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Porter: Kill More Iraqis or
Pay $9 per Gallon
Kurt
Nimmo
Friday Aug 31, 2007
No doubt, for a large number of Americans, it is a good enough
excuse: “Gasoline prices could rise to about $9 per gallon
if the United States withdraws troops from Iraq prematurely, Rep.
Jon Porter said he was told on a trip to Iraq that ended this
week,” the Las
Vegas Review-Journal reports. “To a person, they said
there would be genocide, gas prices in the U.S. would rise to
eight or nine dollars a gallon, al-Qaida would continue its expansion,
and Iran would take over that portion of the world if we leave,”
said the Nevada Congress critter.
Of course, it hardly matters that genocide is well underway in
Iraq—more than a million Iraqis have lost their lives, thanks
to the U.S. imposed “liberation,” according to an
estimation produced by Just
Foreign Policy, based on results by the Lancet and Iraq Body
Count—but naturally this is of little concern to the average
American worried about an escalating gas bill for his SUV or pickup
truck… and that is precisely why Jon Porter mentioned it.
It should be remembered that Porter chaired the Hill & Knowlton
front group, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, responsible
for parading a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl—known only by her
first name of Nayirah—before a complicit corporate media
prior to Bush Senior’s invasion of Iraq in 1991. “I
volunteered at the al-Addan hospital,” Nayirah lied. “While
I was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with
guns, and go into the room where . . . babies were in incubators.
They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators,
and left the babies on the cold floor to die.” In fact,
Nayirah was a member of the Kuwaiti royal family. Her father was
Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait’s ambassador to the U.S.
(Article continues below)
Once again, Jon Porter, acting the part well as a fear and hate
monger, is attempting to sell us a passel of disinformation in
response to the feeble and weak-kneed attempts by Democrats to
put an end to the “war” (invasion and occupation)
prior to the election.
“As lawmakers warm up for a renewal of the Iraq war debate
in the fall, Porter accused Democrats of failing to offer solutions
to the war and avoiding a debate on the ramifications of withdrawal,”
the Las Vegas Review-Journal continues. According to Porter, “some
Democratic organizations, including the Searchlight Leadership
Fund operated by Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., have funded anti-war
groups. The Searchlight Leadership Fund made $5,000 donations
to VoteVets.Org in 2006 and again earlier this year, according
to federal records.” In response, “Democrats claim
that organizations defending President Bush’s war strategy,
such as Vets for Freedom or the newly formed Freedom’s Watch,
are fronts linked to the Bush administration whose aim is to attack
Democrats and boost GOP fortunes in Congress.”
But never mind. Democrats are so disordered and politically enervated
they will not be able to muster the two-thirds vote required to
defeat a commander and decider guy veto of any effort to impose
a withdrawal timetable. “President Bush is about to ask
Congress for $50 billion more to keep fighting the war in Iraq.
He is betting—almost certainly correctly—that the
Democrats will give him a rough time over the money, probably
try to attach timetables for withdrawal to the bill and ultimately
give in and pass it,” the Cincinnati
Post notes.
In other words, Democrats, through lack of intestinal fortitude
and no shortage of felonious complicity, are guilty as the perfidious
neocons for the continued mass murder in Iraq, now well surpassing
a million souls. Indeed, the “war” will continue and—if
the neocons have their day—Iran will be thrown into the
depraved mix. In the coming months, Democrats will dutifully line
up behind Hillary, on record—emphasized before the AIPAC
gathered—as wanting to confront Iran, that is to say shock
and awe it back to the Stone Age, although Paleolithic humans
did not endure depleted uranium and epidemic leukemia.
In normal, more humane, less Bushzarro times, the lies of the
neocon Jon Porter would be met with sardonic derision. Instead,
the corporate media, ever compliant, allows this scurrilous neocon
to peddle continued and apparently without-end mass murder and
egregious crimes against humanity. Unfortunately, as recent experience
demonstrates, Porter’s latest admonition—the nation
will fork out nine bucks a gallon at the pumps if the U.S. withdraws
from the Iraqi killing fields—will work fine and dandy,
as America contains no shortage of ignoramuses almost completely
bereft of even the most rudimentary knowledge when it comes to
politics, history, and even basic geography.
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