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Little War Criminals Get Punished, Big Ones Don’t By Paul Craig Roberts LewRockwell.com July 17, 2008 Bush and Blair’s
crimes against humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan dwarf, at least in the number
of deaths and displaced persons, the terrible situation in Darfur. The
highest estimate of Darfur casualties is 400,000, one-third the number of
Iraqis who have died as a result of Bush’s invasion. Moreover, the
conflict in the Sudan is an internal one, whereas Bush illegally invaded two
foreign countries, war crimes under the Nuremberg Standard. Bush’s
war crimes were enabled by the political leaders of the UK, Spain, Canada,
and Australia. The leaders of every member of the "coalition of the
willing to commit war crimes" are candidates for the dock. But of course the Great
Moral West does not commit war crimes. War crimes are charges fobbed off on
people demonized by the Western media, such as the Serbian Milosevic and the
Sudanese al-Bashir. Every week the Israeli
government evicts Palestinians from their homes, steals their land, and kills
Palestinian women and children. These crimes against humanity have been going
on for decades. Except for a few Israeli human rights organizations, no one
complains about it. Palestinians are defined as "terrorists," and
"terrorists" can be treated inhumanely without complaint. Iraqis and Afghans suffer
the same fate. Iraqis who resist US occupation of their country are
"terrorists." Taliban is a demonized name. Every Afghan killed –
even those attending wedding parties – is claimed to be Taliban
by the US military. Iraqis and Afghans can be murdered at will by American
and NATO troops without anyone raising human rights issues. The International Criminal Court is a bureaucracy. It has a
budget, and it needs to do something to justify its budget. Lacking teeth and
courage, it goes after the petty war criminals and leaves the big ones alone.
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House Passes Ban on CIA Torture “Contractors” – Bush Pledges
Veto Reuters reports: “U.S. lawmakers
defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and voted to bar CIA
contractors from interrogating suspected terrorists, in the latest clash over
detainee treatment in the U.S.-declared war on terrorism US-Led Forces Confirm Killing More Afghan Civilians According to Reuters, "US-led coalition troops have killed
eight Afghan civilians in an air strike in the western province of Farah
during a raid against suspected militants, the US military said. The
acknowledgement came as reports of more civilian deaths caused by a fresh air
raid by foreign forces emerged on Thursday from the neighboring province of
Herat." The Shoot-Down
of Iran Air Flight 655
With Bolsheviks in Russia and
Jacobins in France, revolutions prove to be equally suicidal  Neocon Arrogance - Glenn Greenwald on Thomas Friedman
and US unpopularity in the world. “Critically, the unpopularity of our
country that has Friedman deeply confused and angry is not the by-product of
some sort of reflexive anti-Americanism, nor is it due to the fact that
America is inherently a destructive force in the world. Prior to the brutal
radicalism of the last seven years as embodied by that Tom Friedman video, America was viewed quite favorably throughout the world. That is just a fact. Those who want to claim that the U.S., in the post-World-War-II
era, has been the root of most evil are (whether they're right or wrong) in
the distinct minority of worldwide opinion. That just is not how much of the
world viewed the U.S. -- not until the era of George Bush and Tom Friedman's
"Suck On This" neoconservative depravity. To blithely justify unprovoked wars
and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, as Tom Friedman
did and does, is bad enough. To dismiss matters such as government-sponsored
torture and lawless detention camps with nothing more than an acknowledgment
in passing that perhaps they deserve a ‘thumbs-down’ is almost as bad. That
the same people who do that are then surprised and even offended that the rest of the world
finds them repellent and dangerous -- that they actually expect that the world should view them as
honorable moral arbiters -- is probably the most revealing aspect of all. The casual embrace of
widespread, unparalleled aggression and violence by the Tom Friedmans of the
world is exceeded only by their complete inability to see themselves for
what they are. How should a country be perceived in the world when it honors the likes of Tom Friedman as a revered Foreign
Policy guru, or when it strongly considers electing a brand new, reckless
war-lover as President even after the last seven years?” Continue… World Court Urges US to Stay Five Executions The Associated Press: "The UN's highest court on Wednesday
ordered the United States to stay the executions of five Mexicans on Texas
death row pending review of their cases." US Troops Withdraw From Afghan Outpost Candace Rondeaux, for The Washington Post: "After suffering
significant setbacks in the fight against insurgents in eastern Afghanistan,
US and Afghan troops have pulled out of a combat outpost where nine American
soldiers were killed in a pitched battle with Taliban fighters Sunday." Pakistan tribesmen say NATO forces mass on Afghan
border Unrest Surfaces in Fallujah Again Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail report
for Inter Press Service: "Security has collapsed again in Fallujah,
despite US military claims. Local militias supported by US forces claim to
have 'cleansed' the city, 70 km to the west of Baghdad, of all insurgency.
But the sudden resignation of the city's chief of police, Colonel Fayssal
al-Zoba'i, has appeared as one recent sign of growing unrest." |
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and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure
wind.” ~George Orwell~
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