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Novakeo
As two young Iraqi sisters gathered wood in a field, American soldiers shot Fatima and Azra, ages 15 and 12, shot dead for their efforts on Thanksgiving Day. They were simply murdered for gathering sticks and for being in their own country, nothing more than a couple of sand niggers, but its ok, you see, George Bush made it all better by making a surprise visit to the troops in Baghdad on the same Thanksgiving Day, all be it for a couple of hours within the strict confines of Baghdad airport. The visit was to boost morale for the Bush clan?s centurions in the field, so they can continue to shoot unarmed Iraqi children and establish vindication and glory for their commander-and-chief. It is the American and patriotic thing to do.
Helen Thomas
The raid by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi officials on an Arab television network bureau in Baghdad and the ban on its broadcasts hardly fits my idea of how to spread democracy in the Middle East. Isn’t that the first thing dictators do—shut down broadcast outlets and newspapers? For those in power, tolerating a free press is difficult, even in a democracy. As a foreign occupier in Iraq, we are proving that it is intolerable.
Robert Jensen and Sam Husseini
USA military base in Baghdad. Intelligence analysts around the world are studying the videotapes. “It certainly looked and sounded like him, but we get so few glimpses at Bush in real-life situations that it is hard to tell,” said one operative from a Western intelligence agency. People who know Bush said it appeared to him. “That’s him, all right,” said one long-time associate.
Manuel Valenzuela
Contrary to White House, Pentagon and corporate media propaganda, Iraq today is an amalgam of Saddam loyalists, a few foreign fighters and an ever-growing number of ordinary civilians joining those which Bush calls “terrorists”, but who in reality are nationalists and insurgents fighting a resistance against our Iraqifation. To Iraqis and the rest of the world, they would be called “freedom fighters,” much like the ones clandestinely trained, supplied and supported by the United States in their resistance against the Soviets in 1980?s Afghanistan.
Hassan Nafaa
As the pressure mounts on the occupiers of Iraq, Bush administration is faced with two alternatives. The first is to transfer power to an interim Iraqi government. This would allow USA troops to re-deploy in fortified positions away from the cities, reducing the risk of attack. The second alternative would be to manipulate circumstances in such a way as to precipitate a conflict with Iran or Syria, and then rely on the American people standing behind their president in such a crisis. The White House, for the time being at least, appears to have opted for the first alternative. We should not, however, discount a switch to the second.
William Rivers Pitt
Seven months into the illegal occupation of Iraq, and despite the overwhelming force in numbers, training, and equipment, there is no sign of an end to the resistance activities of Iraqi partisans. The question begs to be answered: How? How are people without the vast amounts of money, weapons and training enjoyed by American forces succeeding in killing and wounding so many of our soldiers?
Patrick Martin
The public disarray of the occupation and ‘rebuilding’ of Iraq has forced the Bush administration into a turning point, but no one should think that the new strategy will involve a precipitate withdrawal, or the early installation of self-determination. All indications are that the White House and Pentagon are preparing an onslaught of military violence, and levels of barbarism not seen since the Vietnam war.
Bill Vann
Seven months after Baghdad fell to USA troops, Washington is unveiling a crisis strategy that attempts to consolidate its plans for a USA-friendly regime in Iraq. And as the occupying power begins using massive firepower aimed at intimidating Iraqi resistance, there are ominous indications that this “job” will be prosecuted through a resumption of the war against the Iraqi people.
Khaled Al Haroub
According to the freedom-loving democrat Paul Wolfowitz, “our friends in the Gulf” can do a lot to make Arab media more USA-friendly. He wants, with insolent and blunt clarity, for Qatar to officially intervene and hand Al Jazeera administration to a “ruling council” it would appoint and be stratified with.
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