Bush-installed interim Iraqi Prime Minster Iyad Allawi announced with a smile of victory that he personally ordered the capture of the hospital. So maybe it was not the Pentagon: it was an unelected politician asking a foreign occupation army to attack a hospital in his own country and preventing doctors and ambulances from entering a city under siege.
The assault, dubbed Operation Phantom Fury, perversely started on Laylat e-Qadr, the most important and holy night of the year for the Islamic world.
Pepe Escobar/Asia Times 10.Nov.04
The assault, dubbed Operation Phantom Fury, perversely started on Laylat e-Qadr, the most important and holy night of the year for the Islamic world.
Pepe Escobar/Asia Times 10.Nov.04
It's past time for you to wake up, realize what this is - a massive spasm of revenge and bloodlust - it's not about oil, it's about hatred.
It's the triumph of the inferior man, an Oedipal rage that's moved on from patricide to wholesale murder.
Babylon is such a common term in reggae music because it's in the Bible as the worst of nations, the enemy, the evil place. It's in the Bible in those terms because the Jews were conquered by the Babylonians and their Temple was destroyed into the bargain. This "invasion" has been one long consistent act of retaliation for those offenses against God's special Chosen People. From the looting of antiquities last year to the timing of this latest atrocity, this is the sadistic and cruel triumph of cowardice, and ultimately a spiritual war against the world itself.
Tangled and bound in a spun web of deceit, the terms we'd use to describe what was done are owned by the ones who did it. Divide the world into Satanic and divine forces and see that the real enemy owns both names, works both sides against the middle. We're being eaten by something that, when it finishes with our children, won't have to pretend to be human anymore.
