[Peace-discuss] Five years of occupation

[Robert Naiman]

FAIR did an action alert on the NYT, calling on folks to contact the
Times to complain, with the contact info for doing so:

No Antiwar Voices in NYT 'Debate'
Look back at Iraq features nine hawkish 'experts'
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3317


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:43 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> [I'm astonished (yeah, you'd think I'd learn) at the right-wing tone of the
> coverage of the beginning of the sixth year of the US attack on Iraq.  The NYT,
> e.g., assembles a group of experts to assess the matter, with no anti-war voice
> at all; almost worse was the wretched PBS evening news tonight, which devoted a
> long time to a focus group of shockingly uninformed "ordinary citizens" who
> produced ever more specious arguments for continuing the war.  Here, to cleanse
> this offal from the mental palate, is an accurate comment -- not, naturally,
> from the US media but from UK Channel 4. --CGE]
>
>
> "I would like to remind myself and others in the United States and Britain that
> aggressors have no rights, they have only responsibilities.
>
> "The first responsibility is to pay massive reparations for the crimes they have
> carried out. That extends in the case of Iraq to include support for Saddam
> through his worst atrocities after the war with Iran.
>
> "After the savage first Gulf War when George Bush authorised the crushing of the
> rebellions that might have overthrown him, the murderous sanctions and of course
> the war and its aftermath.
>
> "And their second responsibility is to hold the perpetrators accountable.
>
> "And finally, and crucially, to attend to the voices of the victims, which are
> not a secret. The Pentagon has just released its latest study of opinions in
> Iraq. It was optimistic, it said. Iraqis have shared beliefs, so there's hope
> for reconciliation.
>
> "The shared beliefs turn out to be that the United States and Britain are
> responsible for the sectarian warfare and all of its horrors and they should
> leave Iraq to Iraqis."
>
> "And we should finally resolve to ensure that we are never again responsible for
> such terrible crimes."
>
> --Noam Chomsky
>
>
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