April 15, 2004
Michael Moore rides again in this post, which reminds me how my cousin's tour of duty has been extended in Iraq so that the war profiteers don't have to take any risks.
First, can we stop the Orwellian language and start using the proper names for things? Those are not “contractors” in Iraq. They are not there to fix a roof or to pour concrete in a driveway. They are MERCENARIES and SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. They are there for the money, and the money is very good if you live long enough to spend it.
Halliburton is not a "company" doing business in Iraq. It is a WAR PROFITEER, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested -- or worse.
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush? You closed down a friggin' weekly newspaper, you great giver of freedom and democracy! Then all hell broke loose. The paper only had 10,000 readers! Why are you smirking?
And Moore warns us to watch for the release of his latest cinema expose:
I currently have two cameramen/reporters doing work for me in Iraq for my movie (unbeknownst to the Army). They are talking to soldiers and gathering the true sentiment about what is really going on. They Fed Ex the footage back to me each week. That's right, Fed Ex. Who said we haven't brought freedom to Iraq! The funniest story my guys tell me is how when they fly into Baghdad, they don't have to show a passport or go through immigration. Why not? Because they have not traveled from a foreign country -- they're coming from America TO America, a place that is ours, a new American territory called Iraq.
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ARJ on 15 Apr 2004
I'm not sure if I completely agree with the "Minutemen" analogy, but I HAVE been VERY bothered by the use of the word "insurgents" constantly in the news re: Iraq. What insurgents? Who are these people? What's their motivation? What authority exactly are they fighting against? Is there actually anything more authoritative than martial law going on over there now anyway? It's such a vague descriptor, it doesn't tell us anything about what's really going on, and it feels as linguistically dishonest as "evildoers."
Kate S. on 17 Apr 2004
Yay, to Michael Moore, our rumpled, intensely peering, Knight.
And lol to "evildoers," one of my favorite new words, although in my brain, the sign and symbol attached to the meaning reflects THE Axis of Evil: Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Rice, et al.
Camilo on 30 Apr 2004
Well, USA has finaly agreed that it is an empire, and that it will occupy all the places that the other empires occupied before.
All in defense of freedom and democracy.
My question: why is it that Bush et al. are still in power?