Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Suckering the Great Unwashed

[RBHam]

Kurt Nimmo

Now we’re expected to believe Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is in Iran. “Quoting a senior insurgency commander in Iraq, the Sunday Times said Zarqawi had shrapnel lodged in his chest and may have been moved to Iran. It said his supporters might try to move the Jordanian-born militant to another country for an operation,” reports Reuters.

Is it possible this “senior insurgency commander” is an idiot or possibly a rank amateur? If indeed al-Zarqawi is the “leader” of the resistance, it does not make sense for his top lieutenants to be so thoughtlessly loquacious with the media and admit the wounding of al-Zarqawi and reveal where he is. On the other hand, if al-Zarqawi is not connected to the resistance but is instead a U.S. covert intelligence operation designed to discredit the resistance and convince us they are little more than criminals and sadists (to say nothing of idiots), the United States has done an admirable job—that is, an admirable job served up to those of us who do not pay attention, who have abandoned common sense, and believe everything the corporate media feeds us. As Bush and Crew demonstrated when they fed us a passel of implausible lies in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, the passive and half-witted American news consumer will believe just about anything, so long as some authoritarian character tells him it is true. It matters not that the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi fairy tale is completely over the top, even surrealistic.

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[Karenina]

1. Tee-hee...

:kick:

[RBHam]

2. Monday kick

First day of school, y'know...

[RBHam]

3. Emmanuel Goldstein... "minute of hate"...

Does anybody get it yet?

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Since Osama bin Forgotten, now Zarqawi is the new Goldstein

The BBC: premier propagandist for the imperium

by William Bowles • 10 February 2005

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I have written about the mythological Abu Musab al-Zarqawi several times before as have other writers. The question we need to ask is why does the state and hence its servant, the corporate media have need of such a ‘person’? Walker’s article opened with the quote above, a very revealing statement but one that I made here some time last year but for very different reasons. Walker goes on

This poisonous Jordanian terrorist has done the world a service. Almost at a stroke he has eased away the accumulated grievances between Washington and Paris, between America and Europe, by couching the struggle in Iraq in terms that force even the French onto the side of President Bush.

Walker bases his assertion on the following quote by the alleged Zarqawi

“We are at war with democracy,” Zarqawi declared, in an announcement that coincided with the Iraqi elections on Jan. 30. “Democracy is an evil principle.”

How convenient of ‘Zarqawi’ who, in common with ‘Osama bin Laden’ manages to say just the ‘right’ thing at just the ‘right’ time.

http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0307.html

Here's a quote from Emmanuel Goldstein's book within a book from Orwell's 1984 THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM

"The essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies, all this is indispensibly necessary."

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/orwell_goldstein_1984.html

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Well, if that's not justification for pre-emptive invasion

nothing is.

[JohnyCanuck]

6. kick n/t