[Peace-discuss] Iraq/Afghanistan: A Promise Kept, A Promise Deferred

[C. G. Estabrook]

["A Promise Kept, A Promise Deferred"? Not at all.  And this is hardly the time 
that the soi-disant left should be making excuses for the US government's war 
policy.]


On Tuesday night, Barack Obama gave a speech from the Oval Office 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/world/01military.html>on Iraq that was almost 
as full of hideous, murderous lies as the speech on Iraq his predecessor gave in 
the same location more than seven years ago.

After mendaciously declaring an "end to the combat mission in Iraq" -- where 
almost 50,000 regular troops and a similar number of mercenaries still remain, 
carrying out the same missions they have been doing for years -- Obama delivered 
what was perhaps the most egregious, bitterly painful lie of the night:

    "Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and
    Iraq, we have met our responsibility."


"/We have met our responsibility!/" No, Mister President, we have /not/. Not 
until many Americans of high degree stand in the dock for war crimes. Not until 
the United States pays hundreds of billions of dollars in unrestricted 
reparations to the people of Iraq for the rape of their country and the mass 
murder of their people. Not until the United States opens its borders to accept 
all those who have been and will be driven from Iraq by the savage ruin we have 
inflicted upon them, or in flight from the vicious thugs and sectarians we have 
loosed -- and empowered -- in the land. Not until you, Mister President, go down 
on your knees, in sackcloth and ashes, and proclaim a National of Day of Shame 
to be marked each year by lamentations, reparations and confessions of blood 
guilt for our crime against humanity in Iraq.

Then and only then, Mister President, can you say that America has /begun /-- in 
even the most limited, pathetic way -- to "meet its responsibility" for what it 
has done to Iraq. And unless you do this, Mister President -- /and you never 
will/ -- you are just a lying, bloodsoaked apologist, accomplice and perpetrator 
of monstrous evil, like your predecessor and his minions -- many of whom, of 
course, are now /your /minions.

I really don't have anything else to say about this sickening spectacle -- which 
is being compounded in Britain, where I live, by the sight today of Tony Blair's 
murder-tainted mug plastered on the front of the main newspapers, as he makes 
the rounds pushing his new book, doling out "exclusive interviews" full of 
crocodile tears for the soldiers he had murdered in the war crime he committed 
and the "great suffering" of the Iraqi people which, goodness gracious, he never 
foresaw and feels, gosh, really bad about. All this laced with venomous comments 
about his former colleagues -- those who, like Gordon Brown, sold their souls to 
advance Blair's vision of aggressive war abroad and corporate rapine at home -- 
along with, of course, earnest protestations of his God-directed good 
intentions, and his unwavering belief that killing a million innocent human 
beings in Iraq was "the right thing to do." Pol Pot could not have been more 
blindly self-righteous than this wretched moral cretin.

I will say again what I have said here many, many times before: /What quadrant 
of hell is hot enough for such men?
/

/[Full article at 
<http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/2016-speech-defect-emissions-of-evil-from-the-oval-office.html>.]
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