Whitaker's Current Articles April 12, 2003

 

 

Fun Quote:

The Bible is by far the best-selling book in human history.  Every year the Bible is the world's best seller.

So if Jews are such great businessmen, why didn't they copyright it?

 

                                                                 It's a WAR, Stupid!                                                                                        

 International reporters reporting on the Saddam side stayed in the Palestine Hotel.  Iraqis used the Palestine Hotel to shoot at Americans. Americans shot back at that hotel and reporters got hit.  The international press squealed like pigs.

The international press was in the middle of a war in Baghdad but they expected to be safe.  

They want American forces to watch out for them.

As usual, fashionable reactions make a decent person sick.   They beat their chests and shout about how brave they are, but when they get hit, as any fool knows they will, they scream like babies.

This beating their chests and then whining is a standard part of fashionable opinion.

A few years back the Communist Workers Party went to North Carolina and demanded that the Klan come out and fight.  The Klan came out and there was a gunfight.  The Communists got shot to pieces.

As always the so-called Workers Party did not have a single worker in it.  They were just Communists, city boys who couldn’t shoot straight.  So they cried and went to court.  They got laughed out of court.

The History Channel showed a leftist documentary declaring what sweet and innocent kids the poor little Communist “Workers” were.  Poor babies!

Actually the Communist "Workers" asked for trouble, said how brave they were, and then squealed like pigs when they got caught at it.

Just like the reporters in Baghdad.

That’s sickening.

 

                                        If I Were an Iraqi, I'd Fear a Saddamite Comeback                                                             

Iraqis are terrified that Saddam's minions will come back some day.

President Bush Senior urged them to rebel and then abandoned them.  Iraqis remember how horrible it was for them then.  If Bush Senior hadn’t done that, Iraq may have fallen like a house of cards in 1991.  If Bush Senior hadn't done that, Iraq might have fallen even quicker this time.  Remember how easy it looked at the start?

When he backed out on the Shiites and the Kurds, Bush Senior was just being a good moderate.   But many Americans and Europeans were against the war, so he compromised.  

Bush Senior fought the war and then pulled out at the halfway point moderates always go for.   That’s what moderates do.  If a few hundred thousand Iraqis ended up in torture chambers that is just the routine the price of moderation.

 I am sure that George Bush Senior is still wondering what all the fuss was about.

 After all, he ran the Central Intelligence Agency that way.

Nobody but Whitaker will denounce moderates like Bush Senior for what they really are.   Nobody but Whitaker will remember how vicious moderates like Bush Senior are.

So moderates and liberals will keep running the government.

Right now everybody is out to get Saddam.  But in a few years he or his successors will probably be back and we won’t quite want to do anything about it.

When Saddam's minions take over again, they will REMEMBER whom to punish.

As I have pointed out many, many times, Americans don't have a memory.  Many a person who has depended on our memory has lived to regret it.

And died for it.


                                     In Serious Situations There is no Room for Games                                                                 

This year Iraqis watched while we went to the United Nations and played that pathetic game with them.   They watched while we courted Cameroon’s UN vote while letting our diplomacy with Turkey lapse.  They watched while our soldiers later ended up floating around outside Istanbul.

South Iraq hated Saddam, but they weren't about to rise up against Saddam when the son of the wimp Bush Senior, who had just spent months being a wimp himself, sent troops in.

This all happened because Colin Powell wanted to appease the liberals.   To appease Powell Bush Junior went the UN route while opposition grew.

Colin Powell represents both blacks and liberals, so the Bush Administration had to humor him.  Powell keeps demanding that Bush abandon conservative blacks and deal only with liberal black "leaders."

This was the moderate "balancing act" that made us fight in the first Iraqi War and ask the Shiites and Kurds to rebel and then abandon them.   Bush Senior appeased the conservatives by fighting, then he appeased the liberals by pulling out, as practically the entire Democratic Party demanded.

I wonder why no blacks trust Bush!

Moderation in our domestic affairs is a disaster.  Bush Senior went from 90% approval in 1991 to defeat in the election the very next year.   But we survive moderation because we don't have a Saddam in power.

We all know that America will always play this “balancing act” game.  That means Saddam’s crowd, which does not play games like that, will probably be back.  And, unlike conservatives who keep dribbling back into the “balancing act”, Saddam’s crowd has a memory.

 

                                                   The Terrible Myth of Moderation                                                                                        

How could anybody be as stupid as Bush Senior?  How could anybody be as murderously stupid as to apply “moderation” to Iraqi politics?

Once a stupid person hears about “the middle of the road”, he can never be cured of it.  It is no accident that the retard Jerry Ford is still the champion of “the middle of the road”.  Jerry Ford tried the “middle of the road” in 1976 and lost.  Reagan went to the right in 1980 and not only crushed the same Jimmy Carter who beat Ford, but for the first time in forty years Reagan won the Senate away from the Democrats.

Reagan got reelected and he got Bush Senior elected as his successor.  Then Bush Senior went back to “the middle of the road” and lost, big-time, in 1992. 

Then, in 1994, Newt Gingrich took the party to the hard right and won both Houses of Congress, including the House of Representatives for the first time in over forty years.

Almost every member of the real congress, the one that gets elected, is either left or right.  So what kind of moron could say that victory lies “in the middle of the road”?  Even Bush Junior learned not to call himself a moderate the way his father did.

But the last time I saw an interview with Jerry Ford, he was still saying the key to victory was in the middle of the road.  It just sounds so nice and logical that once he hears it, a truly stupid person can never think beyond it.

CNN's official political expert Bill Schneider and every other liberal advises Republicans to go to the middle of the road.

Meanwhile, political commentators do not say that Democrats need to go to the right.  They say Democrats lose because "They don't stick to their principles and offer a real alternative".

If you are an American, this middle of the road drivel just costs you a political disaster in the long term.   But when you mouth absurdities in Iraqi politics, the result is a human nightmare for the people.

Nothing liberals advocate ever works.  The moderate policy of compromising with insanity in American politics is just stupid.  In Iraq it is murder, and worse than murder.

 

                                              This Message is  Terribly Important Right Now                                                             

Please, please read February 22, 2003 - The Three Word Solution to the North Korean Problem.

This article explains that we must make a CHOICE about North Korea.  

Right now we are moderating with both Koreas.  We don't challenge North Korea, but we are keeping troops in South Korea. South Koreans have elected two consecutive presidents who demand that our troops get out.  So we are begging and bribing them to please let us protect them.

We will end up compromising.  We will find a way to prop up the North Korean regime, just as we constantly saved every other Communist regime.  We will end up bribing anti-Americans and compromising with the South Koreans and the Chinese and the Japanese.

If we gave Koreans and Japanese a date line for pulling our troops out, they would have a cow.  We would get more cooperation than we ever wanted.  But that would be a real decision.   That would be a one-way decision that would offend liberals.

A real decision would offend the people who want to please liberals: the moderates, respectable conservatives, and neoconservatives.

If Bush even hinted at pulling troops out of Korea, the media would just mention the word “isolationism” and he would be on his knees.

Please, please read February 22, 2003 - What Happens If You're not an "Isolationist"

North Korea is a deadly serious matter, like asking the Iraqis to rebel was in 1991.  

But we fall down in front of a cliché.   Can anybody see how horrible it is to play with lives to avoid clichés?


                                                                  A   Personal Postscript                                                                                              

I cannot get those betrayed Iraqis out of my mind.   They were too much like me.

They believed.

Despite all my education and experience, I am not a sophisticated person.   As I pointed out when I bragged about saving the Space Telescope that is up there today, I have always been a silly idealist, a believer, a space junkie.

I am that impossible combination, a redneck and a nerd

I am an overeducated guy from Pontiac, South Carolina.  And I am deeply proud of it.

But no matter how idealistic and naïve I was I got betrayed in exactly the same way over and over and over, so I learned from it.   I cannot believe that today’s right wingers are still being betrayed in the same old way.

I am not sophisticated, but I am not a damned fool.

And I am a man with a memory.

I took part in the slippery viciousness of the Cold War and the nasty politics of Washington. 

All those years everybody thought they were sophisticated and smart.   But they never seemed to learn anything.    They ended up being more air-headed than idealists like me.

During all that time I could look beyond the people who thought they were terribly smart and sophisticated.   My sacrifices were in late hours and frustration.  But I had heroes to look to who paid far, far more.

For my inspiration I looked to people who, like me,  were both sane and idealistic.  These people were the Freedom Fighters.

The Cuban Freedom Fighters -- like the ones who got caught at Watergate -- were wonderful people to me.   Honest Contras were wonderful.  

The defiant diggers under the Berlin Wall and other escapees I met were heroic.  
 

Many Freedom Fighters were idealists and they died for it. 

Iraqis and Cuban Freedom Fighters died in prison.

A lot of those Iraqis and those Cubans and those Contras were from small towns like me.   Whatever the size of the town they came from their culture was also more naïve.  

I identify with those freedom fighters who have been sold out decade after decade. Leaders of the freedom fighters wouldn’t listen to my warnings about American leaders .  I wasn’t a Big Man like a CIA Director or a high career official of the State Department. And I hate to think about what happened to the freedom fighters' followers as a result.

Betrayal for me was routine.  I got betrayed by Republican moderates.   Then I got betrayed by  the moderate Republicans' modern successors, the neoconservatives and respectable conservatives.   But I got used to it, and I never ended up in a torture cell in our more civilized nastiness.

Freedom fighters had a huge opinion of America.   They never got used to betrayal because when you trust an American moderate or an American liberal in a situation like that, you do it only that one fatal time.

 

 

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