My apology to the Arab world

[ChiSox_Sonix]

My apology to the Arab world

Mike S. Adams

 

 

June 14, 2004 

 

 

Author’s Note: the following editorial contains mildly offensive language. Given the subject matter, the author is sorry that it does not contain highly offensive language.

 

Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot about the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. The pictures of those “abused” prisoners have been plastered all over the front pages of papers around the country. Some of my conservative friends have interpreted the excessive coverage as proof that papers like the New York Times are actually rooting against America in its current war on terror. Even those who aren’t willing to go that far say that such coverage is helping the enemy to recruit a new generation of terrorists to inflict harm upon our troops.

 

Despite these views, I have decided to make a formal public apology to the entire Arab world in the aftermath of Abu Ghraib. It is my hope that the following apology will help bring some clarity to the situation and, who knows, maybe even lasting world peace:

 

Dear Arabs,

 

I am truly sorry that Americans decided to take up arms and sacrifice their own youth in the defense of Muslims in Bosnia, Kosovo, and the first Gulf War. After we clear up this mess in Iraq, we will refrain from any such activity in the future.

 

I am truly sorry that I did not hear any of you call for an apology from Muslim extremists after 911. After all, the hijackers were all Arabs.

 

I am truly sorry that Arabs have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships throughout the Middle East. I am also sorry that the “leaders” of these nations drive their citizens into poverty by keeping all of the wealth in the hands of a select few.

 

I am also sorry that these governments intentionally breed hate for the U.S. in their religious schools while American schools do the exact opposite.

 

I am sorry that Yasir Arafat has been kicked out of every Arab country and has attached his name to the Palestinian “cause.”  I am also sorry that no other Arab country will offer nearly as much support to Arafat as we offer to them.

 

I am sorry that the U.S. has continued to serve as the biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arab nations while wealthy Arab leaders blame the U.S. for all of their problems.

 

I am sorry that left-wing media elites would Rather (pun intended) not talk about any of this, thereby perpetuating your anger towards us. It’s probably really bad for your blood pressure. I am also sorry that most of you lack the medical resources to measure your blood pressure. And, of course, I’m sorry that few of you have indoor plumbing. That’s bad for your health, too.

 

I am sorry that the U.N. cheated so many poor people in Iraq out of their “food for oil” money so they could get rich while the tortured, raped, and poverty-stricken citizens of Iraq suffered under Saddam Hussein.

 

I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers after their children are blown to pieces in pursuit of Arafat’s “cause.”

 

I am sorry that these homicide bombers have as little regard for babies as the local office of Planned Parenthood.

 

I am sorry that so many people are unable to differentiate between the gang rape rooms and mass graves of Saddam Hussein on the one hand, and the conditions of Abu Ghraib on the other.

 

I am sorry that our prison guards do not show the same restraint that Arabs show when their brothers in arms are killed. By the way, you shouldn’t be sorry about that.

 

I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state.  I am sorry we have not yet dropped at least 100 Daisy cutters on Fallujah in order to stop that effort.

 

I am also sorry that cleaning up the mess in Iraq is taking so long. It only took Saddam Hussein about 30 years to accomplish all he did in the realm of human rights. Come to think of it, that’s about ten years less than the duration of our War on Poverty in the U.S. Come to think of it, I’m sorry we haven’t sent all of our gang bangers from South Central Los Angeles to Fallujah.

 

I am sorry that every time the terrorists hide, it just happens to be inside a “Holy Site.”

 

I am sorry that Muslim extremists have not yet apologized for the U.S.S.

Cole, the embassy bombings, and for flying a plane into the World Trade Center, which collapsed in part on Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which is one of our Holy Sites.

 

I am sorry that we have not taken a portion of the diet of Michael Moore and shipped it to one of your starving villages in the Middle East. You need it Moore (pun intended) than he does.

 

I am sorry that your only supporters are professors, journalists, and other assorted Leftists who also support homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals, partial birth abortion, and everything that you abhor in this world. I am sorry that everyone else in America is against you.

 

Finally, I am sorry that I am going to have to end this apology by asking you to kiss the right side of my conservative butt. I’m probably just having a bad day.

 

For that I am truly sorry.

Nice.

 

[1549]

I'm not disagreeing that you're a moderate...I'm just telling you how you come off.  The majority, if not all, of your posts are liberal.  What reactoinary point of view??  He said one thing in that whole article that could be considered reactionary and that was reguarding Fallujah. 

 

I have a right mind and I know Fallujah is a city that prospered under Saddam and they would benefit most if a regime similar to his was to regain power.  The regime built chemical and other factories that generated jobs for Fallujah's workers and wealth for its businessmen. Many of Fallujah's young men joined elite regime forces such as the Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard. 

 

This war has been fought with the utmost care and respect with regard to civilians, even to the detriment of our own troops.  While dropping daisy cutters on the town would not be my course of action I can see his point of view.  He is sick of seeing our troops die and I think he chose the phrase drop a "couple hundred daisy cutters" as effect to make his point.  Just as you used "100 of the most horrific bombs in our arsenal on a city full of civilians " as effect.

 

 

 

 

Hanging their corpses...come on now 1549, you have the wrong side.  I truly hope you never are confronted with that situation, but if so, please don't lay down your weapon and try to talk it out.

 

 

 

I can give a s*** about enraging the enemy...They are there trying to KILL you and you are worried about how they will react if YOU win.  As for more citizens dying...like I said we treat their civilians with greater respect then they treat themselves.  Our soldeiers care about their lives more than they care about their own.

 

 

Diplomoacy doesn't always work....

I have a right mind and I know Fallujah is a city that prospered under Saddam and they would benefit most if a regime similar to his was to regain power.  The regime built chemical and other factories that generated jobs for Fallujah's workers and wealth for its businessmen. Many of Fallujah's young men joined elite regime forces such as the Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard. 

 

This war has been fought with the utmost care and respect with regard to civilians, even to the detriment of our own troops.  While dropping daisy cutters on the town would not be my course of action I can see his point of view.  He is sick of seeing our troops die and I think he chose the phrase drop a "couple hundred daisy cutters" as effect to make his point.  Just as you used "100 of the most horrific bombs in our arsenal on a city full of civilians " as effect.

 

You have a right mind and you realize that bombing a city full of citizens isn't even something worth joking about. He shows no respect for the arab people that live there and are not terrorists.

 

I can give a s*** about enraging the enemy

 

And that is why American citizens will continue to die.

 

They are there trying to KILL you and you are worried about how they will react if YOU win.  As for more citizens dying...like I said we treat their civilians with greater respect then they treat themselves.  Our soldeiers care about their lives more than they care about their own.

 

 

Diplomoacy doesn't always work....

 

I was referring to more of our citizens dying. If we took out anger on them and went about hanging their corpses like they do to us, they would strike back at us and our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, cousins, etc. would be at risk.

 

Diplomacy fails because people strive to gain too much.

[1549]

This article is AWESOME!!!

 

WE owe the Arab world NOTHING! (Which is exactly what we get from the Arab world.)

 

     

except that black stuff that this entire nation revolves around.

[southsider2k5]

Out of curiousity, did you write this Chaos.

[Controlled Chaos]

Out of curiousity, did you write this Chaos.

Nope...I posted the link earlier...Sorry...

 

http://www.dradams.org/latest.html

[Controlled Chaos]

You have a right mind and you realize that bombing a city full of citizens isn't even something worth joking about.  He shows no respect for the arab people that live there and are not terrorists. 

 

 

 

And that is why American citizens will continue to die.

 

 

 

I was referring to more of our citizens dying.  If we took out anger on them and went about hanging their corpses like they do to us, they would strike back at us and our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, cousins, etc. would be at risk.

 

Diplomacy fails because people strive to gain too much.

It is also a city full of terrorists. Like I said I disagree with that comment, but I am not as sensitive to the civilians there as you. You see that comment and are immediatley appalled. I am more sensitive to my fellow Americans there who receive no respect from many of the Arab people that they are trying to help. Which are you more concerned with? An author showing the Iraqi's respect in an article or our men and women receving respect while fighting over there to give the Iraqi's freedom. His comments are just written....our soldiers are living the disrespect. SO if you want to get all up in arms over something....maybe you should make it that.

 

 

You think if we sit back and do nothing we will be safer. As long as we don't anger the big bad terrorists..then they will leave us alone.

 

They have already struck at us and our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, cousins, etc. We are at risk. They will continue to strike unless we take a stand. Do you remember 1993?? What do you think their intention was back then?? To just kill 6 people? Hell No...their plan was to topple one tower into the other and knock them both down killing everyone. Since there weren't a lot of casulaties military action wasn't a big deal. Well it was a big deal and as you can see they came back to finish the job. Perhaps if we were this aggressive in 93 then 01 would have never happened. Don't think for a second that sitting back and talking diplomatically is gonna save American lives, cause you're dead wrong.

 

1983

April 18, Beirut, Lebanon: U.S. embassy destroyed in suicide car-bomb attack; 63 dead.

Oct. 23, Beirut, Lebanon: Shi'ite suicide bombers exploded truck near U.S. military barracks at Beirut airport, killing 241 Marines. Minutes later a second bomb killed 58 French paratroopers in their barracks in West Beirut.

 

1993

Feb. 26, New York City: bomb exploded in basement garage of World Trade Center, killing 6 and injuring at least 1,040 others. In 1995, militant Islamist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 9 others were convicted of conspiracy charges, and in 1998, Ramzi Yousef, believed to have been the mastermind, was convicted of the bombing. Al-Qaeda involvement is suspected.

 

1996

June 25, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: truck bomb exploded outside Khobar Towers military complex, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds of others. Thirteen Saudis and a Lebanese, all alleged members of Islamic militant group Hezbollah, were indicted on charges relating to the attack in June 2001.

 

1998

Aug. 7, Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: truck bombs exploded almost simultaneously near 2 U.S. embassies, killing 224 (213 in Kenya and 11 in Tanzania) and injuring about 4,500. Four men, two of whom had received training at al-Qaeda camps inside Afghanistan, were convicted of the killings in May 2001 and later sentenced to life in prison. A federal grand jury had indicted 22 men in connection with the attacks, including Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, who remained at large.

 

2000

Oct. 12, Aden, Yemen: U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole was heavily damaged when a small boat loaded with explosives blew up alongside it. Seventeen sailors were killed in a deliberate terrorist attack. Osama bin Laden, or members of his al-Qaeda terrorist network suspected.

 

2001

Sept. 11, New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa.: hijackers crashed two commercial jets into twin towers of World Trade Center; two more hijacked jets were crashed into the Pentagon and a field in rural Pa. Total dead and missing numbered 2,9951: 2,752 in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon, 40 in Pa., and 19 hijackers. Islamic al-Qaeda terrorist group blamed. (See September 11, 2001: Timeline of Terrorism.)

 

2003

May 12, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: suicide bombers killed 34, including eight Americans, at housing compounds for Westerners. Al-Qaeda suspected.

[LowerCaseRepublican]

Beirut...IIRC, I believe Reagan's plan of action was to turn tail and run in order to invade Grenada. Attacking a country that didn't do s*** to us made no sense and showed, according to many Islamic clerics who have made statements, that the US would just shoot and ask questions later.

 

Al Qaeda has actually (I'm not making this up, you can Google the story) endorsed Bush for President cuz he knee jerk military reactionism is making it much easier for AQ to recruit people.

 

Here's the left libertarian in me coming out, this guy seems to give big love taps to Saudi Arabia. The Bush family and the ruling family of Saudi Arabia have an extensively close relationship for years. Ron Paul and others have tried to call this out because giving the country that provided 15 of the 19 hijackers, is the country of origin of Osama's family etc. f***ing love taps is insane. If conservatives are truly worried about Wahhabi fundamentalism and fundamentalist Islam, then look no further than our buddy buddy relationship with Saudi Arabia.

 

Also, re: 1993 WTC bombing, I believe it was the Dec. 15, 1993 Chicago Tribune that stated the FBI had an informant who built the bomb (FBI provided him with the substances to build it), knew when it was going down (he told the FBI), where it was going down (he told the FBI) yet the FBI did nothing to stop the attack that could have been devastatingly destructive. And for all that think Clinton sat back and let this happen, in his defense he did stop Project Bojinka before it could get off the ground.

 

And your statement that the Iraqis are disrespecting the US troops. If you had tanks, troops etc. rolling through your town and arresting you for small violations (traffic tickets etc.) and throwing you in prison until you get interrogated, you just might be pissed too (BBC covered that story) and the Independent in the UK covered the story that 70-90% of the people that the US has imprisoned, according to US intelligence statements released, are mistakes and should be released. You have to wonder why they're so pissed when that is going on and we have our troops and Bremer living in Saddam's old palaces?

 

There are barb wired towns where people cannot move freely and have to clear 3 different checkpoints. We have a government where we closed down newspapers that we didn't like (free press?). A lot of the actions are antithetical to democracy and the Iraqis are just a little pissed being told they are getting democracy when they're not.

[Cerbaho-WG]

Hi I'm Mike Adams and I'm a gigantic douche bag.

[FlaSoxxJim]

You have to wonder why they're so pissed when that is going on and we have our troops and Bremer living in Saddam's old palaces?

And how about our decision to continue to occupy the Presidential Palace in Baghdad as the official US Embassy after the handover? That's a slap in the face and certainly gives the Iraqi populace reason to question OUR respect for their country and the new government.

[EvilMonkey]

I am sorry that every time the terrorists hide, it just happens to be inside a “Holy Site.”

Is the whole country a holy site? I wonder if that is just a legal designation, kinda like 'historical district'? No wonder the whole country is a s***hole, just imagine the paperwork they must have to go thru to do any kind of remodelling!