'Anti-War' Campaign of Lies

©Prax Maskaren. 24^th March 2003.

I am a reluctant defender of the allies that are warring to unseat Saddam Hussain. That is because I perceive that America and its system of allies are the most powerful and determined enemies of the Christian faith and for the 'God' of this world - Satan. Yet, I am fully aware that not everything that America does is evil, and in this case, I believe that they are, to an extent right.

Again, I believe that Christians should sit out this war without taking positions for either side. That is because, fundamentally, both sides are our enemies.

But when error and lies are being broadcast and propagated, I am not neutral. Lies, whether of the American government or of any government, institution or individual will find me fighting against them. I follow Christ who is Truth unadulterated and unvarnished.
The message reproduced below was posted by a voluntary organisation affiliated to an American org, onto the GoanCauses list. It is astonishing that many Goans cannot find time to campaign for Goa and her rights against the immoral and illegal Occupation by the Indian Union, except to be collaborators with the Occupatin, but will find the time and energy to fight for a cause such as that of Saddam Hussain and his Iraq. GoaDESC has always been one of these, but now it is outdoing itself.

And what a cause are these people fighting for! They are fighting to defend and safeguard a murderous, insane, megalomaniac and unstable tyrant, manipulator and butcher of his own people. And they jump to cast aspersions on the Alliance and its motives.

I ask, where were these scumbags when Soddom Hussain was gassing thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites who had risen in rebellion? Or the Kurds? Where were they when Soddom invaded Kuwait without provocation and justification and perpetrated atrocities? Where were they when Soddom fired missiles at a non-combatant state, Israel, in a desperate effort to convert the Kuwait Liberation War into a world war pitting Islam against the rest of the world? Where were they?

It is astonishing the choice of causes that these vermin espouse. And in this selective choice, they demonstrate clearly their orientation - their hypocrisy.

Today, the Alliance has, in the conduct of its warfare, fired missiles with the utmost caution and prudence, selectively targetting Soddom's palaces of evil and the infrastructure of his tyranny.

Yet, the Campaign of Lies tells us gratuitously that the Alliance has been targetting indiscriminately!

In the early years of Hitler's rise, he took a gamble by re-militarizing the Rhineland. This had been forbidden by treaty to which Germany had agreed. And Hitler's army did not have the capability to withstand an adverse campaign by the members of the League of Nations, if they had chosen to do so. Yet, foolishly, the French and the English failed to react and to act to contain Hitler with tragic results down the line.

Today, there is a distinct similiarity between Hitler's Germany and Soddom's Iraq.

Soddom is a megalomaniac who dreams of an Iraqi empire in West Asia, comparing himself to the ancient emperor Nabuchodnozzor. And, as if that was not enough, he has been subsidising the Arab terrorists in Israel, even the suicide-murderers.

Again, in the follow-up of the Kuwait War of Liberation, Soddom agreed to certain punitive restrictions on his military capabilities. And yet, he violated those capitulations upon which peace was made. He kicked out the UN Inspectors. And denied that he was ever creating biological or chemical weapons.

And yet, when the second Bush administration turned on the heat, basing itself on intelligence, he grudgingly admitted the UN Inspectors back in, after a gap of very many years, and he himself admitted that he had created biological and chemical weapons, but claimed that he had had them destroyed.

That claim is not credible. It is logical that if he had a motive for creating these weapons, he also did not have a credible motive for destroying them!

Remember, this was during the pusillanimous years of Bill Clinton, who merely maintained the stand of George Bush, Sr., without proactively containing Soddom.

Again, Iraq has admitted that it had manufactured Al-Samoud missiles that exceed the range that was permitted by the treaties by which peace was made post-Kuwait: a hundred and twenty of them!

And so on and on.

The Campaign of Lies contempts the Alliance for denouncing Soddom for seeking and possessing these weapons, on the grounds that the members of the Alliance themselves possess the same. But there is no comparision.

There is no comparision between the war-time and eminently justified decisions to bomb Japan during World War II, given the Japanese prospenity to fight to the last man and not surrender, and Soddom's prospenity to use his weapons at the drop of a hat.

Neither England nor America are going around dropping nerve gas or biological weapons on their opponents.

Again, unlike with Soddom, none of the members of the Alliance had been found guilty of misusing their weapons and been put under a regime of restrictions, and none of them has violated such a punitive regime.

What the Campaign of Lies does is confuse people with irrelevant comparisions of data and cast the Alliance in bad light. Such acts are pure and simple treason.

Today, the Campaign of Lies challenge the Bush Administration's claim that Soddom and Osama bin Ladin are tied up together. They say that Bush has provided no proof. I agree.

However, what is also relevant, is that when Bush set out to get bin Ladin and his Taliban hosts, he had provided no concrete proof of bin Ladin's connection to 9/11, but asserted it on the basis of undivulged intelligence. Despite the occasional grumbling of dissent, America successfuly overthrew the Taliban and forced bin Ladin to go on the run. Today, bin Ladin has publicly and triumphally claimed and acknowledged these crimes as his doing.

If the world and if America could trust Bush on bin Ladin, it should extend him the same faith on Soddom. That, at least, seems logical to me.

Prax Maskaren
Message 11496 on GoanCauses
From:� [email protected]
Date:� Mon�Mar�24,�2003� 10:15 am
Subject:� As Goa joins protests against the War in Iraq, some INFO.

[ANSWER]: SHOCK & REVULSION: World Movement Fights Back

Borrowing a page from the nightmare of the Vietnam War when a U.S. commander explained that U.S. soldiers were burning a peasant village in order to save it from communism, the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal have decided to burn Baghdad to save it from the current Iraqi Government.

The world is in a state of Shock and Revulsion as the murderous Bush Administration follows through on its promise to "Shock and Awe" the Iraqi people by dropping thousands of bombs and missiles on their capital, a city that is home to 4.5 million human beings.

This horrific unprovoked attack on a dense urban area must be understood as one of the extreme terrorist acts of modern times. Cruise missiles launched from submarines and air craft hundreds of miles away and 3,000 lb. bombs dropped from 30,000 ft. up are the latest example of the Bush administration's criminal resort to limitless violence and terrorism in order to achieve its objectives of conquest and occupation. The hypocrisy of the war against Iraq is extreme: the most powerful military in the world waging first strike war with the most advanced weapons against an impoverished country on the pretext that it someday may possess such weapons.

The world has entered a new phase. The Bush Administration is hell bent on world domination. The war on Iraq was meant to signal that the U.S. use of raw military power will be the means to create a new era of Empire. Iraq was to be a stepping stone on this path of conquest.

To the shock of the war makers, their plans have ignited a world movement of opposition and solidarity. For months this movement has delayed and restrained the war plans for Iraq. Bush and Co. have lost all legitimacy and they are isolated. The people's movement has deprived them of the any threadbare claim to legality.

Today our hearts are today filled with both anger at the war and sadness for the suffering people of Iraq who are enduring this unprovoked terrorist attack. But sadness and grief should be coupled with a profound understanding that the sudden emergence of a new global movement offers the best and only hope that the U.S. government's plans for militarism, war and domination -- the doctrine of endless war -- can and will be overcome.

In the days ahead we must intensify the struggle against this cruel war. We urge everyone to stay in the streets, and to organize against the lies and propaganda of the death machine. Our movement has shown great energy and strength in the last days. No part of the planet is free from mass protests, including hundreds of cities inside the United States. Now is the time to organize, organize and organize.
See next, Campaign of Lies, Part II