.. of all countries ...
.. not yours ...
.. go home US/Zs!
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Trigger article:
Watch the video!
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The US has spread its vile tentacles across our once jewel-like planet. The Zs violently invaded and now brutally occupy vast tracts of Palestine. As the US in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, then all the other 'Stans, the invaders are creating trouble (cf. murder for spoil) on exactly the same scale and nature as outwards from Germany pre-'45.
It was just as illegal then as it is now (cf. Nuremberg hangings) - yet now the world tolerates the exact same war crimes from the US/Zs.
Why?
Where are the champions of justice and peace via truth?
UK? Aus? (Silly Q; guffaw!) Germany? France? No? Why not? Criminals, all.
THE ISRAELI ZIONISTS OBSESSION WITH IRAN
9 years ago
If anyone is shocked by the video it means they haven't been paying attention.
ReplyDeleteGlenn Greenwald has several pieces on the video - starting with.
Chris Floyd.
CF refers to an earlier piece on an admission by Gen. McChrystal.
And there are other ways - a reminder of the sanctions.
The devastation of the Gulf War and the sanctions that preceded and sustained such devastation changed all that. Often forgotten is the fact that sanctions were imposed before the war-in August of 1990-in direct response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. After the liberation of Kuwait, sanctions were maintained, their focus shifted to disarmament. In 1991, a few months after the end of the war, the U.N. secretary general's envoy reported that Iraq was facing a crisis in the areas of food, water, sanitation, and health, as well as elsewhere in its entire infrastructure, and predicted an “imminent catastrophe, which could include epidemics and famine, if massive life-supporting needs are not rapidly met.” U.S. intelligence assessments took the same view. A Defense Department evaluation noted that “Degraded medical conditions in Iraq are primarily attributable to the breakdown of public services (water purification and distribution, preventive medicine, water disposal, health-care services, electricity, and transportation). . . . Hospital care is degraded by lack of running water and electricity.”
According to Pentagon officials, that was the intention. In a June 23, 1991, Washington Post article, Pentagon officials stated that Iraq's electrical grid had been targeted by bombing strikes in order to undermine the civilian economy. “People say, 'You didn't recognize that it was going to have an effect on water or sewage,'” said one planning officer at the Pentagon. “Well, what were we trying to do with sanctions-help out the Iraqi people? No. What we were doing with the attacks on infrastructure was to accelerate the effect of the sanctions.”
Targeting civilian infrastructure is a crime.
the McChryminal chasm
ReplyDelete.. is deeper ...
.. than it's wide ...
.. why no effective objections?
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There are a few surprises *about* the video, like why it took so long to get leaked? There must be whole archives full of shelves overflowing with the same documentation of horrendous depravity, so why only just the one? Next thing you know, is that this *absolute exception* will be blamed on 'a (tiny!) few bad apples?'
We knew this sort of thing was going to happen, also how, when we heard some 'grunts' saying "Let's go play in Iraq," and on hearing the charming expressions "pink-misting" (of Oh, so many 'unfortunate' collaterals) then later "shake'n bake" referring to HE/WP bombardments.
The McChrystal quote Bob refers to goes something like this:
«Here's what McChrystal said about a week ago: "We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat." In other words, the U.S. is slaughtering innocent civilians on a regular basis, for no good reason.»
[ICH/Weiner]
Comment: This is actually all the odder since it is generally believed that one of McChrystal's so-called 'achievements' is having implemented the El-Salvador option in Iraq - and if you need to ask, then key-word: death-squads.
But the biggest surprise of all is how almost unanimously, so-called 'Western democracies' (meaning the regimes) do *not* effectively object, let alone apparently *not* objecting at all - to the marauding US illegally invading and brutally occupying (ditto by the illegitimate sprog) - that no competent 'authority' objects to this vile and utterly criminal depravity, all termed 'murder for spoil?'
G'day ID,your illegitimate sprog" link has further links, one of which ("Was Israel Ever Legitimate?") covers opponents to the recognition of Israel. Here is more on one opponent - George Marshall - and the views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
ReplyDeleteThe JCS were on the mark:
"The JCS speculated that these objectives included: initial Jewish sovereignty over a portion of Palestine, acceptance by the great powers of the right to unlimited immigration, the extension of Jewish sovereignty over all of Palestine and the expansion of "Eretz Israel" into Transjordan and into portions of Lebanon and Syria. This was not the only time the JCS expressed this worry. In late 1947, the JCS had written that "A decision to partition Palestine, if the decision were supported by the United States, would prejudice United States strategic interests in the Near and Middle East" to the point that "United States influence in the area would be curtailed to that which could be maintained by military force." That is to say, the concern of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was not with the security of Israel - but with the security of American lives."
More on the leaked documents.
Following 'More on the leaked documents,' (g'day Bob & thanks), more on the *moral* situation...
ReplyDeleteQuote: « ... about the efficacy of targeted assassinations themselves. Presumably, these are justified, and the regulations issued to facilitate them justified, because occupation forces preempt attacks on Israeli civilians by getting the bad guys before they get us.»
Beg to differ & with all due respect, just who are the true "bad guys" here?
If we back up to the Balfour declaration (1917): "Whatever deference should be paid to the views of those living there, the Powers in their selection of a mandatory do not propose, as I understand the matter, to consult them."
Let's say that before Balfour, there were only ELO/Os - erstwhile legal owner/occupiers (mainly Palestinian), then 1st a trickle and eventually a flood - of outright, foreign aliens - immigrated = started arriving and kept at it right down to today, and certainly after the passage of UNGA181 ("approved by a vote of 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions") - if not before, that that alien group began causing mayhem (see Deir Yassin massacre & Plan Dalet as a tiny sample, say - from the latter: "According to other historians such as Walid Khalidi and Ilan Pappe, its purpose was to conquer as much of Palestine, and to expel as many Palestinians, as possible.")
Long-story-short, those exact same aliens, from then until now and still increasingly - occupy land never to be (morally) theirs - and IF that land is considered stolen (many(most?) certainly do) THEN the occupation of such stolen land is utterly indefensible.
IMHO, *nothing* in the succeeding years has or can change the original injustice. This is typified and *proven* by the universally (except of course by the Zs) accepted condemnation: "illegal West-bank settlements" etc..
Moral of the story: Accepting that IL is somehow 'legal,' and has some sort of 'right' to self-defence simply doesn't stand up to even the most rudimentary of inspections. Oh! - Unless, of course, to anyone captive of the corrupt and venal MSM (pro-Z) pushed-propaganda paradigm...
Glenn Greenwald on cause and effect.
ReplyDeleteChris Floyd on the warrior spirit.
More reading matter ...
ReplyDeleteGareth Porter.
Tom Engelhardt.
Chris Floyd.