On Sunday the U.S. military released a quote attributed to an “unidentified” Iraqi:
“The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists,” said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified.
Unfortunately, the military’s PR machine had suffered from what Lt. Col. Clifford Kent, spokesman for the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, classified as an “administrative error.” Namely, the quote was virtually identical to a quote released my the U.S. military on July 13:
“The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the children and all of Iraq,” said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified. “They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists.”
It’s easy enough to claim that the jingoese vomited from the U.S. war machine’s jabbering maw would surprise no one. To the contrary, Americans not only buy (in both senses of the word) into the government’s homespun fiction, but actively defend conquest thinly-veiled as a pursuit of freedom. Having to choose between righteous ignorance and so-called terrorism is no choice at all.
Actually, Donald Rumsfeld said it best:
…We’re dealing with people that are perfectly willing to, to lie to the world to attempt to further their case and to the extent people lie of, ultimately they are caught lying and they lose their credibility and one would think it wouldn’t take very for that to happen dealing with people like this.
Testify! From your clicking skull jaw to the war crimes tribunal’s ears, my brother.
Rummy seems to missing a bibliobgraphy. Funny that he should choose a Chompski quote so closely linked to the U.S.’s “cover-your-ass” methodology in the reporting the invasion and occupation of Vietnam. Name and e-mails have been foo-barred.
–Bill Gates on Mar 1, 2006 @ 10:02 pm