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Bush Preparing Full-Scale Bombing War On IRAN As You Read This! "White Man's Burden" or "White Man's Plunder"? - RI10 Repub
Bush Preparing
Full-Scale Bombing
War On IRAN As You
Read This! “White
Man’s Burden” Or
“White Man’s
Plunder”? - RI10
Originally published May 3, 2007
Tabacco received the following email on April 9, 2007. You must take this ALERT seriously because the 3rd Stage in Bush’s Plan to invade 7 Countries in 5 years is imminent.
Read the related Post:
Gen. Wesley Clark Exposes 2001 Bush 7 Countries In 5 Years Attack Plan: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran - 2 Down (Iraq, Lebanon By Israelis), 5 To Go! - RI10
http://tabacco.blog-city.com/gen_wesley_clark_exposes_bush_2001_7_countries_in_5_years_at.htm
Published March 2, 2007
Subject: **ALERT - Take action NOW to stop a new war in the Middle East
Date: Monday, April 9, 2007 6:15 PM
From: Stop War on Iran <actioncenter@action-mail.org>
To: <Tabacco email address removed>
Cc: <action.news.1@organizerweb.com>
* ALERT - Take action NOW to stop a new war in the Middle East
Join Ramsey Clark, Howard Zinn, George Galloway, Dennis Halliday, Harold Pinter, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Tony Benn, Lynne Stewart, David Swanson and thousands more in an international campaign to Stop War on Iran.
* Sign the Petition - http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml
* Donate to help with organizing expenses - http://stopwaroniran.org/donate.shtml
* Sign up for updates - http://stopwaroniran.org/contact.shtml
As this is written, the Bush Administration, with no visible opposition from the Democratically controlled Congress, is massing warships and attack aircraft and stepping up covert operations in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.
Guerrilla cells, backed by the U.S., are entering Iran from Pakistan, engaging in sabotage, car bombings, kidnappings, and attacks on civilians. (see http://stopwaroniran.blogspot.com/2007/04/us-backing-terrorist-attacks-against.html).
Seymour Hersh has reported that U.S. Special Operation Forces are already operating inside Iran in preparation for a possible attack. Hersh says that current and former officials told him that one of the options being considered by the Bush administration called ‘for the use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as B61-11, against underground nuclear sites’.
Hersh writes, "Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups."
Meanwhile, U.S. Naval forces are involved in the largest naval exercises in the Persian Gulf since the invasion of Iraq. Two immense aircraft carriers, the USS Eisenhower and the USS Stennis, are steaming off the coast of Iran, each one accompanied by a carrier strike group. According to the Associated Press, "Each carrier hosts an air wing of F/A-18 Hornet and Superhornet fighter-bombers, EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare aircraft, S-3 Viking anti-submarine and refuelers, and E-2C Hawkeye airborne command-and-control craft. Also taking part were guided-missile destroyers USS Anzio, USS Ramage, USS O’Kane, USS Mason, USS Preble and USS Nitze; and minesweepers USS Scout, USS Gladiator and USS Ardent."
Al Jazeera reports, "American military domination of the Middle East is maintained by a vast network of military bases throughout the region. The US military in case of war has the capacity to crush Iran by round-the-clock bombing using cruise missiles and hundreds of warplanes."
Russian intelligence reports that "the US armed forces in the Gulf have virtually completed preparations for a missile and bomb strike against the territory of Iran."
Help Stop another war in the Middle East
It is clear that we cannot rely on politicians of either party to stop a new war against Iran. The only force that will stop an attack is a massive international grassroots movement of opposition.
In the Spring of 2006, activists from across the globe signed on to the initial call from Stop War on Iran (http://stopwaroniran.org/statement.shtml) saying, "We urge an immediate end to Washington's campaign of sanctions, hostility, and falsehood against the people of Iran. We oppose any new U.S. aggression against Iran. We need funds for human needs, not endless war for empire."
Since that time, Stop War on Iran activists and organizers have held teach-ins and forums across the U.S. We have marched in antiwar demonstrations with Stop War on Iran placards and banners. We participated in the Encampment to Stop the War in Washington DC (see photos at http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/2007/03/encampment-to-stop-war-photos.html). We have distributed thousands of Stop War on Iran broadsheets and collected tens of thousands of petition signatures.
But we must do more and we need your help to do it. Here's how you can help:
* Sign the petition, located at http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml.
* Download the petition from http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.pdf. Take copies to your school, workplace, union hall, church or mosque, community center, etc.
* Help get the word out. Pass the word along to your email lists.
* Donate - Help us with the enormous expenses of organizing meetings and rallies, printing leaflets, placards, and banners, and producing educational material. You can donate online at http://stopwaroniran.org/donate.shtml.
Stop War On Iran <http://stopwaroniran.org/> - 55 West 17th St, 5C, New York, NY 10011
Tabacco: “What are they waiting for”, you ask? Bush is waiting for the Democrats to pass a military appropriations bill that does NOT include GET OUT OF IRAQ DATE! Once he gets that money, Iran is next! No Democrat in Congress should pass any military appropriations bill while Bush is president – or any Republican for that matter. The QuasiCons/Neocons use War as Disaster Capitalism to put big $$$ in their till. WMDs, democracy, dictators, etc. etc. – those are their EXCUSES! Ill-gotten gain is their REASON!
In the history of mankind, no powerful nation has ever invaded any other nation to remove a malevolent dictator, install democracy in an oppressed country, help their poor people, prevent Civil War or for any other benevolent REASON. Those are merely their EXCUSES. All imperialists need EXCUSES to rape and plunder other countries’ resources.
If you believe the United States under the stewardship of George W. Bush invaded Iraq to remove WMDs, help oppressed Iraqis, institute real democracy in Iraq or anywhere else, save Iraqi souls with Christianity, save Iraqi Muslims from Saddam Hussein, make certain that Iraqis benefit from their own oil resources, or ensure peace, tranquility and security for the USA, then you, my friend, are a 1st Magnitude Idiot!
In the past, the European-American nations used Rudyard Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden” concept as an EXCUSE to plunder 3rd world countries – mainly in Africa. The Prime Example of Caucasian Hypocrisy, which was used as the EXCUSE for Imperialism since its first publishing in 1899, appears below:
The White Man's Burden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published in the popular magazine McClure's in 1899, with the subtitle The United States and the Philippine Islands. "The White Man's Burden" was written in regard to the U.S. conquest of the Philippines and other former Spanish colonies. Although Kipling's poem mixed exhortation to empire with sober warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the United States latched onto the phrase "white man's burden" as a characterization for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise.
The poem was originally written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, but exchanged for "Recessional"; Kipling changed the text of "Burden" to reflect the subject of American colonization. The poem consists of seven stanzas, following a regular rhyme scheme. At face value it appears to be a rhetorical command to white men to colonize and rule people of other nations for their own benefit (both the people and the duty may be seen as representing the "burden" of the title), and because of this has become symbolic of Eurocentrism. A century after its publication, the poem still rouses strong emotions, and can be analyzed from a variety of perspectives.
Satire? Maybe! Truth? Absolutely!
A straightforward analysis of the poem may conclude that Kipling presents a Eurocentric view of the world, in which non-European cultures are seen as childlike. This view proposes that white people consequently have an obligation to rule over, and encourage the cultural development of, people from other ethnic and cultural backgrounds until they can take their place in the world by fully adopting Western ways. The term "the white man's burden" has been interpreted as racist, or taken as a metaphor for a condescending view of non-Western national culture and economic traditions, identified as a sense of European ascendancy, which has been called "cultural imperialism". A more obvious interpretation is the philanthropic view, common in Kipling's formative years, that the rich have a moral duty and obligation to help the poor "better" themselves whether the poor want the help or not.
Within a historical context, the poem makes clear the prevalent attitudes that allowed colonialism to proceed. Although a belief in the "virtues of empire" was widespread at the time, there were also many dissenters; the publication of the poem caused a flurry of arguments from both sides, most notably from Mark Twain and Henry James. Much of Kipling's other writing does suggest that he genuinely believed in the "beneficent role" which the introduction of Western ideas could play in lifting non-Western peoples out of "poverty and ignorance". Lines 3-5, and other parts of the poem suggest that it is not just the native people who are enslaved, but also the "functionaries of empire", who are caught in colonial service and may die while helping other races less fortunate than themselves. This theme may also be echoed in the Christian missionary movement, which was also quite active at the time in Africa, India, and other British and European colonies (e.g. the Christian and Missionary Alliance).
Some commentators point to Kipling's history of satirical writing, and suggest that "The White Man's Burden" is in fact meant to satirically undermine imperialism. Chris Snodgrass, in A Companion to Victorian Poetry describes Kipling's poetry as problematizing "imperial sensibilities with wry irony and skepticism, viewing all human endeavour as ultimately transitory". Kipling also wrote many poems celebrating the working classes, particularly the common soldier. Six months after "The White Man's Burden" was published, he wrote "The Old Issue", a stinging criticism of the Second Boer War, and an attack on the unlimited, despotic power of kings. The Norton Anthology of English Literature argues it is no satire, but in line with Kipling's strong imperialism and a belief of a "Divine Burden to reign God's Empire on Earth", that other, less Christian nations would otherwise take.
This advertisement for soap uses the theme of the White Man's Burden, encouraging white people to teach cleanliness to members of other races.
It would take a lot more than Pears’ Soap to cleanse the dirt from Caucasian Imperialism!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man's_Burden
Modern History Sourcebook:
Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899
This famous poem, written by Britain's imperial poet, was a response to the American take over of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"
Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html
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