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The Splendid Failure of Occupation Last Updated: Jan 4th, 2007 - 01:08:31


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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