"Fallujah, Abu Ghraib and all the other atrocities and egregious examples of casual disregard for Iraqi life came as a shock to no-one who was prepared to acknowledge the reality of Western power based on its track record, rather than invoke a fairyland version of it as "the armed wing of Amnesty International". Cohen even praised Donald Rumsfeld's mini-me Paul Wolfowitz for his commitment to democracy and human freedom. The same Wolfowitz who as ambassador to Indonesia played a key role in supporting the mass murdering dictator General Suharto, whose savage oppression of the East Timorese barely differed from the Ba'athist crushing of the Kurds. "3/03/2013
Iraq - The Bloody Debacle In A Nutshell
New Left Project | NLP Blog | The Depths of Nick Cohen’s Humanitarianism: 
"Fallujah, Abu Ghraib and all the other atrocities and egregious examples of casual disregard for Iraqi life came as a shock to no-one who was prepared to acknowledge the reality of Western power based on its track record, rather than invoke a fairyland version of it as "the armed wing of Amnesty International". Cohen even praised Donald Rumsfeld's mini-me Paul Wolfowitz for his commitment to democracy and human freedom. The same Wolfowitz who as ambassador to Indonesia played a key role in supporting the mass murdering dictator General Suharto, whose savage oppression of the East Timorese barely differed from the Ba'athist crushing of the Kurds. "
"Fallujah, Abu Ghraib and all the other atrocities and egregious examples of casual disregard for Iraqi life came as a shock to no-one who was prepared to acknowledge the reality of Western power based on its track record, rather than invoke a fairyland version of it as "the armed wing of Amnesty International". Cohen even praised Donald Rumsfeld's mini-me Paul Wolfowitz for his commitment to democracy and human freedom. The same Wolfowitz who as ambassador to Indonesia played a key role in supporting the mass murdering dictator General Suharto, whose savage oppression of the East Timorese barely differed from the Ba'athist crushing of the Kurds. "
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These cretins make me sick to my stomach.
ReplyDeleteWolfowitz is one of the uber elite Neo/Zio/Cons.
Intead of being held accountable for his lies, he was given the World Bank slot.
These people should be in jail. Not in the headlines.