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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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31 Jan 2006 08:12:04 PM |
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Bush Calls Hamas Kettle Black |
When a Palestinian Mother Gets Killed Does She Make a Sound?
http://www.counterpunch.org/weir01252006.html
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Bush Calls Hamas Kettle Black
Talkin' About Chutzpah!
By DAVE LINDORFF
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff01262006.html
Talk about chutzpah!
President Bush has told Hamas, which just managed a stunning upset of
Fatah in the Palestinian elections, that the movement must "renounce
violence" if it is to be bestowed the blessing of having the U.S.
recognize it as the government of the Palestinian people.
Of course, the Israeli government doesn't have to renounce violence in
order to have U.S. recognition.
One can argue about the tactics Hamas has employed, which involve
blowing up Israeli civilians, but then, that's exactly what the Israeli
government has its military forces do--blow up and gun down Palestinian
civilians--only Israel has bigger weapons.
I'm no advocate of violence by anybody, but the idea of this president,
who thumbed his nose at the Nuremburg Charter and committed the number
one international crime--a "Crime Against Peace," as the charter puts
it--and who has been leading a war against Iraq that a new report in
the British medical journal Lancet claims has killed between
150-250,000 Iraqis, to lecture Hamas on the need to renounce violence
is simply beyond the pale.
Bush, remember, is now pushing for major violence against Iran, and
maybe Syria too. the truth is that violence is the only real policy
this administration has when it comes to international affairs. "Do it
our way or we'll blow you up" is the Bush foreign policy credo.
Bush is also into retail terror, as demonstrated by the recent bombing
of a house inside Pakistan, in which 17 innocent people including women
and little children were killed, all in an effort (failed) to hit one
alleged Al Qaeda leader who wasn't even there. It used to be that there
was a law of war called "proportionality." That is, you didn't blow up
a bunch of civilians to get a few soldiers. As a tactic that is not
proportional. You can kill a few civilians in a war if they happen to
be around a major military target, but you can't kill a lot of
civilians if a few soldiers are near them. This is a rule that the U.S.
military, with Bush's blessing, has completely thrown out the window in
Iraq and Afghanistan. The logic is pure terrorism: If you blow up
families when they have a fighter in their house, the hope is that
other families will not offer refuge to fighters.
That is a strategy of deliberate terror. And it's a war crime.
Renounce violence? It's a great idea, but Bush would have a lot more
credibility he applied it here at home first.
It would also be a lot easier to condemn the terrorist acts of Hamas if
Israel weren't killing little girls and boys in Palestine, or if the
U.S. would at least equally condemn the terrorism of the Israeli side.
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"As I stand here right now, I can tell the American people the program's
legal, it's designed to protect civil liberties, and it's necessary."
-- George W. Bush on his felonious domestic espionage treason against us.
The Bush twins: Born with a silver coke spoon up their noses: Traditional
Christian Family Values at its finest
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| User: "SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim" |
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| Title: Re: Bush Calls Hamas Kettle Black |
01 Feb 2006 06:10:20 AM |
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the only good muslim is a dead muslim
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| User: "Fredric L. Rice" |
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| Title: Re: Bush Calls Hamas Kettle Black |
01 Feb 2006 08:29:46 PM |
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"SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim" <killgod@killgod.com> wrote:
the only good muslim is a dead muslim
You must be a Christian.
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"As I stand here right now, I can tell the American people the program's
legal, it's designed to protect civil liberties, and it's necessary."
-- George W. Bush on his felonious domestic espionage treason against us.
The Bush twins: Traditional Christian Family Values at its finest
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