Sowing the seeds of multi-generational wrath
MWC News, Canada By Ben Tanosborn
For most of us in the US, IRA stands as an abbreviation for an individual retirement account; although the initials may remind some of the Irish Republican Army and its role in Northern Ireland. To those with Latin roots (cultural or linguistic), however, IRA isn’t an abbreviation, standing in caps for anger at its primordial stage – pure, unadulterated wrath; wrath as in terror present, and wrath as in terror yet to come.
Four-hundred thousand Iraqi deaths ago give or take a hundred-thousand, Bush and his minions decided that Iraq stood politically and militarily as one of those undesirable four-letter places, the westerly end of the axis of evil. Apparently, the preceding decade of sanctions (starting in 1992) had not been punishment enough for its people, nor had the genocide of half-a-million children been sufficient sacrifice.
So off with the “q�, and on with the rape – Iraq would thus cease to be a four-letter word – courtesy of Bush the Decider, his retinue of neocon masterminds and a brainwashed American population waving flags and willing to lend unquestioned support, many no doubt blinded by the symbolic call to arms Bush took advantage of after 9/11. Three months short of four years, American occupation forces have “succeeded,� intentionally or not, in taking a nation with bright prospects, and converting it into Shambles-land… where death and chaos reign. Without plans or a building permit the US has managed to construct in Iraq a temple for martyrs… a palatial recruiting station for present and future jihadists – people with deep-rooted “ira� (wrath) in search for revenge.
Now that there isn’t a nook or cranny where Bush might be able to hide, with defeat staring him in the face and support limited to the power elite, and an equally busholute religious-right, he can ill-afford to break the glass and reach for the fire extinguisher. It would mean retreat from Iraq – whether precipitously or in stages – something that will never be an option for someone who is the archetype of arrogance. So come hell or high-water, tsunami or surge, nothing must be allowed to happen during the next two years that could be interpreted, at least by Americans, as defeat… as cut and run.
And just as it happens with pyramid or Ponci schemes in the area of investments – most often aided by human greed – defeat or failure (political and military) can only be covered up by enlarging the battlefield, by extending the size and/or time of conflict. So off with the “n�, and on with the rape of the next four letter country, another villain nation representing demonology to our saintly George W. Bush. That land of the Aryans allows the perfectly suited escalation, the ideal military vehicle to extend America’s interests in the Middle East: a godsend to cover-up the failure that has been Iraq. [more]