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Nov 6, 2008

Photos Show Rape of Iraqi Women
by US Occupation Forces

[Note: FAKE photos, PROVED fakes, are being used by the govt in an attempt to DIS-CREDIT the REAL photos that have surfaced, and will surface in future.] [The following photograph, horrifying and disgusting as it is, appears to be a FAKE, a mere pretense; as the uniforms on the soldiers are all wrong, etc.] [So, if you are going to be offended, then be offended for the right reasons! At least good taste, rather than someone's Human Rights, are the standards being violated here!] [The gross anti-Semitism of the following paragraph, is something that the govt, and not any other entity, appears to be responsible for, in its propaganda department. It would under ordinary circumstances be a huge turnoff, unsympathetic; and that is in fact its purpose, strategically placed by the photographs. Makes the ordinary person think even more, "There is something fishy about these pics." That is what you are supposed to think: "These pics are FAKE." Which, of course, they are. But, next, you are being sub-consiously MANIPULATED to think, "Well, if these awful rape pictures are fake, showing fake American troops; then, therefore ALL pictures of American troops committing rapes, torture and atrocities, must be fake, too! Wow! Whatta relief! To "know" that American troops never commit no rapes and no atrocities never!!!!! ] [This makes for a real "Mind-fu*k"!] [It is of course entirely possible, that many of the sources picking up on these fake photos, did so not catching on to the fact that as journalists, they were being USED to spread U.S.govt DIS-INFORMATION! The more that happened, the happier the govt psy-ops got!]

(Please Note: Many of the photographs showing the rape of Iraqi women and the sodomization of Iraqi POW's at the Abu Ghraib prison are now at USA pornographic websites pointing to the possibility of collusion between the depraved US soldiers in the pictures and US based Jewish pornographers. Many of these photographs were also freely disseminated to US occupation forces, perhaps to inflame their nefarious desires and to motivate them to strike out against the Iraqi populace in these perverse ways.)

by Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan

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"The suggestion that the photos are real is, of course, ludicrous. While some of the select still shots appear dramatic and disturbing, the videos from which the still shots were taken give ample evidence that all participants were willing and that this was a porn shoot replete with high-school level acting skills and, in one case, a pseudo-disco porn soundtrack.

The only English spoken in the movies is the obligatory, "Oh, yeah." Two of the films feature "soldiers" speaking phrases in French and German. In addition, the uniforms have no insignia, the "soldiers" wear jungle camouflage and face paint, instead of desert camouflage. The helmets are not authentic, nor are the T-shirts or shoes.

One Internet blogger laughingly pointed out that one soldier's weapon was a paintball gun, and another one noted the ever-present "porn blanket" that appeared in every scene. One observer commented that the acrobats from Cirque du Soleil would have difficulty figuring out the moves involved in these multiple-partner performance shots.
The films are set in Budapest, not Iraq.
Some of Marchand's still shots were carried on an American site called "Iraq Babes."

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Uhoud
- 17 days ago - aztlan.net
Photos Show Rape of Iraqi Women


Whether those photos are real or faked; the RAPES described in WORDS, are REAL.
Whether THOSE photos are real or faked; they are LIKE photographs members of Congress have actually SEEN, that have NOT BEEN RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC, YET. ASK your Members of Congress, about them! {They probably aren't allowed to tell!}

Whether those photograph are real or fake, Members of the American Military, yes, the Former Boy or Girl Next Door, as young and guileless as Lynndie Englund, ARE PARTICIPATING IN RAPES AND TORTURES, ORDERED BY THE HIGHER-UPS; all the way up to the SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.

American soldiers ARE INDEED, RAPING, IMPREGNATING, AND IN SOME CASES MURDERING, their own female fellow-soldiers.
They ARE deliberately torturing and destroying helpless ANIMALS.
You are only getting a TINY TIP OF THE ICEBERG, of what is REALLY going on!

Yes, there ARE Iraqi women, children, and young boys, IN AMERICAN-RUN PRISONS in Iraq. Yes, they ARE being tortured -- often, to "soften up" their menfolk and parents, to force them to "talk".
THIS HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED. RELEASED PRISONERS HAVE TALKED ABOUT IT. There appeared last week, on the TV show FRONTLINE -- INTERVIEWS with former prisoners -- many of whom are EDUCATED and SPEAK PERFECTLY GOOD ENGLISH, and don't need translators! They have HEARD WOMEN SCREAMING thru their cell walls......NOT FAKE! and have NIGHTMARES about it STILL....... wouldn't YOU?

I believe that the FAKE SITE, could have been SET UP BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, on PURPOSE in order to DISCREDIT the REAL STORIES. Together with that fake anti-Semitism. To discredit the site even more. The site, I believe, was SET UP IN THAT WAY, with the FAKE AND INACCURATE COSTUMES; so that, in future, when the REAL pictures were FINALLY shown, people in ADVANCE, would HAVE A REASON FOR DIS-BELIEVING THEM.

The U.S. Government, will do ANYTHING, just ANYTHING, to GET THEMSELVES OFF THE HOOK.
World Opinion, however, KNOWS, that, U.S. Govt-sponsored FAKE PORN SITE or no Fake Porn Site; the U.S. Govt. IS GUILTY AS SIN.
This slimey little trick of theirs, setting up THEIR OWN GOVT INTERNET OBVIOUSLY-FAKED WILLING-TO-BE-DISCOVERED-FAKE PORN SITE, will NOT WORK, NEVER, NEVER, EVER, in the eyes of the ENTIRE WORLD.

I believe that with OBAMA now as President, THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WILL STOP SPENDING TAXPAYERS' MONEY TO SET UP ITS OWN FAKED RAPE PICTURE SITES TO COVER UP THE REAL PRISON RAPE PICTURES. I believe we are COUNTING on Obama, to SHUT DOWN THE PRISONS WHERE THE RAPES AND HUMILIATIONS OF IRAQIS ARE BEING COMMITTED, ENTIRELY. Unlike Bush did, we DO NOT EXPECT PRESIDENT OBAMA TO TRY TO DENY OR TO "JUSTIFY" THE EXISTENCE OF THESE PRISONS AND THESE ATROCITIES. Only the TRUTH, and not FAKERY and LIES, will set us, and the world, free from this nightmare!!!

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Uhoud, it is NOT YOUR FAULT that you were TAKEN IN by this CLEVERLY-FAKED U.S. GOVERNMENT PORN SITE evilly crafted to DISCREDIT YOUR TRUE STORIES. Just be careful from now on -- and WATCH OUT FOR THAT FAKE ANTI-SEMITISM. You are a BRAVE SOUL; keep on reporting TRUTH, my Sister!!!!!

FURTHERMORE: KNOW, THAT I CANNOT PROVE THIS; THAT THE PICTURES IN QUESTION WERE TAKEN FROM A U.S. GOVERNMENT-MANUFACTURED DELIBERATELY-FAKED PORN SITE. HOWEVER, IT IS CONSISTENT WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED DIS-INFORMATION ACTIVITIES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE "BLACK OPS". FOR EXAMPLE, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS SET UP MORE-THAN-ONE FAKE "9/11 TRUTHER" INTERNET SITE, COMPLETE WITH THE SAME ANTI-SEMITISM AND OBVIOUSLY-PROVING-FAKE PHOTOS. THE PURPOSE CLEARLY BEING, TO MAKE 9/11 TRUTHERS LOOK LIKE GULLIBLE FOOLS! AND SMEAR THEM ALL, AS BEING MOTIVATED BY RABID ANTI-SEMITISM!

I furthermore believe, that the "Angel H." person who posted SO OFTEN and at SUCH LENGTH under that picture thread, whose logo is a "Pirate Skull" {odd for an "Angel"!}; could be someone who has shilled for the govt here on Care2 before, quite a while ago, under other names, but with a JESTER'S SKULL LOGO. I seem to recognize that person's STYLE characteristics!! It is "intellectual sweet reasonableness" and "being 'willing' to look at both sides", etc. Yeah, insisting on giving "Equal Time" to govt LIES! The govt figures that that is how to "disarm" us "Liberals" -- sneak in the NeoCon agenda, but NEVER ADMIT you are going by a NeoCon script!!!!!!!! Also, the "Walkadelic" person on that thread, seems to be a govt shill. They both try to put forward "sweet reasonableness" and "looking at both sides" and "being fair" and "objectivity". Their statements do not hold up under scrutiny. And, they seem AWFULLY EAGER to REFUTE any Peace point-of-view!!!!!! at great, great, length -- as if they had nothing better to do! {They are BEING PAID.}

This trick of the govt's, DID NOT WORK WITH CARE2 MEMBERS, THE WAY THEY WANTED IT TO!!! We didn't CARE if the pictures were fake, or not! WE KNEW FROM OTHER SOURCES, THAT THE STORIES OF RAPES, WERE REAL! We Care2 members ARE NOT SO EASILY FOOLED!!!!!! into thinking "Well, if these pictures are fake, then, of course, ALL stories of 'our wonderful troops' doing bad things, must also be faked!" WE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US KNEW BETTER THAN THAT; AND SAID SO!

Watch out for that "Pirate Skull" "Angel", and "Walkadelic", on other threads. That "Skull" person, whatever his real name is, and he has gone by Randy and David and other names, seems to associate that "Death's Head" with a kind of a MOCKING SUPERIORITY, as if he is "taking us all in"............

BMutiny T     Barbara

Dec 5, 2007
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Oct 7, 2007
HOROWITZ'S 'ISLAMOFASCISM AWARENESS WEEK' BRINGS HATE TO COLLEGE CAMPUSES

Hate Week Comes to Campus 
By AARON HESS

If you wanted to know what Sen. Joe McCarthy would sound like if he came back from the dead, read David Horowitz's explanation for "Islamofascism Awareness Week," an event he is sponsoring on college campuses across the country from October 22-26:

'The progressive left is the enabler and abettor of the terrorist jihad. It has forged an "unholy alliance" with the most retrograde and reactionary forces in the world today. The institutional base of the left is the university system, from whose classrooms it is conducting a behind-the-lines psychological warfare campaign against its own countrymen.'

Horowitz, who edits the online FrontPage Magazine and runs the creepily named Web sites CampusWatch and DiscoverTheNetwork, is the self-appointed chief of the new thought police on college campuses.

Ironically, Horowitz is a former radical himself--a prominent writer and activist in the movement against the U.S. war in Vietnam. But in the 1970s, he distanced himself from the left, and by 1987, he had "come in from the cold"--hosting a "Second Thoughts" conference that brought together fellow ex-radicals who now embraced Ronald Reagan and the Cold War.

Horowitz's subsequent career "baiting the left"--to use his own phrase--is lucrative. In 2005, the David Horowitz Freedom Center received more than $15.5 million in right-wing grant money, and in 2003, Horowitz's own income for the year was $310,000.

Though he sounds like an irrelevant crank, a look at Horowitz's track record shows no one should ignore his latest stunt. "Islamofascism Awareness Week" is one part of a broader attempt to stifle academic dissent.

In just the past year, the new McCarthyism cost several professors their jobs, including DePaul University's Norman Finkelstein, an outspoken critic of Israel's occupation of Palestine; and Native American scholar Ward Churchill at the University of Colorado. Other academics have been investigated and censured for their political ideas.

Horowitz has been at the center of the assault. In 2003, he launched the misnamed Students for Academic Freedom (SAF), which encourages students to "collect evidence" of their professors' "indoctrination" in the classroom, and file reports with college administrators.

Horowitz claims SAF is "nonpartisan," and college administrators who have collaborated in the witch-hunt echo its innocuous language about protecting scholarship from "shifting to advocacy"--the phrase DePaul University president Dennis Holtschneider used in his decision to deny tenure to Norman Finkelstein.

But Horowitz's blacklist is reserved exclusively for critics of U.S. wars and the right-wing agenda. Whatever their rhetoric, the new witch-hunters want to silence ideas that challenge the status quo from the left.

"ISLAMOFASCISM Awareness Week" is designed, according to FrontPage, to "challenge most of what students are taught about the so-called War on Terror both in the classroom and on the quad."

In reality, Horowitz and friends rely on standard right-wing myths and stereotypes--echoed by mainstream politicians and the media on a regular basis--to demonize Arabs and Muslims, and justify U.S. war atrocities in the Middle East, including a future attack on Iran, which is at the top of the Horowitz wish list.

A featured speaker on Horowitz's right-wing road show is the self-described "religious expert" Robert Spencer, author of the book Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't.

Spencer's book argues that the Koran is responsible for violence committed by Muslims against Western targets--but that "there is no justification for violent acts committed by Christians, either in the Christian Scriptures or the teaching of various Christian churches."

Really? What about the Crusades in the Middle Ages? The Spanish Inquisition? The genocide of Native Americans? The ongoing U.S. war on Iraq? All of these crimes were justified in their time by Christians--the Popes of the Catholic Church, Christopher Columbus, George W. Bush--who claimed to be doing "God's work."

Spencer could stand to re-enroll in Bible study class. For every violent or intolerant passage to be found in the Koran, an equally bloody one can be found in the Old and New Testaments. For instance, the book of Deuteronomy contains the command that anyone who "hath gone and served other gods"-- in other words, practiced another faith--should be "stoned by stones till they die."

Another speaker dredged from the gutter to join Horowitz's tour is Ann Coulter. Coulter is a disgusting bigot who saves her most vile slurs for Muslims--like the comment, "I believe our motto after 9/11 should be: Jihad monkey talks tough; jihad monkey takes the consequences. Sorry, I realize that's offensive. How about 'camel jockey'?"

Horowitz is also employing one of the right wing's favorite smokescreens in attacking Muslims--by claiming to be concerned about the "oppression of women in Islam." FrontPage states that "the plight of Muslim women will be featured at 'teach-in' panels and also at sit-ins in Women's Studies Departments."

This cynical ploy has been used many times in the past as justification for Western imperial powers to invade and occupy the Middle East.

 
 

"During the British occupation of Egypt, British Consul General Lord Cromer declared that Egyptians should 'be persuaded or forced into imbibing the true spirit of Western civilization,'" wrote Sharon Smith in her book Women and Socialism. "Cromer targeted, 'first and foremost, Islam's degradation of women.'"

But this supposed champion of women's rights in Egypt was, back in England, a "founding member and sometimes president of the Men's League for Opposing Women's Suffrage." 
   
In 2001, the U.S. used the horrific treatment of women under the Taliban as an excuse to invade Afghanistan. But the new Afghan regime installed by the U.S. relies on a grouping of warlords from the Northern Alliance, which has a record of terrible violence against Afghan women.

According to a 2007 report by UNIFEM, the women's fund at the United Nations, the majority of Afghan women today will be victims of sexual violence, and the average life expectancy of Afghan women is 44 years.

As for Horowitz, he may pose as a champion of women's rights in the Middle East, but making three stops on his Islamophobia tour is one of the right's favorite anti-abortion fanatics: former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
 
 
 
THE CONCEPT of "Islamofascism" has been conjured up as part of the right wing's effort to sell the U.S. war to control the Middle East as a battle of "values" between a democratic, tolerant and rational West and a totalitarian, intolerant and fanatical political Islam.

But even U.S. foreign policy elites reject the idea that there's any connection between political Islam and any conventional definition of fascism. "There is no sense in which jihadists embrace fascist ideology as it was developed by Mussolini or anyone else who was associated with the term," wrote Daniel Benjamin of the mainstream Center for Strategic and International Studies.

In reality, the claims about "Islamofascism" have more to do with the longstanding practice of the U.S. political and media elite to brand every passing U.S. enemy as the "new Hitler."

Among those who to receive the label are Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic and even Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But of course, the Hitler slur is never used against the U.S.-supported right-wing regimes that did embrace elements of Nazism--for example, the racist apartheid regime in South Africa or the Indonesian military dictatorship under Gen. Suharto.

Another example of this double standard is the hysteria surrounding the recent visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Columbia University. New York tabloids screeched that hosting Ahmadinejad was akin to hosting Hitler, and Columbia President Lee Bolinger introduced him as the "mind of evil." You would never know that it was the U.S. government hinting that it was about to declare war on Iran, and not the other way around.

Meanwhile, on the same day as Ahmadinejad's visit, the president of Turkmenistan--the ruler of a one-party state that tortures political prisoners and prohibits freedom of the press, as even the State Department admits--spoke at Columbia, and neither the media nor Bollinger had any complaints.

The difference, of course, is that Turkmenistan is a U.S. ally.

Horowitz's Islamophobia tour takes place at a time when racism against Muslims and Arabs is rampant and provides one of the only remaining selling points for U.S. wars. Politicians and the corporate media use bigotry to scapegoat Iraqis for the ongoing failure of the U.S. occupation and turn up the military pressure on Iran.

Given the climate, it's little surprise that the Council on American-Islamic Relations has documented a rise in discrimination and hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims in the U.S.

David Horowitz and his fellow Islamophobes should be confronted and exposed for the bigots they are--at every campus they show up on, and everywhere opponents of war and racism raise their voices.

Aaron Hess writes for the Socialist Worker.

http://www.counterpunch.org

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PLEASE GET THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION OUT TO ANY COLLEGE STUDENTS AND COLLEGE CAMPUSES YOU KNOW.

IF IT IS NOT COUNTERACTED IN SOME WAY, REFUTED, THEN THE NAIVE AND UN-KNOWING WILL THINK IT IS "THE TRUTH".  BMT

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