Annals of Liberation: Bush Surge Accelerates Assault on Iraq Academics

Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque

One of the most curious, and ominous, aspects of life in the Bush gang's Babylonian satrapy has been the continual, unrelenting and clearly deliberate targeting of Iraq's academics, intellectuals, technicians – basically, anyone who might be capable of independent thought and action, transcending the sectarian, ethnic and tribal cliques empowered by Bush's aggression, and outside the control of the occupiers and their sycophants as well. The sectarians, such as the Shiite death squads enthroned by Bush, want to get rid of the intelligentsia because they stand in the way of the fundamentalists' desire to impose religious obscurantism on Iraqi society....

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