The bombing of Panama City was a brutal act that looked like it could have been done by the original Nazis. The American cowards leveled a part of Panama City in order to land there. They purposely burned whole sections of the city making it look like Hiroshima. The Panamanian soldiers who surrendered were tied and then, executed - point blank. They were then buried in mass graves or their bodies burned and the ashes dispersed along Ocean beaches.
In the first hours of the attack, American soldiers flooded into and took over Panamanian hospitals so that the number of murdered and wounded is not known. They also broke into and took over all Panamenian media (newspapers, TV,... all). Those documents of the "police action" that exist, were filmed by "unbiased" American soldiers.
American tanks rolled over civilian vehicles with whole families inside. New types of lethal weapons were tested on civilians. While this was happening the talking heads of American TV, spoke only of how (militarily) the action was successful, only mentioning American casualties. Panamanian casualties were never even mentioned. (Billy the Kid used to carve a dash on the handle of his revolver for every white person he killed. He did not bother to update his rudimentary data base for Hispanics and Indians. According to the America's tradition - they do not count).
"If we can only catch Noriega, the drug dealer," repeated the brainwashing, lying box relentlessly. But what really lay behind the operation was a change in US policy over the Panama Canal. (The documentary makes a superb analysis of the history of American-Panamenian relationship and reveals every trick the fascist government of America used against defenseless Panamenian people).
And while the media kept the focus on the "Noriega hunt," the main goal was achieved: The Panamanian Army was completely destroyed and mutilated. Then, a new puppet government, obedient to the American interests, was installed. The thousands murdered were (if mentioned) recorded as hundreds, the rest were relegated to the category of "collateral damage." (If America kills your relatives or your children - who cares - that is "by the way" - a damage. If anyone kills Americans - that is horror, a terrorist act. Only a thug, a low-life who deserves to be killed could do something like that).
America's true fascist face is revealed even more during the "Gulf war". *Iraq* had fought an exhaustive, fifteen years long war with fundamentalist Iran. Saddam was convinced that America was a proven friend and ally. (Even the accidental attack of an Iraqi plane on the American ship "Vincennes" which killed many American sailors, was quickly swept under the rug).
Acting cautiously, the Iraqi government asked America what to do about the border dispute with Kuwait. America (through their Ambassador) answered "Do whatever you want. We are not willing to get into internal, inter-Arab relationship dispute". Saddam bit the bait. America shipped huge amounts of equipment and gathered a large multi-national army calling it "Desert Shield". ("We are there only to protect the ally - Saudi Arabia). But, then, the "Shield" turned into a "Storm" - surprise, surprise!
The American cavalry arrived to save the international community from "a breach of international law: a legally recognized (in 1963) UN country is attacked." America, the country that spat on every international law and rule, only a year ago, by attacking another legally recognized UN country (Panama) - in order to hunt down its president, is now World's Champion of the international legality, the Defender of some sort of inter galactic Law and Order.
The relentless bombing lasted for months. Iraq's bridges and roads, but also its electric generators and water purification plants and (yes!) hospitals and food factories were deliberately destroyed... Not even Hitler did this!!!
America assembled its multi-national invasion force out of the dozen or so immoral colonial countries of Western Europe, along with the Islamic fundamentalist states who disliked Muslim, but *secular* Iraq. When the slaughter was over, some 150,000 Iraqis were dead. Many of them were Iraqi soldiers, buried alive as American tanks dumped sand over their underground hideouts. Many of them died in the column that was (after a signed agreement, and in accordance to all known international rules about a war conduct) retreating from Kuwait City. Americans would have died in large numbers if they had to go into a street-to-street battle. That is why they fooled Iraqis into accepting an orderly retreat.
As Iraqis were treacherously lured into the open, the cowboys "changed their mind" and started the slaughter from the air. Cowboy tradition never dies. A word of an American official, on paper, signed or not, is worth nothing. A dog's fart in the wind is more stable.
In Iraq's cities some 50,000 Iraqi children got chopped to pieces by the flying fascist cowards. American TV though, never showed the disfigured children's faces. It did show the face of an American flying assassin who narrowly avoided his deserved destiny by bailing out of his destroyed bomber. His face was black and blue, quite possibly as the result of the fall but the American media coached the public to be appalled by this supposed "Iraqi atrocity."
When an American Tomahawk missile is deliberately fired into a deep civilian underground shelter (the Amariyah bomb shelter in Baghdad), killing at one instant more than 1000 (thousand!) civilians, it is only a one day news item (5). Meanwhile, the military criticizes the media for showing the smoke coming out of the shelter, saying that "the enemy will abuse this for propaganda purposes." Oh, but don't be afraid! The well trained public understands that this was an "honest mistake". This same public would be coached less than a year later to be appalled when 68 or 35 civilians die on a Sarajevo street. The Muslim - staged atrocities get to be a good pretext for bombing and murdering thousands of Serbs and expelling hundreds of thousands from their homes and property.) The general public is not only brainwashed - it is BRAIN-DEAD. It is not even able to compare numbers any more.
The appalling cynicism of the resurrected American fascism reaches its peak when the American government and the American media start bragging (!!!) how Iraq, a member country of the UN, "got pushed back - to medieval times!!!"
And this long, though obviously abbreviated, recent history of the Evil Empire does not end here, nor is it over yet. The fascists are using the case of Iraq as a clear model, a warning of what will happen to any nation that dares to challenge their gory design.
That is why Iraq gets sliced, by two straight lines (an American ingenious design practiced on Korea also) into three countries. The middle part loses any semblance of sovereignty. The "international monitors" have the right to peek into and inspect any place - any time. The sanctions imposed on the Iraqi people are so barbaric that an additional 500,000 (half a million!) Iraqi children(!) have died a slow, sadistic death. They die of malnutrition and a lack of basic medicines. The "international monitors" hop over these dying children, merrily going on with their snooping business, accomplices to genocide.
Now - was Hitler worse than these bastards? No!
Another difference is that Hitler liked to show off. He liked the big parades. He liked to boast quite openly, in advance to his victims what his plan for them would be. But in that sense he was also more honest. The new fascists do not see a need for that.
I was appalled about Iraq, but did nothing. The monster grew beyond anyone's control. The UN became the United Nazi: the most valuable tool of the Nazi's world domination. The organization is now divorced not only from constant quarrel between two super-thugs, it is cleansed of any discussion. One Godfather controls the UN and it is controlled under the same rules and the same dynamics as any other gang is on the streets of Los Angeles. You join the gang - or you perish. But even if you join, they can still gang up on you
