For those few who take an interest outside their busy homes and offices...... Noam Chomsky: How Bush-Blair-Obama war crimes tore the Middle East to shreds 08 July 2014. Posted in News Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and beyond - everywhere you look you see mass slaughter and devastation caused by the US-led illegal wars of aggression, says Noam Chomsky. In a recent interview with Moyers & Company, Iraq specialist Raed Jarrar outlines what we in the West should know. Like many Iraqis, he is half-Shiite, half-Sunni, and in preinvasion Iraq he barely knew the religious identities of his relatives because sect wasnt really a part of the national consciousness. Jarrar reminds us that this sectarian strife that is destroying the country ... clearly began with the US invasion and occupation. The aggressors destroyed Iraqi national identity and replaced it with sectarian and ethnic identities, beginning immediately when the US imposed a Governing Council based on sectarian identity, a novelty for Iraq. By now, Shiites and Sunnis are the bitterest enemies, thanks to the sledgehammer wielded by Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney (respectively the former US Secretary of Defense and vice president during the George W. Bush administration) and others like them who understand nothing beyond violence and terror and have helped to create conflicts that are now tearing the region to shreds.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 11:29:04 +0000
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