William Blum on 1/3/12:
"Most people don't understand what they have been part of here," said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. "We have done a great thing as a nation. We freed a people and gave their country back to them."
"It is pretty exciting," said another young American soldier in Iraq. "We are going down in the history books, you might say." (Washington Post, December 18, 2011)
Ah yes, the history books, the multi-volume leather-bound set of "The Greatest Destructions of One Country by Another." The newest volume can relate, with numerous graphic photos, how the modern, educated, advanced nation of Iraq was reduced to a quasi failed state; how the Americans, beginning in 1991, bombed for 12 years, with one dubious excuse or another; then invaded, then occupied, overthrew the government, tortured without inhibition, killed wantonly, ... how the people of that unhappy land lost everything — their homes, their schools, their electricity, their clean water, their environment, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their archaeology, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their state-run enterprises, their physical health, their mental health, their health care, their welfare state, their women's rights, their religious tolerance, their safety, their security, their children, their parents, their past, their present, their future, their lives ... More than half the population either dead, wounded, traumatized, in prison, internally displaced, or in foreign exile ... The air, soil, water, blood, and genes drenched with depleted uranium ... the most awful birth defects ... unexploded cluster bombs lying anywhere in wait for children to pick them up ... a river of blood running alongside the Euphrates and Tigris ... through a country that may never be put back together again.
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2 comments:
I truly believe that the Invasion of Iraq (and Obama's fighting that war through to its conclusion rather than "bringing the troops home") will go down as one of the greatest crimes in human history.A surreal experience, carrying on my daily life , dealing with people who seem oblivious to the great evil they have witnessed and supported.
But I believe frankly the Jews were behind taking Iraq into the stone age. I believe they called the shots that brought us all to this point. Their bible teaches them so.
Hi Kassandras Duplex,
There are religious Jews, secular Jews, Zionist Jews and anti-Zionist Jews, and many of the greatest anti-war voices are also Jewish, such as William Blum, whom I'm quoting here.
I will only say that the Zionist warhawks dictating Israeli and American foreign policies are behind some of the greatest war crimes of the last several decades.
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