Jerry Tenuto: 'War's been called a lot of things, but 'birth pangs'?'

Jerry Tenuto, Lone Star Iconoclast

In the inestimable opinion of Condoleezza Rice, the region where Northern
Israel meets Southern Lebanon, home to millions of Jews and Muslims, is
going through a stage of "birth pangs" these past few weeks.

"Birth pangs."

As if Condi would have even the vaguest notion of what that remark might
mean.

Birth pangs, indeed.

Birth involves the beginning of life. Apparently, good Ms. Rice doesn't
realize that launching rockets and shelling people with artillery, not to
mention intrusive fighter-bomber sorties, all involve the destruction of
life.

Just what is the region giving "birth" to, anyway?

Why, it's the joyful noise of democracy, or more accurately "Bushocracy,"
bouncing along a half-ton at a time, crafted in the USA and dropped right
onto the heads of select Semites around the Middle East not affiliated with
the Jewish or Christian faiths.

Glory Hallelujah, praise the lawd!

I was watching newsfeeds from Qatar (our pals) and another neighboring
country last night. How confused these broadcasters are: The gorgeous women
anchors were dressed and made-up to the 9s, and with their luxurious hair
they put the majority of their Western counterparts to shame; however,
despite this definitely non-Islamic facade the semantic alliteration of the
copywriters left no doubt precisely who's in charge of the governments.

Every citizen of Lebanon who happened to be standing a little too close to
the point of arrival when one of King George's gifts of Bushocracy came
bouncing into his or her neighborhood was referred to as a "martyr."
Conversely, every dead Jew was an enemy dealt with by Allah; each Israeli
tank disabled was a victory for Allah.

No other news services in the World report events in the same manner as
those of the state-run Muslim nations, even our best Mid-East friends. At
its worst the off-kilter Soviet news was never this bloodthirsty in arousing
public furor through the beliefs that have been ground into people's psyches
for umpteen generations.

Funny how their downed tank count was some three times higher than the
Israeli, American and British news reports. Maybe three different interns
monitored the different sources and the numbers were inadvertently added
together.

On the other hand, the Christians and Jews may have low-balled the World
citizenry in its reporting to make Israel appear tougher than Hezbollah. Ya
think?

Well, we all know the first casualty of war is truth, even if CNN has some
95%% of its recognizable faces in and around Israel and Lebanon, while those
faux-journalists at FoxNewsChannel are doing the preponderance of what they
bogusly refer to as "reporting" direct from the studio with celebrity
experts such as Wayne (Trapper John) Rogers and Ben Stein. (Ben, you're a
Jew, and extremely well educated - you should be ashamed of yourself! If I
had won any of your money I would send every cent of it back!)

All of a sudden that old Aussie... oh, bugger! I won't call Rupert Murdoch a
nasty name, because you can't get much lower than a self-righteous
Conservative multi-billionaire who has been playing a major role, and wants
to continue to be a major force, in manipulating the minds of the weak and
depth-deprived (rural Americans, stock market players and shut-ins).

Rupert's News Corporation media-based travesty, of which his ownership as a
foreign-born individual was never allowed by either of the Federal
Communications Acts until Saint Ronnie Reagan came along and "deregulated"
the airwaves for his ultra-rich Right-wing fanatic buddies, has helped
install the first king on the North American continent and keep him in
power, fueled an insane nationwide call to arms for wars that never needed
to have begun, acts as a propaganda voice for the illegal executive branch
regime, while spreading lies and innuendo disguised as news and spewing
instructions on whom to hate to its audience. The most unfortunate thing is
FNC viewers are as loyal as if God Almighty spoke through Bill O'Reilly's
and Shawn Hannity's mouths.

And, what's up with FoxNews becoming a propaganda arm of the Knesset? All of
a sudden Rupert's turned FNC into the "Jews Are Us" station. Heed my
warning, Bubbie, don't buy it!

So, last week Condi couldn't be bothered to make an appearance in the
explosion-afflicted region to attempt a cessation of hostilities. She said
it wasn't worth the effort to arrange for a ceasefire if it could not be
sustainable.

This course of action was quite all right with King George XLIII. He's real
familiar with the concept of "stay the course," and now's a good time to try
it out on the Israelis, Palestinians, Lebanese and Hezbollah terrorists.

Besides, Hezbollah Grand Poobah (or whatever his self-appointed title is)
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has repeatedly stated in his broadcasts that his
organization will not stop until they've spilled the blood of and wiped out
all Jews and reclaimed Palestine. Then, they intend to take out all
Americans, Europeans and any other infidels who have the bad judgment to try
to co-exist on this planet.

But Nasrallah is ever mindful to let us know Hezbollah, which translates
into "hand of God," is not a terrorist organization. So why all the weapons,
ordnance, suicide bombers, sneak attacks, and hate rhetoric?

Just as our Fearless Leader does, Nasrallah talks a good game filled with
bravado, but when it comes to putting his derriere on the line he's nowhere
to be found. As it is, nobody seems to know where on the Planet the guy is
right now.

All this macho ranting about how he's going to tear Israel a new one, then
its European allies, and the USA - yet the schmuck is more afraid to come
out into the open than Dark Lord the Dick Cheney.

Meanwhile, Herr Oberst Karl Rove wants to rid his Amerika of all
non-Conservative Republicans who refuses to walk in lockstep to his marching
cadence.

Dark Lord the Dick will 'pepper' anyone who would dare question him
regarding those secret energy plots, his profit-sharing from Halliburton
holdings, or who leaked the name of Valerie Plame to the press.

Donny Rumsfeld just sends young Americans off to Kamp Kabul and the Sandy
Dunes of Suburban Baghdad for fun in the sun at taxpayers' expense, and
hasn't got a clue as to when they'll be coming back, if at all. Some don't,
you know.

But, Rummy isn't worried. To him it's kind of like Peter Pan and Neverland.

Then there's Condoleezza Rice.

Condi.

The preacher's daughter.

Kept safely hidden away inside the house, studying her school lessons and
practicing those classical pieces on the piano, wearing lace-trimmed dresses
and learning to be a proper lady and all - while everyone else of color in
her town lived in total, constant fear as dished out by the ignorant white
folks.

She knew children who were killed by the KKK, or at least wannabe Klansmen.

Condoleezza's parents built a protective barrier around her to keep the
evils of the real world out. Now, she's risen to one of the most powerful
positions on the World stage, but that protective barrier still encompasses
her, making her grossly inadequate for and wholly unprepared to do the job.

Like her rich, white male cohorts, there is never a visible sign of
compassion or concern on Condi's face, in her eyes or the timbre of her
voice when the subject includes death and destruction. She comes across as
every bit the thug each one of them is. It could be Condi's even more cold,
calculating and cruel than they.

Would it have been acceptable under any other executive for the Security
Adviser to ignore a document warning of an imminent attack on our Nation by
terrorists using hijacked aircraft as weapons? Not if there was more to the
"attack" than the "official story" has expected us to believe.

Who can forget the woman at the highest echelon of the presidential cabinet
who went shopping in Manhattan for four-figure designer shoes, then headed
off to be entertained on Broadway at a Monty Python comedy, while New
Orleans was being washed away and hundreds of its citizens drowned.

During her tenure as Secretary of State, Ms. Rice has accomplished nothing,
unless one regards incurring the wrath of the leaders of our Planetary
neighbors as a positive accomplishment.

She lacks the necessary skills to be a diplomatic negotiator. Like her boss,
King George XLIII, Condi goes into meetings with her mind already made up as
to what the outcome will be - or else.

Worse than that inflexibility, she lacks the warmth and sincerity required
to be a true statesperson. One never gets the impression that Condi really
quite gets what the human condition is all about.

The more direct impact an issue will have on human beings, the more
disingenuous Ms. Rice will be in her comments.

She's so adept at the con even she sometimes forgets where fact ends and
fabrication begins. And fact is the smallest portion of anything the woman
says.

At first, Condi told the media she wasn't going to go negotiate regarding
the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict because she had no idea what to do to resolve
the situation. Had she been even remotely near the ballpark where honesty
plays its home games, the response would have been that she and the gang
didn't wish to break up the fight.

A few days later Condi stated there was no way to stop the Israel-Hezbollah
fighting with a long-term solution, so she saw no reason to bother.

After she and our king met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud
al-Faisal, who gave Bush a letter from Saudi King Abdullah asking to assist
in a ceasefire, Condi finally went on a trip to the Mid-East and Europe.
Before leaving, she again ensured there would be no ceasefire.

It had been two weeks since this round of hostilities first erupted.

A ceasefire plan was presented by Syria on Sunday, but rejected by John
Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

So, after making the rounds of the various Middle Eastern nations, Condi
attended a world summit in Rome, hastily arranged to find a path to a
ceasefire agreement.

Virtually the entire body was agreed on a cessation of hostilities.

With the exception of two holdouts.

The American Secretary of State refused to accept any ceasefire that would
not be long term.

She got the British representative to go along with her.

Thus, because King George XLIII has dreams of a New World Order, where every
land is filled with the glory of Jesus, the freedom of Bushocracy, and all
vistas as well as urban neighborhoods have been renovated by bombardments,
the fighting shall continue.

After all, one of the barriers to his holy goal is the existence of
Hezbollah, so George is perfectly okay with allowing Israel to continue
pounding away at this organization that exists for the sole purpose of
engaging in genocidal annihilation.

But what about all the innocent victims who are being caught in the
crossfire: The women, children, men, and elderly Lebanese, Palestinians and
Jews who are being sacrificed and maimed while King George and Condoleezza
play their deadly game?

Who will replace all the houses, apartments, schools and businesses that are
being destroyed?

How will the people who are being given yet another reason to hate be taught
not to detest Americans along with their immediate enemies?

When a world leader has the option and power to eliminate bloodshed even for
a week, to give peace at least the slimmest chance, to provide those in the
line of fire an opportunity to escape the carnage and desolation, yet
purposely and callously refuses to agree with the rest of the nations on a
cessation of hostilities because it does not suit his or her endgame, we're
living on the knife-edge of tyranny.

Whom does that make the evildoers now?

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and
you cannot redefine it..." (Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in a letter to the
mayor and councilmen of Atlanta just prior to its burning, September 12,
1864)

Birth pangs would be a most welcome and pleasant improvement over the
realities of war.

Jerry Tenuto is an erstwhile Philosopher and sometime Educator. A veteran
with seven years of service in the U.S. Army, he holds a BS and MA in
Communications from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Depending
upon your taste in political stew, you can either blame or thank Jerry for
his weekly "Out Of The Blue" feature in The Lone Star Iconoclast. Visit his
blog Blue State View at illinoiscentral.blogspot.com

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spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their
government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are
suffering deeply in spirit,
and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public
debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have
patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning
back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at
stake."
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