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COMMENTARY:
American Gods
Notwithstanding the fact that the term “hadji” is used by American forces in Iraq as the word “gook” was for Vietnamese, to signify the subhuman scum of the earth, and that the term “hadji” had to be coined for Iraqis because unfortunately there are no ‘Mai Lais’ in Iraq, only Fallujahs and Hadithas and Ramadis and Ishaqis, we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me,We the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
As the bullets began to fly,
The blood sprayed from between her eyes,
And then I laughed maniacally. . .
I blew those little fuckers to eternity . . .
They should have known they were fucking with the Marines.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Marine Corps was kind enough to make a quick official statement that they did not condone this kind of language and behavior and that it was ‘just a joke,' we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
Notwithstanding the fact that the phenomenon of American gods being fond of an odd joke is not a new one and dates way back to one Abraham Lincoln (one of America’s gods and remembered as "The Great Emancipator" for leading the war to put an end to slavery), who was fond of racist jokes too, and that on the side he turned out to be a racist really, who used insulting language to describe black people and who wanted all Afro-Americans deported, and who supported setting aside the west of the country for whites only and who wanted a law forbidding black people to settle in his home state of Illinoi. This may be unsettling for some, but we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
Notwithstanding the fact that while the current Supreme American god of these Marines continues to gloat over the still-warm carcass of a two-bit creation of Pentagon PsyOps called Zarqawi, another bearded man has been quickly promoted as his replacement by the same outfit to continue guzzling copious quantities from the Al Qaeda milk train, and that the deceased purported beheader had outlived his utility and could be killed only so many times, we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
Notwithstanding the fact that the six-and-a-half-foot Bin Laden, and the bulky dialysis machine attached to him, continues to elude the eagle-eyed American gadgetry on the barren landscapes of Afghanistan and Pakistan, though allowed to pop up come election times to scare the bejusus out of innocent Americans, may be alarming for some, we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
Notwithstanding the fact that American forces invaded Iraq to look for WMDs and, finding none, should have packed their bags and been long gone, and that instead the U.S. engineers are busy constructing 14 permanent bases and long-term encampments for the thousands of American troops expected to serve in Iraq for decades to come and that the world’s most humongous US embassy is currently under construction in Baghdad and that these installations would be key outposts for not only the current Supreme god’s administration but also the future ones, we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
Notwithstanding the fact that that the vast majority of Americans have no clue whatsoever that there indeed is a larger global reality and not just in the sense that the price of gas goes up because of us dark-skinned hadji terrorists living in desolate sandy tracts of planet earth, we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
Notwithstanding the fact that the mini-American gods have swallowed the blatant lies of their Supreme gods for far too long and that these lies have now started to devour them from inside out and that the "great American life" is becoming increasingly hard to swallow even as they flaunt their values in the face of us hadjis and that they are in fact reduced to nothing more than the resident bullies of the human race on planet earth, we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
Notwithstanding the fact that far too many mini American gods are so thoroughly drenched in popular myths and propaganda that their Supreme gods have created for them that they are now unable to recognize reality even if it hits them in the face and that they desperately need to cling to the absurd myths conjured by their Supreme gods, we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
Notwithstanding the fact that it was an American historian, Howard Zinn, who did indeed write “there is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people,” and that millions of innocent people have indeed died under the same flag, including those who have carried it into battle and not just against us hadjis, and that those wars were waged for nothing other than corporate power, global conquest, death, destruction and oppression, and that still a vast majority of mini-American gods continue to chant the greatness of their star-spangled banner even while it is dripping with the blood of innocent hadji children, we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
Notwithstanding the fact that we do indeed recognize that for centuries we the hadjis have been killed and tortured by our own Supreme hadjis, and that it hurts us in the deepest recesses of our souls when the chief champions of freedom and liberty kill and torture us yet some more, we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
Notwithstanding the fact that some of us have indeed read William Shakespeare’s profound words that say, “If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that," we the hadjis of the world understand that American gods too are fond of a joke.
Yet, despite all the understanding that most of us hadjis have of the American gods’ inviolable right to violate us in any way that they like, some of us do not.
They tend to push back.
Write that on the wall somewhere.
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This story was published on June 19, 2006.
