|
Comment on this article |
Email this Article
|
|
Announcement :: Media |
|
An English Lesson For Our news media |
Current rating: 0 |
by Erica Verillo
(No verified email address) |
16 May 2004
|
|
forcing a prisoner into "Having sex" is known as "rape." Systematic beatings are called "torture." Excesses that lead to death are called "murder." |
THE BUSH administration seems to have a serious problem with reality.
The most recent reality challenge is the policy of torture in both Iraq and Afghanistan and guantanamo, which the administration is frantically redefining as "abuse," "excesses," and "humiliation." We even have Secretary Rumsfeld describing footage of several American soldiers "having sex" with a female Iraqi prisoner. Let's have a little plain English here. "Having sex" with a prisoner is known as "rape." Systematic beatings are called "torture." Excesses that lead to death are called "murder." The hundreds of men, women and children in mass graves in Fallujah are the product of a "massacre." Taken together, all of these add up to "atrocities."
The dissemination of "incomplete information" from "imperfect intelligence" is called "lies." The billions of dollars that Halliburton and Bechtel have reaped in profits are called "war profiteering." The invasion of Iraq is called "illegal." The destruction of America's international standing is called "permanent." And Texaco/Phillips's high bid for Iraqi oil is called "why we are in Iraq."
ERICA VERRILLO Williamsburg [Bill: One comment: High oil prices are not good for oil companies. In fact, the current high oil prices are the result of the invasion of Iraq disrupting the ability of oil companies to extract Iraqi oil.
What is profitable for oil companies is buying oil cheap and selling it high. Current commodity prices reflect buying oil high and selling it marginally higher. At some point, high prices begin to curb demand, causing oil companies to reduce their margins. This is the exact opposite of the what the Jews told the oil companies when they pitched this war.
I interrogated Congressman Wynn on this a few years ago. He is not the brightest man, but he told me that the oil in Iraq would be a cash windfall for the United States, which is why we had to go there to steal it. He also appeared on stage with Zionist groups at a Jew rally in DC that year. He was the only black Congressman to turn against Cynthia McKinney. |
This work is in the public domain |
