"Ahmadinejad: The FULL Speech to the UN conference
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One of the more intriguing international headlines last week was “Growing Anger at US Killings in Afghanistan: Unborn Baby Shot in the Womb Definitely Not a Militant”; and I began to write about the foreign cowboys whose slaughter has alienated so many citizens of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and encouraged countless young men into the welcoming explosive jackets of the barbaric Taliban.
The unborn baby story is terrible, but it didn’t get much international coverage, and none in the United States. One account was that “When the killings were reported…US forces claimed they had killed ‘four militants’ and wounded another. It was only later that they were forced to acknowledge that the house they attacked belonged to a Afghan Army officer, and that the people killed were his wife, a brother, and two of his children…the wounded woman [described] in the initial report was nine-months pregnant, and the attacking US forces shot the unborn baby in her womb. The troops now say they don’t believe the people they killed were involved in militant activities.”
How evocative, to my generation, at least, of Nazi Germany’s savagery in Poland and other occupied countries in the hideous years of Hitler’s war. But something else came to my attention, an even graver matter. For while foreign forces in Afghanistan killed some 600 civilians last year, it is likely that many more civilians will die in another country in the near future as a result of indiscriminate attacks ordered by a very strange prime minister.
Much world attention is being given to Pakistan at the moment. Internal security — or lack of it — is alarming, and nobody can say where the next bomb will go off, except the fanatical savages who explode them. I am deeply worried, and have never been so pessimistic about Pakistan’s future.
But this is not the fault of Prime Minister Gilani, who, in spite of being a politician, is a decent man (like his Indian counterpart). As the world’s prime ministers go, he rates pretty high — although admittedly he hasn’t got much of a challenge for top of the pops.
A to Z, they’re a pretty dismal lot. From Australia’s clever but vulgar Kevin Rudd, who enjoys swearing at defenceless female air force sergeants, reducing them to tears (what a grubby little creep), to Zimbabwe’s pathetic and powerless Morgan Tsvangirai, they have as much charm and appeal as a moderately mobile amoeba. Britain’s Gordon Brown is a dreary disaster, and Thailand’s man, Mr Abhasit, was roundly humiliated last week by his inability to prevent demonstrators driving every prime minister from the countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations out of his capital. Some were airlifted from the roof of their hotel. How splendid.
But there is a dangerous prime minister. He is Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel, whose scheming resulted in his recent accession to Israel’s highest post. ‘Highest’, because the position of president is entirely ceremonial in Israel (and India); which might be a good idea in some other countries.
Netanyahu is a poisonous reptile whose delight in power is terrifying. He hates Muslims and has indicated his intention to attack Iran. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that “Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons — and quickly — or an imperilled Israel may be forced to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities itself.”
In an unconsciously ironic diatribe, Netanyahu declared “You don’t want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the entire world should start worrying…”
Indeed there is an “apocalyptic cult” controlling over 100 nuclear weapons. It is a cult commanded by Binyamin Netanyahu, a psychotic warmonger who also exercises control over US foreign policy. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington idolises Netanyahu and is immensely powerful. No US politician dare fall foul of it, and Mr Obama duly bent the knee when he was a candidate for the presidency. And it was AIPAC that got Congress to pass a bill condemning the Palestinians in Gaza for having their hospitals bombed and suffering the deaths of 111 children in January.
The Guardian recorded that two medical assistants in Gaza were “hit by an Israeli tank shell packed with 8,000 flechettes — dart-like nails — as they moved one of three wounded civilians into their ambulance. The patient died instantly; the paramedic died on the way to hospital.” Gallant little Israel.
And Netanyahu complained that the genocidal assault on the Palestinians did not go far enough or last long enough. So much for the Fourth Geneva Convention that stipulates that “parties to the conflict shall endeavour to conclude local agreements for the removal from besieged or encircled areas, of wounded, sick, infirm, and aged persons, and for the passage of ministers of all religions, medical personnel and medical equipment on their way to such areas.”
But humanitarian law appears to mean nothing to the US Congress which immediately expressed “vigorous support and unwavering commitment to the welfare, security, and survival of the State of Israel,” and so on, at length.
So what will the US do should Netanyahu attack Iran? It would be impossible for such a strike to be carried out without Washington’s approval, because Israeli aircraft would have to fly through airspace dominated by the US Air Force. The world would then realise that Washington continues “vigorous support” for the kid-killers of Gaza. And countless ordinary citizens would be killed by Israel’s US-supplied cluster bombs, as they were in Lebanon.
Will the world’s most dangerous prime minister be the beneficiary of “unwavering commitment” by the world’s most popular president?
--MORE--" lost in the bushes
with the WMD's
and all that compassion
running like the clap from
an infected dick
and everybody lost and nothing got found
back in the day
when the lies seemed so real
but were not enough to win
so …they let the court steal the country
and the heart and the mind
as the neo-cons got up as one
to kiss his red behind
spanked in private
kissed in public
and came all over himself
couldn’t remember where or when
hum a few bars
I’ll get back to you
Do lunch
Do your wife and kids too
If you
mess around
all the kiddies that got left behind
along with truth
justice
and the
getting skull-fucked by
Spiderman
Cock-blocked by the frogs
On the Champs Elysses
lost in the bushes
and screwed behind the bushes
and discovered in the bushes
somebody needs to beat the bushes
till the tigers appear
♫and the beast ran away on the spear ♫
Halliburton
and Venell
up on the hooks
drying in the sun
Justice jerky
“Did it make your nipples tough?”
Got to be a Lecter moment
while the twins hit the bongs
could be from Laura’s dimebag
go to girl in college
dead man on the highway
and the Iraqi children bring the water home
that shimmering radioactive water
from the nuclear containers
that they found in the caverns
while we
were protecting
the oil ministry
and the museums were smashed and looted
and someone’s
having tea with Osama
on the beach at
WMD’s sitting in sun-chairs on the sun blasted shore
of purple mountains travesties
cocktails at six
with the great whore
of
who squats on the banks of the
where the necessary work gets done
and the vultures soar
over the looted plains
the blasted limbs of children
that will never dance again
in the streets of
As Nintendo jet fighter pilot bush
lands on the aircraft carrier
with his sock stuffed crotch
packed like a Piñata
waiting for history
to kick him in the nuts.
Sooner or later justice is coming and I don’t want to hear any more from the people who tell me that nothing is ever going to get done. I don’t want to hear about how they got it all locked down and we are all screwed and how Bush will sit on his porch steps and rewrite history through tear filmed eyes as he gazes back upon the glory that was Rome. On this Easter I want to believe that the truth, however dead it may seem, is going to roll away the stone from the tomb of denial and deceit and rise triumphant into the air and right into the face of everyone who helped to roll that stone into place.
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