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| Iraqi veep calls on The Masses™... |
| 2002-09-10 |
| Faced with the growing threat from a US-British alliance, Baghdad raised the tone on Tuesday. Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, after talks with Jordan's King Abdullah II, called on the "Arab masses" to hit at American lives and property in case of a US assault. "We call on the Arab masses to fight against the material and human interests of the aggressors wherever they are," he said. "It is a human right, in that any aggression against Iraq will constitute an aggression against the Arab nation and humanity because it aims at imposing (US) hegemony and a new colonialism." A number of favored themes run through this little tidbit. One is the idea of The Masses™, the faceless sea of unwashed humanity whose duty it is to defend The Leader™ and The Movement™ with their lives. The other is The Arab Nation™ — the Master Ummah, to which other Ummahs are subordinate. Rights, under Ba'athism and similar Fascist offshoots, accrue to the state, not to the individual; "freedom" equates to the freedom of the state to do as it pleases. The other theme is that no Muslim nation, and certainly no Arab nation, is to be held accountable for any of its actions — kind of "My Arab Nation, right or wrong..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |