06 Feb 05
Originally posted by StarrmanSound a bit like " We hadda destroy that village to save it" . Don't it?
It's very long but very worth reading.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n03/wein01_.html
One that was not included is that I heard that in 18 months, US forces killed a third the amount of Iraqi's that Saddam killed in his entire 20+ year reign.
06 Feb 05
The byline at the bottom of your link says, "Eliot Weinberger’s 9/12 is published by Prickly Paradigm. He lives in New York."
It is interesting to speculate what Weinberger's fate would have been if he resided in Iraq in 1995 and wrote a similar piece against the Hussein regime.
06 Feb 05
Originally posted by Paul DiracHow many other countries do you want us to invade and cause the deaths of 100,000 people and counting to get freedom of the press there, Paul? Please note: Iraq's puppet government has strict controls over what's published now and people are being indefinitely detained RIGHT NOW, same as under Saddam. I won't argue the relative merits of Iraq's present puppet government with Saddam's government; I only say it should be a matter of indifference to the United States which group runs Iraq, particulary if the cost of supplanting one with another is measured in tens of thousands of lives (and counting).
The byline at the bottom of your link says, "Eliot Weinberger’s 9/12 is published by Prickly Paradigm. He lives in New York."
It is interesting to speculate what Weinberger's fate would have been if he resided in Iraq in 1995 and wrote a similar piece against the Hussein regime.
06 Feb 05
Originally posted by Paul DiracIt is interesting to speculate what your fate would have been during the McCarthy years in the US, if you wrote in public from a pro-union, pro communist and anti-capitalist point of view.
The byline at the bottom of your link says, "Eliot Weinberger’s 9/12 is published by Prickly Paradigm. He lives in New York."
It is interesting to speculate what Weinberger's fate would have been if he resided in Iraq in 1995 and wrote a similar piece against the Hussein regime.
As history has shown us, it didn't take 100.000 civilian deaths in the US for times to change (admittadly it took 1.500.000 civilian deaths by US bombings in Asia, but that's another point entirely).
I'm sure a lot of families in Iraq would have preferred biding their time, rather than having their children deep-fried in napalm.