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>            Busharon: The Countdown

>      The strange creature named the Busharon is in serious trouble.
>      The front half of this animal - George W. Bush - is having trouble
>with nude photos. Not only those of the hapless Iraqi prisoners, with the
>exuberant female soldier pointing at their genitals, but also of Bush
>himself, whose nakedness was exposed for all to see.
>     The savior of the Iraqi people from a cruel tyrant, the gallant
>leader bestowing democracy on Mesopotamia, the representative of Western
>civilization fighting against barbarism - has himself been exposed as a
>cruel barbarian.
>     Let no one kid himself: this is not a case of a few sadists, male
>and female, who happened to find themselves in one place. It is already
>clear that there was systematic abuse of prisoners - keeping them naked,
>humiliating them sexually, sending in vicious dogs which probably bit
>them, preventing them from sleeping, keeping them shackled in painful
>positions for a long time, covering their heads with filthy hoods,
>threatening them with electrocution - all these were photographed. But
>there can be little doubt that with such an attitude towards the
>prisoners, much worse torture was applied but not photographed.
>     It is now quite clear that this is applied as standard procedure for
>"softening" up prisoners. Not only in this prison, not only in all the
>other prisons in Iraq, but also in Afghanistan, in the devil's island of
>Guatanamo and all the other places where such defenseless victims, most
>of them quite innocent people who were picked up by accident, are
>imprisoned. Meaning: this was a matter of policy, coming from the highest
>level.
>     The soldiers, male and female, who happily let themselves be
>photographed in these pornographic scenes are certainly detestable, but
>anyone familiar with military life knows that this was not a private
>initiative. Such acts cannot go on for a long time, with many hundreds of
>pictures shot, without the whole chain of command being involved.
>     Every simple soldier is influenced by the spirit of his commanders,
>at least up to the level of the brigade. Its commander in turn is
>influenced by the spirit of his superiors, up to and including the Chief-
>of-Staff. In this case, it has been proven that the Pentagon chiefs and
>the Secretary of Defense knew the facts long ago. The investigating
>general did not find any written order, but such orders are always
>conveyed orally, and sometimes by a mere gesture or a wink.
>      These soldiers, most of them from decent homes, behaved as people
>do in lynch mobs, and for the same reason: the denial of the humanity of
>other races, which are considered sub-human. Racism turns the members of
>the master-race themselves into sub-human beings.
>     George Bush lost his world with the publication of these photos. He
>could have fired the whole chain of command, from the Secretary of
>Defense down to the prison commander. He didn't, of course.
>     All the moral arguments attempting to justify his war against Iraq
>have come crashing down. No democracy, no liberation, no civilization.
>Nothing is left except the naked aggression of cynical and cruel robber
>barons, just like the henchmen of Saddam Hussein.
>     If I may be permitted a prophecy: this week starts the countdown to
>the end of the career of George W.

>     The animal's rear end - Ariel Sharon - is also in great trouble.
>     This started with the rejection of the "Unilateral Disengagement"
>plan by the Likud members, a tiny part of the population, manipulated by
>the settlers. Since then Sharon has been prowling around like a caged
>predator. He has no majority among his ministers and members of
>parliament (they are bound by the party referendum), he is unable to form
>another government (the MPs of his party will not allow it), he is unable
>to fulfil his promise to President Bush (and has made Bush look
>ridiculous).
>     He has begun to blabber about "other plans" that he is forming -
>reminding one of Groucho Marx's joke: "Those are my principles. If you
>don't like them, I have others."
>      If Sharon had really intended to leave Gaza, he would have done it
>at once and without the hullabaloo, fixing a strict timetable and without
>changing the details every few days. He would have including in his plan
>the evacuation of the "Philadelphi Axis", the narrow strip a few hundred
>yards wide between Gaza and Egypt, which demands a human sacrifice almost
>every day.
>     A week after the Likud referendum, two terrible blows were
>delivered. An armored vehicle carrying a large quantity of explosives
>entered Gaza city in order to blow up buildings, and was hit by a
>roadside bomb planted by Palestinian guerillas. It exploded, tearing the
>six soldiers to pieces. The day after, the very same thing happened on
>the "Philadelphi Axis": an armored personnel carrier full of explosives,
>which was sent there to blow up tunnels under the border, was hit by a
>Palestinian rocket and blew up with its five crew members.
>     The power of each of the two explosions was such that body parts
>were scattered over hundreds of meters. The whole country saw on TV how
>Israeli soldiers crawled on all fours, filtering the sand with their bare
>hands in order to gather the body parts of their comrades. The media
>competed in the orchestration of a necrophile hysteria, with endless talk
>about "body parts" interlaced with scenes of funerals.
>     It was impossible to ignore the direct connection between the Likud
>referendum's rejection of the withdrawal and the death of the soldiers.
>This was expressed in the most simple way by the actor Shlomo Vishinsky,
>whose son Lior was killed in the second vehicle, when he blamed the
>members of Likud for the death of his son.
>     For the first time, the Israeli public saw the real picture of Gaza:
>not "terror", not "terrorists", but a classic guerilla war, with the
>whole population taking part in the struggle against the occupation
>forces. Today's Gaza, tomorrow's West Bank.
>     In such a struggle, we cannot win. One can kill Palestinians
>wholesale, destroy whole neighborhoods, as is happening now. But one
>cannot win. The public is beginning to understand that. The "Zionist
>Left", so it seems, is also waking up from its 4-year coma.
>     Israel will leave the Gaza Strip, as it left the "Security Strip" in
>South Lebanon. The similarity between the two strips is so obvious, that
>banal headlines proclaim it in all the media.
>     If I may be permitted a second prophecy: this week starts the
>countdown to the end of the career of Ariel Sharon.