This President Is Right Indeed
By Anwaar Hussain
On 20th January 2005 the President of United states of America, in his inaugural address, spoke to his people and the world. He said;
"Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world."...“At this second gathering, our duties are defined not by the words I use, but by the history we have seen together. For a half century, America defended our own freedom by standing watch on distant borders.”
That certainly is the truth and nothing but the truth. As the US President was speaking those words, the United States maintained well over 700 foreign military outposts spread over a total of 140 countries around the world, including Asia, Europe and Africa. At least 60 of these are considered permanent. More are coming up. 85% of all foreign troops present within the Middle East are American. This President is right indeed.
“Our country has accepted obligations that are difficult to fulfill, and would be dishonorable to abandon. Yet because we have acted in the great liberating tradition of this nation, tens of millions have achieved their freedom.”… "Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way."
America, without a doubt, has been very busy in the pursuit of this ideal in the period the President mentions. She is estimated to have gone to war in no less than 23, some say 67, places on the globe since WW II. In the great liberating tradition, the United States has, by some estimates, dropped over a hundred million tons of bombs on foreign lands over the last 50 years, bringing freedom to millions of innocent human beings from the clutches of their wretched existences. For some reason, not necessarily oily ones, the Iraqis have been favorite candidates of this great liberating tradition. The benevolent sequence of bombs-sanctions-bombs has, thus, brought an enduring freedom to just about 1.5 million Iraqis, around 50% of whom were Iraqi children less than 5 years old. This President is right indeed.
To make this freedom a permanent success story, 2500 tons of depleted uranium munitions is reported to have been fired upon these Iraqis in 2004 alone. With a radio-active equivalent of thousands of Nagasaki bombs, and a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the Iraqis are finally assured of an everlasting freedom. The great liberating tradition will live on eternally in generation after generation of deformed Iraqis. The world in general, and the Iraqis in particular, should be grateful to the Americans for helping them find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way. This President is right indeed.
When this President says "So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.” and that "The rulers of outlaw regimes can know that we still believe as Abraham Lincoln did: 'Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it'." there is no cause to disbelieve him. For in the pursuit of this noble ideal, the United States of America befriended some of the world's most fatherly tyrants, torturers, killers, dictators and crooks. To seek and support the growth of democratic movements, America propped up, aided, sustained and rewarded handsomely the most stinking of the rogues the world over. As America did it for the brotherhood of mankind, and with its nose pinched, this President is right indeed.
Here is a small list of rulers of outlaw regimes, with some omissions, of those who denied freedom to others and, thus, deserved it not for themselves;
General Sani Abacha of Nigeria, Idi Amin of Uganda, Colonel Hugo Banzer of Bolivia, Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, P.W. Botha of South Africa, General Humberto Brancoof Brazil, Raoul Cedras, Francois Duvalier and Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti, Vinicio Cerezo of Guatemala, Chiang Kai-Shek of Taiwan, Roberto Suazo Cordova of Honduras, Alfredo Christiani and General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez of El Salvador, Ngo Dihn Diemof Vietnam, General Samuel Doe of Liberia, King Fahd bin'Abdul-'Aziz of Saudi Arabia, General Francisco Franco of Spain, Hassan II of Morocco, Ferdinand Marcos of Philippines, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, General Manuel Noriega of Panama, Turgut Ozal of Turkey, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran, George Papadopoulos of Greece, General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Pol Pot of Cambodia, General Zia Ul-Haq of Pakistan of Pakistan, Hale Salassie of Ethiopia, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, Anastasio Somoza Jr. and Anastasio Somoza Sr. of Nicaragua, General suharto of Indonesia, General Jorge Rafael Videla of Argentina and, hold your breaths, Saddam Hussain of Iraq.
So when this President says, “all who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you”, this President is right indeed.
This President says, “America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way.” Yet a huge number of Americans believes that the second coming of this President himself was through rigged elections. As this President, however, has never told a lie in his whole life, this President is right indeed.
When this President says, “that edifice of character is built in families, supported by communities with standards, and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Koran, and the varied faiths of our people.” he is to be believed. He indeed is a very religious man and not very long back made his troops swear on a holy book before they entered Fallujah with guns blazing and laid waste to all life forms. That book contained the following passage;
I Samuel 15:3, "Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath; spare him not, nor covet any thing that is his; but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."
So this President is right indeed.
When this President says, “in the long run, there is no justice without freedom, and there can be no human rights without human liberty.” he is to be believed again. The post haste shredding of the Bill of rights, that most hallowed of the US Constitution’s canons, not withstanding. When the world in general, and the Americans in particular, hear him say, “America has need of idealism and courage, because we have essential work at home - the unfinished work of American freedom” they needlessly allow cold shards of chill to shoot up their collective spine. For he soon afterwards assures, “in a world moving toward liberty, we are determined to show the meaning and promise of liberty.” The chance of a universal Patriot Act being rammed down the combined throat of the whole world not withstanding, this President is right indeed.
When this President says, “we do not accept the existence of permanent tyranny because we do not accept the possibility of permanent slavery. Liberty will come to those who love it.” he is to be believed again. For Pol Pot, that great humanitarian, when asked whether he wanted to apologize for the suffering he caused, too said, “No. ... I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country." Similarly, another great leader, General Augusto Pinochet, said, “I would like to be remembered as a man who served his country, who served Chile throughout his entire life on this earth and what he did was always done thinking about the welfare of Chile." As both these outstanding philanthropic leaders of the last century have remained America’s great friends, this President is right indeed.
Therefore, when the world says that the Neocons’ bandwagon of freedom plows over the bones of the dead, the world knows not. And when the world says that the deafening chorus of his sycophantic team is nothing but the howling of a wolf pack, the world is not tuned in to hear the right notes. Hence, when this president says that the world in general, and the Muslims in particular, hate American values, he is to be believed. For the gigantic truths of almost mythical proportions that this President has so far told, it seems this President is right indeed.
When Hermann Goering said, “Naturally, the common people don't want war.....voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” Hermann Goering knew not. For if he knew better, every one would be living in one huge universal Reich by now.
But when this President says, “My most solemn duty is to protect this nation and its people against further attacks and emerging threats.” he is to be believed, Goering tactics be damned. For his unmatchable past record of telling the truth, and nothing but the truth, there is every reason to believe that this President is right indeed.
Essential Reading : Answer Thy Founding Fathers
Copyright : Anwaar Hussain
Email ; eagleeye@emirates.net.ae
On 20th January 2005 the President of United states of America, in his inaugural address, spoke to his people and the world. He said;
"Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world."...“At this second gathering, our duties are defined not by the words I use, but by the history we have seen together. For a half century, America defended our own freedom by standing watch on distant borders.”
That certainly is the truth and nothing but the truth. As the US President was speaking those words, the United States maintained well over 700 foreign military outposts spread over a total of 140 countries around the world, including Asia, Europe and Africa. At least 60 of these are considered permanent. More are coming up. 85% of all foreign troops present within the Middle East are American. This President is right indeed.
“Our country has accepted obligations that are difficult to fulfill, and would be dishonorable to abandon. Yet because we have acted in the great liberating tradition of this nation, tens of millions have achieved their freedom.”… "Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way."
America, without a doubt, has been very busy in the pursuit of this ideal in the period the President mentions. She is estimated to have gone to war in no less than 23, some say 67, places on the globe since WW II. In the great liberating tradition, the United States has, by some estimates, dropped over a hundred million tons of bombs on foreign lands over the last 50 years, bringing freedom to millions of innocent human beings from the clutches of their wretched existences. For some reason, not necessarily oily ones, the Iraqis have been favorite candidates of this great liberating tradition. The benevolent sequence of bombs-sanctions-bombs has, thus, brought an enduring freedom to just about 1.5 million Iraqis, around 50% of whom were Iraqi children less than 5 years old. This President is right indeed.
To make this freedom a permanent success story, 2500 tons of depleted uranium munitions is reported to have been fired upon these Iraqis in 2004 alone. With a radio-active equivalent of thousands of Nagasaki bombs, and a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the Iraqis are finally assured of an everlasting freedom. The great liberating tradition will live on eternally in generation after generation of deformed Iraqis. The world in general, and the Iraqis in particular, should be grateful to the Americans for helping them find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way. This President is right indeed.
When this President says "So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.” and that "The rulers of outlaw regimes can know that we still believe as Abraham Lincoln did: 'Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it'." there is no cause to disbelieve him. For in the pursuit of this noble ideal, the United States of America befriended some of the world's most fatherly tyrants, torturers, killers, dictators and crooks. To seek and support the growth of democratic movements, America propped up, aided, sustained and rewarded handsomely the most stinking of the rogues the world over. As America did it for the brotherhood of mankind, and with its nose pinched, this President is right indeed.
Here is a small list of rulers of outlaw regimes, with some omissions, of those who denied freedom to others and, thus, deserved it not for themselves;
General Sani Abacha of Nigeria, Idi Amin of Uganda, Colonel Hugo Banzer of Bolivia, Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, P.W. Botha of South Africa, General Humberto Brancoof Brazil, Raoul Cedras, Francois Duvalier and Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti, Vinicio Cerezo of Guatemala, Chiang Kai-Shek of Taiwan, Roberto Suazo Cordova of Honduras, Alfredo Christiani and General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez of El Salvador, Ngo Dihn Diemof Vietnam, General Samuel Doe of Liberia, King Fahd bin'Abdul-'Aziz of Saudi Arabia, General Francisco Franco of Spain, Hassan II of Morocco, Ferdinand Marcos of Philippines, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, General Manuel Noriega of Panama, Turgut Ozal of Turkey, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran, George Papadopoulos of Greece, General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Pol Pot of Cambodia, General Zia Ul-Haq of Pakistan of Pakistan, Hale Salassie of Ethiopia, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, Anastasio Somoza Jr. and Anastasio Somoza Sr. of Nicaragua, General suharto of Indonesia, General Jorge Rafael Videla of Argentina and, hold your breaths, Saddam Hussain of Iraq.
So when this President says, “all who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you”, this President is right indeed.
This President says, “America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way.” Yet a huge number of Americans believes that the second coming of this President himself was through rigged elections. As this President, however, has never told a lie in his whole life, this President is right indeed.
When this President says, “that edifice of character is built in families, supported by communities with standards, and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Koran, and the varied faiths of our people.” he is to be believed. He indeed is a very religious man and not very long back made his troops swear on a holy book before they entered Fallujah with guns blazing and laid waste to all life forms. That book contained the following passage;
I Samuel 15:3, "Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath; spare him not, nor covet any thing that is his; but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."
So this President is right indeed.
When this President says, “in the long run, there is no justice without freedom, and there can be no human rights without human liberty.” he is to be believed again. The post haste shredding of the Bill of rights, that most hallowed of the US Constitution’s canons, not withstanding. When the world in general, and the Americans in particular, hear him say, “America has need of idealism and courage, because we have essential work at home - the unfinished work of American freedom” they needlessly allow cold shards of chill to shoot up their collective spine. For he soon afterwards assures, “in a world moving toward liberty, we are determined to show the meaning and promise of liberty.” The chance of a universal Patriot Act being rammed down the combined throat of the whole world not withstanding, this President is right indeed.
When this President says, “we do not accept the existence of permanent tyranny because we do not accept the possibility of permanent slavery. Liberty will come to those who love it.” he is to be believed again. For Pol Pot, that great humanitarian, when asked whether he wanted to apologize for the suffering he caused, too said, “No. ... I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country." Similarly, another great leader, General Augusto Pinochet, said, “I would like to be remembered as a man who served his country, who served Chile throughout his entire life on this earth and what he did was always done thinking about the welfare of Chile." As both these outstanding philanthropic leaders of the last century have remained America’s great friends, this President is right indeed.
Therefore, when the world says that the Neocons’ bandwagon of freedom plows over the bones of the dead, the world knows not. And when the world says that the deafening chorus of his sycophantic team is nothing but the howling of a wolf pack, the world is not tuned in to hear the right notes. Hence, when this president says that the world in general, and the Muslims in particular, hate American values, he is to be believed. For the gigantic truths of almost mythical proportions that this President has so far told, it seems this President is right indeed.
When Hermann Goering said, “Naturally, the common people don't want war.....voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” Hermann Goering knew not. For if he knew better, every one would be living in one huge universal Reich by now.
But when this President says, “My most solemn duty is to protect this nation and its people against further attacks and emerging threats.” he is to be believed, Goering tactics be damned. For his unmatchable past record of telling the truth, and nothing but the truth, there is every reason to believe that this President is right indeed.
Essential Reading : Answer Thy Founding Fathers
Copyright : Anwaar Hussain
Email ; eagleeye@emirates.net.ae