Governments which terrorize will do anything to scapegoat the victims. When I try to solve this atrocity, I can't be chastised. That I am is indicative of someone who is disengenuous.
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The worldıs worst terrorists are based in Washington
By John Pilger
In recent years Muslims have been the greatest sufferers from state terrorism
BY KNOWINGLY killing innocent people, for political ends President Clinton is a terrorist. By supporting his action, the PM and the Defence Secretary are accomplices. The dictionary meaning of terrorism allows no other interpretation; the rest is wilful obfuscation, or propaganda. What matter now is our informed reaction.
We have been through this many times before, with the lies echoed predictably from Downing Street. In l986, there was the ³evil² Colonel Gaddafi, whose country President Reagan bombed from bases in Britain, killing mostly women and children
In l990, there was the ³evil² Gen. Noreiga, said to be a dangerous drugs trafficker, whose capture by US marines required a full-scale invasion of his country and the death by bombing of at least 2000 Panamanians, mainly the poorest of the poor in their barrios. Noriega and drugs had precious little to do with it. The aim was to put Panama, its canal and its US bases under direct American sovereignty, managed by other Noriegas.
In the same year, there was ³the truly evil² Saddam Hussain, another one of Bushıs and Reaganıs old pals, whose regime they had armed and backed (along with Margaret Thatcher, who sent most of her cabinet to Baghdad as supplicants or arms salesmen! Saddamıs use of American and British weapons in his attack on the ³evil² mullahs in Iran in l980 was perfectly acceptable. A million people died in that ³forgotten² war; and the American and British arms industries never looked back.
Alas, Saddam, the nominal victor then attacked the wrong country, Kuwait, which is effectively an Anglo-American oil protectorate. He was clearly unreliable: ³an uppity bastard², as one State Department briefer described him more in sorrow than anger. Punishing the uppity bastard cost as many as 200,000 Iraqi lives, according to a study by the Medical Educational Trust. These were ordinary Iraqis who died during and immediately after a period of military and economic carnage whose true scale has never been appreciated outside the Middle East.
This old fashioned colonial massacre was called the Gulf War. The dead included thousands of Kurdish and Shia people who were Saddamıs bitter opponents and whom Bush had called upon to rise up against their oppressor. Long after it was over. New York Newsday revealed from official sources, that three brigades of the US lst Mechanised Infantry Division ³The Big Red One² had used snowploughs mounted on tanks to bury alive Iraqi conscripts in more than seventy miles of trenches. A brigade commander said, ³For all I know; we could have killed thousands.² This is a war crime. -------
Soon after he was elected in l992 Clinton attacked Baghdad with 23 Cruise missiles. These destroyed a residential area, killing, once again, most women and children, including Iraqıs most distinguished artist, Leila al-Attar.
Interviewed on his way to church with his wife, Clinton said, ³I feel quite good about this, and I think the American people feel quite good about it. ³The pretext for the attack was an Iraqi ³plot² to kill George Bush on a visit to Kuwait. There was no hard evidence and the plot story is now widely regarded as fake.
Two years ago, Clinton attacked Iraq again, this time insisting that he was ³defending² Kurds against Saddam Hussain, who ³must pay the price². Once again civilians televisionıs unpeople, I call them paid the price. ------
Tony Blair said he wept for the children who were killed in Omagh by a terrorist act; but he is silent on the children who die in Iraq as a result of one of the most enduring terrorist acts of the late 20th century, -- the cameras had also shown glimpses of Iraqıs silent holocaust, the consequences of the imposition of ³economic sanctions² by the United States and Britain under the usual UN flag of convenience.
According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation over a million babies have died. Baby food and enriched powered milk are blockaded, along with vital equipment: stethoscopes, X-ray machines, medical swabs, scanners and water purifiers. ---
All of course, are unpeople the victims of an unerring pattern of ruthless, lawless terrorism, imperialist by nature and infinitely greater than that of any Islamic or Irish group. It is time to stop sniggering at the distractions of this rampant power and to recognise the truth about it and speak out.
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