simiain: Maybe we could express this in a different way, Do you think the people of the USA or Britain will ever take responsibility for the actions of their democratically elected governments, who lets face it under the Bush B'liar coalition, have committed war crimes at least equivalent to those of Mr Karadzic and other indicted Serb war criminals. Or do you think that our nations have the right to invade all and everyone we desire, especially those whose national boundaries contain minerals we like
I will quote this American penned article from somewhere in the middle, the whole piece is worth reading.
Lifted from The Surreal Politics of Premeditated War
by R.W. Behan
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1203-21.htmIn his second week in office, President Bush appointed Vice President Cheney to chair a National Energy Policy Development Group. The supersecret “Energy Task Force,” as it came to known, was composed of officials from the relevant federal agencies and beyond question heavily attended by energy industry executives and lobbyists. (The full membership has yet to be revealed, but Enron’s Kenneth Lay was conspicuously present.)
One brute fact had to be apparent to the Task Force: in the Caspian Basin, and beneath the Iraqi deserts there are 125 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, and the potential for 433 billion barrels more. Anyone controlling that much oil could break OPEC’s stranglehold overnight.
By early March, 2001, the Task Force was poring over maps of the Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, tanker terminals, and oil exploration blocks. It studied an inventory of “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts”—dozens of oil companies from 30 different countries, in various stages of exploring and developing Iraqi crude. (These documents were forced into view several years later by a citizen group, Judicial Watch, with a Freedom of Information Act proceeding. It wasn’t easy—the Bush Administration appealed the lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court—but the maps and documents can now be seen and downloaded at :
http://www.judicialwatch.org/iraqi-oil-maps.shtml.)Not a single U.S. oil company, however, was among the “suitors,” and that was intolerable. Mr. Cheney’s task force concluded, “By any estimation, Middle East oil producers will remain central to world security. The Gulf will be a primary focus of U.S. international energy policy.” It has become very clear over the past six years that the majority of our two nations do not want to know this and will if ever questioned
about it immediately lash out with abusive denials and remarks I have yet to engage with a US or UK citizen who could debate the Bush Bliarite position using corroborated facts.
However the rest of the world has no such loyalty to our criminal leaders and maybe - as Mr Bush (the man who invented Extraordinary Rendition and condoned the use of torture) lectures China on its human rights record, - now is the time for us to listen to their words rather than shooting off our mouths, guns and tomahawk missiles at the first sight of criticism.
Just so I am not wordy, you mean the you would prefer Sadam Hussien, his family and the Bathe Party to still be in power in Iraq? And you would prefer Mohammed Omat and the Taliban to be power in
Afghanistan?
I got, you prefer..... more deathes in these countries....becase under Sadam.....they were averaging 3000 per month there.....today less than a 1000. And in Afghanistan they were executing adulteress under soccer goal post.