Turn the lights out, Mr. Bush. ASAP.
Posted on 03/23/2003 10:44:33 PM PST by Brian_Baldwin
Time to Turn the Lights Out in Baghdad
So let me see. The reason we leave the lights on in Baghdad, is so the Iraqi’s can sit next to their desk lamp and watch Al Jazeera and Iraqi T.V. show our men and women troops who were raped, their pants pulled down to their knees, shot execution style in the head, and the ones they hold interrogated and paraded for the Arab world to cheer?
Isn’t that right? Isn’t that what is happening?
We leave the lights on so they can watch Al Jazeera and Iraqi television.
We can’t see it. Just like we can’t see the women dropping their babies from the twin towers. Just like we can’t be told that 200 plus children of the daycare center in the towers were covered with collapsing cement, some of them maybe were alive for a few minutes in horror? No, we can’t see any of that. We can’t see what these bastards are, because, maybe if we really see what happened on 911, if we see that tape of our executed soldiers and the interrogations, that we might get mad at Arabs or something. Maybe, we might take to the streets and really beat the hell out of these communists and “Palestinians” and “women of cover” (who are barking communist propaganda at us), who the leftist media calls “anti-war” protestors. Maybe that’s why.
I have never been to Baghdad. But I have been to Calcutta, many times. I can tell you, there have already been some phone calls that got into Baghdad. They sit in their apartments, and they don’t even know that our troops are approaching from the South. Sure, they see the palace on fire. The big booms. And, they watch Iraqi T.V.. They watch our captive troops and the propaganda. In Calcutta, it isn’t like Baghdad, they don’t not live under a regime like Saddam . . . But I can tell you, in some ways, it's the same. And I think I can tell you, in Baghdad, that they do not think, “oh, the Americans only bomb the government, we are ok, so we will welcome them”. Well, I can tell you, it is like Calcutta. They have a hard life, and live in apartments, and some live very badly. And, they aren’t going to do anything, nothing, about overthrowing the Saddam regime, until the lights go out. I think I know, the psyche of such a city, Baghdad is like Calcutta in many ways. I know, waking up in Calcutta in the AM hours in a hot room, the Muslim cleric screaming from the minar his yabba dabba doo, you wake up in a sweat. You go out in the street, the cars, the people, in some sections there are rickshaws allowed. The struggle mixed with the grind of the life there. And, I am telling you, if we leave the lights on, we aren’t helping ourselves, we are not sending the “message” that we aren’t against “them”, but only Saddam. In Baghdad, life can be hard for the average man, and especially for the average woman. In Calcutta, in the 1970’s, the air raid sirens would scream, you had to turn the lights OUT, the curtains pulled – East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was trying to bomb. The refugees coming. The War. There are many “wars” in Calcutta. The great killings of the 1940’s, in Calcutta. Hindu - Muslim riots. Sikhs being murdered, after they shot Indira. And life. Life is hard. And this isn’t the first war for Baghdad, just like war in Calcutta, the many wars, a war every day, every day life is a war. This isn't the first time ack ack guns go off. Anyway, folks still go on, it’s just another war. You go on, with the grind. Understand? Maybe you don’t understand. But I can tell you, they won’t understand anything – UNTIL THE LIGHTS GO OUT.
Last week, BEFORE the reports came out today of the huge chemical factory found near the Iraqi city of Najaf and the capture of someone who can give information on chemical weapons, there was a call that came into talk show host Barbara Simpson KSFO San Francisco, from an Iraqi. He said, he came from Iraq, escaped years ago. But he still has a brother there. And he said on the talk show, he told us of Najaf. He said, that the weapons of mass destruction were there, and that his brother worked very hard, driving a truck. To IRAN. The convoy – to IRAN. That is where they took the chemical weapons. To IRAN. He said this on the radio. A week before today’s report came out.
You know, Iraqis and Iranians, one Sunni Muslim, the other Shia Muslim, murdered each other in the millions. In war. And now, Saddam works with Iran, and the chemical weapons are put on a truck. For Iran.
I think I know the Muslim thing. Maybe, if you were my friend, I would take you to Calcutta one day. I will take you down Kyd Street, past Chowringhee, and from there I will leave one world and take you to another, take you to the "hoods" and to the Muslim sections. I will show you some very scary stuff. I will show you Islam.
We need to turn the lights out in Baghdad. Because, we need to really, really put the fear of God in them – we need them, the people in Baghdad, to think maybe it’s time to take matters into their own hands. Because, this is a waste of time, thinking we are going to send them a “message” if we let them leave their lights on and watch Al Jazeera. Because, if that is the route we go, we will leave the lights on, and we will go into the 5 mile perimeter around Baghdad, and you are going to see some kind of chemicals. You won’t have to look for them. So, maybe, we just better turn the lights out in Baghdad right now. And really pop off more of the big booms while they sit in the dark, and can’t watch T.V. anymore. And then maybe, they might think about helping us a little. Because, maybe in the dark, the people of Iraqi can kill a few Iraqi Republican guards a little more easier. It’s easier to shot an Iraqi Republican guard if it’s really dark outside. Because it’s harder for them to figure out where the bullet came from.
Turn the lights out.
We haven't bombed the Military HQ in Bagdad yet and we've been communicating with several of them by phone etc.. They said the lights are providing some kind of code?
We have the abilty to evesdrop on all electronic conversation in Baghdad. This ability gives us a tremendous advantage in guaging the political as well as military developments.
We gain not only knowledge of the mood and plans of the leadership but also the attitudes and aspirations of it's private citizens.
While these cicumstances appear an obvious mistake, the intel gathered is invaluable.
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