(Your Voice in a World where Zionism, Steel, and Fire have
turned Justice Mute)

Some Thoughts on D-Day Minus X

By Muhammad Abu Nasr

We all know it’s coming very soon – the American

attack on Iraq.  Over 100,000 US troops have massed in

the Arab region.  The papers are full of reports of

special units prowling Iraq territory in preparation

for an invasion.  We read all sorts of speculation

about how the attack will proceed.  We hear of more

and more detachments leaving America for the Arabian

Gulf.

We know it’s coming.  We don’t know exactly when, but

we know the clock is ticking and that the time is

almost at hand.

Somewhere in twilight rooms, men in American uniform

shirtsleeves stare at radar screens and computer

monitors.  Their excitement is building as they

anticipate the arrival of the big day – the day

they’ve been preparing for all their childhood – when

they can play their computer games – for real.

The talk in the US, of course, is like that.  "The

game is over", "game plan", "end game".  Partly it’s a

reflection of the prevalent mentality.  By relying on

technology, they believe, the US can inflict massive

destruction on its "enemy" while keeping the "front

line" safer for Americans than their own highways at

rush hour.

But this time is different.  This time the US is

trying to overthrow the regime in Baghdad and occupy

Iraq. It is trying to redraw the map of the Arab

region.  It is trying to "clean out" "terrorist" bases

throughout the area – such as the offices of the PFLP,

Hamas, and the Islamic Jihad in Damascus, of Hizb

Allah in Lebanon, and similar liaison and refugee camp

locations throughout the region.  America together

with its Zionist friends want to put a final halt to

all Palestinian resistance throughout the Arab and

Islamic worlds and to hobble all the regimes, so that

the only help they offer is channeled through the

Zionist entity and Washington and goes to pacify the

subjugated populations under the Jewish colonial boot.

That, needless to say, is an ambitious program.  It

cannot be accomplished simply by dropping bombs and

irradiating vast tracts of countryside – however

devastating such high-tech butchery might be.  Even to

hope to transform the Arab region and put an end to

Arab resistance requires total occupation of the

region.  It means ground troops.  It means hundreds of

thousands of American targets in hostile territory. 

It means that whatever is going to start in the next

few days, contrary to the hopes in Washington, will

not be another computer game, made in USA.

Because it is so ambitious, because it entails great

risk for the globalist system, and because it also

would grant the United States control over the most

vital strategic and resource center in the world,

opposition to the attack has mounted in Europe.  But

European calls to continue the weapons inspections of

Iraq, to continue the embargo that has already killed

at least 1.73 million Iraqis, and indeed to increase

interference in Iraq under a United Nations flag

indicate that the prospects offered to the Arabs by

the Europeans are hardly less colonial and onerous

than the American war plan.  It would be a sign that

the US control of the world is beginning to crack,

however, if Washington is unable to “persuade” its

NATO allies to back its planned invasion, or at least

not to obstruct it in the United Nations.  Any such

failure by Bush II to whip his “partners” into line

can only be compared with Bush I’s success in forging

a 30-nation aggressive anti-Arab alliance in 1990

(with the participation of a number of “Arab”

regimes).

Domestically, the US Administration has gone on

heightened levels of alert.  Government agencies have

advised Americans to prepare for chemical, biological

and nuclear “terrorism.”  Americans are stocking up on

necessities and luxuries, “just in case”.  Schools are

notifying parents that anti-terrorist plans are in

place.  In short a state just short of hysteria is

building as Americans realize that an invasion of Iraq

might be more than another computer game war.

And not only is this a matter of what the US and

Zionists are pleased to call a “terrorist threat”. 

The world power grab by Washington following 11

September 2001 has turned a balanced US budget into a

massive deficit. Unemployment is rising, fuel prices

are leaping upward, and as a result absolutely every

service and supply is becoming more and more costly

across a vast country that depends on a sophisticated

worldwide transport network to maintain its population

in their accustomed affluence.  The bleak outlook for

the future is only thinly veiled behind a screen of

now over-used nationalistic slogans and fading

red-white-and-blue bumper stickers that once

proclaimed but now only plead “God bless America.”

It is getting harder and harder even for Americans to

avoid the sense that they are now ineluctably slipping

down into some sort of dark abyss.  When those

imperial and Zionist planners got together in secret

and initiated their countdown to war on Iraq and

direct subjugation of the Arab Nation, they also

inevitably began another countdown.  As we anticipate

the first guns of America’s D-Day in Iraq, we are also

awaiting the beginning of the end of the world's

single superpower empire.