Bush's 'Big Kill': Bartering Innocent Lives for PR Troph

Cheryl Seal
Bush's 'Big Kill': Bartering Innocent Lives for PR Troph
Tue Jan 17, 2006 13:17
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By Cheryl Seal

Pakistan officials now say that Ayman al-Zawahri, an Al Qaeda top dog, was not even in the village of Damadula on the Pak-Afghan border when the US launched a devastating strike against the little town. The outrage in Pakistan is boiling. Although the US media is trying to downplay the rising tension, a major crisis in US-Pakistan relations is brewing. Another story left conveniently out of the US news of late is the strain on US-Pak relations that is already becoming acute, caused by Bush's failure to supply adequate aid to the Pakistan earthquake victims, who are now freezing to death by the hundreds weekly. Some observers say that the government of Bush's puppet rule Musharaff is in fact in serious danger of being overthrown.

But then, our mainstream media (with the exception of a few), has become disgusting in its efforts to shore up the sagging Bush administration. Nearly every talking head has used the same sick spin in the past few days: that the loss of innocent civilian lives would be somehow justifiable if Al-Zawahri had been killed along with the women and children who died! Thus the big focus is not on the hideous outrage of inhuman drones being used to rain down death on a poor village at the direction of Bush appointees sitting at the controls in comfy offices in D.C.. No, it is, "Can we use DNA to prove we actually "got" al-Zawahri! But then, the White House and media seemed more obsessed with finding out how news of the illegal wiretapping leaked to the public than they were with the crime of illegal wiretapping itself!

The unvarnished truth about the Damadula attack is that Bush needed a "big kill." A poll had been released just a few days earlier showing that his overall approval was in the toilet, with the only bright spot in his numbers being the continuing misguided perception by the US public that he is "making the US safer." So what better way to build on that bit of political capital than by announcing - like some big game hunter from colonial Africa - that he'd made a major kill. Al-Zawahri was to be his "terrorism-fighting trophy." As always, when political gains were to be made, the cost simply didn't matter to Bush. So what if a few "natives" were blown to bits or mangled?

Perhaps the most disgusting thing about the White House-media response to the Damadula tragedy is the implication behind it: that Pakistani villagers somehow don't really count. Afterall, if "using whatever means possible to kill terrorists plotting against the US" is to be used as Bush's key motivation and justification for all his actions, then why aren't drone bombing strikes being called in on towns in upstate Washington, Minnesota, or New York (all border states where terrorists have likely crossed at some time), or Trenton New Jersey (weren't many of the anthrax-laced envelopes traced to that area?). Why doesn't the Pentagon target some rec center, mosque, or YMCA in the US where an "Al Qaeda mastermind" was recently spotted, or whose phone records could be traced to the general area? But, of course, this would never happen in a million years.

So why is it justifiable in another country - an ally nation, no less? Because Bush & Co view the lives of poor Pakistani villagers as worthless - so what if ya kill a few dozen? This is the inhuman attitude that has driven racist dictators like Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin. But now now we have the US media actually ENDORSING the same attitude!

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