Does it ever occur to ask: "Why is the USA so hated throughout the world?"

by Oscar Heck
The more I see pictures of Iraq, the more I cannot stop thinking about the criminality of the US government and of all those people who support it and encourage it. I don't need to make a list of those people who support Bush, we know who they are and they know who they are. People say things like, "We must support Bush because he is doing things in order to protect us from the evil of terrorism ... from the evil Islamic terrorists who hate us and who want to kill us ... from the evil Colombian narco-traffickers who hate us and who want to push drugs to our children ... from the evil people all over the world who hate us and who want to stop us from helping the world to be like us. Bush is protecting us and we must make sure that we are protected."

Does it ever occur to Bush supporters to ask the question, "Why are we so hated throughout the world?"

Of course not! It is ingrained in most people of the USA to assume that the USA is the best country in the world (the "holy land"), that they are the best, that their way of life is the best model for the world.

Such assumptions are completely erroneous and far from reality. Unfortunately, most people in the USA have no idea of the extent to which the US "way of life" is seen more as a cancer to the world than a "good thing."

After the USA invaded Iraq, the US government came up with some new labels: insurgents, insurgency, etc. ... blaming most of this type of activity on "evil" groups such as Al Qaeda. What most people do not realize is that most of the "insurgency" attacks against US (and ally) installations and operations in Iraq are simply attacks of revenge against those who participated in murdering innocent family members.

It has nothing to do with Al Qaeda or with "radical" Islam ... it has to do with revenge.

The other thing that people in our "western" world do not seem to realize is that many, if not most of the "insurgency" is probably perpetrated by the US government and by the US military itself and/or by US-friendly forces and US-backed mercenaries. I believe that it is the US military (and special forces) who are leading the insurgency campaign itself. It is exactly the same tactic which the US-financed Venezuelan opposition in Venezuela used in 2002 and 2003. They would hire mercenaries dressed as Chavistas (Chavez supporters) to shoot at pro-opposition rallies (their own people) in order to blame the massacres on Chavez.

When the Venezuelan US-financed opposition bombed the Colombian embassy in Chacaito (I was there at the time), the people who blew up the embassy made sure to scatter hundreds of pro-Chavez pamphlets around the building. The anti-Chavez media picked up on this immediately and publicly blamed Chavistas for the bombing and assassinations.

* It was later found out that these activities were carried out by the Venezuelan opposition ... it was also found out that most opposition groups were (and still are) being financed by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

If the US-financed Venezuelan opposition (whose leaders are members of Venezuela's elite) was capable of using such ruthless and subversive tactics in order to try to achieve their goals, then it is very easy to assume that the US military and the US government can do the same ... and even worse. If the Venezuelan opposition could so easily "sacrifice" (assassinate) some of its own people, then, hey, what's a few more dead US soldiers in Iraq?

* Why would the Venezuelan opposition shoot and kill its own followers ... and then blame radical Chavistas?

* Why would the US government want to blow up a major mosque in Iraq (the one with the golden dome, for example) ... and then say that it was blown up by some kind of radical Iraqi religious faction?

Because the US government, as in the case of the Venezuelan opposition, is ruthless.

* Because they want to create chaos, internal conflict, paranoia and fear.

The more chaos, the more internal conflict, the more fear and the more paranoia that can be created in Iraq, the more will be the requirement for the US military to remain present in Iraq. The more their presence is required, the more the US military will use bullets, missiles and bombs. The more missiles, bullets and bombs the US military uses, the more missiles, bombs and bullets the US government will need to buy. The more it purchases (from mostly US suppliers), the more it adds to the expenses which Iraq and the Iraqi people will owe the US government (while US firms profit from arms sales).

(Don't think that the US government is "helping" Iraq for free! The US military does not lose money. It is a profit-making enterprise, anchored deeply in US capitalism. They make profits, they do not lose money. I learned of this in Kuwait during the Gulf War.)

Eventually, when the Iraqi debt reaches a high enough level, most of the "insurgency" attacks will begin to slow ... and eventually disappear almost completely. At that point we will know that Iraq's debt to the USA is so high that it can never be paid back. At that time, the Iraqis will have to make deals with the US government, and in partial payment of their debts to the US government, they will have to "temporarily" hand over control of their natural resources, oil, gold, etc. and hand over partial control of Iraq to the US government and to other criminal institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF. "Temporary" will really mean "eternal" ... as is the case with almost any country which the USA has "helped."

For example, look at most of Central America and the complete social devastation which was left behind after the USA "helped" them. This is the kind of scenario which Chavez is trying to avoid at all cost. Venezuela does not need "help" from the criminal US government, and neither does the rest of Latin America ... and neither does the rest of the world. The "good guy" days of the USA are gone ... and probably, forever.

So, why are "Americans" so hated throughout the world?

Because most people throughout our world know exactly how the US government and its cronies and supporters operate and how they coerce and rob people of their territories, of their natural resources, and in consequence of their ability for self-sustainment and self-governance ... of their dignity. Whilst most people throughout the world are well aware of this, most people in the USA have absolutely no notion of how their own government behaves outside the USA.

Most people in the USA have no idea of how criminal the US government is outside US borders ... and how criminal it is perceived to be.

In general, the people of the USA are living in their own little Hollywoodian bubble ... far away from the realities which are soon to come slapping them in the face repeatedly and consistently for generations to come.

One of the most used tactics by the US government is embargoes.

Take for example the US embargo restricting Venezuelan airlines from entering US airspace (mid 1990's). I read one report where, at the time, the US government would consider lifting the embargo if the Venezuelan government hired US firms to "help" Venezuela set up safer and more efficient air transport operations.

Do you see my point?

Do you see the money-making tactic?

The coercion?

The deceit? .

.. just like the Venezuelan opposition. The arrogance?

Finally, every time you see (on TV) a new "insurgency" attack in Iraq, question yourself, "Is the perpetrator really and 'evil' terrorist, as we are led to believe, or is he/she a US-paid mercenary whose aim is to add to the chaos and to the fear factor in order to prolong this profitable war effort ... or is it an angry father whose wife and children were blown to bits by a US bomb while he was at work?"

* Imagine coming home from work and finding your little girl's severed arm a hundred feet from your house, still holding her Barbie doll.

* Imagine then running toward the location where your house once stood and ripping away your wife's severed head from a small group of vultures.

And then imagine finding half of your baby boy's bloated body lying in a pool of maggot-infested mud ... the maggots having a furious feast with his tongue and eyes.

Think of these images every time you eat, every time you drink, every time you think, every time you speak, every time you go to bed ... and every time you pray to your god.

Then imagine what you would think of the USA.