Whitaker's Current Articles April 12, 2003
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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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