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Bush's Insanity: How It Can Destroy Humanity Comment by Larry Ross, March 31, 2007
Harold Pinter does a brilliant job of depicting Bush and some of his Crimes and the threat this poses to our civilization. Some of the comments by others are very perceptive, and several mention that the word "Iran" should have been used instead of "Iraq" close to the end of Pinter's article. However this oversight does not detract from Pinter's brilliance, or the applicability of what he writes. Bush, Blair, Howard and other leaders, boosted by US-dictated anti-Iran Security Council resolutions, are bursting with desire to bomb Iran as Pinter says... very few seem to care or think about the probable number of dire consequences and results of such barbarity. It is a few very perceptive writers on internet who care. Certainly not our crop of current world leaders. Like Tony Blair, who lies so well and convincingly for Bush, as he moves his eyebrows up and down to get our agreement. Bush's tamed world leaders talk languidly about diplomacy as Bush and his 'coalition-of-the-willing' deploy their military forces for the long-planned assault on Iran. Surely the insane power-mad dictator can be stopped before he triggers a nuclear Armageddon, one might think. But was Hilter's oppressive dictatorship stopped before it killed 50 million people in a series of wars? No. Were any of history's power-mad butchers stopped before they could wreck great destruction on the world around them? No. Bush has erected a very powerful clone-like organization prepared to go all the way for their great leader. Their faith in the Bush madman is like the Nazis faith in their Hitler madman. They will fight for him and his maniacal ambitions until the end. But there is one huge difference that people shrink from recognising. That is the capability of the mad Bush alone, plus the UK, Israel and others to wreck destruction on the world thousands of times greater than that of Adolph Hitler and his Nazis, including the axis allies Italy and Japan during World War II. Today, power-mad leaders really can destroy the world many times over in the space of a few hours. People seem to have difficulty comprehending this reality. Among the few that are worried and want to do something, many think they will do something, or make a protest, if, and after, Bush launches an assault. Perhaps that may be possible with a conventional weapon assault. However a nuclear war today can be like a flash of lightning - with massive destruction unleashed in a few minutes and nothing but a wasteland left where Iran was. So what kind of protest would do anything at all for the millions of dead and dying Iranians? Particularly in the de-facto dictatorships that would likely be installed in the US and UK after they launched their attack? The time for peace action to prevent a global disaster is before it begins. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Why George Bush is Insane by Harold Pinter, Assassinated Press, March 30, 2007
Earlier this year I had a major operation for cancer. The operation and its after-effects were something of a nightmare. I felt I was a man unable to swim bobbing about under water in a deep dark endless ocean. But I did not drown and I am very glad to be alive. However, I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare - the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world. "If you are not with us you are against us" President Bush has said. He has also said "We will not allow the world's worst weapons to remain in the hands of the world's worst leaders". Quite right. Look in the mirror chum. That's you. The US is at this moment developing advanced systems of "weapons of mass destruction" and it prepared to use them where it sees fit. It has more of them than the rest of the world put together. It has walked away from international agreements on biological and chemical weapons, refusing to allow inspection of its own factories. The hypocrisy behind its public declarations and its own actions is almost a joke. The United States believes that the three thousand deaths in New York are the only deaths that count, the only deaths that matter. They are American deaths. Other deaths are unreal, abstract, of no consequence. The three thousand deaths in Afghanistan are never referred to. The hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dead through US and British sanctions which have deprived them of essential medicines are never referred to. The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood. The two hundred thousand deaths in East Timor in 1975 brought about by the Indonesian government but inspired and supported by the United States are never referred to. The half a million deaths in Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Argentina and Haiti, in actions supported and subsidised by the United States are never referred to. Continue..... also published at: Information Clearing House |
