Iraq, Afghanistan and War against "Terror"

Why the Bush men failed and the lessons for Kerry

Published on October 10, 2004 By Bahu Virupaksha In Politics

In September 2001 the Twin Tower attack took place and Afghaistan was rightly identified as a Terrorist State and the UN gave the sanction for a "regime change". There is no evidence that Saddam had any hand in the tragedy. In fact he abhored the brand of Islamic fundamentalism represented by the Taliban and their supporters,In fact, he had tried to weld a multi ethnic, sectarian and religious society into an Arab civil society. The sanctions put paid to his ambitions, leaving behind a society in which children,s drugs like paracetamol was denied to Iraq leading to the deaths of nearly 1 million children. Who is to be blamed for that, only the Clinton regime which contiued the heartless policy of George I.
Kerry will soon be in the White House and the illegal regime of Bush II will draw to an end. The involvement of the UN not Haliburton, will at least mean a short step toward peace. Kerry must convene an international conference to which all powers interested in peace must be invited. The territorial integrity of Iraq assured and a government that is rid of Quislings installed.
Only on the basis of a government that is acceptable to the people not imperial conquerors will lead to peace in the region.

Comments

hitparade

on Oct 10, 2004

The term Mafioso is a ten-century-old Sicilian code of conduct in which a man is expected to act honorably. He must be brave & loyal. If Victimized or dishonored, a Mafioso must not turn to the State, which itself is inherently suspect, for justice/vengeance. This code of silence, even when egregiously wronged, is called omerta. The recourse instead is for the individual wronged too redress the transgression, too fix the problem with his own hands. This is known as vendetta.

In the early ‘30s, the Italian-American Mafia was divided into two camps. An ethnic divide existed between Italians and Sicilians. This divide related back to a ten century old blood feud from the old country. A massive power struggle erupted called the Castallmarese war in which this ethnic divide was eradicated.

Joe Valchai, the first American Mafioso to break the code of Omerta, relayed a story. When in Sing Sing, he was informed that the ethnic divide no longer existed. That the subgroups, though divided into five families, would now act as one big happy family under the auspices of a commission. When Valachi, a Sicilian, heard about this new era of cooperation, he could hardly believe his ears. He though that he was being lied too. For good reason, prior to this new era of cooperation, the two factions were literary killing one another at will and on the spot.

The term Mafioso, interestingly, has its roots in t he Arabic: Loosely referring to “brother bandits”, who used caves as hideouts. JOHN KERRY calls the President of the United States a liar. What temerity to say that our president lied about a connection between Saddam, the secularist terrorist, and Osama, the religious terrorist. In his day, Joe Valachi held a similar belief about Sicilians an Italians. "No! Never cooperation", Joe insisted when informed of the new partnership.

When Saddam invited the psychopath terrorist, Al Zar ... whatever the hell his name is ... into Iraq, the cooperation openly was annointed. Before that, who knows. But I'm cynical; I say the so-called divide between Saddam and Osma had many a bridge. Maybe John Kerry, like Joe Valcahi, does not want to believe, but the reality is that the merging of the secular and religious terrorist was and is furiously a foot. The 911commsion attributed lack of prescience, lack of imagination, as one basis for America’s failure to protect our people. Mr. Kerry’s insistence that no sufficient connection existed between Saddam and Osma is hardly imaginative, hardly prescient. It’s ugly political opportunism at its lowest.

JOHN Kerry is simply shameless in what he would have us believe. Shameless.

Grim Xiozan

on Oct 10, 2004

Kerry will soon be in the White House and the illegal regime of Bush II will draw to an end. The involvement of the UN not Haliburton, will at least mean a short step toward peace.

You do know a RECOUNT in a STATE is only LEGAL when a RECOUNT is done in ALL COUNTIES, not a few heavily DEMOCRATIC COUNTIES BUT ALL COUNTIES, unless you like having someone BREAK THE LAW to be President.

- GX

Daiwa

on Oct 10, 2004

The involvement of the UN not Haliburton, will at least mean a short step toward peace.

Placing your hopes and dreams in the hands of the UN is folly and wishful thinking, to be kind, completely unsupported by history. The UN has been worse than pathetic in achieving or maintaining peace anywhere - look at what they "accomplished" in Sierra Leone. Is that what you really want? A private security company with 100 men and 20 million bucks accomplished a job there that the UN, with 18,000 troops and nearly 12 billion dollars, could not.

And the UN has no way to provide the things Haliburton provides... except to hire Haliburton. To boot, every mullah-wannabe knows the UN is a joke - if you think things are bad now, al Sadr could run the UN out of Iraq in 3 weeks if he wanted to.

Your aspirations are noble, but you've seriously deluded yourself if you think it can happen that way.

Cheers,
Daiwa

Daiwa

on Oct 10, 2004

In fact he abhored the brand of Islamic fundamentalism represented by the Taliban and their supporters,In fact, he had tried to weld a multi ethnic, sectarian and religious society into an Arab civil society.

And you can't be serious. Civil society? May Allah save us from such civility.

Cheers,
Daiwa

Daiwa

on Oct 10, 2004

The 911commsion attributed lack of prescience, lack of imagination, as one basis for America’s failure to protect our people. Mr. Kerry’s insistence that no sufficient connection existed between Saddam and Osma is hardly imaginative, hardly prescient. It’s ugly political opportunism at its lowest. JOHN Kerry is simply shameless in what he would have us believe. Shameless.

Well said, HitParade. Points to you.

Cheers,
Daiwa

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