From William Rivers Pitt: Moreover, Russia has pointed to America’s decision to go into Iraq as an example of Western hypocrisy. Now, it is true that the Iraq War was a subject of vigorous debate not just around the world, but in the United States as well. I participated in that debate and I opposed our military intervention there. But even in Iraq, America sought to work within the international system. We did not claim or annex Iraq’s territory. We did not grab its resources for our own gain. Instead, we ended our war and left Iraq to its people and a fully sovereign Iraqi state that could make decisions about its own future. - Obama, in Brussells, yesterday An amazing amount of bullshit in one paragraph. We ran roughshod over the international community to get that war going. If an invasion and ten-year occupation isnt annexation, then nothing is. We totally, totally grabbed their resources, because the oil was supposed to pay for the war, as I recall...and there were gas lines in Iraq for years after the invasion, because we were sitting on their oil like it was our own private piggy bank. And as for the state we left Iraq in, thousands upon thousands of people have been killed in the sectarian strife we left behind. They arent making decisions about their future. Theyre running for their damned lives. The used car salesman is trying to sell the lemon that was the Iraq war in order to avoid sounding like a hypocrite about Russia. Utterly nauseating. - William Rivers Pitt
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:11:46 +0000
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