The Arrogant Path To War, great stuff by Robert Fisk, page 1
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Topic started on 5-9-2003 @ 07:05 PM by Jakomo
Superb article by a fantastic reporter.
Some info is pretty eye-opening. Whaddya think?
"But notice, too, how everything is predicated to America's costs, to American blood. An American commentator, Rosie DiManno, wrote this week that in Iraq "There's also the other cost, the one measured in human lives... one American a day slain since Bush declared the major fighting over." Note here how the blood of Iraqis--whom we were so desperate to liberate six months ago--has disappeared from the narrative. Up to 20 innocent Iraqi civilians a day are now believed to be dying--in murders, revenge killings, at US checkpoints--and yet they no longer count. No wonder journalists now have to seek permission from the occupation authorities to visit Baghdad hospitals. Who knows how many corpses they would find in the morgue?"
Journalists now have to seek permission from the occupation authorities to visit Baghdad hospitals? Whaaa?
www.counterpunch.org...
"September 5, 2003
The Arrogant Path to War
We Were Warned About This Chaos
By ROBERT FISK
How arrogant was the path to war. As President Bush now desperately tries to cajole the old UN donkey to rescue him from Iraq--he who warned us that the UN was in danger of turning into a League of Nations "talking shop" if it declined him legitimacy for his invasion--we are supposed to believe that no one in Washington could have guessed the future.
Messrs Bush and Blair fantasised their way to war with all those mythical weapons of mass destruction and "imminent threats" from Iraq--whether of the 45-minute variety or not--and of the post-war "liberation", "democracy" and map-changing they were going to bestow upon the region. But the record shows just how many warnings the Bush administration received from sane and decent men in the days before we plunged into this terrible adventure."
Read the whole article at the link, stuff to chew on.
jakomo
[Edited on 6-9-2003 by Jakomo]
Some info is pretty eye-opening. Whaddya think?
"But notice, too, how everything is predicated to America's costs, to American blood. An American commentator, Rosie DiManno, wrote this week that in Iraq "There's also the other cost, the one measured in human lives... one American a day slain since Bush declared the major fighting over." Note here how the blood of Iraqis--whom we were so desperate to liberate six months ago--has disappeared from the narrative. Up to 20 innocent Iraqi civilians a day are now believed to be dying--in murders, revenge killings, at US checkpoints--and yet they no longer count. No wonder journalists now have to seek permission from the occupation authorities to visit Baghdad hospitals. Who knows how many corpses they would find in the morgue?"
Journalists now have to seek permission from the occupation authorities to visit Baghdad hospitals? Whaaa?
www.counterpunch.org...
"September 5, 2003
The Arrogant Path to War
We Were Warned About This Chaos
By ROBERT FISK
How arrogant was the path to war. As President Bush now desperately tries to cajole the old UN donkey to rescue him from Iraq--he who warned us that the UN was in danger of turning into a League of Nations "talking shop" if it declined him legitimacy for his invasion--we are supposed to believe that no one in Washington could have guessed the future.
Messrs Bush and Blair fantasised their way to war with all those mythical weapons of mass destruction and "imminent threats" from Iraq--whether of the 45-minute variety or not--and of the post-war "liberation", "democracy" and map-changing they were going to bestow upon the region. But the record shows just how many warnings the Bush administration received from sane and decent men in the days before we plunged into this terrible adventure."
Read the whole article at the link, stuff to chew on.
jakomo
[Edited on 6-9-2003 by Jakomo]
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