[Vision2020] Killing?

[Phil Nisbet]

Joan

Excellent post.

Add in our failure to promptly react in Bosnia and being slow off the dime 
to move on Kosovo for another 250,000 lives.

It would be wonderful if we put it into our minds that we really are the 
signators to the Genocide Conventions.  That ought to trump politics and it 
darn sure ought to trump our economic interests.

Phil Nisbet


>From: Joan Opyr <joanopyr at moscow.com>
>To: Vision2020 Moscow <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Killing?
>Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:36:46 -0800
>
>On February 15th, BJ Swanson wrote:
>
>>  Speaking of killing, here's a quiz:
>>
>>Who has directed the killing of the most humans?
>>
>>     1.. Saddam Hussein
>>     2.. Osama bin Laden
>>     3.. George W. Bush
>
>I think I'd add a few other massacres to this list -- massacres for which 
>we, the United States, were either directly responsible and/or might have 
>intervened to mitigate or prevent:
>
>1. Rwanda -- 800,000 dead
>
>2. Sudan -- 2 million dead and counting
>
>3. East Timor -- 200,000 plus.  [Not to get you riled up, Phil, but the 
>Indonesian Army invaded East Timor in 1975 with the economic and military 
>support of the United States.  It's true that Indonesia is a predominantly 
>Muslim country, but we can't legitimately blame the invasion and occupation 
>of East Timor on Islamic jihadists, anymore than we can blame the U. S. 
>invasion of Iraq on fundamentalist Chrisitans, though this country is 
>predominantly Christian and the current occupant of the White House is a 
>radical fundamentalist.]
>
>4. G. H. W. Bush's invasion of Panama -- 5,000 plus, many buried in mass 
>graves
>
>And, while we're at it, let's cowboy up and take our fair share of the 
>blame for those crimes committed by Saddam Hussein back when he was our 
>tax- and military-supported puppet.  For those of you with good memories 
>(or, even better, reference skills), Donald Rumsfeld visited with Saddam 
>Hussein on behalf of the Reagan Administration back in 1985.  This visit 
>took place shortly after Hussein ordered the torture and execution of 
>140-some Shiite men and boys in the city of Dujail, a massacre we knew 
>about when Rumsfeld made his visit and warmly shook Hussein by the hand.  
>We were tighter than ticks with Iraq back then, a political alliance that 
>remained firm and steady until our falling out over Iraq's invasion of 
>Kuwait in 1991.  Last but not least, let's remember that when Hussein 
>launched his chemical attacks on the Kurds, it was the Reagan party line to 
>blame Iran.
>
>So, if I were to answer BJ's question, I'd be inclined to add Hussein's 
>Iraqi execution totals for the years 1985 to 1991 to the United States' 
>present tally.  What would we get then?  You do the math.
>
>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
>www.joanopyr.com
>
>_____________________________________________________
>List services made available by First Step Internet, serving the 
>communities of the Palouse since 1994.                 http://www.fsr.net   
>                              mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com
>¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

_________________________________________________________________
Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! 
http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/