverty. President Lyndon Johnson announced this gem in the mid 1960s. We were supposed to eradicate all poverty within a decade. Now, four decades later, there are more homeless and more poverty than ever before.
And now we have a “War on Terror.” But what does this mean?
According to dictionary.com, terror means, “Intense, overpowering fear.” So we have a war on intense, overpowering fear. This is about as logical as a war against overbleached laundry. But a war on such a nebulous entity as terrorism is nothing new to American politics. The United States has fought many such nefarious wars, beginning in the 1960s. And now we come to the current war on terror.
While the previous silly wars were about conceptually tangible concepts, poverty and drugs, the new war is about a feeling. Now we have to be afraid of feeling like we are being terrorized. All of a sudden, the threat of this feeling is so important that it will cause us to go to war against innocent nations and slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent people. We have seen how this administration has distorted the facts on purpose to promote the concept that we need to fear fear itself. In reality, the war on terror doesn’t exist, and it never existed. Likewise, we can plainly see that the Iraq and Afghan Wars have been over for quite some time.
The presence of US and NATO troops in these countries is clearly no longer needed. There is no war on terror. As with the previously declared silly wars, the war on terror will slowly fade into the tapestry of Americana and become one more footnote in the bellicose ways of this country. Little mention of the over one million dead will ever accompany the message of this ridiculous period, and like the desaparecidos from Argentina and Chile, the world will see this era as a tumultuous time when America started silly and stupid wars for personal gain that proved to be fruitless.
The war on terror is nothing more than a contemporary method of funneling monies to the private companies of one’s choice. Whereas companies at one time had to falsely demonstrate that they were fighting the war on poverty or drugs, now they need to falsely demonstrate that they are fighting the war on terror. It’s merely a lateral shift of the money they need to spend to bribe the government, that’s all.
While the American poor fly and die in Iraq and Afghanistan, the corporate elite wine and dine on top of their graves. Expose these pseudo-wars for what they are. Stop these governments from using us as so much fodder for their experiments in societal control.
End the tyranny of globalization.
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