Goodbye, Mr T

[pynchonoid]

The fiction that Bush the Butcher seeks a peaceful
solution remains just that -- how much more
destruction and killing will he inflict on Iraq and
will he succeed in transforming the UN into a
rubber-stamp for US foreign policy remain open
questions. 

<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=380766>
US and Britain pound Iraqi defences in massive
escalation of airstrikes
By Raymond Whitaker
23 February 2003
[...] Some have always disputed whether the "no-fly"
zones have UN authority, but now the US and Britain
have widened the "rules of engagement" to the point
where warplanes are effectively preparing the way for
an imminent invasion. [...] Attacks on such
battlefield weapons, rare until recently, are part of
a semi-secret air campaign, conducted under cover of
the no-fly patrols, which has intensified sharply
since the beginning of the year. Allied aircraft have
gone into action over Iraq almost every day. By the
end of this month the number of missions is likely to
overtake the 78 flown during the whole of 2002. [...]


Pointing to Afghanistan as a model of success to
imitate is pretty funny, too, in a sick sort of way,
as the US continues to massacre civilians and leave
the warlords to run roughshod over most of that
country.  I guess we are to assume that the civilians
who died in the US attack are grateful for their
liberation.

P.S.  Terrance: go (fat chance) or stay (sure bet),
adopt whatever personae you will (another sure bet) --
if you want to spend 24/7 spouting gibbrish go for it,
just continue to refrain from your death threats and
hate mail and you and I will get along just fine. 
It's too bad, I guess -- pitiful, in fact -- that you
can't get everybody here humming your tune but I
encourage you to take that as a signal to work on your
leadership and management skills. 

"There's something still on, don't call it a 'war' if
it makes you nervous, maybe the death rate's gone down
a point or two [...] but Their enterprise goes on" 
GR 628

"the chaplain, the doctor, your mother hoping to hang
that Gold Star, the vapid soprano last night on the
Home Service programme, let's not forget Mr. Noel
Coward so stylish and cute about death and the
afterlife, packin them into the Duchess for the fourth
year running, the lads in Hollywood telling us how
grand it all is over here how much fun. Walt Disney
causing Dumbo the elephant to clutch to that feather
like how many carcasses under the snow tonight among
the waite-painted tanks, how many hands each frozen
around a Miraculous Medal, lucky pieceof worn bone,
half-dollar with the grinning sun peering up under
Liberty's wispy gown, clutching, dumb, when the 88
fell--what do you think, it's a children's story? 
There aren't any. The children are away dreaming, but
the Empire has no place for dreams and it's Adults
Only in here tonight"
Gravity's Rainbow, pp. 134-135

"Don't forget the real business of the War is buying
and selling." 
GR 105 




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