Red Blogule to the bombing of Fallujah - Bombing, for image's sake - Bush is only targeting the US audience

20040429 (see blogules 2004)

Bush doesn't want the US audience to watch actual images of actual bodies covering the actual ground (especially those of American citizens - he never took into consideration the thousands of dead Irakis).

So CNN can move back to their video war : infrared features, no close-ups, just the sound of air strikes from a far distance, animations of up-to-date aircrafts exposing their Weapons of Mass Distraction, and the "Live" label in one corner of the screen to have people stay tuned around the clock to this excuse for a war.

Once again, covering up the mess. You may be embedded in our squads but please do not wake our citizens up. Get them the Valium we're prescribing but do not mention the side effects (or is it collateral damage ?). No pictures of coffins, thanks.

Of course this doesn't help the US forces in Iraq : they look even more remote from the population. Cut out from the country but deep into it at the same time. Hostages in a stubborn, dangerous man's reelection show.

Smile to the camera, son. Who knows, you may be in BC04's next ad.

SM on a forum

Red Blogule to the Abu Ghraib mess - OUTLAWS AND DISORDER

Archives 20040428 (see blogules 2004)

The attack on Iraq ? Illegal.The Guantanamo extravaganza ? The negation of human rights.The pressures against the moderate international nations ? What you'd expect from mobsters.The constant, unrepentant and unpunited disinformation, cover-up and censorship in the media ? Back to the Hoover-Mc Carthy era folks....The outrages in the Iraqi prisons and the growing anger against America ? Nothing to wonder about given the example from above.

SM

Red Blogule to fundamenstalists - History will remember this surge in fundamentalism

Archives 20040428 (see blogules 2004)

What irritates me most about Iraq is not the fact everything was foreseeable (except the US public opinion harrassed by Weapons of Mass Disinformation, no one was actually deceived). It is the fact a great part of strategical mistakes were not mistakes but actual clear-headed-cold-blodded choices.

History will remember this troubled era when fundamentalists held the power and/or the media simultaneously in the Middle-East, in Israel and in the US, feeding each other with their radical ideologies. It is high time to remove the leaders that can be removed and it is high time for each religion to speak aloud and expose their values of tolerance and respect. Democracy gives opportunities to both the US and Israel, Christianism has one leader who can - at times - speak for his church, but there is no equivalent for Islam. Saudi Arabia could play a positive role... once they kick the wahabbits, that is.

Let us remember the worst enemies of al Qaeda are not the US (right now Bush is actually their best ally), but moderate muslims whose only weapon is speech and most of the time don't have any license to carry such a dangerous weapon.

SM

Red Blogule to the Weapons of Mass Disinformation

Archives 20031030 (see blogules 2003)

Congratulations to Mr Bush for majoring a Masters in Bullshit Administration. Even with fewer support from his "Weapons of Mass Disinformation", he's competing with Comical Ali for the credibility of his daily reports of the situation in Iraq. Isn't it high time for humility instead of more humiliation ? Isn't it high time to respect both the Iraqi and the American people, not to mention the rest of the World ?

Talking of WMDs : I'm pleased to see Newsweek back on the right (or should I say "Independant" ?) track : following their brilliant coverage of the "right-after-9/11" period, I noticed some kind of a short blackout earlier this year.

SM on a forum

Red Blogule to Amerika - Take a walk on the dark side

Archives 20030318 (see blogules 2003)

The person in the queue starts complaining - this custom's officer isn't a fast one. I dare say "I don't mind, you know ; as a French citizen I'm in favor of letting inspectors do their jobs". The said officer smiles, but that's the only positive wave I'll get in this place (not to mention a Wi-Fi perm at New Orleans CTIA Wireless 2003).

It's even worse than I thought - I knew US medias had turned into weapons of mass disinformation and I knew the country was already at war, but I didn't expect such pressure, oppression, denial of debate... What is this Administration doing to the people of America and the country I love ?

Anyway, nothing will stop Bush : Iraq will be invaded and thats the best news fundamentalists and terrorists could ever dream of.

Stephane MOT - New Orleans