Vorsprung
War Child
Forigive me for not recalling the exact quote but this is an excerpt of what president bush stated today to justify an attack on Iraq.
?It?s long been proven that iraq supports and has close connections with terrorist organizations and that there are Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq?
Now this kind of propaganda makes me sick? Why? Well, because to everyone who doesn?t listen carefully this quote suggests that Iraq and Al qaeda are connected and that they support each other. Obviously this is also why the last part of the quote was added to the speech. To appeal to the fear of Al Qaeda amongst american and other western citizens.
Now why does this make me sick? Because it is highly improbable that they are connected and it?s even more improbable that they support each other. Al qaeda is a fundamentalist muslim organization. Iraq is a secular state (with loads of muslims). Mr. Osama bin Laden himself thinks Saddam is a bad muslim and to him that?s about the worst thing you can be. On the other hand Saddam hates fundamentalists (remember the wars against fundamentalist iran and the internal civil war against fundamentalist shiites). So Saddam may an asshole, but Osama would agree with you?? Now why the fuck does Mr Bush makes makes such a propagandistic statement and deliberately misleads the uncareful listening public. I know war is propaganda and you can?t trust any statement from either side, but as a democratic head of state deliberately misleading the public of whom many voted for you (and he needed every vote) just doesn?t feel right, to say the least.
By the way: There are also Al Qaeda terrorists in The Netherlands , Germany, United Kingdom and the USA, just to name a few??.or should we bomb them too because of that??
?It?s long been proven that iraq supports and has close connections with terrorist organizations and that there are Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq?
Now this kind of propaganda makes me sick? Why? Well, because to everyone who doesn?t listen carefully this quote suggests that Iraq and Al qaeda are connected and that they support each other. Obviously this is also why the last part of the quote was added to the speech. To appeal to the fear of Al Qaeda amongst american and other western citizens.
Now why does this make me sick? Because it is highly improbable that they are connected and it?s even more improbable that they support each other. Al qaeda is a fundamentalist muslim organization. Iraq is a secular state (with loads of muslims). Mr. Osama bin Laden himself thinks Saddam is a bad muslim and to him that?s about the worst thing you can be. On the other hand Saddam hates fundamentalists (remember the wars against fundamentalist iran and the internal civil war against fundamentalist shiites). So Saddam may an asshole, but Osama would agree with you?? Now why the fuck does Mr Bush makes makes such a propagandistic statement and deliberately misleads the uncareful listening public. I know war is propaganda and you can?t trust any statement from either side, but as a democratic head of state deliberately misleading the public of whom many voted for you (and he needed every vote) just doesn?t feel right, to say the least.
By the way: There are also Al Qaeda terrorists in The Netherlands , Germany, United Kingdom and the USA, just to name a few??.or should we bomb them too because of that??