This week, within the insular, off-world colony of Baghdad's high security Green Zone, Iraq's Central Criminal Court jailed the journalist who gained global fame for lobbing his shoes at the very man who should be locked up, former US president and current war criminal George W. Bogus.
Muntazer al-Zaidi, a 30-year-old TV reporter, had been charged with “assaulting” the world's most dangerous idiot during the outgoing US president’s shameless and technically unofficial farewell visit to Iraq last year.
In a rigged verdict that took just 15 minutes to decide, the heroic Zaidi was sentenced to three years imprisonment in what is clearly a political decision designed to appease the US hegemonster.
After the verdict, outraged family members protested: "It's an American court ... sons of dogs."
Indeed. An American war, an American court, American sons of dogs.
Zaidi had already been in jail for three months and was beaten and tortured while in custody.
Chief defence lawyer Ehiya al-Sadi may have been speaking for the world when he told the court that Zaidi was only expressing what everyone thought and felt. “His goal was to insult Bush for the pain Iraqis have suffered… The way he did it was by throwing a shoe, not a mortar or bomb.”
More’s the pity - no heat seeking suckholes available - but it was way too late anyhow. As it stands, the supercilious bastard and his band of buggers is getting away with mass murder. Certainly, nothing in President Barack (“Change!”) Obama's executive orders suggest that he will review past actions of the Bush administration for possible criminal sanctions.
Bush officials responsible for the Iraq war, for torture, kidnapping or assassination will not be prosecuted.
The brazen theft of over $50 billion in U.S. "reconstruction" funds will remain covered up.
The occupation of Iraq will continue.
Outright lies and deception, which launched the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, remain part of the Democrat and Obama government lexicon, and the Pentagon plans to keep its 58 permanent bases in Iraq, not to mention the heavily fortified Green Zone and the world's biggest US embassy. Change?
For news reporters Iraq remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world, with at least 246 media workers, among them 22 foreigners, killed since the unilateral and illegal US invasion in March 2003.
For Iraqis in general, between 600,000 and one million have died as a result of the maniacal Bush/Cheney assault, four million remain refugees, and the US still holds over 20,000 Iraqi political prisoners [Forget the footy, boys, check out http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ ].
Small wonder then that last December, when Bush started blathering his usual arrogant platitudes and goofy pronouncements at his “farewell” media conference, Zaidi was unable to control his emotions.
Said the Baghdadia television reporter: "I had the feeling that the blood of innocent people was dropping on my feet during the time that he was smiling and coming to say bye-bye to Iraq with a dinner.
"So I took the first shoe and threw it but it did not hit him. Then spontaneously I took the second shoe but it did not hit him either."
It’s the thought that counts, Mr Zaidi! Xenox News salutes you!
As well as throwing his shoes (weapons of mass illumination?), Zaidi shouted: "It is the farewell kiss, you dog," before security goons jumped and thumped him.
Zaidi's shoe-throwing protest was rightly hailed around the world as a triumph for its apt symbolism [try http://throwashoeatbush.com/ or http://www.sockandawe.com/]
Lawyers will appeal the court’s rigged decision and we can only hope for a just outcome. Don't hold your breath, people.
And so as Zaidi heads for three year’s of cruel incarceration and inevitable abuse, Iraq remains an extremely dangerous and unstable place: in the weasel words of our nutless mainstream media,, the cradle of civilisation is still in the grip of “a stubborn insurgency”.
Oh gosh darn it, those stubborn, uncooperative, unappreciative Iraqis!
Currently, the US has 142,000 soldiers and nearly 100,000 mercenaries occupying Iraq.
President Obama has announced an end to “combat operations” in Iraq within 18 months but apparently US “counter-terrorism and training” forces of 50,000 to 60,000 or so will remain.
Excuse me? Sixty thousand “trainers”?
Yup! The same old stinking vomit continues to blurt from the oval orifice of the White House.
According to US defence secretary Robert Gates – a tainted Bush appointee left untouched and unremarked by (Gloria!) Obama - the United States will be more cautious about launching pre-emptive attacks after the "intelligence failures" of the American war in Iraq.
"The lessons learned with the failure to find the weapons of mass destruction and some of the other things that happened will make any future president very, very cautious about launching that kind of conflict or relying on intelligence,” Gates creaked in a PBS TV interview, as if we’ve all been asleep for the past eight years (And, by Cthulhu, many of us were and reman so, as if the sticky carpet beneath our feet is soaked in beer and pretzels not blood and bone).
What a steaming pile of horse pucky, Mr Gates. The invasion of Iraq was never about bad or good intelligence or its absence, it was US government policy to do so, cut and dried, no matter what!
Yep, folks, as the US continues to sink into an economic La Brea tar-pit of its own devising – taking much of the global marketplace with it - the Obamans continue to peddle the usual rancid old Bushevik snakeoil.
In a crude attempt to get more Aussie boots on the ground in Afghanistan, US vice-president Joe Biden has declared that Al Qaeda poses a direct threat to not only the US and Europe but also Australia.
Oz has about 1,000 troops in that brutalised, impoverished country, some of whom were recently involved in the massacre of nine civilians, including five children, in Oruzgan province.
I should point out to Xenox News' global readership that here in Australia our troops are officially titled the ADF, the Australian DEFENCE Force, not the AOF, the Australian OFFENCE Force.
So, after seven gruesome years, the question needs to be asked: do Aussies tending their greasy backyard bbqs, mini bars and wide-screen plasma TVs really need defending from dirt poor farmers, illiterate shepherds and undernourished kids in a squalid third world country that has been destroyed by decades of war and drought half a world away?
Anxious that the US may be left holding the increasingly bloated body bag in Afghanistan, Obama and Biden – like Bush and his poisonous ilk – are trying to spook Aussies and others into coughing up more troops by fraudulently lumping Al Qaeda, the Taliban and various “terrorist” all-sorts into a homogeneous organisation when the truth is that the vast majority of these angry little groups are driven by ongoing and historic local issues.
Quite apart from the fact that the Bush/Cheney Afghan clusterf*ck was and remains purely (impurely?) a war of choice strictly Made-in-the-USA, we all know that any home-grown terrorism Down Under by second-generation Aussie Muslims would almost certainly be in response to Oz foreign policy injustices, particularly when aligned with US military incursions, rapacity and violence directed at Muslim nations.
Our blundering efforts to kill "militants" are predictably killing civilians and creating enemies "over there" if not here.
In any case, according to Australia's "National Counter-Terrorism Alert System" (No sh*t, mate! More than a fridge magnet, more than a badly designed PR billboard! Check out how safe you are at www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/ ) the wide brown land of Oz is apparently at the "medium" level of alert. And while the site doesn't actually explain what "Medium" means to us mere mortals trying to pay our bills, get our kids a relevant education and keep from turning into gormless, consumer-addled zombies, it does suggest that the fat lady wearing a hijab and an explosive vest ain't about to sing any time soon Down Under.
After seven years of mass destruction and murder, the US invasion of Afghanistan has nurtured a remarkable example of pristine western democracy. US success is such that Russia apparently plans to establish a military force comprising Russia and several other, mostly Central Asian states, to keep the “Islamist” threat created by the US in Afghanistan at bay. Been there, done that, comrade!
What's more, as a direct consequence of US belligerence, neighbouring Pakistan - like Cambodia when the US fought its undeclared war on Vietnam - seems set to become a failed state.
And then there's Amerikkka's very own political gulag at Guantanamo Bay where, according to recently released prisonor Binyam Mohamed, life for kidnapped victims of the US doctrine of "rendition" has become worse since Obama was elected President, with increased beatings and abuse by guards intent on "taking their last revenge".
Substantiating his claims, the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released a report confirming that conditions are "deteriorating at a rapid rate" due to "harsh conditions that continue to this day, despite a few cosmetic changes to their routines."
Nabbed in 2002, Binyam's US captors never charged him and, on his return to the UK, British authorities let him go free.
Now children, stop fiddling with your pencils and pay attention: is the US treatment of Binyam and others like him helping or thwarting global resentment of Amerikkka?
Brothers and sisters, watching US foreign policy in play is like watching a car crash in slo-mo!
Absolutely nothing the US has done since the orchestrated overreaction to the Saudi-sponsored and enacted 9/11 incident has helped stem acts of terror or to promote democracy. In fact, the very opposite has occured and deliberately so.
Oh there's a global threat to our way of life alright but it ain't what the folks that brought you the Bush/Cheney era want you to think it is. Our way of life? THEIR way of life, brothers and sisters!
Anyhoo...
The ousted Busheviks liked to crow about their “progress” in that devastated land but, in the words of Major Sebastian Morley, former commander of British NATO Special Air Service troops in Afghanistan who resigned in protest late last year over the use of lightly armoured vehicles in combat zones: “We are kidding ourselves if we think our influence goes beyond 500 metres of our security bases."
And Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations envoy who helped set up the corrupt, post-Taliban Government of US plant Hamid Kazai, this week admitted that “today's Government is not much better than that of the mujahideen after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union… We are now paying the price for what we did wrong from day one."
Asked in an interview what had gone wrong, Brahimi replied: "almost everything."
The fact is, more Afghan civilians are dying at the hands of US and allied forces than at the hands of the ousted Taliban.
And just to highlight the depth of US achievement, ex-CIA official Garry Berntson laments the lack of Pashtun-speaking US (or NATO!) personnel: "We're seven years into this conflict and it's amazing that they've trained almost no-one."
But they do have an ex-oil industry stooge installed in Kabul as President and a couple of blokes in the State Department who can point Afghanistan out on a map, which is certainly more than George W Bogus could do.
Not to worry. They’ve certainly “trained” a lot of very keen young locals who plan to see off these latest foreign interlopers, just as their parents saw off the Red Army in 1989.
After all this time, blood and treasure, is there anyone anywhere who doesn’t know that the "war on terror" was (is) just a ploy by the discarded Bush administration to acquire virtually unlimited executive power to further the aims of its stinking rich, stinkingly corrupt military-industrial constituency?
The Bush/Cheney hydra has laid the foundation for a red-white-and-blue police state, where not just the police but the good old US Army can kick down your door without a warrant, probable cause or a pizza delivery, as long as the president says he's fighting "terror." That's right, Joe, YOUR DOOR!
Oh wait, I just remembered: Obama will change EVERYTHING for the better…
“The home of the brave and the land of the free, where the less you know the better off you’ll be…” (with my sincere apologies to the great Warren Zevon).
Oh come on, people! Do you REALLY think Obama’s in charge of root-and-branch US policy, foreign or domestic? Watch this space!
This was Max Gross for Xenox News, rooting for justice to be seen, heard and done, branching out on a limb, and still waiting for The Change We Need. Cheers!
Joe Smith
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THE OBAMA DECEPTION NOW OUT! Watch the full film now! 5 STAR EXCELLENT FILM! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7886780711843120756 |
Ricardovitz
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Too much Muslim Devil worship goin on here. Boys and girls, let me help you out a bit here. We's gonna decifer that Max Gross'es (I done told you he was a CIA agent) pictures: 1. Thar first one is of GW gettin ready to kick some Muslim ass 2. Lookey at that pig-faced Muslim throwin his dern shoe away - Muslims is so stupid. 3. Number three is a suicide bomber holding bits and pieces of somethin he blewed up and offern it to his devil god. 4. Picture number four if a mug shot of yer King Muslim - Barack Husien Obama. Muslims got darkie blood in them - lill bit of education fer y'all. 5. Picture 5 got a bunch of muslims all dressed up for the baby sacrifice to thar god "Satan". 6. Thar's my man, GW Bush - greatist man that ever lived, even if his daddy was a slimey Yankee. 7. Thars a great cartoon of Democrap Congris Pigs Oinkin up all the money. X-CIA correspondent Gross is right on thar money with that one. Good job, Gross. Keep up all that good work. |
Patriot
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This fool al-Zaidi directly threatened President Bush. At the least it was assault. It seems that this clown had been reading the ravings of the likes of Pilger and Gross; in reality he should have been thanking President Bush for having the courage to free Iraq from the evil grip of that madman Saddam Hussein. Imagine if he had thrown a shoe at him? He would have been killed on the spot. Now that Iraq has settled down and is beginning to prosper, all due to the stalwart action of Bush, Blair and Howard; isn't it time for you whining lefties to finally admit that your opposition to the liberation of Iraq was morally reprehensible? We can only hope that the new administrations in charge of the US and Australia show as much strength against terror as the previous ones did. If not, we could be facing another 9-11 or worse. God bless, Patriot |
ghengis
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Stupid america is replaying the russian defeat in afghanistan twenty years ago! Bush adventures in iraq and afghanistan have crippled americas economy and exposed the lie that is american free market "democracy". That taste in your mouth is desert sand, fools! |
Ricardovitz
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Thar USofA has stayed there almost 8 years now bombing crazy sun-dried muslims. I dern't see nothin wrong with that. Sounds like success and victory to me. We's gonna be thar fer probaly another 10 years doin much the same. Jest stay out of the way of my bombs and y'all 'll be jest fine and dandy. |
Max
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Two quotes to illustrate what is happening in Iraq/Afghanistan: (1) "Boys, I want you to come home with that coonskin on the wall!" - President Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking to U.S. Army officers in Vietnam, October 1966. (2) We shall have to undergo more sacrifices but we are sure to win total victory. This is a certainty." - President Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, May 1969. By 1975, Johnson's "coonskin: ended up on the wall and Ho's certainty was confirmed as U.S. forces fled Saigon in disgrace. One way or another, the same will occur - IS occuring - in Iraq and in Afghanistan: just equate Pakistan with Cambodia. It's all there, people! |
Viva Max Gross
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Another excellent article from Max Gross to remind us of where we are really at with all of this shite. Thanks Max; keep them coming. |
Ricardovitz
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So long as we is over thar killin Muslims, all is good. If'n we stay thar fer 100 years killin Muslims, that'll be just find and dandy. Ain't like we's gonna take nothin that's worth nothin and bring it back home noways. They ain't even got coon's over thar to skin and tan. |
Ricardovitz
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It were that drunkard, Kennedy, and Soci@list Johnson who got us into VietNam. It were Republican, Richard Nixon who done got us out. Jest remember that boys and girls, cuz Black Obama is one of them ass-lick'n Democrats. |
The Watcher
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Israel's ex-president Moshe Katsav has been formally charged with several counts of rape, sexual harassment and an indecent act... http://www.smh.com.au/world/israels-expresident-indicted-for-rape-20090320-93l3.html?page=-1 |
monsveneris
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It never ceases to amaze me that a billion Christians around the world pray to a dead Jew who died 100's of years ago. |
monsveneris
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Of course I mean to say 1000's of years ago. However, given that Christian fundamentalists (with an emphasis on "mental") think the earth is only 4000 or so years old, perhaps I was correct in the first instance? |
agitprop
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Jesus H Christ I'm gone a few fucken months and the News has turned into a fucken basketcase redneck paradise. Max your the only one making any fucken sense round here. and as for that drivelling dork dickhead Ricardo he's had one fucken jam jar of lightnin juice too many! maybe breathing in a little too much of that home grown bomb making fertiliser shit? |
Max
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Well, I watched The Obama Deception and although it raises many valid points it really is just another product of the peculiarly American sense of self-defeating paranoia that the world just shakes its head in despair at. It is so convoluted, confused and confusing that it's impossible to take Alex Jones seriously. And when the film attempts to dismiss the scientific consensus regarding Global Warming, when it protests against the serious need for gun control, and when it refers to "God's Law", well, that's when I just couldn't stop laughing. Too bad, because the key message is sound: that Obama is just a new face on an old scam. Stick to Xenox News, Joe, Alex Jones has been too long in his bunker! |
Ricardovitz
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Nothin but a liberal scam put up by a bunch of drug guzzling old hippies like Billy Ayres and Bernnie Dhorn. |
Cynical observer
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My dear Monsveneris, I'm sure that Christians do not pray to any Jesus who died at any time. It is crystal clear that Jesus as described in the Bible never existed. Even those Jews who thought he existed need not worry - you cannot be guilty of crucifying the man who was never in that time and place. But - if you are a true believer - I'll sell you a piece of the actual cross Jesus was nailed upon, and a little bottle of his holy dried blood that can cure all ills. Genuine cross nails need to be pre-ordered, as I have to import them from China as required. |
Ricardovitz
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You go sell yer bit of fake Jesusware. Cuz, when you git yer website all set up, I'm a gonna buy me a piece. And, when you die, and yessiree, you's gonna die, I'm a gonna be thar right next to Our Lord, with my fake Jesusware. And, I'ma gonna turn to thar Lord and say: "Yessiree, Lord, that thar's the servant of Satan that done sold me this bit of Jesusware, blasphamin and slanderin yer good name all the while. I have confidence that thar Good Lord 'll kick yer Satan-Sellin fake Jesusware ass way back down to thar firey hell where you's gonna spend all eternity. |
Cynical observer
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Thats it! All the fairy tale drivel and quasi-historical confabulations from the so-called Christians is Jesusware! That includes all the creepy bibles and suchlike. If the hypocrites haven't already got a copyright on that name, I will use it for my Jesus-power relics and Jesus-magic shops. Please understand that salvation is only available from genuine Cynical observer "Jesusware" outlets. |
Puff the Magic Dragon
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Fake jesusware? How about your fake jesus? The only place you or anyone else will spend eternity is in a hole in the ground, son. Oh, hang on, you're already IN one Mr R! |
Max
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Religion is not only the opium of the masses, it is the bubonic plague. Have you have your shot yet? |
Fire sale
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Bush sold Gaddaffi $70 million worth of weapons. Obama tried to sell him another $100 million worth but the deal didn't go through. So, well, now they are using Gaddafi's surplus stock on him! "You don't fucken wanna buy it anymore? Well, here ya go cocksucker; wear it!!" Collatoral damage? Fuck that. |
