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May 12, 2004

Hooks. Lines and Sinkers

By Rob Kall

    Hooks. Lines and Sinkers   by Michael Arvey

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Hooks. Lines and Sinkers
 
by Michael Arvey
 
OpEdNews.Com 

 

Let me see if I understand this correctly. The Bush administration, on the basis of cooked and stretched intelligence, claimed that Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9-11 (it is this writer's belief that the administration had much to do with 9-11), had the most terrible weapons of mass destruction ever devised in the history of the world (a distinction, I thought, which belonged to the U.S.) and was an imminent threat. Moreover, the Hitler of our times, Saddam Hussein, should not be appeased, otherwise he would be coming to kill us sooner or later. Freedom and democracy must be forced onto Iraq to avert any future danger, and should by any means necessary, prevail.
 
U.S. invades Iraq. U.S. bombs. U.S. strafes. U.S. shocks and awe's. U.S. rumbles in on tanks. U.S. slices and dices Iraqis. U.S  vaporizes Iraqis. U.S explodes Iraqis. U.S. maims Iraqis. U.S. kills thousands of Iraqi citizens. U.S. nukes Iraqis with depleted uranium. U.S. encloses Iraqi villages with razor wire. U.S. privatizes Iraq. U.S. sweeps up citizen "suspects" on a whim and imprisons them. U.S. hoods Iraqis and electrocutes their genitals. U.S. humiliates Iraqis. U.S. tortures Iraqis. U.S. beats, rapes and murders Iraqis. U.S. president babbles forth each day his tedious and repetitive one-liners such as,  the "enemies of freedom," "terrar," ad nauseum.
 
Iraqis retaliate. Kill Americans. Any Americans, any coalition partners. Kill mercenaries and U.S-trained terrorists. Iraqis, hiding under hoods, presumably behead American citizen. America afraid. Those terrible people.
 
Iraqis are supposed to lie down and let the U.S. roll over and crush them beneath fascistic wheels; supposed to turn the other cheek; supposed to welcome their masters. Don't they know we bring them the sweetness of freedom and democracy? Don' they know what's good for them? Don't they know what's good for them if they don't cooperate?  Don't they know we are good and they are evil? Don't they? 
 
I'm afraid that much of what's going on in Iraq right now wafts with  a stench of having been engineered behind the scenes, much like 9-11 still does.
 
Photographed tortures and now a beheading? Smells like a tanker full of rotten squid.
 
Michael Arvey writes from Colorado.
 

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.


Check out his platform at RobKall.com


He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity


He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com


more detailed bio:


Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.


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