America's Uday and Qusay Conjuring Trick
First I want to say that Bush and team are fuckin hypocrits for critisizing Arab media for showing dead americans on T.V.
If the latest story about the adventurous American 101st Airborne Division was true, Saddam Hussein's two sons, his grandson and their solitary bodyguard, would have to go down in history as some of the world’s greatest and bravest fighters. According to the media these four heroic individuals, including one cripple and one child, managed to fight off 200 heavily armed and highly aggressive members of the 101st Airborne for six long hours, before finally perishing in a hail of Hellfire missiles launched by helicopter gunships.
The only way four lonely defenders could stay alive more than five minutes under these circumstances, would be if they were inside a heavily reinforced underground bunker, protected James Bond-style by automatic or remote controlled heavy weapons. But no, the gang of four were allegedly quietly sipping mint tea in the kitchen of a completely vulnerable Mosul villa, which had earlier been used by members of the 101st Airborne as requisitioned accommodation.
Time to leave the Washington world of media spin for a moment here, and briefly touch base with reality. Uday and Qusay do not get along at the best of times, and in any event, for security reasons travel independently with separate highly-trained teams of special forces bodyguards front and rear.
Uday and Qusay always have “back doors” through which to exit from any given location or locations, and would be insane to even consider hiding in a house in Mosul, a northern Iraqi city surrounded on all sides by murderous Kurdish terrorists, each and every one of whom would murder either or both brothers for ten cents. Both brothers are flamboyant and perhaps even eccentric, but neither is insane. Now let us discard reality completely, and catch up with the latest absurd White House propaganda.
"Individuals of very high interest to the coalition forces were hiding out in the building," Lieutenant Colonel William Bishop of the 101st Airborne Division told Reuters, which of course begs the question of why these “Individuals of very high interest” were not simply surrounded, and then slowly starved out of the photogenic villa in a blaze of media publicity. Nor am I alone in wondering about this obvious beneficial alternative course of action.
Fox News military analyst Colonel Bill Cowan said he hoped Saddam's sons had been captured and not killed. "I think in this case, it'd be great to have them alive," he said. "I think for the [Iraqi] population to see these two guys. shackled, incarcerated and really given harsh treatment, will have a most profound and long-term psychological advantage."
Alas, this was not to be, because the 200 members of the brave 101st apparently found the two men, one cripple and one boy in the photogenic villa much too much hard to handle. An anonymous soldier “involved” in the operation allegedly told Steve Centanni of Fox News that containment was not an option. "We received direct fire from the building multiple times. We used a scaled escalation of force, and had to use bigger caliber weapons to render the building safe" The 101st Airborne allegedly used all the weapons in its arsenal, including grenade launchers, missiles and helicopters.
It was around this point in time that the four dead “Individuals of very high interest” were converted into “three Husseins and a single bodyguard”, primarily because a US official told Fox News "they were shot up so much that it is difficult to make a positive identification of the bodies”. Decoded, this of course meant that the White House could go ahead with its master propaganda ploy to demoralize the Iraqi people, by claiming Saddam’s two sons were dead.
Certainly it was time to kill someone other than poor old Saddam, who has allegedly been killed so often by American forces that nowadays no-one, including American servicemen, believes this pathetic rubbish. So the staged deaths of “hated” Uday and Qusay Hussein were a new version of the old Saddam theme, designed not only to demoralize the Iraqi people, but also to bolster American military morale, which recently reached non-existent level in Iraq.
In their rush to “verify” the new propaganda and make it stick, American officials have unwittingly uncovered a more profound level of Administration untruth, going to the very heart of how many “wanted” Iraqis on the famous “Deck of Cards” have actually been captured, or are still at large. In what may yet prove to be a terminal error of judgement, a White House official told CNN yesterday that the bodies of Uday and Qusay had been visually “positively identified” by none other than Lieutenant General Abid Hamid Mahmud al Tikriti, Saddam’s closest aide, and the Ace of Diamonds in the pack. You may remember that the American Administration claimed to have captured Lieutenant General al Tikriti on June 17, 2003, but for reasons that will soon become obvious, failed to parade him shackled and shamed in front of the world media, just as Colonel Bill Cowan of Fox News wanted to do with Uday and Qusay Hussein.
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http://www.joevialls.co.uk/transpositions/hussein.html
