I Am Become Death - The Destroyer Of The Worlds

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By Anwaar Hussain

TS Admin : On this fifth anniversary of Iraq invasion, George Bush said, “Because we acted, the world is better and the United States of America is safer.” With a million dead Iraqis, more than 30,000 dead and wounded American soldiers, the world now teeming with a new breed of America haters and more than 3 trillion dollars blown to achieve all that, the US president sits atop an economically crumbling America and happily crows his mantra. George W. Bush indeed seems far removed from reality.

The essay below was written in the immediate aftermath of the destruction of Iraqi city of Fallujah. At the time, the article ricocheted across the cyber space and refused to die down. Every word of what was written has now been proven true. Here it is once again lest we forget.

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Known as the “city of mosques” for its more than 200 mosques, Fallujah is also known for refusing to add Saddam’s name to the call for prayers from its ancient minarets. It is located on the banks of river Euphrates, the largest river in Southwest Asia. The 1700 miles long Euphrates is linked with some of the most important events in olden history.The city of Ur, found at its mouth, was the birthplace of Abraham. On its banks stood the city of Babylon. In the past, the army of Necho was defeated on its banks by Nebuchadnezzar. Cyrus the Younger and Crassus perished after crossing it. Alexander traversed it and continued his journey eastward. Presently, George Bush’s forces are crossing and re-crossing it making its waters redder each time with the blood of Fallujah’s citizens.

Fallujah has been laid waste. It has been bombed, re-bombed, its citizens gunned down, its structures devastated by powerful weapons. It is a hell on earth of crushed bodies, shattered buildings and the reek of death. In addition to the artillery and the warplanes dropping 500, 1000, and 2000-pound bombs, 70-ton Abrams Tanks and the murderous AC-130 Spectre gunship that can demolish a whole city block in less than a minute, the Marines had snipers crisscrossing the entire town firing at will at whatever moved outside the buildings. For those inside, the US troops were equipped with thermal sights capable of detecting body heat. Any such detection was eagerly assumed to indicate the presence of “insurgents” inviting a deadly salvo.

No body has an accurate idea of how many Iraqis, combatants and noncombatants, have been killed by the thousands of tons of explosives and bullets let loose upon the city. Mortuary teams collecting the dead rotting in the city streets are fighting the wandering dogs that are busy devouring their former masters. The hundreds buried beneath the rubble and debris will be dug out later. A US marine spokesman, Colonel Mike Regner, estimated 1,000 and 2,000 Iraqis dead. The world is awaiting the toll from more reliable sources with a wincing anticipation.

Eyewitnesses report human corpses littering the city’s streets, nibbled at by starving canines. Parents have been forced to watch their wounded children die and then bury their bodies in their gardens. An Iraqi journalist, reporting in the city for the BBC and Reuters, said: “I have seen some strange things recently, such as stray dogs snatching bites out of bodies lying on the streets. Meanwhile, people forage in their gardens looking for something to eat. Those that have survived this far are looking gaunt. The opposite is happening to the dead, left where they fell, they are now bloated and rotting…”

Some images that did manage to filter through the layers of American censorship include scenes of the devastated landscape of the city; the bloodied and fly-covered corpses of young Iraqi men lying in the streets or heaped in rows amidst the debris; a headless body; women and children escaping with the few possessions they have left; mortuary teams collecting the dead; and Fallujah infants being treated for horrific injuries in Baghdad hospitals. US general John Sattler declared: “We have liberated the city of Fallujah.”

The assault on Fallujah is a pure and simple Nazi-style collective punishment, not liberation. The city has been razed to the ground because its political, spiritual and tribal leaders, motivated by Iraqi patriotism and opposition to the presence of foreign troops in their country, organized a guerilla resistance to the US invasion.The aim of the US assault is to make Fallujah a model to the rest of Iraq of what will happen to those thinking on similar lines. It is the leading thrust of an orgy of killing intended to crush and drive underground every voice of dissent and ensure that elections this coming January will throw up a weak-willed, pro-US toady regime. The American military is rumored to be planning similar attacks on scores of other Iraqi cities and towns.

Not a single major voice has been raised in the American media against the ongoing destruction of Fallujah. While much of the world recognizes something dreadful has occurred, the US press does not even bat an eyelash over the organized leveling of a city of 300,000 people. In none of the US media commentaries is there a single phrase of unease about the moral or legal questions involved in the attack on Fallujah. None have dared say it in as many words that the American military operation in the city is an unlawful act of aggression in an equally illegal, criminal, aggressive war.

The opposite is true in fact. Ralph Peters, the author of “Beyond Baghdad: Postmodern War and Peace.” a rabid Neocon mouthpiece, revered by the ruling Neocons, in his prominently placed November 4 New York Post article wrote: “We need to demonstrate that the US military cannot be deterred or defeated. If that means widespread destruction, we must accept the price. Most of Fallujah’s residents, those who wish to live in peace, have already fled. Those who remain have made their choice. We need to pursue the terrorists remorselessly…

…That means killing. While we strive to obey the internationally recognized laws of war (though our enemies do not), our goal should be to target the terrorists and insurgents so forcefully that few survive to raise their hands in surrender. We don’t need more complaints about our treatment of prisoners from the global forces of appeasement. We need terrorists dead in the dust. And the world needs to see their corpses…

…Even if Fallujah has to go the way of Carthage, reduced to shards, the price will be worth it. We need to demonstrate our strength of will to the world, to show that there is only one possible result when madmen take on America.”

Though the carnage carried out by Hitler’s regime was on a different scale than that now being committed by the Bush administration, there are striking parallels. For the first time since the Wehrmacht swept through Europe, the world is witnessing a major imperialist power launching an unjustifiable war, placing an entire people under military occupation and carrying out acts of collective and visible punishment against civilian populace. The US media’s wretched connivance in this deception is incredible, as incredible as the fact that this war, based on undeniable lies as it was, was sold to the American people as the gospel truth ordained by God.

To be honest, George Bush is not the first US president ordering the states machinery to pulverize nations and peoples abroad. Even a hurried analysis of the American government’s conduct in the last century makes for a most damning indictment. Out of the US’s past foreign policy woodwork, crawl out numerous invasions, bombings, overthrowing governments, suppressing movements for social change, assassinating political leaders, perverting elections, manipulating labor unions, manufacturing “news”, selling blatant lies, death squads, torture, biological warfare, depleted uranium, drug trafficking, mercenaries … you name it.

This terrorizing of nations and individuals by various US governments has been going on full bore since at least the late 1890s, when Americans obliterated a million Filipinos to keep them safe from the Spanish. Likewise, millions of Native Americans, the children of a lesser God, were exterminated by the orders of earlier administrations throughout the 19th century. The difference with past is that George Bush does it in the name of his God, a God far superior to any other and sanctioned fully by his coterie. Ironically, both George Bush and his nemesis, Osama Bin Laden, refer to God almost equal number of times in their public pronouncements.

The United States went into Afghanistan to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden. They killed 10,000 innocent Afghans but could not find their man. They went into Iraq to discover and eliminate Saddam’s WMDs. They killed tens of thousands of Iraqis but found no WMD. They laid siege to the city of Fallujah to kill or capture Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. The city and its inhabitants have been blown to smithereens but there is no Zarqawi. Is it not only too convenient? Next when they want to attack Pakistan, or Iran, they simply have to say that Bin Laden is taking refuge there. Just like the next Iraqi city awaiting the fate of Fallujah will be the latest refuge of Zarqawi; the WMDs too could next fly to Syria or may be even Saudi Arabia. Is one imagining things here? Or is it that the US imperialism is indeed now riding full time on the back of gargantuan lies?

After granting George Bush a carte blanche to do what he likes the American citizens, of course, continue their daily lives oblivious to what is being done in their name. Between their work places and the nearest fast food joints, they just do not have enough time to check back on the activities of the man who is playing ‘The Terminator’ in the name of God and in their name.

Those who do get to know a little are in a constant state of denial. One thing is sure though. Just like in post-war Germany where some even denied the holocaust, “We didn’t know what was happening” is bound to become a cliché that will one day be used to ridicule Americans who claim ignorance of the atrocities committed by their administration in their name. Ironically, Khomeini died trying to get people to see America as “the great Satan”. It took George W. Bush and his cohorts only four years to do exactly that, and not just in the eyes of the Muslim world.

As America sinks deeper into the heart of darkness, its thinking citizens need to jolt each other out of their apathy. With each passing day their beloved America is scaling ever greater heights of hideous glories. The man in charge, George W. Bush, is actually living the throes of his apocalyptic dream of “I am become death-the destroyer of the worlds”. He codenamed his destruction of Fallujah as “Operation Phantom Fury”. But as the falsehood dies and gives way to truth, as all lies must one day, it will be the Iraqi dead that will form a legion of phantoms and would throng around Americans in a macabre dance to haunt them for decades. The fury of those phantoms will be hair raising.

Fallujah will enter history as the place where US imperialism carried out an offense of heinous proportions this November, a monstrous crime far beyond any possible forgiveness. The crimson waters of the Euphrates are now emptying into the Persian Gulf the hopes and aspirations of innocent people whose lives were snuffed out on the orders of a man rewarded for his monumental crimes by his great nation.

The Euphrates flows on.

~*~

Click here for a latest satellite image of Fallujah.



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9 Responses to “I Am Become Death - The Destroyer Of The Worlds”

  1. Jane on March 20th, 2008 12:00 pm

    At first I thought that photo here was the one from a main street in Kabul taken several years ago. Then I realized that it was a different country — but it was still the same street anyway. Only Kabul’s street was a victim of “Charlie Wilson’s War” and Fallujah was the victim of “Bush’s War”. And if Bush/Cheney/McCain have their way, American streets could look like this too. And a billion voices in protest still seem to not be able to stop the destruction.

  2. joed on March 20th, 2008 6:12 pm

    If a thousand suns were to rise together one morning, that light would be a little like the glory of the Lord, for I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.
    – J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita upon witnessing the first Atom Bomb detonation in New Mexico, usa 1945ce.

    Thank you Anwar for the timely and appropriate article. if hope does exist it will surely mean that bush/cheney and the other murderous thugs will be arrested, tried and convicted for their crimes against humanity. let’s hope they spend the rest of their shitty lives being reminded of the terror they brought to Fallujah and the rest of the world.

    i have heard that Fallujah’s mosques were a marvelous sight and a tribute to humanity. again, thank you for the fine article

  3. Donna Wolfe Gatti on March 20th, 2008 7:22 pm

    I live in a neighborhood of Bush supporters. On the weekends they go target shooting in preparation for when the terrorists bomb Washington and the residents head north. They believe this will happen. They say it is in the Bible.

    These men, and also their women, have made plans to meet at the West Virginia state line. Like soldiers, they will hold their ground. There is lust in their eyes when they speak of what they are going to do to their fellow Americans, their brothers and sisters.

    They ask me what I do for a living and I tell them I write books about angels. Their eyes soften. They relate their own mystical experiences, testifying that an angel saved them or a loved one from death, and their dead relatives visit them in their sleep.

    Tears fall from their eyes as they remember the feeling of love. Just for a moment they allow themselves to feel safe and good and happy. Then they toughen up, harden their hearts, and impress upon me the need to get a gun. Because there is evil in this world and the bad guys are coming to take my food and my home. And they will kill me.

    Then I die, I say. I am not afraid to die.

    They look at me with wonder and pity. They think I am crazy. I tell them their names are on my prayer list. They smile and shake their heads. Then they hop in their trucks and remind me once again to get a gun.

    The spiritual evolution of humankind is a painfully slow process. Now we are on the eve of destruction, and this is not the first time. Civilizations have come and gone, more than we can count, so the angels tell me. The Holy Spirit is trying to help us, to keep us from destroying ourselves, but the angels are limited by the free will of man. We must choose between life and death, chaos and peace, destruction and creation.

    Forgiveness is the answer. Love is the answer. There is no other way. Lord Jesus, while dying on the cross, said, Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do.

    The mission of the Prophet Mohammad was peace. The Buddha sought to eliminate suffering. All the Great Ones, the Masters, have shown us the way. We must choose to follow.

    The world changes one heart at a time. It is a slow process, but the only one that works.

  4. Michelle on March 20th, 2008 7:42 pm

    Jane on March 20th, 2008 12:00 pm: “And a billion voices in protest still seem to not be able to stop the destruction.”

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  5. joed on March 20th, 2008 8:20 pm

    Anwaar, I do apologise for misspelling your name in my first post.

  6. John Kaminski on March 21st, 2008 12:59 am

    I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to add a comment to this, including recording that dreadful password, and still I can’t do it. Did you get the last one I sent?

    What I wanted to say was that this information needs to be passed around so that more Americans can see it, because certainly most of them haven’t.

    Best wishes,

    John

  7. Commander Z, PatriotMilitia.com on March 21st, 2008 3:57 am

    JEWS are the cause of 911 and all world wars. Jews are now initiating the Great Great Jew Depression II. Soon comes Jew World War III. The Jew plan is to decimate the GOY and bring the rest to heel and to their knees in a world where Jews are the Kings of the earth. There will be famine and cannibalism. Jews will eat Kosher Goy child veal as per the inspiration of the rituals of Jew Blood Lust Ritual Libel in the Talmud. Jews have caused all the grief in the world today.

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  8. Pervaiz on March 21st, 2008 6:50 pm

    Men became death the day they started living together. The very friction of propinquity necessitated this instinct. Nevertheless, we have the urge to live together in peace and harmony too. Ipso facto, this death instinct cannot stop us from condemning or stopping Chengez Khans, suicide bombers or Bushes.

    To quote Faiz:

    ‘Harf e haq dil main khatakta hay jo kaantay ki tarah,
    aaj izhaar karain aur khalish mit jaey’.

    Regards,

    Pervaiz

  9. patcanzim on March 22nd, 2008 11:24 pm

    This is still my favorite article on the war. Beautiful work!

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