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Terms of engagement : UNDERSTANDING WASHINGTON'S
LANGUAGE
Herewith, definitions to keep on top of current
events
By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor
[By special permission of the author to New
Trend.]
It's very difficult keeping up with Mideast news
due to the Orwellian
newspeak coming from Washington.
So here's a handy list of key terms, translated
into simple English.
a.. Liberation - Invasion.
a.. Coalition - The
U.S.
and British invaders,
plus some troops from
rent-a-nations like Romania and Poland. In the
past, "the coalition" would have been
called imperial forces and mercenary auxiliaries.
a.. Dictator - A ruler you don't like, or who
does not cooperate.
a.. Statesman - A cooperative dictator.
a.. Stability - when things go the way Uncle Sam
likes, ie., the status quo.
a.. Instability - when things don't go the way
Unc Sam wants, ie., when
trouble-makers try to change the status quo.
a.. Iraq reconstruction - a process whereby big
firms that contribute to the
president's re-election campaign obtain contracts
to rebuild the damage caused
by U.S. bombing.
a.. Freeing Iraq's oil assets - Washington's
seizure and sale of Iraqi oil,
which in no way can be compared to Cuba's seizure
and sale of U.S.-owned
property, a dastardly crime.
a.. Mideast democracy - regimes that hold rigged
elections and obey
Washington's orders.
a.. Free trade - pouring goods and services into
the newly "liberated"
country, and buying up its key industrial assets
at fire-sale prices.
a..
Terrorism
- violent acts by dangerous
fanatics and malcontents who refuse
to accept the downtrodden status assigned to them
by Washington.
a.. Anti-terrorism - State terrorism.
a.. Uranium - a yellowish mineral from Niger that
causes red faces in the
White House.
a.. Iraq Administrator - A pro-consul or
gaulieter, disguised as a minor
suburban bureaucrat.
a.. Drones of death - Iraqi remotely piloted
aircraft that the White House
claimed were poised to fly off Iraqi ships
lurking in the North Atlantic and
shower fiendish germs on a sleeping America -
which turn out to be two model
airplanes, only one of which could fly. See "vans
of death."
a.. Vans of death - Claimed by Washington to be
Iraqi mobile germ warfare
laboratories, but turn out, on inspection, to be
British-supplied trucks for
inflating weather balloons.
a.. Weapons of Mass Destruction - Nasty weapons,
existing or non-existing,
that the other side has. When your side has them,
they become invisible.
a.. Torture - a foul act committed by your
enemies. When your side does it,
it's called intensive interrogation in
Guantanamo.
a.. Homeland security - bolting the barn door
after the horse has escaped by
rounding up Muslims and denying them due process
of law.
a.. French - Insubordinate ingrates and depraved
chain-smokers who had the
nerve to try to block the jolly little war in
Iraq, and now sneer, "we told you
so."
a.. Germans - Untrustworthy. Just when you order
them to be warlike again,
they go soft. Wait until they see the next dozen
WWII epics from Hollywood.
a.. Canadians - A bunch of pot-smoking, pinko,
wimp nancy boys who marry
their best friends and refuse to obey orders from
the Great White Father in
Washington.
a.. Islam - An evil faith that promotes violence
and hatred, as proven by the
Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who learned about the agents
of the devil while
encountering them in motel rooms.
a..
Fox News
- The Ministry of Truth.
a..
Al-Jazeera News
- All the bad news we don't
want to hear. See Fox News.
a.. Die-hards and Saddam loyalists - Any Iraqis
opposing the invasion of
their country.
a.. Traitors and friends of Saddam - Journalists
who questioned the
Bush
Administration's lurid claims over Iraq's
purported threat.
a.. Moderate - A Mideastern ruler who toes the
line and makes nice to
Israel.
a.. Peacekeepers - Troops from browbeaten or
bribed vassal states sent to
perform garrison duty in U.S.-occupied nations
that the Pentagon wants to avoid,
or lacks the troops to perform.
a.. New Iraqi government - An august body that
leaps to its feet when a U.S.
soldier enters the room, and has total authority
over garbage collection and
sewers.
a.. Saddam Hussein - A former close American ally
who got too big for his
britches. If not assassinated, may soon be needed
again to run Iraq for
Washington.
a.. Uday and Qusay - Yes, Saddam's boys were
big-time delinquents, but Crazy
Uday's biggest mistake was probably making fun of
George W. Bush in his
newspaper, calling the prez a draft-dodging wimp.
Perhaps that's why he and Qusay
got the multi, anti-tank missile treatment -
Texas justice - rather than a nice
show trial in Baghdad.
a.. Eye-Raq - A democracy-seeking Arab state that
volunteered for mentoring
and tutelage from Washington in exchange for
helping out American drivers of
SUV's.
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WAR NEWS
SADDAM HUSSAIN SPEAKS AGAIN. An audio tape has
been broadcast in Dubai which
carries a message from President Saddam Hussain.
The tape thanks Allah that
Uday and Qusay went down fighting to the last and
thus attained the stature of
martyrs.
The President calls for continuing
Jihad
against the U.S.
MINI MASSACRE: U.S.
media
reports indicate that
during a raid in Baghdad,
U.S. troops killed 7 civilians and wounded 11.
The raid was connected to attempts
to find Saddam Hussain.
In KERBALA, U.S. troops fired on demonstrators
killing one. The demonstration
was in protest of the killing of another civilian
by troops.
ATTACKS CONTINUE: U.S. troops are steadily losing
men, killed and wounded, in
Iraq as attacks by the mujahideen continue.
Observers say that the attacks
seem to be unrelated to the Ba'ath Party and are
seemingly the work of Islamic
guerrilla forces. The U.S. says it is facing an
average of 12 attacks a day.
Since Bush decided that the war was over, 108
American troops have been killed
and 322 wounded [according to U.S. sources].
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IN
AFGHANISTAN,
fighting continues, with new
Taliban attacks EVERY DAY.
Mullah Omar has now openly appointed a military
operations commander, following the
establishment of a Council of Jihad. The targets
of the Taliban are:
1. Afghan mercenary troops of Hamid Karzai.
2. Afghan police armed and trained by the U.S.
3. U.S. troops.
4. Italian troops.
5. German
troops.
PAKISTANI FORCES helping the U.S. are hurting
too. On July 26, near the
Afghan border with Quetta, a mine was used to
blow up a jeep of the Pakistan
Frontier Corp. Eight Pakistani troops, including
a captain, were
killed.[Nawa-e-Waqt.]
In response to a Taliban pin prick near
northeastern Afghanistan, the U.S.
used the sledgehammer technique by bombing the
Islamic fighters from the air.
F-16s and a B-52 were used: however the legendary
fighters, not unlike the
Apaches of U.S. frontier days when Geronimo
fought in Arizona, slipped away without
loss.
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AHMED ‘ABDEL SATTAR Bail Hearing Set for August 1
Although the terrorism charges against
Lynne Stewart, Ahmed ‘Abdel
Sattar and Yousry have been dismissed, Ashcroft's
bulldogs won't let go. They are
holding Br. Ahmed on some lesser charges. A bail
hearing, backed by tremendous
community support, will be held on August 1
(Friday).
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