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A word popped up in my mind. I looked it up in
the dictionary and there it was; it’s an
onomatopoeic word and its connotation is tragic:
bang. I’ve probably never used it in my life.
Bush is an apocalyptic person. I observe
his eyes, his face and his obsessive
preoccupation with pretending that everything he
sees on the “invisible screens” are spontaneous
thoughts. I heard his voice quaver when he
answered criticism from his own father about his
Iraq policy. He only expresses emotions and
constantly feigns rationality. Of course he is
aware of the impact of every phrase and every
word on the public he addresses.
What’s dramatic is that what he expects to
happen may cost the American people many lives.
One can never agree, in any kind of war,
with events that take the lives of innocent
civilians. Nobody could justify the attacks of
the German Air Force on British cities during
World War II, nor the thousands of bombers that
systematically destroyed German cities in the
decisive moments of the war, nor the two atomic
bombs which the United States dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an act of pure
terrorism against old people, women and
children.
Bush expressed his hatred of the poor world
when he spoke on June 1, 2002 at West Point, of
the pre-emptive attacks on “60 or more dark
corners of the world”.
Whom are they going to convince now that
the thousands of nuclear weapons in their
possession, the missiles and the precise and
exact delivery systems they have developed are
just to combat terrorism? Could it be perhaps
that the sophisticated submarines being
constructed by their British allies, capable of
circumnavigating the globe without surfacing and
reprogramming their nuclear missiles in
mid-flight, will be used for that as well? I
would never have imagined that one day such
justifications would be used. Imperialism
intends to institutionalize world tyranny with
these weapons. It aims them at other great
nations which arise not as military adversaries
capable of surpassing their technology with
weapons of mass destruction, but as economic
powers that would rival the United States whose
chaotic and wasteful consumerist economic and
social system is absolutely vulnerable.
What’s worse about the bang upon which Bush
is hanging his hopes is the antecedent of his
actions during the September 11th
events, when, knowing full well that bloody
attack on the American people was imminent, and
having the capacity to foresee it and even to
prevent it, he took off on a vacation with his
entire administrative apparatus.
From the day of his appointment as
President –thanks to the fraud orchestrated by
his friends from the Miami mafia, in the manner
of a "banana republic" –and prior to his
inauguration, W. Bush was informed in detail of
the same facts and in the same way as the
president of the United States, who directed
that he be informed. At that moment, the tragic
events symbolized by the fall of the Twin Towers
were still more than 9 months away.
If something similar were to happen with
any kind of explosives or nuclear material,
given that enriched uranium flows like water
throughout the world since the days of the Cold
War, what would be the probable fate of
humanity? I try to remember and analyze many
moments of humanity’s march through the
millennia, and I wonder: could my views be
subjective?
Just yesterday Bush was bragging about
having won the battle over his adversaries in
Congress. He has a hundred billion dollars, all
the money he needs to double, as he wishes, the
number of American troops sent to Iraq, and to
carry on with the slaughter. The problems in the
region are increasingly aggravated.
Any opinion about the president of the
United State's latest feats grows old in a
matter of hours. Is it perhaps that the
American people can’t take this little moral
fighting bull by the horns?
Fidel Castro Ruz
May 25, 2007.
7:15 p.m.
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