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It is almost hilarious the Pentagon tells us the Geneva Conventions were violated when the British tabloid, the Sun, published photos of Saddam Hussein in his underwear. I said almost because the Pentagon, under the sway of Bush and his outfit of Straussian criminals, is currently the most notorious violator of the Geneva Conventions on the planet, from Iraq to Afghanistan to Colombia and beyond. “US officials promised an aggressive investigation into who was responsible for the photographs, which they believe were taken more than a year ago. They said the images violated Pentagon rules and may have breached the Geneva Conventions,” reports the New Zealand Herald.
As Signs of the Times notes, we can discard the Pentagon’s newfound concern for the human rights of Iraq’s most famous prisoner (or a double pretending to be Iraq’s most famous prisoner) because the Sun “is owned by die-hard Israeli supporter and media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Note the fact that the reason given for the release of the pictures was in order to deal a ‘body blow’ to the Iraq insurgency. The clear implication in this statement is that the Iraq insurgency is being carried out by Saddam loyalists, which is of course completely untrue. Yet it suits the US and Israel very well for the world to believe the lie that the Iraqi insurgents are a fringe group of supporters of an evil tyrant rather than the truth that they are ordinary Iraqis attempting to oust a foreign occupying power.” It is, as well, not unlike the humiliation of Abu Ghraib, a way to further anger Iraqis and Arabs in general, thus cranking up the heat in the Middle East, as Bush and the Strausscons are wont to do as part of their overall plan to sow chaos and foment violence in that part of the world.
Publishing the photos “might or might not be the handiwork of the Western intelligence agencies,” writes Mohammed A.R. Galadari for the Khaleej Times. “But, more importantly, I was shocked to hear from an American journalist, as he spoke to a famous TV channel, that the publication of those pictures might lead to demonstrations and a show of anger in the Arab world,” same as the revelations of U.S. military yahoos dunking the Koran in a bucket of urine and feces, published (and then retracted) by Newsweek recently, angered the Muslim street. In the latter case, the Pentagon killed two birds with one stone, so to speak—it riled up faithful Muslims and also dealt an embarrassing blow to the spineless “liberal media,” in fact the center of right corporate media.
Galadari, however, gets it wrong, writing that, with the publication of the photos, deliberately released by U.S. intelligence, Bush is sending “a clear message to all those who practice dictatorship and fail to care for the welfare of their peoples,” a joke if one scratches the surface and takes a good hard look at the real reasons Bush and Crew invaded and now occupy Iraq, none having to do with the welfare of people, at least not the vast majority of Muslim and Arab people. It makes infinitely more sense, considering the easily researched pronouncements of the Strausscon “think tanks” and foundations such as PNAC and AEI, to conclude that the photos were released as yet another salvo in the psychological war against Islam (note how the photos of Saddam and the gruesome sexual torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib—common enough fare in a debased American cultural milieu—are designed specifically to outrage conservative Muslim sensibilities).
It stretches credulity to believe that demeaning photos would simply emerge undetected from Camp Cropper, the top-secret Baghdad prison (called a high-value detention site) at Baghdad international airport where Saddam Hussein or rather his double is being held by U.S. and British intelligence, and find their serendipitous way to Rupert Murdoch, the premier of Bush propaganda.
Finally, as al-Jazeera reports, Murdoch’s Sun “quoted an unidentified ’senior British military source’ as saying that the top brass at the British Defense Ministry and the Pentagon were secretly pleased by the media exposure. While the Pentagon publicly expressed anger about the pictures, ‘commanders on the ground will be secretly quite pleased. It is a morale blow to the resistance to see their great leader so humbled,’ the source said, according to the Sun.”
Cui bono, anyone?
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