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The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 45: How the U.S. engineered the Iraqi holocaust
By
B. J. Sabri
Did the United States, under the pretext of
“liberating” Kuwait from the Iraqi occupation, engineer and execute an Iraqi
holocaust to implement, consolidate, and entrench American imperialism in
Iraq, and the Middle East?
May 31, 2006, 00:51
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 44: Burning the cradle of civilization
By
B. J. Sabri
Depending on the scope of use, mythmaking in
imperialism can be a powerful instrument to rewrite history and influence
issues of war and peace. Take for example the U.S. (and other imperialist
states including Israel) mythmaking on the extent of Nazi violence. Immediately
after the demise of the Third Reich, the ideologically motivated elevation of
Nazism to a “universal” symbol of atrocities has acquired an ever-inflating
mythological dimension.
May 4, 2006, 01:42
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 43: The scheme behind the bombardment of Iraq
By B. J. Sabri
In retrospect, the effective date for U.S.
imperialists to destabilize Iraq and attack it at an opportune moment began on
August 20, 1988. On that date, Iran had finally accepted a ceasefire offered by
Iraq years earlier.
Apr 18, 2006, 01:05
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 42: Postwar aftermath or imperialist mutatis mutandis?
By
B. J. Sabri
In addressing Soviet concerns on the American
intentions in Iraq (early fall, 1990), former Secretary of State James Baker,
borrowed from the vast repertoire of deception long experimented with by U.S.
imperialist circles. He solemnly declared that once the United States
“liberated” Kuwait from the Iraqi occupation, not even one American soldier
would remain in the Gulf region.
Mar 27, 2006, 01:07
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 41: The choice: obedience or annihilation
By
B. J. Sabri
From one specific angle, the American bombardment of
Iraq in 1991 had no parallels in the entire history of modern warfare -- U.S.
imperialists televised it to every corner of the globe. With that, the show of
mass destruction had become visual entertainment for some and a message on the
cost of disobedience to U.S. diktat. In the United States where TV addiction
runs high, viewers were able to see the live transmission of the slaughter with
a push of a button. This writer intensely recalls how some people dinning out
at New York City restaurants were wowing at the televised scenes of explosions
while consuming their meals.
Jan 21, 2006, 20:17
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 40: A one-way bombardment called Gulf War
By B. J. Sabri
Just four months before he obliterated Iraq in a
one-way bombardment called Gulf War (Iraq did not shoot a single bullet on
American soil), George H. W. Bush postulated how the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
provided the opportunity for the creation of a new world; meaning a unipolar
world ruled by the United States. In his address to a joint
session of Congress (September 11, 1990), Bush senior, described the coming
birth of that world with these words: "The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as
grave as it is, also offers a rare
opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these
troubled times, our fifth objective -- a
new world order. . . . )
Dec 31, 2005, 00:40
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 39: Iraq: The second stage of conquest
By B. J. Sabri
In a historical timeframe, George H. W. Bush's war to
"punish" Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait was the bridge that
connected America's brutal colonialist past to its fascist, still-colonialist
present under the presidency of his son, George W. Bush. Between the two ends
of that bridge, there was the era of the darlings to Zionism, Al Gore and his
president, Bill Clinton.
Dec 9, 2005, 01:05
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 38: Inside America's lab of horror
By B. J. Sabri
In December 1990, The
Village Voice published a long detailed article on the American entrapment
of Iraq in Kuwait. The article described the coordination between the Kuwaiti
government with the CIA, James Baker, and the Bush family (Neil Bush had
interests in Bahraini oil deals, and oil exploration in the Persian Gulf) to
provoke Iraq into attacking Kuwait.
Nov 9, 2005, 00:45
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 37: Iraq, America’s Lab of Horror
By B. J. Sabri
It took a suspicious event (9/11), two brutal wars of
aggression (Afghanistan and Iraq), and a hurricane (Katrina) to permanently unmask the nature,
objectives, and ideology of U.S. imperialism. But Katrina, with the devastation
it left behind, exposed at least two fundamental articles of truth about a
braggart superpower that is inexorably sliding toward institutionalized
fascism:
Oct 26, 2005, 16:14
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 36: George Bush occupies Iraq
By B. J. Sabri
Considering U.S. machinations, maneuvers, spins, lies,
and changing rationales to invade and occupy Iraq, is it not surprising that
the Bush regime survived and still rules the United State?
Sep 10, 2005, 15:38
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 35: When an American Hulagu invades Mesopotamia
By B. J. Sabri
George Bush is a crafty politician: he hides his
strident demagogy behind the armor of the presidency. For example, when
journalists ask him if the United States would withdraw its forces from Iraq,
seeing the intense resistance to his occupation and the devastation of Iraq, he
and the mouthpieces of his regime always reply in the same manner, “Not before
we complete our mission.” What mission might that be?
Aug 12, 2005, 16:15
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 34: Iraq, another chapter of American fascism, colonialism, and extermination
By B. J. Sabri
Is
Iraq another chapter in the long history of the American policy of
international fascism, colonialism, and extermination against non-white peoples
and developing nations? Considering the evidence accumulated against the United
States in over 200 years, the answer is a firm yes.
Jul 13, 2005, 23:16
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 33: Facing East: Iraqi hating and empire building*
By B. J. Sabri
American imperialist conduct is in no way cyclic
(isolationism followed by activism, and so on) as some historians suggest. In
fact, with the exception of the Civil War period, there were no interruptions
in the drive for continental supremacy, and later on for world hegemony.
Empires do no think in terms of cycles—that would rupture the ideological
continuity of empire building.
May 24, 2005, 22:29
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 32: From Alexander Hamilton and Iroquois to George Bush and Iraqis
By B. J. Sabri
Alexander Hamilton and Iroquois (Haudenosaunee),
George Bush and Iraqis, is there any relation? Can the history of Native
Nations in the United States offer the ideological key to understand the occupation
of Afghanistan and Iraq?
Apr 29, 2005, 19:28
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 31: Achtung! We can invent a pretext to conquer you
By B. J. Sabri
American pretexts for colonialist expansions, military
interventions, or wars, share a peculiar makeup. They are systematic, never in
self-defense, and always have two sides: a true intent (real objective)
and a declared aim (propagandistic objective).
Apr 12, 2005, 16:12
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 30: Iraq Occupation, pretext, encroachment, and colonialism
By B. J. Sabri
Former President
George H.W. Bush, when running for the office, had a serious image problem. The
press called him a “wimp,” and a former president (Jimmy Carter) called him
“effeminate” on the Larry King Show during the presidential campaign of 1988.
Even so, by wrapping himself with the flag, and by his TV advertisement on
prison inmate Willie Horton, a polluted Boston harbor, and a goofy Democratic
opponent, Michael Dukakis, riding in a military tank, Bush became the 41st
president of the United States.
Mar 26, 2005, 13:57
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 29: Iraq Occupation, anatomy of pretext
By B. J. Sabri
Etymological research is an exacting method for
finding appropriate meanings. When I was deciding on a title for this article,
I wanted to name it, “anatomy of a ruse.” But, “ruse” (from the French, “ruser:
to deceive”,) I thought to myself, is mild. It is equivalent to a trick;
therefore, it is inadequate to describe an intricate purpose. For instance, to
execute its project for war on Iraq, the U.S. of Cheney and Wolfowitz did not
trick the world—trick implies that people subjected to it should be unaware of
what the trickster is plotting. But the world was fully aware of the schemes
and hoaxes of the Bush administration, so how did the U.S. do it?
Mar 11, 2005, 21:05
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 28: Imperialist expansions and 9/11
By B. J. Sabri
The central theme that is still dominating the
American ideological discourse since 9/11 is that the attacks on the World
Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon were not like any other attacks.
Specifically, the Bush administration argued that 9/11 was an indication of
U.S. vulnerability against an implacable enemy, hence confronting this “enemy”
requires a radical approach: war without borders against Arabs, Muslims, Islam,
and their entire history, all perceived as an embodiment of “terrorism.”
Mar 2, 2005, 22:28
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 27: Demystifying 9/11
By B. J. Sabri
As I maintained throughout this series, the Bush
administration mystified 9/11 and elevated it from a crime to an alibi for
imperialist colonialism. But demystifying an ideology, policy, motivation,
claim, tale, interview, or event is not that complicated. All we need to do is
remove intrusive rhetoric and subjective determinism from the object of study,
and redefine it in relation to the material reality that formed it.
Feb 12, 2005, 20:19
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 26: Dick Cheney, numbers and the metaphysics of 9/11
By B. J. Sabri
Numbers are fascinating: take them out of our
culture, and everything would instantaneously cease to function—literally.
Numbers have mystique, power, purpose, and meaning, depending on who is using
them and why.
Jan 28, 2005, 02:26
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