Buzzflash: Last Throes Of The Republican Insurgency

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Jimmy Lohman

Maybe Dick Cheney was right: we are in the "last throes of the insurgency" - but not the "insurgency" he was talking about.

Cheney's "insurgency" is a nebulous ill-defined neoconcoction that will never die as long as Halliburton can wring billions upon billions of dollars out of it (over 20 billion at last count). Cheney depicts the insurgency as some monolithic enemy, composed of "terrorists" who "hate freedom," Coca-Cola, and MTV. The imperial Cheney expects us not to notice that the dread "insurgency" is Sunnis one day and Shiites the next, Saddam lovers one day, Saddam haters the next, Iranians one day, Syrians the next, Al-Qaeda and its infinite imitators and permutations one day, the Taliban and its swelling ranks the next, Saudis, Moroccans, Pakistanis, Indonesians, Ethiopians, and more. (It also includes Cindy Sheehan, Teddy Kennedy, Valerie and Joe Wilson, Keith Olbermann, and you.)

The warmongers label the enemy in Iraq as "the insurgency" because it sounds a heck of a lot better than calling it "the massive resistance of a proud ancient people to foreign domination."

Clearly, the "insurgency" conjured by Cheney's diabolical imagination is nowhere near defeat. Any semi-conscious observer can see that Bush-sponsored anti-Americanism is thriving and growing geometrically. For the last 6 months, this supposedly withering "insurgency" has been killing, on average, 3 American troops and wounding 18 every day. That equates to one of our guys getting killed and six wounded every eight hours. That's one dead and six wounded while we are at work, another dead and six more wounded while we are home from work eating dinner and watching television, and another dead and six more wounded while we are sleeping - every day. These deaths and maimings of American forces are occurring at a higher rate now than any other six-month period since the invasion of Iraq four years ago.

Contrary to the Vice President's predictions and assertions, the insurgency in Iraq is alive and well.

There is another insurgency, however, that may indeed be in its "last throes" - the insurgency that Bush and Cheney spearheaded on November 7, 2000, when they and their Republican Party stole the presidency and hijacked America.

Full article here: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/864

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