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Things You Should Know About the Middle East & America, by Sam Hamod
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:31:56 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: [email protected]
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33 Things You Should Know About the Middle East and America
Sam Hamod, Ph.D. March 2, 2005
Some Thoughts on the Middle East and America: 33 Things You Should Think About
What right has President Bush or
Conde Rice to dictate to the Lebanese
Government?
Why is it that the
"demonstrators" in
English? Have you considered that they were playing to the American TV
audience?
In fact, the "big crowds" the American media spoke about were less
than 3000
people, but the cameras shot the crowed for maximum effect.
Did you realize that according to
the VA, 1 in 6 troops coming back from
need mental help from what they've seen and felt in
Did these few thousand Falangists
speak for all of
hire" street people mixed with some students who made up the
"demonstrations?"
Who forced Karami to resign as PM?
How much influence did
situation and what business was it of Bush's?
Did you realize the Falangists took
their name from Franco's Falangist/Fascists?
The Gemeyal family, head of the falangists, had close ties to the dictator,
Franco.
Did you realize that the suicide
rate among our American troops in
up 29% in the last two months? Health professionals in the continental US are
alarmed, but the Pentagon refuses to take responsibility for these deaths.
Why is
Have any of you considered that the
oil pipeline the Israelis want opened
between Baghdad and Israel runs through Syria and Lebanon? It does.
Why is
tech American secrets to
has
the highest non-American bidder?
Are you aware that more of our
military in
disorders than any time in American history-even outdistancing the
This according to therapists at
Have any of you considered that
electricity and hashish that is grown in the southern part of
Suppose
listen?
Who gave
keeps claiming the UN gave him authority. If this continues, then we will have
a
dog eat dog world, with the UN losing all authority and only the strong will
survive-and that means that in the near future
power in the world or both.
Why should more Americans and Iraqis
get killed, or get traumatized for life by
Bush's illegal and immoral war in
Why is it that Bush, an AWOL chicken-hawk, can send so many of our troops to
their death in
last night, on the Newshour on PBS that the resistance in
years, with no predictable end in sight. Would you like to go serve in
Would you like one of your loved ones to go serve in
Has Bush or the American troops
brought more peace or more suffering to
Is
Falangists making more civil unrest, and possibly civil war, in
see it coming, can't you-just admit it. Most likely,
if this continues, it will
lead to civil war because the Muslims in
Falangists taking over the government by "demonstrations."
Why doesn't Bush send his daughters
as volunteers to
Cheney his children, Wolfowitz his, and let's see how long this "democratizing
"
of
Are you aware most Lebanese hate the
Falangists because they allied themselves
with
wherein most of
a basket case. The Falangists also are the ones who committed the atrocities at
the Sabra and Shatilla Refugee Camps wherein women, children and old men were
slaughtered as the Israeli army stood guard to stop anyone from
interfering with
the massacres. Check it out in your history books if you don't
believe it, or
check UN records-it's all there.
Do you realize that for the OPEC
nations that denominate their oil sales and
receipts in dollars, that what was a $32.00 dollar barrel of oil before the
dollar slid so much in the past 2 years is now equivalent to the $48-50 barrel
of oil today. That is, to get the same $32 in value, OPEC nations must charge
$48-50 dollars per barrel. That may help you understand why oil has gone up so
high. Those that pay in Euros are laughing all the way to the bank and we are
going broke, and shall go further into debt as more of the oil pipelines are
blown up because of our Middle Eastern wars and interference in their
domestic
matters.
Did you realize there are very few
functioning hospitals, electric stations,
water purification plants functioning in
1917? Is this "progress"?
What kind of "aid" is
disappeared under Paul Bremer? Shouldn't we hold him
financially accountable or
imprison him for graft and fraud?
Did you realize the American
government and the right wing neo-cons have shipped
millions of dollars into
Allawi, has a chance to become Prime Minister? If he becomes PM, then he'll ask
America to stay on, will honor the illegal contracts signed by Paul Bremer to
give all of Iraq's resources to American companies and basically lengthen the
civil strife and resistance to America in Iraq.
Why is Conde Rice out dictating to
the Palestinians to get their "terrorists"
under control, when
hundreds more, and destroyed countless houses and business buildings since the
"truce" of November 2004? By the way, Palestinian suicide people have
killed
less than 1 dozen Israelis during that time until last week's attack.
Have you ever looked at the official
UN records that show
attacked Palestinians, their homes, their infrastructure at a rate of 75 to 1?
Where are these billions of dollars,
nay, trillions, coming from to fight these
"foreign wars" that Bush loves so much? We are paying the bills
through our
increasing taxes.
Incidentally, the "defense contractors" like Halliburton, Brown &
Root, are
getting rich off our backs. Do you love it?
Have you seen that
Bank
Palestinian area of
Daily-you won't find it on any American media sites or in the rags they call
"newspapers" in our country.
Did you know the IMF has put
weakness of the dollar? That means our economy is almost bankrupt-really.
Do you realize that the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reported
that
latest American stealth and military technology? Why is it then that
so keen on attacking
What would you do if you had a city
in
it was bombed by Iraqis and most of them destroyed? That's what our troops did
in Fallujah, destroyed most of the mosques in the "city of mosques."
Do you
think the Muslim Iraqis will love us for this?
How can
keep its atomic and hydrogen bombs? Does this make sense to you? Are we
so dumb?
Have you noticed that all the
"news" from
embedded with our troops, or from Allawi and his gang or the Kurds, but never
from the Shi'a, leading Sunnis or the anti-American civilians? Don't you think
this is a bit slanted? As a former professor of mass media, I know it is
slanted. Thus, we are being fed only propaganda by our media, ala George
Orwell's 1984, no real, honest "news,' just propaganda.
These are just a few things you should consider when hearing
about our
"democratizing the