Why They Kill

Posted on July 13, 2005 in Occupation of Iraq Propaganda

At one point in Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, there is a realistic portrayal of people under pressure. Tom Cruise’s character has packed a revolver and stolen a truck. He arrives in a town on the Hudson near a ferry crossing where he hopes to catch a road to Boston. A crowd of people slows and stops his SUV. People begin pushing at the sides and breaking the windows, trying to get in. Cruise gets out of the car and fires his gun into the air.

Seconds later, another man puts a gun to Cruise’s head and tells him to drop it.

After the second man drives off, a third man picks up the gun that Cruise dropped and kills the second man.

See the formula? Occupation + guns = Victims of occupation kill each other. Occupiers don’t need to do a thing. When people stop running from their invincible enemy, they begin to think about eating each other.

Iraq had the highest per capita gun ownership rate in the world. This didn’t prevent Saddam Hussein from dominating them or the Coalition forces from invading them. (Naturally, the NRA and the Bow Wow Boys don’t want you to know this fact.) Following the war, Iraqis sacked Hussein’s arms depot. The Coalition sealed itself off in the heart of Bagdhad. Unable to touch the Coalition forces and armed with hundreds of thousands more weapons than you see in The Shootist Bible, the Iraqis did what the helpless humans did in War of the Worlds: they turned on each other.

That should be Untouchable Enemy + Guns = Victims of Occupation Kill Each Other.

Somehow, I suspect that Bush and company know this and are milking it for all the propaganda that it is worth.