The Killing Fields: Ghosts of the Walking Dead
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that a half
million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in
Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: "I think this is a very hard
choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it."
--60 Minutes (5/12/96)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11680.htm
Oil, Simply Oil
By Manuel Valenzuela
01/26/06 "ICH" -- -- The story of Iraq and its people since 1991 is one
of immense tragedy, of a fate cruel and evil that has befallen innocent
human beings whose only crime has been living inside what was once the
ancient land of Mesopotamia. It is ironic that the land that first
gave rise to human civilization has been made to suffer tremendous
hardship in the last fifteen years, severely decimated and destroyed,
its wounds hemorrhaging from incessant human cruelty. The heart of the
Fertile Crescent has become a barren wasteland, its waters, the Tigris
and Euphrates, those veins of sustenance for our ancient forefathers,
transformed into rivers of waste and pollution and decaying death,
their fertility now mutated into toxicity. [ . . . ]
The only interest the West, and particularly America, has with the
Middle East is ownership and control of oil. For over a century
Western meddling in the region has concentrated on the availability of
black gold. It has been to the great detriment of nations such as Iraq
that its underground is saturated with the resource the West cannot
live without. Thanks to oil the people of Iraq, composed of three
distinct ethnicities, mistrustful and historically spiteful of each
other, have been thrown into a land whose Western imposed borders are a
relatively new phenomenon. Iraqis, along with all other Middle East
peoples, have been forced to endure Western - and American -
sponsored dictators for decades, with oil interests trumping those for
freedom, democracy and human rights. It is the story of those condemned
by the devil's excrement.
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28 Jan 2006 05:14:41 AM |
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Oh but we must maintain order, besides the slaves are off shore now.
It's easy to blame the poor for being poor. It's easy to believe that
the world is being caught up in an escalating spiral of terrorism and
war. That's what allows the American President to say "You're either
with us or with the terrorists." But we know that that's a spurious
choice. We know that terrorism is only the privatization of war. That
terrorists are the free marketers of war. They believe that the
legitimate use of violence is not the sole prerogative of the State.
Arundhati Roy
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