War on Muslims: The Mamma Mia Anti-War Movement - Telling it as it is
Posted on Wednesday, August 08 @ 06:14:07 EDT by qjaved
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Anonymous writes "By Gabriele Zamparini published 8 Aug 2007
I give all my sympathy to the Iraqi and Afghan
resistance movements. They are fighting for their
land in their land and that’s all we need to
know. If we have to use an abused word, they are
the real heroes. Not those mass murderers who fly
their fat asses on those expensive death toys and
drop tons of bombs upon homes, mosques, schools
and hospitals.
One day
while I was in a bunker in Vietnam, a sniper
round went over my head. The person who fired
that weapon was not a terrorist, a rebel, an
extremist, or a so-called insurgent. The
Vietnamese individual who tried to kill me was a
citizen of Vietnam, who did not want me in his
country. This truth escapes millions. -
Mike Hastie, U.S. Army Medic - Vietnam
1970-71.
Is it a perfect resistance? No. How could a
resistance be pretty when the occupation is so
brutal and ugly. The senseless violence
inflicted upon the Iraqi people by the
occupation results in a violent response. It was
no different when the Algerians fought the
French to a standstill in the early Sixties of
the last century. When a leader of the Algerian
resistance was asked why they often bombed cafes
and killed civilians, he replied: 'Give us
planes and helicopters and then we will only
target French troops.' - Tariq Ali
08/07/07 "Cats
Dream" -- -
Today ZNet offered its progressive readers two
interesting articles;
one by Cindy Sheehan and
the other one by Amy Goodman. Good articles. They make
sense and light important aspects of the war in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
I can only hope that people reading these two articles can
also remember (better: guess) that there are 1 million Iraqi
killed by this illegal, immoral war of aggression and a
country completely destroyed.
The same with Afghanistan, where, day after day, the US and
its allies keep slaughtering children, women, innocent
people and these heroic actions of our boys and girls go
unreported by mainstream media but also by many among the
so-called alternative ones. Meanwhile what is called the
anti-war movement’s policy makers close their eyes on that
front, the just war.
What is called the "anti-war movement" doesn’t even consider
to use the word “resistance” while we are presented, day
after day, with the compassionate side of patriotism. As US
peace movement’ spokesperson (by the way, by whom and when
she was elected?)
Phyllis Bennis recently wrote “I don't
think we gain strength by making sympathy with resistance
fighters a demand of our movement.”
But that sympathy is always granted to the mass murderers,
our troops.
I guess our boys and girls in Iraq and Afghanistan must feel
comforted by so much sympathy. It probably helps them to
better carry on the carnage.
About the Iraqi resistance (ops, pardon, insurgency) Phyllis
Bennis writes, “We know virtually nothing of what most of
the factions stand for beyond opposition to the U.S.
occupation - and from my own personal vantage point, of the
little beyond that that we do know, I don't like so much.”
Once again, with few noble exceptions, Bennis' Orwellian
words met the silence of leftists, activists and
intellectuals. Freedom of speech anyone?
Phyllis Bennis can keep fighting for the Mamma Mia anti-war
movement. On my blog, I can still use that old common sense
coming from the history of the Italian Resistance to Fascism
and against the Nazi occupation of my country. From that
common sense, this is my point of view:
- I do not support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
- I consider those troops mass murderers
- Nobody forced them to go there and kill, rape, torture
innocent people nothing had done to them or their countries
- If they are old enough to rape, torture and kill, if they
are aware of what they are doing there, then they are surely
old enough to refuse to keep doing it
- I have sympathy and compassion for all the suffering
victims of this madness, including those veterans who come
back home with their lives destroyed. But I am disgusted by
what is called the anti-war movement’s double standards. My
sympathy, solidarity and compassion go first of all to the
Iraqi and Afghan children, women and innocent human beings
whose lives have been tortured, maimed, killed, destroyed by
those mass murderers, “our troops”
- I give all my sympathy to the Iraqi and Afghan resistance
movements. They are fighting for their land in their land
and that’s all we need to know. If we have to use an abused
word, they are the real heroes. Not those mass murderers who
fly their fat asses on those expensive death toys and drop
tons of bombs upon homes, mosques, schools and hospitals. If
they want my sympathy, they need first to get home and get
home now. They don’t need their mummy’s permission to do
that. They are adults with a conscience. They just need to
use it and refuse to keep the butchery going. The anti-war
movement’s hyper protective attitude toward “our troops” is
immoral and counterproductive.
- This “anti-war movement” is a disgrace.
Gabriele Zamparini was born in Italy in 1968. After
completing his Law studies he moved to the United States. He
worked in New York as a freelance journalist and filmmaker.
He currently lives in London with his two cats Oscar and
Walt.
http://www.thecatsdream.com
A must read reaction from Readers comment on ICH:
Gabrielle I agree with you completly, I really would like to read more articles from the american side showing more respect for the real victims of this conflict, the iraqui people, not the voluntary integrants of the war machinery of the most fascist and destructive regime that world have seen since Adolf Hitler nazi times.
All americans are complices and responssables of these, the worst events humanity have seen since world war two.
Whoever that could call themselves lovers of freedon and democracy should be fighting against america and ther voluntary/mercenary troops in the side of the iraquian people.
Americans were fighting against fascism in Spain for thousands, what happen with the real fighters of freedon in this country?
You, even the most culturalized, can not see beyond your nose.
The only way to stop this is a general civic/public desovedience campaing, who show your leaders who are the real democrats.
This country is finished, the war is lost and fascism and totalitarism are ready to take over.
This is the end, and you americans are responsable, you are so ridicul at the eyes of the entire world; impeaching a president for a sexual affair and not impeaching this group of criminals who should be hanging upside down, alive, in the obelisc of the national mall with obligatory daily reports in the massmedia at prime time about their estate of suffering.
Come on, what are four thousand dead proffesionals trained for killing compared with the destruction of a whole country, the origin of civilization with their almost one million dead people, mothers, fathers, sons, doughters, granpas, grammas, cousins, aunties,...
Have you lose your minds or what?, what kind of people are you?, what kind of education have you receive?, so egocentric
I am sorry, I can not continue, I am not anglosaxon or zionist. I forgot that the world, the real one is the anglosaxon one, the common wealth and that shit and, of course, your most brilliant creation, the cancer of the world, the estate of Israel, oh my God, Jesus ...
Better you do something to stop this, the future, if there is any, will remember you the same way you remember the germans that say they didn't know anything about concentration camps.
I am sorry, I only want to provoque and I hope this is not gonna take me straight to Guantanamo, after all how many of you know about the last law passed by your glorious senate last weekend?
Note: Gabriele You hit it to the heart of all the propaganda, well done .. The spin unravelled; One man's freedom fighter is a terrorist..When one defends oneself or one's country he or she is labelled as a terrorist..knowing the difference from the Zionist spin machine via the Media...I truly hope the sheep get to understand this vital message."
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