Sudan: America's Despicable Moral Authority
- by Erik Fortman -
(Posted here by Wes Penre for Illuminati News, July 30, 2004)
Why
did we go to war with Iraq? This author is still not clear on that fact.
Weapons of Mass Destruction were the first reason given. Not simply WMDs -
Americans were in imminent danger of being killed by Saddam Hussein's
arsenal! That was proven to be imminently false, and certainly falsified.
The fallback for the neo-conservative sheeple braying the Republicans'
Fascist/Socialist cattle call was that Saddam had been involved with
terrorists. Again, not even terrorists - Hussein was a string-puller behind
the September 11th attacks. And, again, this was proven false.
Republicans are holding their ground at 'Hussein had a paper trail that led
to key al-Qaeda leaders.' What do they cite as evidence? The C.I.A. told
them so. This is the same C.I.A. that we all now know flubbed their
intelligence duties so badly that thousands of Americans have died. Tenet
has resigned in disgrace. Mentionable is that Tenet was voted in as the
department's Director unanimously.
One decent issue that has been
bandied about lightly is another reason for war with Iraq. It is this. We
attacked the Hussein regime because they broke U.N. Treaties. Of course,
Republicans who are bold enough to say this do so at their own risk. It is
supposed to be the Repubs that are against the United Nations. The
Democrats, conversely, love the U.N., but don't think breaking the world
body's resolutions is reason enough for war. Oh, wait, it was good enough.
The Democrats joined Republicans in voting for the war. It is only now that
the Dems are against it. Ditto for the Patriot Act. Even with all the
problems with the broken U.N. resolution theory, it is the only theory that
is provable.
All that is a prologue for my
analysis of Sudan, and why we are not attacking that country. Because,
another oft-heard argument in favor of Operation Iraqi Freedom is this:
Saddam Hussein was a human rights abuser. Forget that U.S.-sponsored U.N.
sanctions killed half a million people, many more than Hussein ever thought
to
kill; forget that the U.S. promised the Kurds protection during Gulf War I
if they rose up against Saddam, and then we left them to the slaughter;
forget that Communist China has been afforded a special seat in the world
council despite its abhorrent practices; and forget the fact that the U.S.
is guilty of human rights abuses against its own citizens, sponsors
executions, and endorses infanticide. If we forget this, then Saddam was
clearly a tyrant. However, on this basis, America now must go into at least
half the countries on the planet to stop exploitations. Who chooses which
violation to confront first? What group decides which tyrant is the worst,
and the second-worst, and on down the line as America marches into every
country that commits atrocities? If the U.S. is to go against the Founder's
views against entangling treaties, then someone should decide who is the
worst, and we should attack them. There seems no better use of moral
authority than in the Sudan.
Unfortunately, it is the Globalists
that are the decision makers. These same globalists destroyed Hitler, and
then let Stalin thrive. Fox News pushed for war, and continues to be a
defense mechanism for the Neo-con administration. Yet, they reported that
the U.N. and the E.U. both admit intense problems in the Darfur region of
Sudan. From Fox News, July 26, 2004: "EU ministers said they were 'alarmed
at reports of massive human rights violations' perpetrated by Arab
militants, 'including systematic rape of women.'"
What are we waiting for,
Republicans. You suddenly oozed concern for your fellow man, Iraqis, yet
turn your back on the rape and torture of whole populations. The U.N.
reports that there have been over 50,000 deaths (same amount of Americans
killed in Vietnam) and more than a million refugees. The Muslim militia,
Janjaweed, has been doing this for 15 months! Where has our Christian moral
authority got to?
So, for any and all who claim that
my generation - volunteer soldiers, admittedly - is being killed to help
people, I vehemently refute. Almost 1,000 Americans have died as of July
2004. What is worse, our boys our being turned into torturers themselves. If
we are in Iraq to stop a paradigm of terror and persecution, how is it that
we now condone detentions without trials? How do we absolve ourselves from
our own persecutions? Abu Ghraib is only the tip of the American-torture
iceberg. Americans have raped, tortured, beaten, humiliated, sexually
molested, and subjugated Iraqis without a trial. This abuse was condoned by
the top-brass inside the Pentagon. This is OK, because the abused might
be terrorists. Contrarily, many researchers claim that the men of Abu Ghraib
were only regular criminals, with no information to give us.
There is another facet to the
Sudanese puzzle that is not being reported by mainstream news. Again, I
remind you that a reason for war with Iraq is purportedly because Saddam had
ties to terrorists. Even mouthpieces like Sean Hannity admit that there is
no direct tie to bin Laden. That is not the case in the Sudan. The Sudan was
the second home of none other than the man behind 9-11, Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden became a detriment to
Saudi Arabia. Sudan welcomed him in 1991. When he became the same kind of
detriment to Sudan in 1996, they offered him up to the Saudis, who declined.
He was then offered to Clinton. We declined. He was exiled to Afghanistan,
yet his militant brand of Islamicism had taken root. It is the teachings of
bin Laden that has led to the riotous attacks against blacks in Darfur. And,
did they actually expel bin Laden, or was he relocated to perform an agenda.
The Washington Post on May 1, 2001, stated, "Sudan continued to be used as a
safe haven by members of various groups, including associates of bin Laden's
al-Qaeda organization." So, there is an erroneous paper trail from Hussein
to one member of al-Qaeda. Yet, as recently as May, 2001 al-Qaeda had a base
of operations in Sudan. President George W. Bush promised to rout out the
terrorists, wherever they hid. Yet, here we are expending precious military
resources in Iraq, after Hussein has been ousted. The terrorists in Sudan
aren't even hiding; they are acting with brazen zealousness.
To top off the entire affair, the
U.S. and U.N. went to the country to inspect it, much like we did in Iraq.
Yet, the Sudanese government staged fake refugee camps, and the blacks were
threatened if they talked to humanitarian workers. So, just as Hussein was
accused of trying to dupe us, so too is Sudan attempting sleight-of-hand
conning. Only, in this grift the prize is human life.
Finally, we end back at the
beginning. If we are honest, we must all admit that we went into Iraq
because we were told that they had weapons of mass destruction. Again, this
has not been proven. The Center for Nonproliferation Studies has a far
different picture to paint of the Sudan. CNS says that there is no confirmed
evidence that the country has biological or ballistics missile capabilities.
Yet, the truth is mounting that Sudan is a 'transshipment point for nuclear
smuggling,' and 'have acquired and used chemical weapons.'
The Sudanese government has
repeatedly refused to acknowledge U.N. or U.S. authority to stop human
rights
violations. Fair enough. But, what of the African population. The New
York Sun reports. While the rebels fighting Osama's militants look like a
typical, third-world militia, they are anything but. "The leadership is a
group of thoughtful members of western Sudan's intellectual community -
professors, engineers, and other professionals who have become full-time
soldiers to protect their people from genocide." They begged for the Sun
interview. This allowed them to personally beseech, specifically, America to
help them. They are being ignored.
Whether or not any of the reasons
for Gulf War II are right or wrong, it is obvious that our politicians and
fellow citizens are not willing to apply their theories universally. Saddam
has no weapons, Sudan does. Saddam may have had business ties to al-Qaeda,
who have a home in Sudan. Saddam broke U.N. resolutions, as has Sudan.
Finally, Saddam persecuted political dissidents. In Sudan, you are raped and
killed for being black.
This is the moral authority on
which the United States of America rests its head.
Erik Fortman is a writer and
musician from Texas. Comments welcomed at
erikfortman@yahoo.com,
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First published at
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