War! What is it Good for....

Absolutely nothing! Say it again! Well although that song is catchy it’s not exactly true. War is good for business no matter how you look at it! Recently while watching the news I started thinking about how the guys that we seem to be looking for in Iraq can’t be found and it upset me.

In more the more than two years since the US initialized the hostilities against Iraq, there has never been a positive identification of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Never.

At present, much of the rationale for maintaining the occupation depends on this elusive and, perhaps, illusory figure. It’s odd how Al-Zarqawi appears at the precise coordinates of America’s bombing raids, and then miraculously vanishes unscathed from the scene of the wreckage. This would be a remarkable feat for anyone, but especially for someone who only has one leg.

This is a quote from a member of the Iraqi national assembly : “It seems that the American forces are trying to escalate the situation in order to make the Iraqi people suffer…. There is a huge campaign for the agents of the foreign occupation to enter and plant hatred between the sons of the Iraqi people, and spread rumors in order to scare the one from the other. The occupiers are trying to start religious incitement and if it does not happen, then they will try to start an internal Shiite incitement.”

Translation: George Bush is making this Sh*t up for his own political and financial purposes! That’s right a lot of Iraqis believe that Americans and Britons are doing a lot of the bombings. Some Britons were even arrested by Iraqi Police for planting car bombs a few weeks ago. Don’t worry you won’t see nor hear anything about that over at CNN.

Last week the Imam of Baghdad’s al-Kazimeya mosque, Jawad al-Kalesi said, that “al-Zarqawi is dead but Washington continues to use him as a bogeyman to justify a prolonged military occupation…. He’s simply an invention by the occupiers to divide the people.” Al-Kalesi added that al-Zarqawi was killed in the beginning of the war in the Kurdish north and that “His family in Jordan even held a ceremony after his death.”

Why have I not heard this? Ok maybe it’s not true. A lot of people fake their own deaths. Tupac did- and do not try to convince me otherwise! But shouldn’t that have at the very least been reported? But whether it’s true or not a lot of Iraqis believe it and according to reports by The Center for Strategic and International Studies the invasion of Iraq has added thousands of “fresh recruits to Osama bin Laden’s network”; a fact that is no longer in dispute among those who have studied the data on the topic.

Let’s just break this completely down. We are spending billions….yes BILLIONS with a “B” in Iraq and we can’t find one dude? C’mon. Let’s just take Osama out of the equation since he supposedly has money and caves underground. But they have characterized al-Zarqawi as nothing more than a thug.
The al-Zarqawi phantasm is a particularly weak link in the Pentagon’s reports. The facts neither support the allegations of his participation nor prove that foreigners are a major contributor to the ongoing violence. Instead, the information points to a Defense establishment that cannot be trusted in anything it says and that may be directly involved in the terrorist bombings that have killed countless thousands of Iraqi civilians.
Regrettably, that is a prospect that can’t be ignored. After all, no one else, especially not al Zarqawi benefits from the slaughter.
I’ll be keeping an eye out to see if any of the things reported in other places are ever verified or followed up on but in the mean time why aren’t there Anti-War rallies like every weekend?! People complain about this war everyday and then do nothing about it. If you don’t agree with Lil Georgie then email somebody, write a letter, tie yourself to a tree or something!

And even with that being said I realize that no matter who the President is and no matter who is in Congress we will always have MAJOR problems. There will always be wars because man has the inability to rule himself. We weren’t created to rule ourselves and therefore we will always have problems. What? Yall didn’t think THE KING had a religious side to him? Please. As a matter of fact I think we’ll delve into some religious topics tomorrow!!! That should really get some stuff going up in this piece! Until then my people….