Guest Editorial
Just Unfair, Unfair, Unfair
By ABU ASSUR
Mr. Bush, why are you killing all these simple, innocent
people in Iraq? Why are you destroying their homes, the holy shrines, their
churches and their mosques? Why are your troops raping their women and children
and why is the mob that you sent here abusing them sexually? Just tell us what
have the Iraqi people done to you or to the USA? Why did you send your troops to
kill an elderly man praying in a mosque, a place of refuge and serenity? Haven’t
you been told that even a wild boar entering a church, is safe from any hunters?
Mr. Bush, do you really realize what the US is doing in Iraq? Do you think just
for a second about the tremendous consequences of your deeds?
You are telling the world that you are a Christian, a believer! How on earth can a Christian send his troops and death machines to slaughter innocent people who have done nothing to you or to your people? Do you have a Christian counselor, a Minister, and a God fearing man to listen to?
Did you see Mr. Bush the horrifying scene of your soldiers shooting in a mosque - God’s dwelling place - shooting a wounded defenseless old man. Is this the freedom you came to preach in Iraq? Is this the democracy that you want to impose on Iraq? Is this what your Gospel and God tells you to do? Mr. Bush, have you read your bible lately, not just carry it under your arm? Do you know that every innocent Iraqi you are killing is the image of a Christ that you are crucifying every day in Iraq?
Mr. Bush, I know that professional killers surround you, but by shooting a wounded elderly man in a mosque, you are shooting all humanity and you are killing every human noble practice. This old man, killed by US soldiers during the prayers for Iraq –the world condemns US because this is outright murder, Mr. Bush.
Yes, Mr. Bush, your country crucified Iraq for thirteen
years, killing thousands of innocent civilians through the inhuman embargo, and
you are devastating this country by using the most horrible chemical, nuclear
and biological weapons.
Mr. Bush, where is your human conscience? If you don’t know what a conscience is, then where is your touted Christian education? How can you sleep at night or be respected by your own family and daughters, when they see what the US is doing in Iraq?
Mr. Bush, when someone is that violent, it doesn’t mean that he is strong. In fact, and this is a proven psychoanalytical point of view, it demonstrates that he is frightened to death. When you exercise violence towards others, it really means that you are violent to yourself, towards your kin, and towards your family.
As you know violence as a practice can’t be split (i.e. I am violent with others but I am forgiving and serene with my people) No, this doesn’t work like that, unless a person concerned is a psychopath, or is badly suffering from a syndrome called schizophrenia, whose symptoms are the ambivalence of thoughts, feeling and paradoxical behavior, which makes that someone out of touch with reality. Only your dual personality, Mr., Bush, can explain what is going on in Iraq! In the church you go to, you beg, "forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven out debtors" – while your troops are slaughtering the innocent in Bethlehem, I mean in Fallujah and elsewhere in Iraq.
Mr. Bush, you could be a perfect Pharisee. "You are like a white washed tomb, that looks beautiful on the outside, but on the inside is filled with dead men’s bones and everything unclean." In the same way, on the outside you, Mr. Bush, appear to people as righteous, but on the inside, you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
There is something that you should know Mr. Bush - that the Iraq that you are crushing and crucifying today on the cross of genocide via chemical weapons, and that you think that you are burying forever – is going to rise up again – then we shall see what your own end will be!
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