Amy Kaplan on Confusing Occupation With Liberation:
"Why, we have gotten into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater. I'm sure I wish I could see what we were getting out of it, and all it means to us as a nation."
Someone could have said this about Iraq today or about Vietnam 35 years ago. But in fact it was Mark Twain who said it a century ago about the American occupation of the Philippines.
I was reminded of that quote when I heard President Bush, in a speech Saturday before the Philippine Congress, refer to our history in that country as a "model" for establishing democracy in Iraq. Alluding to the 1898 Spanish-American War, he said, "America is proud of its part in the great story of the Filipino people. Together our soldiers liberated the Philippines from colonial rule."
Kaplan goes on to dispel the myth of American liberation of the Phillipines. The same thing is beginning to occur in Iraq. Occupation isn't liberation folks. Again, occupation ISN'T liberation. As long as our military men and women remain on Iraqi soil, getting wounded and killed – we haven't liberated anyone. We've only occupied them. There is a difference, even if today's naive chickenhawk warbloggers don't want to acknowledge the truth.
PROPHECY
AMERICA BE FOREWARNED ALL THE SIGNS POINT TO AN UNCONSCIONABLE TOLL ON? OUR SOLDIERS AND INNOCENT IRAQI PEOPLE THAT WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO JUSTIFY IN THE FUTURE WHEN THE TRUTH IS FINALLY KNOWN ABOUT THIS WAR __NOW BLOODY OCCUPATION.
??? REMEMBER THIS__THE LOSS OF LIFE IN IRAQ WILL BE IN NUMBERS MUCH GREATER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. THE IRAQI PEOPLE HATED SADDAM BUT NOW HAVE COME TO HOLD AMERICA IN EQUAL CONTEMPT.
???? YES, WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY AND WEAPONRY? ___BUT THE IRAQI PEOPLE HAVE THE DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF ANGER AND THE? WILL TO OUST WHAT THEY NOW SEE AS AN INVADER.? THE COMBINED GROUPS? ARE NOW COOPERATING IN ONE EFFORT__THAT IS TO KILL THE AMERICANS ___ THAT THEY NOW VIEW AS THE? COLONIST, INVADER, AND PREDATOR WHO IS OCCUPYING THEIR COUNTRY.
??????????? OUR SOLDIERS IN IRAQ KNOW THE TRUTH_BUT THEY ARE SILENCED BY THE PENTAGON, AND THE FAMILIES AT HOME FEAR RETALIATION? THAT COULD PUT THEIR SONS IN GREATER DANGER.? THEY ARE RIGHT….IT IS UP TO US THE CITIZENS HERE TO STAND UP SPEAK OUT AND ACT ON OUR CONSCIENCE. IT IS UP TO US TO PROTECT OUR SOLDIERS AND?__SECURE OUR DEMOCRACY AS A MORAL PEOPLE.
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??????????? BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME NOW!
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???? THIS WAR IS A WAR OF POWER AND DOMINATION ___NOT OF WMDS OR A “WAR ON TERRORISM? NOR? CAN IT BRING DEMOCRACY TO IRAQ.?
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WE HAVE BECOME THE CREATORS?OF OUR OWN MISFORTUNE …IGNITING ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST _LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
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??????WE DO NOT BELONG IN THIS REGION. IT IS NOT OURS TO TAKE AND THE BLOOD OF EVERY YOUNG SOLDIER SHED IN IRAQ IS A? ONEROUS SEARING REMINDER OF THAT.
?? THIS? CRUSADE? INVADING AND OCCUPYING A COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST?_CANNOT BE COMPARED TO ANY OTHER REGION.? THERE? ARE EXTENSIVE CONSIDERATIONS? IN? A HISTORY OF BLOODY RELIGIOUS WARS FOUGHT __THAT HAVE? NOTHING TO DO WITH GOD.
???? PREEMPTORY KILLING IS NOT …AND CAN NEVER BE _JUST.??? MONARCHS,? KINGS AND TYRANTS ARE WELL KNOWN FOR TAKING THE POSITION OF JUDGE, JUROR AND EXECUTER.?
WE HAVE VIOLATED THE MOST BASIC LAW OF RIGHTEOUS_______WE HAVE? NOW BECOME? JUDGE,? JUROR AND EXECUTOR OF A COUNTRY WHO WE DEEMED UNFIT TO BE RULED…YET THIS WAS THE VERY LEADER (SADDAM) WHO THE U.S. COMMERCE? LICENSED DOW CHEMICAL TO SHIP 1.5M?…AND? OTHER U.S. COMPANIES TO SHIP ANTHRAX.
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WE MUST INFORM THE CITIZENS AS TO THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER THAT THIS OCCUPATION PRESENTS TO OUR TROOPS, AMERICA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD.
GET OUR SOLDIERS OUT BEFORE WE LOSE HUNDREDS MORE. >>>VERY SOON IN A BLOODY TOLL THAT WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RECONCILE AND IMMERSE DEEPER INTO THE ABYSS.
THERE IS A REASON WHY NO COUNTRY HAS OFFERED ANY TROOPS OF ANY SUBSTANCE TO ASSIST US IN THIS OCCUPATION. WE DO NOT BELONG IN IRAQ. GIVE THE THE IRAQI PEOPLE THEIR COUNTRY BACK, AND TAKE OUR SOLDIERS HOME __ALIVE IN EXCHANGE. WE MUST DEMAND THAT OUR SOLDIERS BE BROUGHT HOME NOW!
WASHINGTON POST SEPT 2: NUMBER OF WOUNDED ON THE RISE. BY VERNON LOEB
BURIED IN THIS COMPELLING ARTICLE IS THE SHOCKING REVELATION THAT THOUSANDS (4,500+) SOLDIERS HAVE BECOME “PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY ILL IN IRAQ AND HAD TO BE EVACUATED BACK TO THE UNITED STATES. THIS CLEARLY ILLUSTRATES THE PENTAGON HAS MANIPULATED THE NUMBERS AS TO THE REAL TOLL ON OUR SOLDIERS THAT THIS OCCUPATION HAS TAKEN AND OUR “FREE PRESS” HAS DELIBERATELY __NOT ASKED THE MOST OBVIOUS “RIGHT QUESTIONS” WHICH WOULD EXPOSE THIS TRAGEDY.
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USA TODAY OCT 13 ARMY PROBES SOLDIERS SUICIDES
BY GREGG ZOROYA
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-10-13-army-suicides-usat_x.htm
THE 13 “ACKNOWLEDGED” SUICIDES ALONG WITH POSSIBLE A DOZEN MORE UNDER INVESTIGATION IS TESTIMONY THAT ____THE REALITIES ON THE GROUND ARE IN FACT, DRAMATICALLY WORSE…THAN EVEN PORTRAYED BY THE PRESS.
I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO REVIEW THE DEPT OF DEFENSE NEWS RELEASE SINCE APRIL AND SEE FOR YOURSELF HOW MANY SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IE: NON-COMBAT, DROWNINGS AND COMBAT WEAPONS DISCHARGE DEATHS YOU FIND. ALSO SEE CNN.COM WAR IN IRAQ CASUALITIES WITH OUR SOLDIERS PHOTOS AND CAUSE OF DEATH.
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases http://www.cnn.com/ SEE: SPECIAL REPORTS WAR IN IRAQ
CASUALITIES
THE NUMBER OF SUICIDES IS FAR BEYOND THE NORMAL RANGE >>> THE PENTAGON IS CONCEALING THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW MANY SOLDIERS HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE__ THE SHOCKING NUMBER OF SOLDIERS WHO HAVE SUFFERED NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS AND HOW MANY HAVE BEEN DRIVEN TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE, IN EXTREME DESPERATION TO ESCAPE THEIR EMOTIONAL TORMENT DUE TO THE TREMENDOUS TRAUMA OF THIS GOD FORBIDDEN OCCUPATION.
WE CITIZENS OF THE U.S. MUST PROTECT OUR SOLDIERS
TO HELL WITH THE PUBLIC RELATIONS ___WE MUST DEMAND THE FACTS. THESE EXTREMELY BAZARRE, HIGHLY DISTURBING OCCURRENCES ARE TAKING AN UNCONSCIONABLE TOLL ON OUR SOLDIERS PHYSICAL AS WELL AS EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL STATE. THE REPORTED 4,500+ SOLDIERS WHO HAD BECAME __ PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY ILL AS OF OF SEPT 2 ARTICLE IN THE WASHINGTON POST, AND CERTAINLY THOUSANDS MORE SINCE.
WHO ARE >>>FOREVER SCARRED WHAT THEY HAVE WITNESSED AND HAVE BEEN FORCED TO PARTICIPATE IN. AMERICA MUST DEMAND ANSWERS AND SOON __WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE THOUSANDS OF YOUNG SOLDIERS WHO HAVE BEEN EVACUATED FROM IRAQ? WHAT IS THE PENTAGON COVERING UP? HOW MANY MORE DOZENS OF SUICIDES HAVE BEEN LABELED AS SOME OTHER CAUSE SO TO KEEP THE TERRIBLE TRUTH FROM AMERICA?
THEN ASK__WHY HAS NO INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER TAKEN ON THIS SERIOUS SUBJECT. ANSWER: IT IS CALLED CENSORSHIP. BEWARE…NOT REPORTING THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR SOLDIERS IS NOT, AND CAN NEVER BE PATRIOTIC. I REPEAT__IT IS BETRAYAL.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR SEPT 6 2002 IN WAR SOME FACTS, LESS FACTUAL.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p01s02-wosc.html
DO NOT BE DECIEVED BY THE RHETORIC_THINK! DO NOT ACCEPT THE USE OF DECIET DECEPTION AND MANIPULATION AS IT IS NOT RIGHTOUS.
PLEASE, YOU MUST LISTEN TO YOUR CONSCIENCE …FOR THAT IS THE WINDOW TO YOUR SOUL AND THE PATH TO AMERICAS SALVATION AWAY FROM THIS INSIDIOUS AGENDA.
http://www.usacitizens4truth.com/desireeyagan.html
DESIREE YAGAN SYRACUSE, NEW YORK NOVEMBER 2 2003
11/12/2003 12:40:00