BUSH'S 'MAN OF PEACE'
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
[Col. Writ. 5/5/02]
In the wake of the horrific Israeli blitzkrieg against their colonial subjects in Palestine, U.S. president George W. Bush left no doubt as to who his government would support.
Bush's first words on the heels of the massive military incursions into the Occupied Territories were so laudatory that one had to wonder if he really knew what part of the world he was discussing.
By calling Israeli prime minister (and former general) Ariel Sharon "a man of peace" the American president drew gasps and guffaws of disbelief in every Arab capital in the world, and many non-Arab ones, too.
For Sharon is well-known in that part of the world as many things, but a "man of peace" ain't one of them. When thousands of Palestinian women and children were massacred in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila it bore the mark of Sharon all over it. Israeli- paid Lebanese militias did the dirty work, but they did it under Sharon's command and control.
Remember the rapists and killers of the Nicaraguan terrorist group, the contras? An addled Ronald Reagan, who broke U.S. laws to support their violent attacks on the people of Nicaragua, boasted "I am a contra." Such statements by America's leaders sow confusion and distrust all around the world, and provide support for the notion that Americans care nothing for the people of the earth. American presidents are, if nothing, Orwellian, who remind us of the dangerous claims of Orwell's 1984: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." Yeah. "I am a contra." "Sharon is a man of peace."
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