With the US and major media outlets increasing hostility towards Al Jazeera. it’s important that people have the option to make up their own minds.
- Semantic games: Other than sapping morale, speculative stories about the fate of key figures in the Iraqi government contribute to diverting attention from battlefield engagements that may not have had as positive an outcome as the US military expects. Indeed, this is one of the tactics employed by the Bush administration in its bid to combat the opposing side’s rhetoric. The growing anti-war message or possible military setbacks will be drowned out by cramming news cycles with a plethora of briefings timed for maximum exposure, especially in the American market.
- Why Britain wants this war
- Oil as a weapon of power: “If the United States maintains strong influence over what happens in the Middle East it certainly has control over the world’s…oil flow,” he said. “The US has at least a certain lever in it relations vis-à-vis these other countries. This well may translate into political capital.” Michael Klare, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and author of Resource Wars, echoed Renner’s warnings. “Controlling Iraq is about oil as power, rather than oil as fuel,” he said. “Control over the Arabian Gulf translates into control over Europe, Japan and China,” he explained.
26 years old
And you haven’t seemed
To have learned a damn thing
Still whinin around
Still hate America first
As if your poor feeble mind
Couldn’t imagine anything
Worse
Chemical Ali is dead
Does that make you cry
Don’t you wish you could have
Been there to say goodbye
Sensitive soul you are
Do you admire the Fedayeen
Do you think if we’dve tried
We’d understand what they mean
When they torture people
With live electric wire
Tariq Aziz is an honest man
He couldn’t possibly be a liar
It’s all the same
It’s all the same
Scream out the morally
Equivolistically insane
Keats died at twenty six
What have you done
You never seem to tire
Of the games you run
How about thirty
Will you still be cool
Bein inbetween jobs
Tryin to go back to school
26 years old is the age
Of a Captain in the Marines
In charge of 200 men
Lean mean and a contribution
To the scene
Keep worshiping at the shrine
For the pompously inclined
And listening to Al jazeera
That’ll open your mind
It’s all the same
It’s all the same
Is it too late to start over
Is it too late to change
Choose your fate
Choose your mental dexterity
For rationalizing and justifying
Or achieving some clarity
You deserve the outcome
As do we all
When we look in the face
And have to recall
What we did
And what we believed
What was it we hid
And swore we were not decieved
Neils
10:33 pm
04/06/2003
neils! welcome back, my personal gadfly. i was starting to think i wasn’t annoying you anymore. good point about keats.
Hey my
You’re not anti-war
You’re pro wuss poem
Made it onto poetsforthewar.org
Neils
1:34 pm
04/07/2003