No Falluja Child Left Behind? – Well Perhaps One!
Next week sees the first anniversary of—appropriately enough—April Fool’s Day, 2004, when President George W. Bush signed the No Falluja Child Left Behind Act (NFCLB).
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The controversial legislation—though far from perfect and despite misgivings over some aspects of the law—was filled with gobs of draconic measures designed specifically to make the “American People” believe total retribution was being exacted from troublesome residents of the Iraqi city of Falluja.
Where on the day before, March 31, 2004, four unarmed peace-loving American nuns in traditional garb and in unarmed and clearly-marked Red Cross vans carrying badly-needed medical supplies, Bibles written in large-type Arabic (and Arabic Braille) and untainted fresh water were dragged from their vehicles, tortured, mangled, shot, raped, photographed and incinerated by an enraged mob of non-Christians, before being strung-up from the same Euphrates River bridge traditionally used since “bridge-stringing-ups” began in what was then Mesopotamia 7,000 years ago.
The reaction from right-wing U.S. columnists was inevitable, sudden and unprecedented. Using excerpts from the Bible and/or “Senator Joe McCarthy’s Collected 1950-54 Drunken Ramblings” to score points they urged America’s leaders to swiftly and conclusively show all non-Christians around the world—especially those living inside the contiguous United States—that abusing and killing unarmed peace-loving bible-bearing nuns on missions of mercy would not be tolerated.
Trapped in this passionate national desire for vengeance the few remaining liberal U.S. columnists still employed at the time by mainstream media outlets continued to remain silent for fear of losing their jobs and jeopardising even their token appearances on Sunday morning talk shows to get paid for being brutally-mocked by right-wing columnists.
As history will attest, the No Falluja Child Left Behind Act became law within hours. And the first almost-equally-savage Little Big Horn-style onslaught to crush the city and all its inhabitants was halted only when the Marine commander in charge got a call from his 11-year-old daughter in Minneapolis telling him the kids in her school might kick her off the cheerleading team if he went ahead and followed Pentagon orders signed-off by suddenly-nice-guy World Bank Chairman nominee, Paul Wolfowitz..
However, hours after the Minneapolis Cheerleading Championship Finals, on June 25, 2004, the jig was finally up and the entire weight of the U.S. armed forces was unleashed on a scale not seen since Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Falluja and most people inside Falluja became “toast.”
Fortunately for history—if not for the United States and the majority of “American People” who thought the matter was thereby settled—a single report appeared in the Italian daily newspaper “Il Manifesto” under the by-line of a certain Giuliana Sgrena**. Strenuously contesting the “American” view of what went on in Falluja with not a single cameraman or journalist allowed to record it. She described in vivid detail how the pulverisation of Falluja amounted to “War Crimes” carried-out using, among other things, “napalm, mustard gas, and nerve gas.”
Slowly too, doubts started to surface about the “mission of mercy” allegedly in progress when the mob dragged the unarmed peace-loving American nuns carrying badly-needed medical supplies, Bibles written in large-type Arabic (and Braille) and untainted fresh water from their unarmed and clearly-marked Red Cross vans.
http://www.asticles.com/asticles/nofalluja.htm
Next week sees the first anniversary of—appropriately enough—April Fool’s Day, 2004, when President George W. Bush signed the No Falluja Child Left Behind Act (NFCLB).
--------------------------------------------------------
The controversial legislation—though far from perfect and despite misgivings over some aspects of the law—was filled with gobs of draconic measures designed specifically to make the “American People” believe total retribution was being exacted from troublesome residents of the Iraqi city of Falluja.
Where on the day before, March 31, 2004, four unarmed peace-loving American nuns in traditional garb and in unarmed and clearly-marked Red Cross vans carrying badly-needed medical supplies, Bibles written in large-type Arabic (and Arabic Braille) and untainted fresh water were dragged from their vehicles, tortured, mangled, shot, raped, photographed and incinerated by an enraged mob of non-Christians, before being strung-up from the same Euphrates River bridge traditionally used since “bridge-stringing-ups” began in what was then Mesopotamia 7,000 years ago.
The reaction from right-wing U.S. columnists was inevitable, sudden and unprecedented. Using excerpts from the Bible and/or “Senator Joe McCarthy’s Collected 1950-54 Drunken Ramblings” to score points they urged America’s leaders to swiftly and conclusively show all non-Christians around the world—especially those living inside the contiguous United States—that abusing and killing unarmed peace-loving bible-bearing nuns on missions of mercy would not be tolerated.
Trapped in this passionate national desire for vengeance the few remaining liberal U.S. columnists still employed at the time by mainstream media outlets continued to remain silent for fear of losing their jobs and jeopardising even their token appearances on Sunday morning talk shows to get paid for being brutally-mocked by right-wing columnists.
As history will attest, the No Falluja Child Left Behind Act became law within hours. And the first almost-equally-savage Little Big Horn-style onslaught to crush the city and all its inhabitants was halted only when the Marine commander in charge got a call from his 11-year-old daughter in Minneapolis telling him the kids in her school might kick her off the cheerleading team if he went ahead and followed Pentagon orders signed-off by suddenly-nice-guy World Bank Chairman nominee, Paul Wolfowitz..
However, hours after the Minneapolis Cheerleading Championship Finals, on June 25, 2004, the jig was finally up and the entire weight of the U.S. armed forces was unleashed on a scale not seen since Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Falluja and most people inside Falluja became “toast.”
Fortunately for history—if not for the United States and the majority of “American People” who thought the matter was thereby settled—a single report appeared in the Italian daily newspaper “Il Manifesto” under the by-line of a certain Giuliana Sgrena**. Strenuously contesting the “American” view of what went on in Falluja with not a single cameraman or journalist allowed to record it. She described in vivid detail how the pulverisation of Falluja amounted to “War Crimes” carried-out using, among other things, “napalm, mustard gas, and nerve gas.”
Slowly too, doubts started to surface about the “mission of mercy” allegedly in progress when the mob dragged the unarmed peace-loving American nuns carrying badly-needed medical supplies, Bibles written in large-type Arabic (and Braille) and untainted fresh water from their unarmed and clearly-marked Red Cross vans.
http://www.asticles.com/asticles/nofalluja.htm
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