Syria, al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Big Lies in Bushzarro World

[political_invader]

Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire

October 1, 2005

As Hitler knew, “in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility,” and as the inventors of the Big Lie, the British Office of Strategic Services, realized, “if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.” Both of these propagandistic techniques are currently at work in Iraq. For instance, consider the following, reported by the Associated Press: a U.S. military offense in western Iraq, called Operation Iron Fist, is “aimed to root out al-Qaida militants who have taken hold of the village and use it as a base for attacks on Iraqi civilians and security forces.” Operation Iron Fist is “also aimed to stop foreign fighters from entering the country from Syria and improving security in the region before Iraq’s Oct. 15 referendum on a new constitution, the military said. Sunni insurgents have vowed to derail the referendum and have launched a surge of violence that has killed at least 200 people—including 13 U.S. service members—in the past six days.”

In short, the occupation of Iraq is at least partially about “al-Qaeda” and its supposed ability to enter Iraq from Syria, a country deemed to be part of an “axis of evil” (people who hate Americans and want to kill them), and because they hate us and our “way of life” (which presumably includes democratic government), “al-Qaeda” and their Syrian backers and protectors are attempting to “derail the referendum” in Iraq through terrorism, that is to say slaughtering innocent civilians, especially Shi’ite civilians.

Hitler said the Big Lie must contain “a certain force of credibility.” However, the Big Lie at the heart of the invasion and occupation of Iraq (which has mutated at least three times) is not credible, i.e., the U.S. is engaged in a “war” against a tenacious terrorism and the focus of that struggle (promised to last a hundred years or more) is in Iraq—or more accurately, the border region between Iraq and Syria. For many, this fairy tale is credible, even though the real reason for such operations—spreading violence and fear on the border of the next target “rogue nation” in the “war on terrorism”—is transparently and absurdly obvious.

“‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality,” a Bush aide announced some time ago. In Bushzarro world, reality is Platonic, that is to say it is speculative and theoretical, and facts “on the ground” are meaningless. As the corporate media reports on occasion, citing Pentagon sources, there are few “foreign fighters” and virtually no “al-Qaeda militants” in Iraq. Bush’s “war on terrorism” is essentially a series of slogans—for instance, al-Qaeda hates “our freedoms… our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech” and the “terrorists’ directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill all Americans and make no distinctions among military and civilians, including women and children,” etc.—and tangible facts (the Iraqi resistance is a national liberation movement determined to expel Anglo-American occupation forces) are not allowed to penetrate this shroud of vacuous slogans and neocon shibboleths.


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http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m16322&l=i&size=1&hd=0

[halobeam]

1. There are only "big lies"... it's often repeated as we well know,

and they throw in bits of truth, when no one is looking.

" As the corporate media reports on occasion, citing Pentagon sources, there are few “foreign fighters” and virtually no “al-Qaeda militants” in Iraq."


I have a running debate with my brother about Al-Qaeda presence in Iraq. I've yet to find in print a reliable source for the argument that there is virtually no Al-Qaeda there, although, that is my side of the argument. I'm not helping my debate much because of this lack of evidence.

Anyone have any info/links to this? I'd GREATLY appreciate to settle this with him.

TIA