*Ø* Bush and Afghanistan: War on Nothing

How George W Bush spreads global terrorism

Similar to Nora's post yesterday is this video of US gunship destroying a mosque in Afghanistan. It's a 5.6 MB WMV file and will take a while to load on most computers, but I recommend it for an insight into how warfare is conducted in the 21st century. Places of worship and unidentifiable persons running for safety are of no account.

We see through the soldier's sights that people are easy to spot from the air with heat-sensing technology, and that the blasts killing individual people are as big as houses. Obviously money is no object and no expense is spared per victim. After all, Bush has spent $140 billion of US taxpayers' money in Iraq alone, and I don't see a general clamour to depose the bastard.

Anniversary of beginning of decline of US prestige
This week marks the October 7, 2001 start of US invasion of Afghanistan, with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. The US and Britain began a series of nightly attacks on targets in Afghanistan, using cruise missiles and long-range bombers in an assault directed at airports, air defences and communication and command centres.

The American administration falsely told its citizens that the government of Afghanistan had refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, a deceit echoed by other countries invading the sovereign state, such as Britain and Australia. The Afghan government, in fact, offered to extradite bin Laden to a neutral nation, as it did not trust the George W Bush regime – a suspicion that in due course would come to be quite the norm worldwide. No other reason for the invasion of Afghanistan has ever been attempted by the US government, not even the WMDs excuse used for America's invasion of Iraq. Cynics cite Afghanistan's fossil fuels reserves.

America and its allies created a bloodbath in Afghanistan that continues to this day. According to Marc W Herold's Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States’ Aerial Bombing, up to 3,600 civilians were killed as a result of US bombing. According to Jonathan Steele of The Guardian, between 20,000 and 49,600 people might have died of the consequences of the invasion.

George W Bush has spread terrorism (such as the bombings in Spain, Bali and Jakarta) by creating justified resentment worldwide, as predicted here before the invasion of Afghanistan:

Desultory talkin' World War III philippic, or how I was William F Buckley'd into agreement

When I was walkin up the stair
I met a man named Tony Blair.
He wasn't there agin today
and he won't be there in the morning.

Along come a man, George W Bush,
Beady eyes and smarmy moosh;
he's bombin from the Hindu Kush
in the cold and snowy mornin.

I looks agin and what'd I see,
a dandelion as big as a tree,
bigger'n Bush and bigger'n me,
it jist grew up in the mornin.

George rode up with his 10-gallon hat
and carryin a baseball bat.
"My friend George what you want with that,
an' yer big ol' hat in the mornin?"

He says, "See this big ol' baseball bat?
I's gonna whup its ass with that.
Gonna knock it down an' lay it flat,
An' it won't git up in the mornin.

"That dandelion, he's a E-Vil weed,
he's full a li'l old E-Vil seeds."
I said, "My friend, best you succeed,
we don't want sin in the mornin."

He took that bat and whupped the ass
of the dandelion, and well you ask
what other things did come to pass
that cold 'n' snowy mornin.

Well all them seeds did fly around
like parachutes, without a sound,
an' some of them they come to ground,
an' they all took root next mornin.

I walked on up them stairs again
and passed by old Afghanistan.
An' I heard them souls all cry in pain,
an' they woke me up this mornin.