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Whitaker's Current Articles April 5, 2003
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Fun Quote:
In this section last week I said how grateful
I was that every single commentator and reporter tells us that “War
is bad.” That should take care of all those Americans who think
war is a fun thing.
Now they are telling us something else that we
need to hear.
Whenever anyone expresses gratitude for our low
casualties, the media tell us that statement means that we are happy
that Americans are dying.
A lot of us are deeply grateful that the
American death rate in Iraq has been so low. Reporters say that we
should realize that this does not mean that the death of even one
soldier
is good.
So they have to remind us, over and over and
over, that the death of any American soldier is bad.
I am so glad they explain that to me. But I
also need for them to keep telling me that war is bad.
Me and Baghdad Pete
I went ballistic when the Twin Towers were attacked on September 11,
2001. That upset a lot of people. They said I had
repeatedly talked about the power of the Israeli Lobby, so I
shouldn't go chauvinistic when America got attacked.
Nobody raises more hell about the Israeli Lobby and America's
criminal subservience to it than I do. But I do not think in
terms of abstract principles, I think in terms of loyalties.
For all the talk about how secessionist Southerners are "traitors"
to the "principles of America", you could depend on us to fight a
real foreign invader after all those Lincoln conservatives were
collaborating their guts out.
I do not hate America. Liberals hate America.
Peter Arnett is a media liberal who has been repeatedly accused of
being anti-American.
No, no, no said all the media liberals. No, no no, said all
the media conservatives
Everybody at Fox and all the other networks kept telling us that
Peter Arnett was a loyal New Zealand-American and an opponent of the
Saddam dictatorship.
Now he has gone on Iraqi television and thrown himself openly on the
side of the Saddam regime.
Gee, what a shock! Like any other liberal, Arnett
doesn't give a damn about Iraq or anybody else. He hates
Americans and he hates white people. Almost everybody in the
media hates America and white people.
But you've heard the old line: Arnett may have acted like he hated
America, but us sophisticated people know that things are not as
they appear.
Arnett is an example of the fact that most things ARE as they
appear. That's why God gave us eyes to see.
OPEC Delenda Est
In the Year of our Lord 1941, the United States was OPEC.
We were the world's main producer of oil.
In 1941 Franklin Roosevelt wanted desperately to get America into World War
II so he cut off all American oil shipments to Japan.
It worked and the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Ten years from now everybody is going to be whining, "Why didn't
we take out OPEC when we had the chance in Iraq?"
Ten years from now, absolutely everybody will be saying that they
wanted to take out OPEC but others didn't want to.
Look around you. Do you see anybody besides Whitaker who
has even mentioned the possibility of using Iraq to end OPEC?
The OPEC cartel is a hostile act against America. Nobody
denied that before the Iraq War. Nobody will deny that after
the Iraq War. But right now we have to get that stupid
idealistic look on our faces and repeat, "That oil belongs only to
the Iraqi people."
In ten years everybody will be asking, "So why didn't you break
OPEC when you had the chance? Why didn't you make a
contract to get Iraqi oil at a decent price for the long term and
only for the United States?"
Anybody ten years from now who admits he had the attitude Americans have right now will look like the cliche-mongering
fool he is.
So everybody will say they were for it.
Only Whitaker mentions it, as usual. Only Whitaker will
remember later how stupid everybody is right now.
Shoot Them or Shut Up
The most famous quote from President Ronald Reagan is, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
While Reagan's Berlin Wall speech was being finalized, Reagan's staff removed that line from the
speech THREE TIMES! It
was blunt and unsophisticated and everybody but Reagan agreed that
an American President shouldn't say a thing like that.
On Capitol Hill I worked for John Ashbrook, a conservative
Republican from Ohio. John Ashbrook was a pain in
the hinder parts to moderate Republicans.
He was such a pain to moderates that Republican Ohio
legislatures redistricted him three times trying to get rid of him.
But John Ashbrook kept winning even as his district became more
and more Democratic. The reason Ashbrook kept winning even in districts designed to defeat him
was because, like Ronald Reagan and Harry Truman at their best, he
spoke plain English.
Right after a hurricane in Florida, Ashbrook demanded that
looters be shot on sight. The local liberal newspaper went
ballistic. It said that shooting looters was evil and primitive
and out of date.
Then they took a poll of their readers, mostly liberals.
Eighty-three percent of their own readers agreed with John Ashbrook.
Shooting looters is the routine thing people have always done.
It is not out of date. It is the only way to retain
civilization in an emergency.
Shooting soldiers who are caught out of uniform is routine.
Using human shields gets you shot the same way.
If the Iraqis are killing American soldiers by such tactics,
we should shoot any Iraqi soldiers caught out of uniform or using human
shields and we should let the world know we are doing it. Do it or shut up about how they are being bad
boys.
Do it like a war and you won't make any enemies you don't already
have. You might even get some respect for it.
Or do it like a game. But don't play a game and call it
war.
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