The death of 3,000 innocent civilians from over 70 nationalities - but mostly Americans, on September 11 - so shocked America - that in retaliation, they invaded a sovereign country unconnected with the terrorist attack and bombed to death tens of thousands of innocent civilians. Among them - many thousands of children.
"On 21 July, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, standing at the Commons dispatch box, declared the invasion of Iraq illegal"
America has the right to defend itself - that's not the issue. That the war was illegal, is not (at this time) even the issue. The issue is, "whether murdering a far greater number of innocents than died in the 9/11 attack - innocent civilians who had nothing to do with the terrorists that flew into the twin towers - is a response that can be judged as anything other than a far greater evil.
Many thousands, of innocents in Iraq and in Afghanistan have died in their homes many more than died in New York, in the twin towers, but as Australian journalist and documentary film maker, John Pilger put it.....
"saying that Afghan peasants have the same right to life as a New Yorker is an unmentionable profanity."
Now we have these asinine remarks from Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussing Wikileaks and Julian Assange "Mr. Assange,” Mullen commented, “can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family.” More hypocrisy.
The American high command are up to their armpits in the blood of innocents. This pretense that there is concern for even one Afghan family is farcical in light of the hundreds of Afghan families blown to bits during the course of the American bloodbath.
The scale of their hypocrisy is matched only by their sense of righteousness and disdain for un-American life. A concept perhaps universal in the depths of a real war, but not in this case, not for this phony war, this "war on terror". Now conveniently re-branded as an"overseas contingency operation. An ideological genocide that would have found support from Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein himself. Who is the new master race?
"You kill one of ours, we kill ten thousand of yours." a patriotic blogger
"We have heard that half a million children have died [as a result of sanctions]...... is the price worth it?" Madeleine Albright "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we "[America] think the price is worth it." She later expressed regret for her response.
General William R. Looney III a United States Air Force "They know we own their country. We own their airspace…We dictate the way they live and talk. And that’s what’s great about America right now. It’s a good thing, especially when there’s a lot of oil out there we need."
Quote mining is not difficult and serves little use except to illustrate that some individuals just cant help let slip their true feelings. Especially in the penumbra of a docile media. Statements like these are not rare, they are I feel a true reflection of American sentiment.
