Dead Iraqi victim of torture, prisoner just before dog attack and US President Bush praying May 6, 2004 (base Bush image Reuters/Jason Reed)
Bush’s God cannot win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people
Nipawin - Thursday - May 13, 2004 - by: Mario deSantis
"George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters of the United States. He was appointed by God." Lt. Gen. William Boykin, intelligence advisor to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [1]
"The carnage was horrendous, and it was worth it [Civil War], and I look at Iraq, and all I can say is I hope it comes out well" US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [2]
torture	Looking at the many pictures of torture by the American military, CIA agents and free marketeering contractors [3] I am left with no words to intelligently describe the foreign policies of the Bush administration [4] [5].
execution	Now we have another picture of the gruesome beheading of an American independent contractor by an alleged Al Qaeda cell in Iraq [6].
violence	There was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, and now that Bush has liberated the people of Iraq, there is an escalation of violence, torture and terrorism, by Al Qaeda, by American forces, by Iraqi militiamen, by foreign mercenaries of any stripe, by ordinary people.
guns	Bush’s adventure in Iraq is a total catastrophe, and there is no way Bush can conquer the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people by the barrel of American guns [7].
ideology	Bush’s war has destroyed Iraq’s economic infrastructure, unemployment is rampant, violence has become business as usual, killing continues. The administration of American torture has now taken us to the experimental validation of the social theory of the Clash of Civilizations as theorized by American professor and ideologue Samuel Huntington [8] [9].
God	Bush cannot win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people for the simple reason, that Bush has no heart and no mind, and his duplicitous God alone cannot help him out. What we need is not Bush’s duplicitous preaching [10] but the retaking of common language [11].
	Mario deSantis
References:
	Pertinent articles published in Ensign
1. ..	Spannaus, Edward Iraq Prisoner Torture Shows Face of Cheney's Beast-Men May 14, 2004 issue, Executive Intelligence Review, http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3119iraq_torture.html
2. ..	Priest, Dana, Morgan, Dan Rumsfeld Defends Rules for Prison. Senators Question Interrogation Guidelines (pdf) May 13, 2004 Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22472-2004May12?language=printer
3. .	Photos of Iraqis Being Abused by US Personnel http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/iraqis_tortured
4. . ..	Curiel, Jonathan Awful images change perception of the war. They stir emotions words rarely can (pdf) May 12, 2004 San Francisco Chronicle, http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/12/MNGMO6K22R1.DTL
5. .	Lobe, Jim Chickenhawk Groupthink May 12, 2004 Antiwar, http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=2555
6. .	Video of American Contractor Being Decapitated in Iraq (warning: this is extremely graphic) http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/decapitation_video.htm
7.	Buchanan, Patrick A Time for Truth May 12, 2004 Antiwar, http://antiwar.com/pat/
8. .	Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993 http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19930601faessay5188/samuel-p-huntington/the-clash-of-civilizations.html
9. .	Dowd, Maureen, Clash of Civilizations (pdf) May 13, 2004, The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/opinion/13DOWD.html?
10. .	Record, Jeffrey BOUNDING THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM (pdf) December 2003 Strategic Studies Institute, http://www.fas.org/man/eprint/record.pdf
11. .	Verrillo, Erica English lesson for our leaders, (pdf) May 12, 2004 Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2004/05/12/english_lesson_for_our_leaders
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