COWBOY war on terror
There is an interesting post on the counterpunch magazine web site, about a war crime committed by the Bush Hooligans....it is interesting the parrallels between the war on terror and the wild west of America.
I guess the USA has never progressed in its attempt to impose democracy on heathens who sit on land that poses to provide a profit to Americans. Let's see, I guess the Indians of the wild west should have known better than to stand in the way of modern American Manifest Destiny....tell that to the many Indians who died on the Trail of Tears, or tell that to Geronimo....
The US military committed a war crime in a holy site. Imagine if the Sunni or Shia were to massacre unarmed Americans in a church, oh no, the western media would be crying bloody murder, but because these are non-white minority types it's just another "insurgent" action...another untold number of needless Iraqi deaths, just another number to be marked up in the name of cheap gasoline....
Shame on the west for perpetuating this horrible crime against humanity. How can we say we are christian or driven by compassionate christian ideals and therefore conduct a war on terror?
When will the west learn and realize the horrible truths? What is happening in Iraq happened in the USA a century ago, expansionate ideals of manifest destiny...imposing democracy and free trade in the name of God and the Great White Way. I guess if you are stupid enough to be a minority born on land that can generate a profit for the American multinationals, then you should be ready to die in your Sunday best while you sing "amazing grace" in the religion of your choice, cause hey, you are just another insurgent...
Or the apathy of George W Bush in stating the crimes his army commits, the needless civilian deaths are no different than any violent day in America? The sad truth is, there is a great difference here, in America at least people are free to die, free to go to some hospital that can provide medical help, free to switch on electricity to help in the healing process, whereas the Iraqi's who had electricity and medical doctors no longer have that, and instead American Tax Payer dollars are being spent to conduct assasinations on civilians...The Iraqi's don't ask to die, in the USA the military doesn't shoot up the streets. The Iraqi's didn't ask the USA to bomb their hospitals or kill their doctors or blow up the electrical grid, or as Bush would say, they were invited to come in and liberate the Iraqis....and so they could be shot to death for no reason, so that could be denied basic human rights, the right to drink safe water, to turn on a light bulb when it gets dark, or get medical advice without worrying whether or not the marine is gonna shoot you on the way to the local Red Crescent?
I guess the USA has never progressed in its attempt to impose democracy on heathens who sit on land that poses to provide a profit to Americans. Let's see, I guess the Indians of the wild west should have known better than to stand in the way of modern American Manifest Destiny....tell that to the many Indians who died on the Trail of Tears, or tell that to Geronimo....
The US military committed a war crime in a holy site. Imagine if the Sunni or Shia were to massacre unarmed Americans in a church, oh no, the western media would be crying bloody murder, but because these are non-white minority types it's just another "insurgent" action...another untold number of needless Iraqi deaths, just another number to be marked up in the name of cheap gasoline....
Shame on the west for perpetuating this horrible crime against humanity. How can we say we are christian or driven by compassionate christian ideals and therefore conduct a war on terror?
When will the west learn and realize the horrible truths? What is happening in Iraq happened in the USA a century ago, expansionate ideals of manifest destiny...imposing democracy and free trade in the name of God and the Great White Way. I guess if you are stupid enough to be a minority born on land that can generate a profit for the American multinationals, then you should be ready to die in your Sunday best while you sing "amazing grace" in the religion of your choice, cause hey, you are just another insurgent...
Or the apathy of George W Bush in stating the crimes his army commits, the needless civilian deaths are no different than any violent day in America? The sad truth is, there is a great difference here, in America at least people are free to die, free to go to some hospital that can provide medical help, free to switch on electricity to help in the healing process, whereas the Iraqi's who had electricity and medical doctors no longer have that, and instead American Tax Payer dollars are being spent to conduct assasinations on civilians...The Iraqi's don't ask to die, in the USA the military doesn't shoot up the streets. The Iraqi's didn't ask the USA to bomb their hospitals or kill their doctors or blow up the electrical grid, or as Bush would say, they were invited to come in and liberate the Iraqis....and so they could be shot to death for no reason, so that could be denied basic human rights, the right to drink safe water, to turn on a light bulb when it gets dark, or get medical advice without worrying whether or not the marine is gonna shoot you on the way to the local Red Crescent?
posted by joshie mitsima at
6:41 p.m.
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