Now The Halabja Show

Western leaders and in house corporate and subservient media, continue to line up one show after another. Soon after the death of Serbian nationalist hero Slobodan Miloevic’s death in...

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THE GREAT WESTERN DEMNOLOGY CIRCUS; NOW THE HALABJA SHOW 

Western leaders and in house corporate and subservient media, continue to line up one show after another. Soon after the death of Serbian nationalist hero Slobodan Miloevic’s death in western custody, which ended his trial ( the Hague tribunal did not even allow him to be treated in Moscow ), another third world leader has been put on trial ,Charles Taylor of Liberia . Just a little sideshow.

However, at Anglo-Saxon request, the perennial popular show with the West, Saddam Hussein's trial, is back again, this episode covers gassing of Kurds at Halabja. After all West has expanded so much effort and money on his demonization to cloak its policies. Make an example of all those who dare oppose US led Western hegemony!  

In history, this began as soon as the West crossed the Turkish straits, when Mithradates VI of Pontus in Asia was demonized for standing up to Rome. In that conflict 2 millennia ago , the power breaking all the rules was the Roman empire, who  ruthlessly exploited and taxed their subjects in Asia, a complaint similar to what the Arabs have about the exploitation of their oil resources, with the connivance of the client rulers.

Of course, there are no trials of US leadership and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in spite of illegal invasion of Iraq, proven crimes and violation of almost all international conventions and treaties and even laws at home.

'There were thousands of tactical mistakes' coyly confessed the US face of democracy crusader , Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice , some of which were rightly described by others as strategic blunders. When Pentagon boss Donald Rumsfeld snarled witheringly "I don't know what she was talking about, to be perfectly honest," she mumbled, "I guess I shouldn't use figures of speech." 

Robert Dreyfuss, an expert on Middle East, recently described Condi as a leading know-nothing on Iraq – and said that it was her utter ignorance of the Middle East as national security adviser through 2004 that allowed the cabal led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld to get away with so much. It is and, until the US withdrawal from Iraq, the government will remain a collection of charlatans and quislings, leavened with separatist warlords such as the Barzanis and Talabanis of Kurdistan and Abdel Aziz al-Hakim of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). 

Incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari, who has been nominated for the post by members of his alliance in the Parliament, elected 4 months ago, refused to withdraw, even after requests in person in Baghdad by Ms Rice and British Foreign Minister Jack Straw to make way for a pro-US candidate. Was not sovereignty transferred to Iraq long time ago!  

After Bush's ordering  of telephone surveillance without legal sanction , Court documents released this week show that I. Lewis ''Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff for Dick Cheney, testified that both Cheney and President Bush authorized him to leak classified intelligence about Iraq in July 2003. Libby had outed information to the media on the covert CIA officer wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to punish him and to warn other whistle blowers .Ambassador Wilson had exposed the administration's claims that Saddam Hussein was getting Uranium cake for his nuclear program from Niger.

Boston Globe commented "the next thing you know, President Bush will channel Richard Nixon to say, ''I am not a crook." The clock has started on whether Bush will make this declaration.

There is panic in USA about what to do with the mess on its hands in Iraq and the unraveling of the credibility of the Bush Administration. These would adversely affect fortunes of the ruling Republican party in November elections.

Another shocker now. Seymour Hersh has just disclosed that the Administration has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack including use of tactical nuclear weapons. Perhaps to also drown the rising whispers of censoring and even impeaching the President.

Therefore, the Great Western Circus must produce newer or repeat popular shows on third world leaders to divert attention from failures abroad and at home, where popularity of Bush and Blair remains low.