{"id":20,"date":"2008-07-28T19:36:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T19:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imediata.org\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-07-28T19:37:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T19:37:54","slug":"obama-o-principe-do-%e2%80%9cvou-te-fisgar-com-isso-para-acabar-te-vendendo-aquilo%e2%80%9d-por-john-pilger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imediata.org\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":">>Obama, o pr\u00edncipe do \u201cvou te fisgar com isso para acabar te vendendo aquilo\u201d, por John Pilger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFonte: The New Statesman de 26 de julho de 2008<\/a>
\nTradu\u00e7\u00e3o: Ag\u00eancia Imediata<\/strong><\/p>\n

Entrevistei uma mulher que perdeu oito membros de sua fam\u00edlia, inclusive seis crian\u00e7as, todos mortos por uma bomba dos EUA \u2013 mas assassinatos em massa no Afeganist\u00e3o n\u00e3o fazem not\u00edcia. <\/strong><\/p>\n

No dia 12 de julho, o Times dedicou duas p\u00e1ginas ao Afeganist\u00e3o. Tratava-se, sobretudo, de uma reclama\u00e7\u00e3o quanto ao calor. O rep\u00f3rter queixoso, Magnus Linklater, descreveu detalhadamente seu desconforto e como precisou ser borrifado com \u00e1gua gelada. Ele tamb\u00e9m descreveu o \u201calto drama\u201d e \u201ca rotina meticulosamente praticada\u201d de evacua\u00e7\u00e3o de outro jornalista super-aquecido. Para os seus salvadores, da Marinha dos EUA, Linklater escreveu: \u201csalvar uma vida tomou a preced\u00eancia sobre a seguran\u00e7a (deles)\u201d. Juntamente a isso, havia um relat\u00f3rio cujo par\u00e1grafo final oferecia a \u00fanica men\u00e7\u00e3o de que \u201c47 civis, a maioria deles mulheres e crian\u00e7as, foram mortos quando uma aeronave dos EUA bombardeou uma festa de casamento no leste do Afeganist\u00e3o, no domingo\u201d. <\/p>\n

Massacres dessa escala s\u00e3o comuns e, em sua grande maioria, ficam desconhecidos do p\u00fablico brit\u00e2nico. Entrevistei uma mulher que tinha perdido oito membros de sua fam\u00edlia, inclusive seis crian\u00e7as. Uma bomba Mk82 de 500 libras dos EUA foi lan\u00e7ada sobre sua casa de barro, pedras e palha. N\u00e3o havia nenhum \u201cinimigo\u201d nas redondezas. Entrevistei um diretor de escola cuja casa desapareceu numa bola de fogo causada por outra bomba \u201cde precis\u00e3o\u201d. Dentro da mesma, havia nove pessoas \u2013 sua mulher, seus quatro filhos, seu irm\u00e3o com a esposa, sua irm\u00e3 com o marido. Nenhuma dessas matan\u00e7as em massa constitu\u00edram not\u00edcia. Como Harold Pinter escreveu, referindo-se a tais crimes: \u201cNada jamais aconteceu. Mesmo enquanto estava acontecendo, isso nunca aconteceu. N\u00e3o importava. N\u00e3o era de qualquer interesse\u201d. <\/p>\n

Um total de 64 civis foram mortos nos bombardeios, enquanto o homem do Times se queixava de desconforto. A maioria dessas pessoas eram convidadas a uma festa de casamento. Festas de casamento s\u00e3o uma especialidade da \u201ccoaliz\u00e3o\u201d. Pelo menos quatro delas tiveram seus membros aniquilados \u2013 em Mazar e nas prov\u00edncias de Khost, Uruzgan e Nangarhar. Muitos dos detalhes, inclusive o nome das v\u00edtimas, t\u00eam sido compilados por um professor de New Hampshire, Marc Herold, cujo Projeto Memorial das V\u00edtimas do Afeganist\u00e3o \u00e9 um trabalho meticuloso de jornalismo de envergonhar aqueles que s\u00e3o pagos para manter o registro em dia e reportar quase tudo sobre a Guerra Afeg\u00e3, atrav\u00e9s das instala\u00e7\u00f5es de rela\u00e7\u00f5es p\u00fablicas dos militares estadunidenses e brit\u00e2nicos. <\/p>\n

Os EUA e seus aliados est\u00e3o despejando bombas em n\u00famero recorde no Afeganist\u00e3o. Isso n\u00e3o \u00e9 not\u00edcia. Na primeira metade deste ano, 1853 bombas foram atiradas: mais que todas as bombas lan\u00e7adas em 2006 e durante a maior parte de 2007. \u201cAs bombas utilizadas com mais freq\u00fc\u00eancia\u201d, reporta o Air Force Times, \u201cs\u00e3o as de 500 libras e as de 2.000 libras guiadas por sat\u00e9lite\u2026\u201d Sem essa chacina unilateral, o reaparecimento dos talib\u00e3s, \u00e9 claro, poderia n\u00e3o ter acontecido. At\u00e9 Hamid Karzai, o fantoche dos EUA e da Gr\u00e3-Bretanha, afirmou isso. A presen\u00e7a e a agress\u00e3o dos estrangeiros s\u00f3 conseguiram unir a resist\u00eancia que, agora, inclui pr\u00e9vios senhores da guerra antes na folha de pagamento da CIA. <\/p>\n

Esse esc\u00e2nadlo seria manchete nos jornais, se n\u00e3o fosse por aquilo que Scott McClellan, pr\u00e9vio porta-voz de George W Bush, chamou de \u201cfacilitadores c\u00famplices\u201d \u2013 jornalistas que servem de amplificadores oficiais. Tenho declarado que a guerra do Afeganist\u00e3o \u00e9 uma \u201cboa guerra\u201d, os facilitadores c\u00famplices est\u00e3o, agora, consagrando Barack Obama, enquanto ele faz um tour pelos festivais de sangue do Afeganist\u00e3o e do Iraque. O que eles n\u00e3o dizem nunca \u00e9 que o Obama \u00e9 um bombardeador. <\/p>\n

No New York Times<\/em> de 14 de julho, em um artigo cuja inten\u00e7\u00e3o era fazer parecer que ele est\u00e1 terminando a guerra no Iraque, Obama requisitou mais guerra no Afeganist\u00e3o e, efetivamente, um invas\u00e3o do Paquist\u00e3o. Ele quer mais tropas de combate, mais helic\u00f3pteros, mais bombas. O Bush pode estar no fim do seu mandato mas os republicanos constru\u00edram uma m\u00e1quina ideol\u00f3gica que transcende a perda do poder eleitoral \u2013 porque os seus colaboradores s\u00e3o, como o escritor estadunidense Mike Whitney colocou, de forma sucinta, os democratas do estilo \u201cvou te fisgar com isso para acabar te vendendo aquilo\u201d, de que Obama \u00e9 o pr\u00edncipe. <\/p>\n

Aqueles que escrevem de Obama que \u201cquando se trata de assuntos internacionais, ele representar\u00e1 uma grande melhora se comparado a Bush\u201d, demonstram a mesma teimosa ingenuidade que deu suporte ao \u201cvou te fisgar com isso para acabar te vendendo aquilo\u201d de Bill Clinton \u2013 e de Tony Blair. A respeito de Blair, o falecido Hugo Young escreveu em 1997: \u201ca ideologia sucumbiu completamente aos \u2018valores\u2019\u2026 n\u00e3o h\u00e1 vacas sagradas [e] nem limites fossilizados sob o solo sobre os quais a mente pode vaguear em busca de uma Bretanha melhor\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Onze anos e cinco guerras depois, pelo menos um milh\u00e3o de pessoas est\u00e3o mortas. Barack Obama \u00e9 o Blair estadunidense. \u00c9 irrelevante que ele seja negro e um operador agrad\u00e1vel de ouvir\u2026 Ele pertence a um sistema duradouro e desenfreado cujos principais tambores e esquadr\u00f5es de aclama\u00e7\u00e3o nunca v\u00eaem, ou querem ver, as conseq\u00fc\u00eancias de bombas de 500 libras atiradas imperturbavelmente em casas de barro, pedras e palha. <\/p>\n

John Pilger \u00e9 jornalista investigativo e diretor de document\u00e1rios. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a9 2008 The New Statesman<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nOriginal English:<\/p>\n

Published on Saturday, July 26, 2008 by The New Statesman <\/p>\n

Obama, The Prince of Bait-and-Switch
\nby John Pilger
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\nI interviewed a woman who had lost eight members of her family, including six children to a US bomb – but mass murder in Afghanistan isn\u2019t news. <\/p>\n

On 12 July, the Times devoted two pages to Afghanistan. It was mostly a complaint about the heat. The reporter, Magnus Linklater, described in detail his discomfort and how he had needed to be sprayed with iced water. He also described the \u201chigh drama\u201d and \u201cmeticulously practised routine\u201d of evacuating another overheated journalist. For her US Marine rescuers, wrote Linklater, \u201csaving a life took precedence over [their] security\u201d. Alongside this was a report whose final paragraph offered the only mention that \u201c47 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed when a US aircraft bombed a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday\u201d. <\/p>\n

Slaughters on this scale are common, and mostly unknown to the British public. I interviewed a woman who had lost eight members of her family, including six children. A 500lb US Mk82 bomb was dropped on her mud, stone and straw house. There was no \u201cenemy\u201d nearby. I interviewed a headmaster whose house disappeared in a fireball caused by another \u201cprecision\u201d bomb. Inside were nine people – his wife, his four sons, his brother and his wife, and his sister and her husband. Neither of these mass murders was news. As Harold Pinter wrote of such crimes: \u201cNothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn\u2019t happening. It didn\u2019t matter. It was of no interest.\u201d <\/p>\n

A total of 64 civilians were bombed to death while the Times man was discomforted. Most were guests at a wedding party. Wedding parties are a \u201ccoalition\u201d speciality. At least four of them have been obliterated – at Mazar and in Khost, Uruzgan and Nangarhar provinces. Many of the details, including the names of victims, have been compiled by a New Hampshire professor, Marc Herold, whose Afghan Victim Memorial Project is a meticulous work of journalism that shames those who are paid to keep the record straight and report almost everything about the Afghan War through the public relations facilities of the British and American military. <\/p>\n

The US and its allies are dropping record numbers of bombs on Afghanistan. This is not news. In the first half of this year, 1,853 bombs were dropped: more than all the bombs of 2006 and most of 2007. \u201cThe most frequently used bombs,\u201d the Air Force Times reports, \u201care the 500lb and 2,000lb satellite-guided . . .\u201d Without this one-sided onslaught, the resurgence of the Taliban, it is clear, might not have happened. Even Hamid Karzai, America\u2019s and Britain\u2019s puppet, has said so. The presence and the aggression of foreigners have all but united a resistance that now includes former warlords once on the CIA\u2019s payroll. <\/p>\n

The scandal of this would be headline news, were it not for what George W Bush\u2019s former spokesman Scott McClellan has called \u201ccomplicit enablers\u201d – journalists who serve as little more than official amplifiers. Having declared Afghanistan a \u201cgood war\u201d, the complicit enablers are now anointing Barack Obama as he tours the bloodfests in Afghanistan and Iraq. What they never say is that Obama is a bomber. <\/p>\n

In the New York Times on 14 July, in an article spun to appear as if he is ending the war in Iraq, Obama demanded more war in Afghan istan and, in effect, an invasion of Pakistan. He wants more combat troops, more helicopters, more bombs. Bush may be on his way out, but the Republicans have built an ideological machine that transcends the loss of electoral power – because their collaborators are, as the American writer Mike Whitney put it succinctly, \u201cbait-and-switch\u201d Democrats, of whom Obama is the prince. <\/p>\n

Those who write of Obama that \u201cwhen it comes to international affairs, he will be a huge improvement on Bush\u201d demonstrate the same wilful naivety that backed the bait-and-switch of Bill Clinton – and Tony Blair. Of Blair, wrote the late Hugo Young in 1997, \u201cideology has surrendered entirely to \u2018values\u2019 . . . there are no sacred cows [and] no fossilised limits to the ground over which the mind might range in search of a better Britain . . .\u201d <\/p>\n

Eleven years and five wars later, at least a million people lie dead. Barack Obama is the American Blair. That he is a smooth operator and a black man is irrelevant. He is of an enduring, rampant system whose drum majors and cheer squads never see, or want to see, the consequences of 500lb bombs dropped unerringly on mud, stone and straw houses. <\/p>\n

John Pilger is an investigative journalist and documentary film-maker. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a9 2008 The New Statesman<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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