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A Cabal of Criminality
By Manuel Valenzuela
12/02/05 "ICH" -- -- The disaster in Iraq has continued to regress
with the same velocity and intensity as when it first started,
raging onwards in a classical resistance, guerilla-style form of
urban warfare that usually befalls occupying invaders of alien
lands, yet as 2005 ends and 2006 gets set to begin, in the minds of
millions of Americans finally out of the hypnotic, denial-laced
clouds of 9/11, the time has finally arrived to show ever-increasing
animosity to a war that was lost the moment the first American boots
entered Iraq. Nobody, after all, likes a loser, and nobody jumps on
the bandwagon of a so-called superpower nation being bled, of both
blood and treasure, by a resistance with one-billionth the financial
resources and military might – though possessing much more
intelligence and patience – of the nation it is slowly and
calculatingly hemorrhaging.
Iraq is now, and always has been, a quagmire that has turned into a
suffocating and inextricable tar pit for American forces, where the
inevitable defeat of George Bush’s policy combines with the greatest
strategic disaster in American history, where the total
miscalculation of war and mismanagement of peace has resulted in the
collapse of Middle East stability, making America and the world less
safe, not more, where wet dreams of imperial domination, fused with
delusions of grandeur have helped build a monolithic wall of bad
karma that will take decades to tear down.
Iraq, like Vietnam before it, has served to remind us that, like the
war on communism, the war on terror is but a charade, a fear
engendering escapade, designed to control populations and empower
the elite, unleashing fear onto the citizenry while delivering
enormous profit to the military-industrial complex. Using Arab men
as bogeymen, hidden in the shadows, without faces, countries and,
with the help of Hollywood and the corporate media, with a growing
brutal reputation, dark skinned Muslims replaced white Soviet Reds
as the new American enemy, the new cash cow granting the government
and military industrial complex a new generation of destructive war
from which to bleed the American taxpayer dry, providing
misallocation of resources to the former and enormous profit to the
latter.
What the Iraq/Bush war shows the world is how a Cabal of
Criminality, numbering less than a few hundred individuals, can
bamboozle a nation into a war whose ramifications on our future we
cannot yet fully comprehend. The Bush war, the single-greatest
blunder in America’s foreign policy history, was spawned by
greed-addicted corporatists and treasonous neoconartists,
presstitute lackeys and political hacks, placed in charge of US
foreign policy and the propaganda acting as corporate media, easily
in control of a nitwit, ignorant puppet, possessing his bully pulpit
from which to spew the fabrications and manipulations needed to con
America. Delusional, incompetent, dangerous and trapped in bubbles
of naked grandeur, expecting fictional flowers and candy to flow
from Iraqis expected to greet Americans as liberators, the Cabal of
Criminality had no qualms sacrificing thousands of American
soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens, for greed,
power, profit, wealth and ego.
Through lies, deceit, fear-mongering, immorality, chicanery and
criminality a group of a few hundred people led America into war,
using the new Pearl Harbor, 9/11, with its plethora of highly
charged emotions and fragile psyches, to launch a war they thought
would be only the first of many, using Iraq as a beachhead to invade
Iran and Syria. Suffocating inside the clouds of 9/11, blinded to
reality and captured by delusion, America’s normally stable
citizenry was mobilized to seek revenge through war, was conditioned
to hate through scapegoats, was silenced by fear and intimidation,
was brainwashed to blindly follow through incessant propaganda,
jingoism and Madison Avenue style marketing.
In short, Americans were used, enslaved to the dictates of power,
branded as sheeple, not people, our emotions of hatred, vengeance,
fear and justice used against us, making us impotent conduits of
crime and murder. Complicit we became in the delusional game played
by the Cabal of Criminality, where the death of 3000 people became
the key to unlocking the gates of war upon Mesopotamia. The plan had
been set in motion, the new Pearl Harbor was allowed to bear fruit,
the cataclysmic event needed to enrage the people and grease up the
machines of war would not be stopped.
With each passing year, with each passing month the Iraq/Bush war
has descended more and more into chaos, a battle defined by the
resistance, not the US army. Using the most sophisticated weaponry
money can buy, with the most modern technologies, possessing
incalculable financial resources, American forces find themselves
losing to an enemy that fights against occupation and for freedom.
The resistance is homegrown, composed of fathers and sons, daughters
and mothers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers and cousins, all
fighting an invading army they see as the catalyst of death, mass
murder, burnings, maimings, intolerable suffering and cruel and
inhumane collective punishment. The resistance has increased
exponentially – and will not diminish until American forces are
expelled – with every death, maiming, destroyed home, rape,
imprisonment, shooting and act of collective punishment upon the
Iraqi people, with every death of a son, father, mother or daughter.
America is the cause and the effect of the resistance, the reason
Iraqis fight, whether carrying AK-47’s or giving logistical support.
Whether planting improvised explosive devices or acting as eyes and
ears infiltrating the Green Zone, Iraqis see America as the enemy,
yet one more imperial invading army thinking itself blessed by
providence to claim the lands of the Fertile Crescent. A guerilla
army cannot function without the support of the citizenry, and
neither can the success the resistance is having against American
forces. With every Iraqi death a dozen more resistance fighters join
the battle, with every Iraqi death or American crime the hatred
grows and calls for vengeance beckon. Trapped inside a vicious cycle
of violence begetting violence, American forces have been their own
worst enemy. Each year the resistance grows stronger, more
sophisticated, more dangerous, learning, improving, evolving, and
becoming ever more destructive. America’s presence and prolonged
occupation of Iraq will only exacerbate an already volatile vortex
of violence.
Yet to the Cabal of Criminality lurking and slithering in the halls
of power the lives of thousands of America’s young mean not a thing.
Tens of thousands have returned maimed, burned or scarred not only
physically, but mentally as well, changed, altered, innocence lost,
wickedness spawned. Tens of thousands will forever linger in the
purgatory that their mind has become, lost among the ghosts of the
innocents they killed, maimed, raped or tortured, haunted by the
visions of death they saw and the realities of war they were forced
to endure, and confront. Burning inside their minds Hell has arisen,
echoing the screams of the suffering and the drips of the blood they
helped spill, hearing the cries of armless children, weeping widows
and fatherless daughters. Hell on Earth, after all, lies with the
demons of life lurking inside the crevices deep within the mind.
Trained to maim and kill without asking questions, robbed of their
ability to think independently, taught to never question authority,
always following orders, no matter how immoral or wicked the
assignment, these oftentimes young, impressionable, easily
conditioned soldiers are forced to confront the most evil endeavor
of man, that thing called war, through the prism of human
psychology, not of robotic understanding. The human animal becomes
unleashed in war, untangled from most precepts of humanity, devoid
of those virtues that contain us in peacetime. Raw emotion and
animalistic passion are resurrected with the smell of burned flesh,
the taste of blood, the adrenaline of self preservation. Quickly the
human mind is forced to make of the enemy a creation of subhuman
birth, transforming man and women into beast and monster, a perfect
way for the human mind to release the remaining morsels of morality
and accept crimes against fellow human beings.
The Cabal of Criminality has transformed American citizen soldiers
into conduits of human evil, importing into Iraq tyranny, American
style, replacing wickedness with wickedness, negative energy with
negative energy. Thousands of normal, beautiful and otherwise decent
human beings have been forced to commit heinous crimes against
Iraqis for nothing but lies, greed and criminality. They have been
forced to combat peoples fighting for freedom from occupation,
freedom from tyranny, freedom to live in security and happiness.
Fighting an entire population, killing over a hundred thousand
people, destroying homes, lives and futures, unleashing hatred and
animosity where none existed before, American forces have been
forced to confront and oftentimes displace their own morality,
replacing them with the principles of the Cabal of Criminality whose
unscrupulous pathology bulldozes over anything and everything
standing in their way, caring not an ounce for humanity, or for the
effects their actions will one day have on future generations of
Americans.
The ultimate victims of these principles, besides the Iraqi people,
are American soldiers who upon returning to the safe shores of the
United States find themselves transformed in mind and body, their
personalities affected by what they saw, what they inflicted and
were witness to. Many will return with the demons of war, of human
wickedness embedded, forced to relieve stresses seen and experienced
with lives that have been eroded by human violence. Tens of
thousands damaged physically, missing arms and legs, some burned and
scarred, others brain damaged beyond repair, yet it is those
psychologically maimed that will have to struggle through marriages
that no longer have meaning, through jobs that make no sense,
through the normalcy of life that no longer exists. Divorce,
unemployment, homelessness, addictions, abandonment, Hell on Earth,
nightmares and lives forever altered are the mementos for many
soldiers of the Iraq/Bush war, courtesy of the Cabal of Criminality.
The Cabal of Criminality and America
Through every lie, distortion, deception and crime that led America
to war a pillar of American greatness has been lost, slowly eroding
the foundations upon which a great nation once stood. A beacon of
hope and human rights for billions of human beings for decades, the
United States now has a sitting Vice President espousing torture,
rendition and the destruction of due process. For years portending
to fight the “Evil Empire’s” network of gulags, today America has
its own gulag network throughout the vast reaches of Earth,
torturing and murdering human beings, keeping hidden its atrocities,
its activities, its lies. Proclaiming the Bush war as a means of
cleansing Iraq of tyranny, America has nonetheless imported tyranny
under the rubric of new blood and methods. Torture, rape, false
imprisonment, white phosphorus, depleted uranium, collective
punishment, mass murder, assassinations, insecurity, suffering and
disappearances have become the hallmark of Iraq during American
occupation.
A nation once admired and adored, the light that attracted freedom
and democracy, has been extinguished in the minds of billions. The
hypocrisy of America’s foreign policy can be seen worldwide, even if
it still blinds hundreds of millions within its borders. Destroying
Iraq and its culture only to help rebuild it; supporting the
devastating apartheid and collective punishment of Palestinians by
Israel; maintaining in power corrupt kings and despots in the Middle
East, robbing hundreds of millions of the same freedom and democracy
proclaimed for Iraq; labeling as a threat and as dictator a
democratically elected leader in Venezuela when the last two
American presidential elections have been filled with fraud and
controversy, whose only crimes has been helping out the people of
his nation through oil revenues sought by American corporations;
calling as corrupt members of foreign governments and of
international organizations when America’s Congress and Bush’s
Administration is filled to the rafters with corruption and cronies
and the most unscrupulous politicians known to exist, transforming
America’s government into the bordello of the elite and the
whorehouse of the corporatist few.
America proclaims to stand with the world but in reality trounces
treaties and protocols and has become a rogue nation acting solely
for its own corporate interests. Where once America’s Presidents
were welcome to foreign lands with open arms, flowers and candy,
today only hatred and anger await George Bush, with streets filled
with protests and loathing, forcing him to travel in a vacuum,
surrounded by an army of armed bodyguards, made to confront the
animosity on the street of every country and city he visits, having
become the laughingstock of the public in the open and of
politicians in private.
The new America, born in sin and arrogance, delusional in Manifest
Destiny, bred in overabundant gluttony, consumerist and materialist,
fathered by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the Cabal of
Criminality, a country flocked by sheeple, ignorant and conditioned,
indifferent to a world growing up around it, living delusions of
empire and of omnipotence, building hatred against it and its
policies throughout the planet, slowly dumbing down its citizens,
losing its edge in the sciences and arts, producing a nation of
acquiescent automatons brainwashed to never question authority and
always faithfully follow the crimes of governance.
The new America would rather spend $500 billion a year on the
military industrial complex, and an additional $200-300 billion for
the Iraq/Bush war instead of on education, healthcare, Katrina,
homelessness, enlightenment, equality and infrastructure, in the
process condemning tomorrow’s adults to a nation without wisdom,
vision and equality. The new America is producer and consumer, from
cradle to grave, where slave wages abound for the working class and
tax breaks thrive for the wealthy, creating a growing gap between
haves and have nots, between the educated and the rest of us.
The new America is a nation never reared or disciplined, possessing
the attention span of ten second sound bites and the naiveté of
always placing blind faith in corrupt and incompetent leadership, a
land living for the present, not the future, forgetting lessons from
the past, its people programmed to seek the fictions, perfections
and fantasies of Hollywood and Madison Avenue, millions of its
citizens doped up on pharmaceutical drugs, depressed when reality
triumphs over fiction, when real life eclipses dumbed down fantasy.
America is a country lacking the wisdom of older civilizations that
comes with centuries of existence, having become the bully of the
world, a rogue nation ignorant of other lands and cultures,
possessing a government that acts on animal instinct, not reason,
ready at a moments notice to destroy the world’s great cultures,
with millions of its inhabitants conditioned from birth to the
commands of corporate television, becoming the twenty-first
century’s version of the “good Germans” of yesteryear, eager to
cheer upon the war crimes being committed in their name, ready to
celebrate the destruction of culture and the maiming of spirit,
marching in lock step to the tunes of their manipulated hatred and
thirst for dark-skinned blood.
America is a land where the corruption endemic in Washington is
easily forgotten, where complacency of convenience leads to
complicity of criminality, where the pilfering of so-called billions
of dollars in Iraqi reconstruction funds and misappropriation of
billions of dollars in Iraqi aid and oil revenues by Bush and Cheney
cronies and fraudsters is ignored, quickly forgotten by a populace
suddenly enthralled by the next adaptation of sensationalist and
mind numbing corporate media designed to distract and quickly make
forget.
The Cabal of Criminality is the epitome of an America decades in the
making, of a land no longer able to see the awesome spectacle of the
dawn of a new day, of a nation on the decline, steadily guiding
itself towards inevitable implosion. The Cabal of Criminality is the
epitome of gluttony, of arrogance, greed and the pursuit of the
Almighty Dollar, of crony capitalism and debauched democracy, of
absolute power corrupting absolutely, a representation of what we
have become, or of what we have allowed into our midst. The
degenerate landfill that Washington has become, full of
feces-saturated flies roaming atop governance, corruption having
become their sustenance, robbing the nation blind, bending over to
the sodomizing power of the corporate world, is at once both the
anomaly of honor and integrity and the putrid sewer rotting the
nation whole. This city, once thought the pinnacle of modern
civilization, has become the cesspool ecosystem for the species
called the Cabal of Criminality.
The Cabal of Criminality Exposed
The Cabal of Criminality has transformed the land of the free and
the home of the brave, helping degenerate it from sea to shining
sea, creating the mirror image of that which we detest the most,
smearing our name with the torture devices and procedures of Abu
Ghraib, the dehumanizing conditions at Guantanamo and the
clandestine crime committed in all of America’s newfound gulags.
They have shown the world America’s true colors of terrorism, from
chemical warfare and Agent Orange in Vietnam to the use of white
phosphorus and depleted uranium in Iraq to the sponsorship and
training of thieves, dictators and murderers now roaming the planet.
This is the same Cabal of Criminality, it must be recalled, that
supported Saddam Hussein in his massacres against Kurds, Shia and
during his chemical warfare campaign against Iran, using mostly
American made weapons. This is the same Cabal that once green
lighted the rise of autocratic dictators throughout the world,
severely damaging the cherished principles of human rights, freedom
and democracy they now hypocritically parade at every public
relations stunt. This is the same Cabal that supported Osama bin
Laden in Afghanistan, helping arm and financially assisting his
mujahedeen against the Soviets, calling them freedom fighters then
but terrorists now.
Knowing perfectly well that the Bush war is only creating thousands
more hatred-filled terrorists throughout the Muslim world, the Cabal
of Criminality nonetheless continues to destroy, massacre and bomb,
hoping enough enemies are created, and enough blowback boomerangs
back, to sustain a decades long excuse for perpetual war and thus,
perpetual profit, wealth and power. These individuals, a minute
minority of the American population, eagerly await the next attack
on American soil, willing to sacrifice innocent human beings in
furtherance of their sinister, nefarious goals. To them, the
American people are pawns, nothing short of collateral damage needed
to manipulate the emotions of the masses and maintain, and expand,
an immoral war without purpose, based on fictional charades and
clever marketing techniques borrowed from past criminal regimes.
The Cabal of Criminality have accelerated the arrival of fascism
onto our shores, mutating government with the tentacles of
corporatist power, embedding their miscreant hacks, cronies and
lackeys throughout once sacrosanct halls of power. They have
succeeded in saturating our television monitors with pure propaganda
and distraction-filled, dumbed-down programming, deploying their
presstitutes in the media to manipulate, control and condition the
people.
It is almost impossible to comprehend how a couple of hundred
miscreants could hijack America’s government, its media,
institutions and foreign policy, attaining in a few years, thanks to
the new Pearl Harbor, long held goals to launch human evil
throughout the globe. It is difficult to realize that a few hundred
human beings could deceive an entire nation of 300 million citizens,
using lies, manipulations and the powers of the corporate media to
march us straight into a condemned war from where no good outcome
can rise. A handful of criminals, thieves and murderers, thugs and
gangsters, greed-infested warmongers, have helped condemn America
and the world to years of insecurity and instability for what has
been done cannot soon be alleviated or forgotten.
Throughout the planet innocent people are dying every day thanks to
the workings of the Cabal of Criminality, whether by a suicide
bombing or by economic genocide or by market colonialism or by
state-sponsored terror. The policies of the Cabal affect all corners
of Earth, becoming a contagious virus in some nations and a death
sentence in others, whether under the guise of free trade,
neoliberalism or of fighting the fictional “war on terror.” To this
elite group it does not matter that Sub-Saharan Africans die by the
millions every year because of AIDS, or that billions living in the
Third World linger in perpetual poverty, destiny calling upon them
to be born and die in an Earthly Purgatory of suffering.
The Cabal of Criminality cares nothing for 45 million Americans
without healthcare, nor for the millions of socially engineered
children poor, undereducated and malnourished, sentenced to become
the next generation of slave labor, or the millions made homeless by
the evils of twenty-first century American capitalism. Returning
veterans of the Bush war, whether damaged mentally, physically,
financially or socio-economically, are quickly dispatched aside and
forgotten by the same Cabal that sent them to Iraq to act both as
cannon fodder and as operators for the instruments of death in
furtherance of corporate aggrandizement, hidden from cameras and the
public’s attention, seen more as liabilities to the continuance of
war than as the heroes they rightly are, in the end becoming yet one
more group of casualties, sent to kill and be killed for nothing but
greed, profit, wealth, ego and power.
The names of those comprising the Cabal of Criminality are well
known, as are most of their faces. They are traitors to humanity and
America, thieves and murderers empowered by the corruption of the
system and the silent passivity of the masses. They are war
criminals, espousing torture, the use of chemical weapons,
collective punishment, assassinations, carpet bombing, the use of
depleted uranium (clandestine nuclear war), false imprisonment and
the use of gulags. They have murdered over 100,000 Iraqis, over
2,000 American soldiers, all the while ruining the lives of
countless more.
Tyranny is their calling card; the suppression of freedom and
democracy at home and abroad the means by which they retain power.
To them dissent is unpatriotic, protest is subversive, debate to
their decisions treasonous. Dividing a nation is a tool of
expediency; using religion and ignorance to build their base, brew
hatred and stir anger is part of doing business. In their worldview,
the truth is the enemy, slavery is freedom, war is peace, ignorance
is strength and reality is what they decide it to be.
Driven by greed, these armchair chicken hawks, lacking the wisdom
that comes with experience, march other people’s children into
immoral war, becoming warmongers trapped inside their own bubble,
living in delusion, not able to see reality. These Mayberry
Machiavelli’s are amateur dictators living the wet dreams of long
since dead princes and kings, trying to resurrect fiefdoms, kingdoms
and empires, sustaining their bubble-filled egos with the addiction
to temporary power. Desperately wanting to leave a legacy they have
bumbled, stumbled and made their ingrained imbecility known through
their litany of failures, becoming a laughingstock to those who know
and to those who will read the future words of historians.
Yet even in the face of constant failure the Cabal of Criminality
persists, for their kind tramples of anything to retain power. They
are liars, connivers, fraudsters and embezzlers, the worst of the
human condition, laying waste, through their policies and control
mechanisms, to millions of human energies around the planet. For
they are a dangerous and vicious animal, capable of anything when
cornered and trapped, sleazy and unscrupulous, caring not an ounce
for the consequences to their actions. They have much destruction
and carnage yet to unleash, for in their actions can be seen the
madness of fools, the inherent callousness of psychopathic
tendencies. If left powerful and strong there is no predicting what
their next move might be.
Quite simply, they belong in a tribunal, tried for crimes against
humanity and against the planet, rotting away inside the dark cells
at The Hague or in Abu Ghraib, imprisoned for the world entire to
see, finally made to stop their madness, given a taste of their own
medicine, forced to contemplate the deviousness of their actions and
the results of their existence.
They are the Cabal of Criminality, a mere asterisk to history if
dealt with right. They stand guilty of war crimes, international
crimes, crimes against humanity and the planet. They are guilty of
treason, becoming traitors to America, its citizens and what we
stand for, our principles, our values and our futures. These
vultures, however, will in most likelihood never see the inside of a
cell, much less a tribunal, continuing to pillage and destroy the
beauty of mankind, for years to come condemning us ever closer to
the inevitable annihilation of our civilization.
For they are the Cabal of Criminality, not knowing, not caring and
not understanding that for every action there is an equal and
opposite reaction, that for every Iraqi resistance fighter killed a
dozen more take his place, that negative energy always boomerangs
back, that karma is a powerful bitch and that, in the end, the truth
always rises from the ashes of lies to shed light on a new, glorious
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