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The Iraqi Genocide
by Paul Craig Roberts Why has not the Turkish parliament given tit for tat and passed a resolution condemning the Iraqi Genocide?
As a result of Bush's invasion of Iraq, more than one million Iraqis have died, and several millions are displaced persons. The Iraqi death toll and the millions of uprooted Iraqis match the Armenian deaths and deportations.
If one is a genocide, so is the other.
It is true that most of the Iraqi deaths have resulted from
Iraqis killing one another. But it was Bush's destruction of the
secular Iraqi state that unleashed the sectarian strife.
Moreover,
American troops in Iraq have killed more civilians than insurgents. The
US military in Iraq has fallen for every bit of disinformation fed to
it by Al Qaeda personnel posing as "informants" and by Sunnis setting
up Shi'ites and Shi'ites setting up Sunnis. As a result, American bombs
and missiles have blown up weddings, funerals, kids playing soccer, and
people shopping in bazaars and sleeping in their homes.
Not to
be outdone, Bush's private Waffen SS known as Blackwater Security has
taken to gunning Iraqi civilians down in the streets. How do Blackwater
and Custer Battles killers escape the "unlawful combatant" designation?
One
can only marvel at the insouciance of the US Congress to the current
Iraqi Genocide while condemning Turkey for one that happened 90 years
ago.
People seldom see the beam in their own eye, only the mote
in the eyes of others. Every member of the Bush Regime is busily at
work denouncing Iran for causing instability in the Middle East.
Meanwhile,
the US has invaded two countries, throwing them into total chaos, while
beating the drums for war with Iran and conspiring with Israel to
invade Lebanon and to attack Syria.
The indisputable facts are
that the US and Israel have attacked four Middle East countries and are
determined to attack a fifth. Yet, it is peaceful Iran, at war with no
one, that Bush and Israel blame for causing instability in the Middle
East.
Not content with its many wars in the Middle East, the
Bush Regime is sponsoring wars in Africa and is setting up an African
Command. The US government has been bombing and attacking other
countries ever since the cold war ended. Instead of peace, the gang in
Washington DC chose war.
Other than the Israel Lobby, the
greatest supporters of Bush's wars are Christian evangelicals,
specifically the "rapture evangelicals" and the "Christian Zionists."
I
remember when Christianity was about saving one's soul. Today it is
about bringing on Armageddon. While the various evangelical Christians
preach war in the Middle East, they condemn Islam for being a "warlike
religion."
Americans are so full of themselves that they are blind to their extraordinary hypocrisy.
The
US government has broken every agreement with Russia by withdrawing
from the anti-ballistic missile treaty, pushing NATO to Russia's
borders, conniving to place missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic,
and buying governments in former Soviet republics and installing US
military bases therein.
When Russian President Putin finally has
enough and protests, the US Secretary of State blames Putin for being
difficult and restarting the cold war.
Few Americans realize it, but they take the cake.
International
polls show that the rest of the world regard the US and Israel as the
greatest dangers to world peace. Americans claim that they are fighting
wars against terrorism, but it is US and Israeli terrorism that worries
everyone else. The rest of the world knows that the wars are about US
and Israeli hegemony and that the US and Israel are prepared to engage
in whatever acts of terror are necessary to achieve hegemony.
That is the bare fact.
When
the US dollar loses its reserve currency status, the US empire will
come to an abrupt end. Sooner or later the rest of the world will
realize this and, in an act of self-protection, dethrone the dollar.
Paul
Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan
administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal
editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is
coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.
Wisdom never roars it whispers written by a guest,
October 22, 2007
What happened 90 years ago is continuing now through the denial by Turkey and its tacit support by USA. The denial of a genocide is the last stage of genocide. More still the denial of a genocide is the precursor of another genocide. I praise the Armenians for their steadfast support for the truth. Is there a lesson here for Americans? The US values have eroded over time. Wisdom never roars it whispers.
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Why has not the Turkish parliament given tit for tat and passed a resolution condemning the Iraqi Genocide?
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