Thank you, Glenn Greenwald for bringing this change in

how everyone in Bush administration refers to the enemy in

Iraq. It is especially alarming to see military and

NYT pick up on the same thing. Thank goodness for unfettered

local correspondents on the ground and for sources like

MSN which reports on same date of how V.P. Cheney has

operated to influence terrible policies of Bush Admin.

I have a greatgrandfather who fought in Civil War from

Michigan and a Chilton ancester who came to NY in 1774

and left for Canada because he was a loyalist. I think

if any of these ancestors could have looked ahead they

would be pleased that I am able to read Mr. Greenwald

and there is such a on-line medium as Salon.

He is personally proud of his role, as a KGB and Soviet army trained terrorist. He is personally proud of his role in the Zambian actions of 1974 where seemingly a pogrom of sorts against about 12,000 non communist black Muslims was executed. The 'fascists' as you call them, since this is Salon and anyone to the right of Emma Goldman is a fascist, were fighting an insurgency. Now one can complain that they should have allowed blacks and whites to be murdered in the name of the Marxist Freedom loving people's revolution but that's not what countries do. Now to the specifics, those insurgents were in fact communists, not rhetorically. Maybe you forget that Cuba sent thousands of troops to Angola, Zambia, Mozambique and SW Africa? These are not pretend communist armies nor are they rag tag bunches of street kids. So, call the people they're shooting at 'fascists' that's fine. It says a lot more about you than it does about history reality or the truth.

Tell me are the people in Darfur opposed to the janjanweed fascists too? After all Khartoum has about 4-5000 Chinese army troops in place bolstering their 'actions' against the 'rebels' in the south. Why can they just be 'liberated'?

The battle for Iraqi hearts and minds was lost three years ago, majority opinion among all kinds of Iraqi Arabs has been getting more Anti-American every year, as measured by the ABC News/USA Today/BBC/ARD polls, and the surveys by the Universities of Maryland and Michigan. Over 90% of Iraq is Arab. Two frequent war crimes that enrage the Iraqis are the practice of contractor convoys shooting at any Iraqi vehicle that comes near them and the leveling of an entire city block with rockets after a sniper fires at a helicopter. Even with years of propaganda billboards, paid items in the Iraqi press and closing down every broadcaster or newspaper that dares to criticize the occupation, the hatred of the occupation grows.

Now even the bomb attacks from the Takfiri Salafists are blamed on the Americans, but most Americans are ignorant of any event

in Iraq not covered by embedded reporters relaying the official military version of the truth. Of course the military PAO's and the embedded press can always find a few friendly-seeming Iraqis to qoute. As experience has already shown, many of these charming smilers plant IEDs when they think the Americans are't looking. I don't blame the troops for any of this. It wasn't their idea to ignore Iraqi safety. The rules of engagement are set in Washington, DC and Blackwater corporate HQ.

For over 50 years now he's been "winning all the battles" but "losing all the wars" - and he still hasn't figured out why.

The House of Representatives voted 411-2 for a resolution which stated Iran "has aggressively pursued a clandestine effort to arm itself with nuclear weapons". Now if Bush bombs Iran and we later learn they actually were not trying to make nukes, we will all hear "But everyone thought they were making nukes!"

Two people voted against the House resolution, Kucinich and Ron Paul.

I could have sworn that the Democrats made some gains in the 2006 election cycle. I guess not.

much more at:

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/06/
empire-of-clowns-continues-on-its.

The problem is, North Korea's Kim Jong-il, China's Hu Jintao and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah are in positions 2, 6 and 7 respectively.

http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_01-22-2006/Dictators

So why aren't we liberating North Korea, China and Saudi Arabia? It can't be because most of the Al-Qaeda 9/11 bombers did not come from those countries, because as everyone knows, they did. (Hint: Saudi Arabia).

Must be some other reason.

Hmmm . . .

I went to the 1980 Olympic games despite the US State departments personal face time interview to convince me not to go. I found a few things. One, Russian people were generally nice but economically miserable. And two, your 'successes' were imploding and even 11 years before the collapse of the 3CP it was obvious to the people who lived there it was only a matter of time, that they themselves would experience the end of the regime. The fact that the 3CP and its allies desperately pursued a program of proxy wars in Africa and west Asia from 1979 on which all ended in nothing only underlines the patent silliness of anyone's position that it was a 'success'. It also underlines how far they were off the mark at truly understanding what makes Africa tick. It's not revolutionary liberation politics, it's money.

You guys really need some new material from whomever is feeding it to you.

You can't fight a brand. A brand doesn't exist. It only appears to exist. Like 'Democracy' or 'Middle America'. So in the end it really doesn't matter what you call them. Call them the Laplander Liberation Front if you like. Call them the pissed off Arabs and Persians who don't presently own a camcorder to show us something they've blow up or someone they've beheaded. It matter little, a brand is about brand affinity. If 9 guys at the carwash want to mount an insurgency and call themselves al Qaeda of the Brushless Suds bin al Quds that's fine. You slap the brand on it and do whatever it is you do.

Unlike RealName would like to fantasize, the South African Nationalist regime was rather commonly categorized by both South African and international scholars as fascist. That's not some retro title given by hyper-sensitive lefties.

And yes, all the troubles and insurgencies and freedom struggles would have been averted had not the racist nationalist (i.e., fascist) government of South Africa simply done the right thing and finally become a legitimate democracy, as the United States did in the late 1960s by forcing the Southern US to obey the Constitution and act democratically.

No insurgents would have had to fight against South African fascist oppression, no one would have had to fight off the South Africans' bloody invasions, no one would have had to turn to guerrilla movements or seek supplies, support or funding from Soviet-linked nations.

There certainly were plenty of large scale, peaceful movements begging for racial equality and democracy in South Africa, for both Africans, "Indians," and Coloureds, but nope, the fascists bet on stamping them out instead.

Had South African and Rhodesian fascists simply did the right thing and become decent and democratic nations, generations of savage slaughter, fighting, and suffering could have been avoided.

Had South Africa not attempted to hold onto South West Africa, the SWAPO wouldn't have formed to fight them out, nor would South Africa have invaded Angola to attempt to destroy their independence, and Cuba wouldn't have had to back them up.

And my god, how much better off Zimbabwe would have been had they not had to be formed from another guerrilla movement. Imagine how much better off they would have been had Rhodesia peaceably transited to democracy instead of viciously fighting to maintain yet another colonial holdout, now burdened as they are with the maniacally decaying Mugabe, whom we can only hope will succumb to the years soon.

If people looking at the ultra right wing racist nationalism of 1950s South Africa, with totalitarianism for everyone but a tiny group of white businessmen and parliamentarianis, and scoff that sane people would term such a regime "fascist," well, you have at it.

But the entire world outside the Reaganite cretins and the few remaining World Anti-Communist League nuts recognizes Nelson Mandela as a hero, and the apartheid racists as scoundrels.