Said: "Democracy traduced and betrayed"

Edward Said, prominent Palestinian intellectual, notes that the war in Iraq is already the most unpopular in modern history, and has been pushed forward with arrogance and racist pretensions of imperialism. The Bush cabal has hijacked the country and is about to lead us to disaster.

Democracy traduced and betrayed, democracy celebrated but in fact humiliated and trampled on by a tiny group of men who have simply taken charge of this republic as if it were nothing more than, what, an Arab country? It is right to ask who is in charge since clearly the people of the United States are not properly represented by the war this administration is about to loose on a world already beleaguered by too much misery and poverty to endure more.... As for the demagogues and servile intellectuals who talk about war from the privacy of their fantasy worlds, who gave them the right to connive in the immiseration of millions of people whose major crime seems to be that they are Muslims and Arabs?

Print this one out and deploy to upset those who keep happy residence in corrupt hegemony.

Posted by HongPong at March 14, 2003 12:48 PM
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