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Posted by: jovial 4 months ago227 CommentsReflectReport this Story
The war against Iraq, now five years old, is unquestionably one of the most unpardonable crimes against humanity.
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jovial4 months ago
"The once cosmopolitan city of Baghdad has been ghettoised. Entire neighbourhoods have been segregated by concrete walls built by the occupation army. The capital is pockmarked with military checkpoints. The Bush administration claims that the "military surge" it ordered is responsible for the dip in the casualty figures from the middle of last year to early this year. According to many observers, the real reason for the dip in casualty figures is the ethnic cleansing that took place for four years in major population centres."
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engineer4 months ago
This why Bush, Cheney, and his henchmen need to be tried for war crimes and treason before they escape to Dubai
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GHOSTWHOWALKS4 months ago
I'd love to see that happen engineer but in all reality I do not think it will ever happen. Congress has repeatedly failed to do anything but talk and the world court- while having warrants issued- may not have the required authority to bring these as*holes before a judge.
The people of the United States may want it and clamor for a trial, but the fact is none of the members -well maybe two, or three would - will never vote for impeachment and a trial.
That leaves only two possibilities. Neither is a good thing. One would require a revolution - hopefully a peaceful one - but very unlikely considering the power wielded by those in control and their reluctance to relinquish that power.
The second is to just give up which is just as bad as the first, since it would not change anything. I believe that is what is referred to as being between a rock and a hard place.
We can only hope something good will happen and all this is just a passing folly.
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eyesopen3 months, 4 weeks ago
Every one of you left-wing nut scape America haters 'ought to move to some of those third-world nations then tell me how bad it is where you live. Go live in the Ghettos of china, go live under the oppression of Putin in Russia, Go live in Darfur or Rwanda, go become a member of the chaste society of India, go live under Chavez in Venezuela, or under Castro in Cuba, or live on the border between Palestine and Israel or live in th spineless nation north of America called Canada where your not even brave enough to build your own army instead you rely on America to protect your a** then you complain about us. Just shut up and make your own nations better instead of beating on ours. Oh thats right you don't have the same freedoms we have that you complain about. Good thing you have Netscape to run your mouth on.
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PsychoHosebeast3 months, 4 weeks ago
Pretty funny, in a pathetic sort of way, that the only person on your friends list is AG... and you only turn up every few day to spew your moronic bile all over anyone in reach.
You are AG, I presume...
By the way, all those places you name that we can move to are actually a step up from living under the Bush administration.
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hyperbola4 months ago
We are subjected to "state propaganda" from cradle to grave in true Pravda style. Many "patriotic myths" will have to go before change comes.
There They Go Again
The Crazy Rev. Wright
.. In 1957, Doubleday released Richard Wright's White Man Listen. .. he wrote "...the greatest aid that any white Westerner can give Africa is by becoming a missionary right in the heart of the Western world, explaining to his own people what they have done to Africa."
..Nobody expects the media to educate the public about Africa. The current coverage is consistent with the images found in the Tarzan movies. I'll settle for missionary work among the American public. Free them from entrapment by corporate media, which are causing their brain cells to atrophy. Teach them other points of views that are smothered by noise, and trivialized on You Tube. Then maybe they'll understand where crazy Rev. Wright is coming from.
http://www.counterpunch.com/reed03252008.html
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Georgia503 months, 4 weeks ago
In the once cosmopolitan city of Bagdad, political dissent was answered with summary execution, often through painful and horrific means. Saddam's sons operated rape rooms with impunity. The underlying horror of Saddam's regime was whitewashed before the international community.
The violence we see now is how foreign-supported insurgents and indeed foreign mercenaries want to keep Iraq a lawless wasteland. With the help of mindless liberal politicians who seethe at the idea of a successful American intervention, they may yet succeed. Just as the North Vietnamese eventually wore down the ARVN a year after the US pulled out and all aid ceased. Then Iraq can become once again a sponsor and perpetrator of international terrorism.
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tchef3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Mehdi Militia is lead by, and manned by Iraqis. Yes they have the support of Iran, but they are Iraqi Shiites. Our intervention at this time is just forestalling the inevitable. By bringing down Saddam we have merely opened this country up to civil war. This is the reason they didn't take out Saddam the first time.
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djn3nunez33 months, 4 weeks ago
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
Declaration of Independence.
Notice it says "their right" or "their duty". No where does it say our sons and daughter should be sacrificed spreading our form of democracy, or that we have any right or duty to right the wrongs that occur in other countries.
Our armed forces are tasked with protecting these united states.
Iraq was never a threat to us.
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Spadecaller4 months ago
"The Nuremberg Charter clearly states that initiating a war of aggression is a "supreme international crime".
Our future will remain bleak if this administration and its co-conspirators who have waged an illgegal war are not tried for crimes against humanity.
The empire of America has become a militaristic dictatorship run by corporate profiteers. Unless the military industrial complex is thrown out of Washington and K Street is banned from usurping our fair representation, we will remain the subjects of a ruthless warmongering state.
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hyperbola4 months ago
You fail only to mention the role of the ZionCons in nurturing and maintaining the evil.
"Good News" From Iraq & Beyond
Do No Evil â;; In December 2007 Panama declared a Day of Mourning to commemorate the US invasion of 1989, which killed thousands of poor people, when Bush I bombed the El Chorillo slums. Panama was more deadly than Saddam's invasion of Kuwait a few months later, but US military imperialism there and throughout the world is never touched by US media.
http://donoevil.propeller.com/story/2008/04/04/...
Zionist Mobsters and John McCain
Politics â;; McCain's Career has mostly been financed by jewish mobster money. He is married to the daughter of a member of the jewish mafia. His family has a long tradition of doing Israel's bidding, even to the point of covering up Israeli attacks on America.
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/04/02/...
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Jaydee403 months, 4 weeks ago
And that is why you are NOT a hypocrite, and what you said is true BTW...
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Natureboy3 months, 4 weeks ago
"Our future will remain bleak if this administration and its co-conspirators who have waged an illegal war are not tried for crimes against humanity."
Unfortunately, wars of aggression and genocide are as American as apple pie, and most of the architects of them have died peacefully in their sleep.
If anything, expect the U.S. to become even more insane and desparate; this is the society and economy that cheap oil built, and it is coming to an end. The U.S. is now in the endgame of trying to secure control of the rest of the world's oil so we will run out last. But we will run out, no matter how violent, how genocidal we become, and this whole house of cards will come tumbling down.
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globalwarmer4 months ago
I fear there will be no justice but if there is, it will be better if it comes internally. We have an obligation as a nation to let the world know this is unacceptable.
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hyperbola4 months ago
We have had that obligation for a long time and have never fulfilled it.
The US Corporate Role
Ensuring the Success of Fascism in Spain
As part of my upbringing, I was taught that the men and women who fought against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War were giants....
...The Lincoln Brigade was supported by the Soviet Union and whatever small donations the global working class could contribute during the Depression. It took three years and the money and support of fascists from all over the "free world" to defeat democratic Spain. The U.S. was officially neutral, but the purpose of that so-called neutrality was actually to support the Spanish fascists. U.S. corporations easily subverted the two U.S. neutrality acts of 1937 by using their global network of subsidiaries, affiliates, boards of directors, banks and direct control over U.S. extraterritorial production as conduits to send money and war materiel to the Spanish fascists.
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hyperbola4 months ago
GM, Ford, Standard Oil, IBM and others had manufacturing plants in Nazi Germany. It isn't possible that the supporters of the neutrality acts didn't know this. Enough of them were sympathetic to fascism to allow the laws--irrelevant to Franco's supply lines but not to the desperate Republicans--to pass. When war materiel was sent directly from the U.S to the Spanish fascists, U.S. corporations had the help of Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State under President FDR, the "Saint," to cover for them (see this excellent piece by Vincent Navarro).
... the only criterion the U.S. has ever had for supporting or rejecting any regime or policy is whether it would welcome, if not foster capitalist profit needs...
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Radiofreeeuropa4 months ago
I don't think we will see any official action by the U.S. sadly. The Cheney Bush crowd are clearly guilty of crimes against humanity, but even the opposition party (democrats) are not moving or talking about any legal consequences... sadly because the vast majority are also guilty of aiding and abetting these crimes. I don't think even the Hague has the balls to take these thugs on. But you never know. Government serves the interest of business, not justice, not we the people. If war is profitable for business, war will be had. It's not profitable to put these clowns on trial, and may discourage future clowns from doing the bidding of these multi national business concerns ( who are bigger and far more powerful than any nation-state).
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vor3 months, 4 weeks ago
More like Bush is oblivious to what Cheney and the neocons have done. How anyone could refer to this sychophant as a great leader is beyond common sense. The neocons are the ones that took his popularity from the mid 80's down to the teens. It was their policies that were implemented post 9/11 not Bush's. He wasn't even around during their formation in the 90's.
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