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27.Feb.2003 06:07 |
MOVEON'S ANTIWAR DAISY COMMERCIAL REGURGITATES AMERICA'S WAR LIES
author: RePOST
The rehashed "'Daisy'" commerical being peddled by the Mainstream antiwar group MoveOn is an excellent of Alternative Media Censorship at work.
The "Peace is Patriotic" outfits like MoveOn, Win without War, and the Right wing website Antiwar.com are political Trojan Horses which seek to carefully divert and deflection attention from the fundamental reasons driving America's War Rampage and the event which triggered it all: 9-11.
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MoveOn's Daisy commercial: A deception and an atrocity that no opponent of war should support
By Larry Chin
Online Journal Associate Editor
February 20, 2003—The following is the script of the much ballyhooed anti-war television commercial produced by MoveOn.org (one of the prominent groups mobilizing against war in Iraq) and a line-by-line rebuttal.
MoveOn "Daisy" commercial: "War with Iraq. Maybe it will end quickly. Maybe not."
The issue is not whether or not the "war with Iraq" can be "effectively and quickly conducted" as these lines suggest.
The point is that the United States and its Anglo-American proxies are conducting an illegal, criminal global conquest of terrorism and geostrategic destruction that should not be taking place—at all. Under any circumstance.
The point is that this operation, which is not a "war with Iraq," but is a very old plan for much bigger war.
It is an extension of an Anglo-American terror operation begun on September 11, 2001, that is sweeping through every region in the world, from Afghanistan and Central Asia and the Middle East to South America and Southeast Asia, to the United States itself. And this phase itself is a continuation of American geostrategy with roots to explicit US policy that called for the unparalleled military and economic dominance of the world post-World War II.
The point is that this 9/11 War is, among many things, about US control of the final supplies of oil left on the planet, the desperate rescue of a world economy on the verge of collapse via rechanneling of covert money flows (including narcotics and market manipulation) and geopolitical control of key regions. One of them, obviously, the oil-rich Middle East—the key to world power.
No group that fails to directly or honestly address the true root causes of the US government crime and the structure of the economic/government power in the world (be it the Bush administration's work or those of every previous presidency) is truly "anti-war". No group or individual that has failed to investigate, analyze and expose the still-uninvestigated events of September 11, and the Bush administration's foreknowledge and complicity, is truly "anti-war". No group that supports the fabricated pretext of the "war on terrorism" is truly "anti-war".
Such groups and individuals have earned no right to be trusted messengers speaking on behalf of citizens resisting power.
No right whatsoever.
MoveOn "Daisy" commercial: "Maybe it will spread."
This is also myopic. Of course it will spread. That's the idea.
This very long-running American war of conquest, which by official national security directive, is for control of the Eurasian continent (which includes the Middle East and Central Asia) has continued to "spread" (in its most current phase) since the wars in the Balkans—under the Clinton administration. One can also make the strong case that it began as early as the 1950s, when US planners exploited numerous conflicts across the Middle East in order to secure its foothold in the region. For its oil.
It will undoubtedly continue to "spread" under Bush as well as the next presidential administration, if elite war planners have their way. That is what conquest is about.
This ongoing system, not just the war in Iraq is what should be opposed.
MoveOn "Daisy" commercial: "Maybe extremists will take over countries with nuclear weapons."
Here is where ignorance really shows, leading to hysterical fantasizing.
The person who scripted this line has clearly swallowed the Bush administration's lies, like an obedient drone on "Fear Factor." To borrow the words of Zbigniew Brezezinski, the "shock effect" of a massive external "Pearl Harbor-like" threat has left MoveOn and other groups toeing the Bush administration line in all the most important ways.
As noted by Professor Michel Chossudovsky, "The legitimacy of this war hinges upon the official 9/11 narrative. 'The US is under attack by foreign terrorists.' The war against Iraq is presented as a preemptive operation to 'defend ourselves' against terrorists and rogue states. The Bush administration requires legitimacy in the eyes of public opinion, namely, that in launching the war in Iraq, it is acting in response to the tragic events of September 11."
Fact: no credible connection has been made between 9/11 and Iraq or any Iraqi citizen.
Fact: Islamic terrorism is a creation of American intelligence—and most of its most legendary fronts including al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden—continues to be guided by and/or used by the CIA.
Fact: Saddam Hussein was an American intelligence agent, a US ally, a US business partner, and a personal business partner of George H.W. Bush.
Fact: the Iraqi opposition groups assisting the Bush administration with plans for "removing" Saddam Hussein are CIA-created and CIA-funded proprietaries that have engaged in terrorism for over a decade.
Fact: the terrorism people fear most has been guided and manipulated by the United States, its intelligence agencies and its proprietaries.
Fact: the "war on terrorism" is a total fabrication designed to scare the living hell out of everyone into abandoning their minds, spirits and rights to the powers who wish to exploit.
Fact: September 11 and all subsequent criminal actions of the US elite led by the Bush administration have been of domestic origin. Not foreign. Perhaps one should fear those within our borders—within the halls of our federal "government".
MoveOn "Daisy" commercial: "Let the inspections work."
"Let the inspections work?" If this were the 1950s, it would like saying, "Let the McCarthy hearings work." It is outrageous that MoveOn is pushing this dangerous line on TV and in major print media.
Does MoveOn and its well-heeled supporters understand that the inspections have never been meant to "work?" Scott Ritter (who quit in protest the last time the US tried it) has come out publicly on this.
The inspections are a charade. In absence of suitable evidence implicating Iraq, evidence will be produced. In the absence of justifications, new pretexts will be manufactured, and old ones dusted off and repeated.
Hans Blix, the man entrusted with deciding whether Iraq is harboring weapons of mass destruction, "cannot guarantee that his inspection teams does not include Western spies".
And if the inspections "work," does MoveOn and other "anti-war" groups then shrivel up meekly, and support Bush and the "war on terrorism" without complaint? They insipidly supported the destruction of Afghanistan. They supported the US bombing of Yugloslavia. "Sure, why not another go at Iraq, 'if they find proof'?"
Will followers of Left groups and Left gatekeepers march in step with the Bush administration, wave an American flag, and support the wholesale slaughter of foreigners based on the disingenuous legend of "foreign terrorism" and "threats to America?"
You bet they will.
What Is MoveOn?
Notice that Move On and groups like it really get around with a lot of publicity and resources. They had the money to buy ad space in major newspapers. They have support from Hollywood celebrities. Wonder why? Where did all that big money come from?
Why is it that MoveOn has gotten national publicity, while courageous opponents of the Bush administration who have been passionately, persistently, and articulately speaking out and resisting its policies since 2000 received no such national publicity?
Who's behind MoveOn? Major Democratic party money. Elite foundations, which themselves have with ties to the Tides Foundation, for one. And what's the Tides Foundation? Here's an article on just one aspect of Tides: Liberal Establishment Foundations, "Alternative" Media and Pacifica Radio.
Do the MoveOn people mean well? Some of its members might. But the limited way they frame the Iraq issue, all by itself, is a clue to what they are about.
The bad news is that most of the elite progressive/liberal groups in this country—from the activist groups to the media (ZNet, The Nation, Salon, Common Dreams, Pacifica Radio, etc) to the liberal think tanks (such as Institute for Policy Studies) and intellectual icons (Chomsky, Solomon, Cockburn, Nader, etc.) have done their best to limit your knowledge, and limited criticism of the system that (regardless of their denials) feeds them. This is known as "alternative media censorship."
And you can forget about the Democrats—who are the system, and who have supported (often stridently) the Bush war agenda and the "war on terrorism." You won't find more muscular proponents of total war in the Middle East than Joe Lieberman. Expect no relief from future presidential candidates. "Skull and Bones" John Kerry promises, if elected, "the most aggressive anti-terror war ever seen.." Expect nothing from this faction.
Far too many well-meaning activists buy into this limited framework, thinking that it's enlightened and radical .
The burning question is, whose interests are served by limited dissent and limited criticism of the Bush administration and the system it represents?
The only inspection that should be allowed to work is the inspection of the system that creates, promotes and thrives on terrorism, crime and corruption.
That begins right here.
For the true map, go to the sources:
Center for Research on Globalization
From The Wilderness
Online Journal
Cooperative Research
The Memory Hole
Narco News
Questions Questions
Xymphora
Rise4News
Guns and Butter
Community Currency
Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed, author of "The War On Freedom"
Michel Chossudovsky, author of "War and Globalisation"
 http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/022003Chin/022003chin.html
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but until the person who posted above can claim that they have organized 500,000+ anti-war phone calls, faxes and emails (as moveon.org did yesterday), i don't think they have much of a case. watered down or not, the "virtual march" made the online front page of time, financial times, abcnews and dozens of other corporate outlets. like it or not, "they" (watered down liberals) are being heard:
keep your focus on the real enemy.