America, the evil imperialist democracy, didn't stop the looting in Iraq at first because they will also be looting Iraq. The looters weren't taking anything the Americans wanted. The Americans have started to arrest looters because they realized people from other countries might figure out the real reason why they watched as the looter citizens of Iraq wiped out Iraqs cultural heritage overnight, and that reason is, the Americans don't care as long as they get to loot what they want from Iraq: oil, land, and other natural resources. Iraq's cultural heritage could disapper for all they care. It was a perfect case of looters condoning and ignoring looters. Until the American leadership realized ignoring and condoing their fellow looters would foil the veil of lies and deceit they've placed over the eyes of non-Americans. Too late America!
P.S. Another reason the Americans started arresting looters is the looters have started taking objects of interest to the Americans. The Americans didn't want the looters to take what they planned on looting themselves.
posted by Kravex at 1:02 AM
"The American ethos prides success more than anything else. Success is it's bitch goddess – success, often success at any cost, at any price. Failure was the monkey’s tail, derided, held in utter contempt. "Nothing succeeds like success," declared Gen. Douglas MacArthur during the Korean war. And so it was.
Orlando Patterson, one of America’s ranking psychologists, and a historian to boot, wrote that the Achilles heel of US culture, was failure. You were a social outcast if you were a failure, a bum to all intents and purposes, an outsider, a cast-out. Patterson said the passion to succeed overpowered everything else, and therefore upended moral standards. There was everything wrong here, he indicated.
Today, success in American terms means being the mightiest nation in the world. Mightiest here has its emphasis on military muscle. Only America’s aircraft carriers, battleships, cruiser, destroyers, B-1 and B-2 bombers with 20,000-pound payloads, nuclear submarines, mini and mammoth helicopters, predators missiles of every category, enemy-sniffing spy satellites can project America’s might anywhere in the world. Iraq was a very good excuse to test this state-of-the-art weaponry. And so what if no weapons of mass destruction were found? Or Saddam Hussein disappeared into thin air. They would eventually track him down."
And this reminds me of an old cartoon movie in the 80's. Its called G.I. Joe the movie. In the movie the American force known as G.I. Joe was fighting a terrorist group called Cobra which was really part of a non- human race call Cobra-La.
In Cobra-La, failure was a crime. Success was Cobra-La's bitch goddess. Ironic isn't it? And if you don't believe me. Find an old copy of the movie, You'd be surprised!
P.S Thanks to Mr. Benigno for the great analysis.
posted by Kravex at 7:48 PM
The major battles in Iraq are over. The United States of America can begin plundering Iraq of its oil and soil. Syria beware. The USA will try to use its war on Iraq as a springboard to invade and take your country's territory for it own evil interests.
posted by Kravex at 8:17 AM
"We are now entering upon an unjust and trivial war, a war against a helpless people, and for a base object - robbery. At first our citizens spoke out against this thing, by an impulse natural to their training. Today they have turned, and their voice is the other way.
What caused the change? Merely a politician's trick - a high sounding phrase, a blood-stirring phrase which turned their uncritical heads: Our Country right or wrong! An empty phrase, a silly phrase. It was shouted by every newspaper, it was thundered from the pulpit, the Superintendent of Public Instruction placarded it in every schoolhouse in the land, the War Department inscribed it upon the flag. And every man who failed to shout it or who was silent, was proclaimed a traitor - none but those others were patriots. To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, 'Our Country, right or wrong,' and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time. This republic's life is not in peril. The nation has sold its honor for a phrase. It has swung loose from its safe anchorage and is drifting, its helm is in pirate hands. The stupid phrase needed help, and it got another one: 'Even if the war be wrong, we are in it and must fight it out, we cannot retire from it without dishonor.' Why, not even a burglar could have said it better."
The above quote was from Mark Twain, written around 1906.
P.S. Thanks Wang Da Hai, great research.
posted by Kravex at 7:42 AM
Liberation, this is what America calls it's theft of Iraqi oil and soil. The Americans want to liberate Iraq of its oil and natural resources that are of value to America. America wants to liberate Iraq of prime pieces of real estate for America's airbases and military installations. America wants to liberate the minds and hearts of Iraqis of caution and critical thinking. This will make it easier for the Americans and their British henchmen in grand theft to brainwash the Iraqis into buying American culture and consumer products to increase the American bottom line and fill up the bottomless American pockets and piggy banks.
Liberation used to mean freedom from foreign oppression. Thanks to the Americans it has a new meaning, freedom for America and its cohorts in banditry to plunder the resources of countries cold to American deceit and hegemony.
posted by Kravex at 4:14 AM
The new age of American Imperialism has dawned. The fall of Iraq marks this new and terrible era in world history.
posted by Kravex at 4:38 AM
America's imperial might has taken over Iraq. Nothing surprising about that. The Americans can plunder the wealth of Iraq until the oil wells dry up like a prune. Congratulations America, another piece of stolen property in your bottomless pocket. I hope its weight drags you down to hell.
posted by Kravex at 4:16 AM 