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March 19, 2003: A day that will live in infamy

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(5)  The assortment of lesser collaborators from Poland, Colombia, and other places that participated for the price of a few pieces of silver. 

The above blighted names must be, should be, and will be entered in the history books within the annals of mankind’s most grisly and inhuman crimes.  Note that the following catastrophic events are all fall-outs of the criminal invasion of March 19th, 2003:

(1)  More than 1 million innocent men, women and children in Iraq have died violently as a result of the Bushco war.  This number does not even include the almost same number, including 500,000+ children, that died due to vicious U.S. embargoes during the 1990s, and those that died during the previous U.S. invasion 12 years earlier.  This is genocide of the highest order, and ranks up there with other genocides either cited by the angelic Allies/West when pronouncing the criminality of others, or committed by the angelic Allies/West in the past.  This genocide, committed brazenly and in broad daylight, using corrupt state power, has rendered the tragic events of September 11, 2001 quite meaningless as a symbol of mind-numbing Western audacity. 

(2)  Close to 4,500 young American men and women that have been needlessly, obscenely sacrificed in the Bushco wars.

(3)  A very large number of reporters, journalists, diplomats (including several United Nations envoys) and activists have been kidnapped or murdered, or have died violently as a direct consequence of the Bushco wars.

(4)  The subway bombings in Madrid and London resulting in massive loss of life.

(5)  The hundreds, if not thousands, of human beings arrested, incarcerated, harassed, or deported without recourse to any legal assistance or without any formal charges.

(6)  The continuing state-sponsored crimes in Palestine, including the Gaza strip, and the ongoing abuse of human rights there, including ethnic cleansing and inhuman forms of apartheid via the longstanding collaboration between Israel and the United States.  This exclusivist, racist and bigoted operation, which has lasted well over 50 years now, is in many ways the crucible, epicenter, and the eye-of-the-storm of much of the turmoil in the world.

(7)  The catastrophic world-wide economic meltdown, with a sizable impact upon the U.S. itself, is a direct consequence of American duplicity in handing power to a band of gangsters and hoodlums in the past 8 years.  This criminal gang, in collaboration with a vast network of corporate bandits (beginning with Enron, but truly much, much wider in reach), has wrecked the capitalist behemoth (something that may well be seen as divine justice elsewhere in the world). 

(8)  Most tragic of all, the Bushco gang-rapists, in conducting their criminal business, were ably aided by the compliant U.S. Congress, and the list of duplicitous collaborators included a very large number of prominent Democrats.  The rather razor-thin difference between the Democrats and the Republicans in matters of lubricating the Anglo-American imperial machine- this may well be one of the great lessons of the March 19th, 2003 Bushco wars.  For this, in retrospect, we owe a debt of gratitude to Ralph Nader.  His well-worn pronouncements regarding the American Duopoly have been, albeit tragically, well vindicated.  With friends like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Diane Feinstein and (to a non-negligible extent) Hillary Clinton- honestly, who needs enemies?  The failure of the U.S. legislature to initiate impeachment, investigations or trials of the massive criminal enterprise that was Bushco, has to be one the greatest Legislative failures in human history.  Nancy Pelosi’s repugnant observation, Impeachment is off the Table, in full knowledge of Bushco’s war crimes and unrelenting invasions, must also be permanently etched in the pages of eternal shame, and the Halls of Ignominy, when these events are recorded in history. 

When the accomplished trial lawyer and prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi, pronounced last year that the criminals of the Bushco enterprise should be hounded relentlessly until justice is done, many, I am sure, felt at least slightly hopeful.  Bugliosi had invited at least one state prosecutor to pick up the cause after the war criminals had left their annexed offices.  Most unfortunately, the indications thus far, in these early stages of the Obama administration, do not inspire any confidence or hope that justice will be done.  Moreover, the U.S. record in these matters is, to put it mildly, dismal.  How else is it possible for Henry Kissinger, Eliot Abrams, John Negroponte and the like, to walk around free, and, to add insult to injury, even hold influential offices (from whence they are able to continue their xenophobic, imperial terror tactics around the world). 

Organizations such as Code Pink, World Can’t Wait, Impeachment Now, and After Downing Street; individuals such as Medea Benjamin, Cindy Sheehan, Amy Goodman, Jon Stewart, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Mike Malloy; renegades such as Joe Wilson, John Dean, Scott Ritter, and Bruce Fein- these have at least helped prevent the Bushco madness from pushing civilization over the edge.

However, under the current political system in the U.S., marinated in the insurmountable corruption of corporate and vested political lobbies (in particular AIPAC, but evidently much more), no justice will ever be done.  The duopoly must be abolished.  The imperial structures, including the wasteful, bullying, terrorizing military-industrial-complex must be replaced by benign and visionary alternatives.  If not, then, as history teaches us, the corrupt and sinful American enterprise will collapse under its own weight. 

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Monish R. Chatterjee received the B.Tech. (Hons) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from I.I.T., Kharagpur, India, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the University of Iowa, (more...)
 

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