Our Marines are off on Operation Matador, another Fallujah, and this time in Western Iraq, out of sight of the world.  Several much-filtered, bloody stories are coming back.  Anywhere from 30 to 100 Iraqis are being killed for every Marine lost, depending on what story you choose to believe.  America’s few deaths are cause to mourn; I mourn with the mothers of the dead, because I know each death is unnecessary. 

The ‘friendly fire’ death of pro-football’s Pat Tillman was deliberately and flagrantly lied about by the Army even as hero ceremonies were being conducted in his name.  They went so far as to destroy his personal effects to hide the truth.  Tillman died because he was fooled by the very military he sought to serve. If any good can come of Tillman’s death or that of Rachael Corrie, who was crushed under a Caterpillar dozer probably given to Israel by our government, that good can only be if the truth comes out about them, causing millions to think.  Let it be so. 

The gulf between Pat Tillman and Rachel Corrie is important to recognize.  Miss Corrie understood her cause…she even knew the risk and she still stood in front of the bulldozer that was about do destroy a family’s home.  Poor Pat Tillman may never have known that he was being risked without a cause.  Had Tillman ever spoken to Rachael Corrie, or to any one of our readers who understands our Serial Wars, his story might have had a different ending.  Reaching college students and youth with our message is a matter of life and death for some of them, especially the youth inside churches that support our serial wars in the Mideast.

How do we know what ‘our boys’ are doing in the USA’s private wars, in which we have no real allies except the pit bull, Israel?  The truth is, ‘our boys’ can do anything they want to the people of Iraq.  We will not know about most of the unnecessary brutality until they start spilling it to their respective psychiatrist’s years from now.  Israelis shoot children at will, one or two per week, and are never accountable.  We do know about Abu Ghraib and isolated incidents that have been reported.  If we are to deduce what is taking place, we must understand the language of deceit.  We must decode the propaganda words of the ‘embedded’ journalists, the media’s term for controlled journalists assigned to a specific military unit and under the command of someone in the unit.  No wonder our news is controlled; there is no competition for the truth. Here are a few Neo-words.

‘INSURGENT’ is a convenient propaganda word.  It sounds like a foreign invader surging into the country, does it not?  ‘In-surg-ent.’  But it means “an uprising from within.  ‘Look it up’, as Yogi used to say. УINSURGENTФ is defined as a hometown boy fighting a guerilla war for his turf; one who rises up against civil authority.  We Americans are the foreign invaders and the Iraqis are the local patriot’s.  Understand that and you know why they fight back so desperately: it’s their property that is being taken. If Arabs from other countries are helping the uprising that should surprise no one; they all know they are next on the war list.

УSUICIDE BOMBERФ is another new Iraqi propaganda word.  We associate ‘suicide’ with mentally deranged, or sinful, for it is a sin to destroy a life God created in both Islam and Christianity.  But the human special delivery bombers of Iraq are not committing ‘suicide’. They are warriors.  Suicide has a clear definition; it means taking your own life for the specific purpose of ending your life.  There is not a shred of evidence that the sacrificial bombers of Baghdad (or Gaza) want to die. 

We hear about one or two of these bombers every day.  Tragically, they often blow up other Iraqis who are seeking police jobs in the new government dictated to rule them.  A Bomber’s willingness to kill their fellow countrymen stuns us.  We need to understand the motives of anyone so sacraficial..  We wonder who these people with the bombs are and what fires them, and we are never told.  Have you ever heard the name of even one Human Bomber Еhis life, family, beliefs and associations?

In occupied Palestine the Human bombs parents can expect a quick visit from the Israeli Defense Forces, usually with a bulldozer close behind.  Surely our leaders know who some of these dead warriors are.  To my knowledge not one family member of an Iraqi bomber has been interviewed.  Why not?  Its pretty obvious, our media wants us to think of the Human Bomb as a non-person, or maybe a subhuman, demented and suicidal.  Never are they shown as persons with a mission.  We do not need to approve of what they do to understand it.  Some of us will never forget the Buddhist monks who burned themselves to death in front of TV cameras in Saigon to protest our presence there.  There could be no doubt about their motives, and we were soon gone.

 The Human Bomber of Iraq are following in the footsteps of the warriors from Philistia who tragically learned that hand-carried bombs were their only remaining weapons after 55 years of being strangled in confinement and humiliation at the hands of the American equipped invading Israelis.  The Iraqis have the advantage of Palestinians experience; they have no illusion of obtaining independence from their conqueror without winning it.

Our ‘Serial Wars’ are three quarters of a century down the road to utter destruction of our once magnificent economy.  If we want to understand this truth, we must start by learning the true meaning of the words the American Press gives us with our morning coffee and ten o’clock news. 

Here is a start for We Hold These Truth’s new dictionary of Serial Wars: The real meaning of the Neo-Words:

INSURGENT:  A local indigenous Iraqi man or woman willing to fight for his property and freedom

SUICIDE BOMBER:  The most feared fighting warrior on earth, serious enough to risk almost certain death to kill or frighten his enemy.

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM:  Palestinian style repression applied to Iraq. 

OPERATION MATADOR: Military term for a  fair bullfight in which an Apache shoots the bull in his pen with a missile

IMBEDDED REPORTER:  The US military’s  ‘version’ of what happened.  

Feel free to contribute your favorite Neo-Words to our list.-

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