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https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm
"On the morning of
September 11, 2001, a few more chickens – along with some
half-million dead Iraqi children – came home to roost in a very big way at the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Well, actually, a few of them seem to have nestled in at the Pentagon as well.
The
Iraqi youngsters, all of them under 12, died as a predictable – in fact, widely predicted –
result of the 1991 US "surgical" bombing of their country's water purification and sewage facilities,
as well as other "infrastructural" targets upon which Iraq's civilian population depends for its very survival.
If the nature of the bombing were not already bad enough – and it should be noted that
this sort of "aerial warfare" constitutes a Class I Crime Against humanity, entailing
myriad gross violations of international law, as well as every conceivable standard of "civilized" behavior – the death
toll has been steadily ratcheted up by US-imposed sanctions for a full decade now. Enforced all the while by a
massive military presence and periodic bombing raids, the
embargo has greatly impaired the victims' ability to import the nutrients, medicines and other materials necessary to saving the lives of even their toddlers.
All told, Iraq has a population of about 18 million. The
500,000 kids lost to date thus represent something on the order of 25 percent of their age group. Indisputably, the
rest have suffered – are still suffering – a
combination of physical debilitation and psychological trauma severe enough to prevent their ever fully recovering. In effect, an entire generation has been obliterated."
"...
technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire – the "
mighty engine of profit"
to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved – and they did so both willingly and knowingly ...
little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers ..."
" ...
firm-jawed lads" who delighted in flying stealth aircraft through the undefended airspace of
Baghdad,
dropping payload after payload of bombs on anyone unfortunate enough to be below –
including tens of thousands of genuinely innocent civilians –
while themselves incurring all the risk one might expect during a visit to the local video arcade. Still more, the word describes
all those "fighting men and women" who sat at computer consoles aboard ships in the Persian Gulf, enjoying air-conditioned comfort while launching cruise missiles into neighborhoods filled with random human beings. Whatever else can be said of them, the men who struck on September 11
manifested the courage of their convictions, willingly expending their own lives in attaining their objectives. "
"
Evil – for those inclined to embrace the banality of such a concept – was
perfectly incarnated in that malignant toad known as Madeline Albright,
squatting in her studio chair like Jaba the Hutt,
blandly spewing the news that she'd imposed a collective death sentence upon the unoffending youth of Iraq. Evil was to be heard in that great American hero
"Stormin' Norman" Schwartzkopf's utterly dehumanizing dismissal of their systematic torture and annihilation as mere "collateral damage." Evil, moreover, is a
term appropriate to describing the mentality of a public that finds such perspectives and the policies attending them acceptable, or even momentarily tolerable. "
" ...
America's indiscriminately lethal arrogance and psychotic sense of self-entitlement have long since given the great majority of the world's peoples ample cause to be at war with it ..."
"
FBI counterintelligence personnel have proven quite
adept at framing anarchists,
communists and
Black Panthers,
sometimes murdering them in their beds or the electric chair. The
Bureau's SWAT units have
displayed their ability to combat child abuse in Waco by burning babies alive, and its
vaunted Crime Lab has been shown to pad its "crime-fighting' statistics by fabricating evidence against many an alleged car thief. But actual
"heavy-duty bad guys" of the sort at issue now? This isn't a Bruce Willis/Chuck Norris/Sly Stallone movie, after all.. And J. Edgar Hoover doesn't get to approve either the script or the casting."
"The number of spies, saboteurs and bona fide terrorists apprehended, or even detected by the
FBI in the course of its
long and slimy history could be counted on one's fingers and toes.
On occasion, its agents have even turned out to be the spies, and, in many instances, the terrorists as well."
"... if the
Bureau f
unctions as at best a carnival of clowns where its "
domestic security responsibilities" are concerned, this is because – regardless of official hype –
it has none.
It is now, as it's always been, the national political police force, and
instrument created and perfected to ensure that all Americans, not just the consenting mass, are "free" to do exactly as they're told."
"The FBI and "cooperating agencies" can be thus relied upon to set about "protecting freedom" by
destroying whatever rights and liberties were left to U.S. citizens before September 11 (in fact, they've already received authorization to begin).
Sheeplike, the great majority of Americans can also be counted upon to bleat their approval, at least in the short run,
believing as they always do that the nasty implications of what they're doing will pertain only to others."
"Oh Yeah, and "The Company," Too
A possibly
even sicker joke is the
notion, suddenly in vogue, that the
CIA will be able to pinpoint "terrorist threats," "rooting out their infrastructure" where it exists and/or "terminating" it before it can materialize,
if only it's allowed to beef up its "human intelligence gathering capacity" in an unrestrained manner (including full-bore operations inside the US, of course).
Yeah. Right.
Since America has a collective attention-span of about 15 minutes,
a little refresher seems in order:
"The Company" had something like a quarter-million people serving as "intelligence assets" by feeding it information in Vietnam in 1968, and it couldn't even predict the Tet Offensive. God knows how many spies it was fielding against the USSR at the
height of Ronald Reagan's version of the Cold War, and it was
still caught flatfooted by the collapse of the Soviet Union. A
s to destroying "terrorist infrastructures," one would do well to
remember Operation Phoenix, another product of its open season in
Vietnam. In that one, the
CIA enlisted elite US units like the Navy Seals and Army Special Forces,
as well as those of
friendly countries – the
south Vietnamese Rangers, for example, and
Australian SAS –
to run around "neutralizing" folks targeted by The Company's legion of snitches as "guerrillas" (as those now known as "terrorists" were then called).
Sound familiar?
Upwards of 40,000 people – mostly bystanders, as it turns out – were murdered by Phoenix hit teams before the guerrillas, stronger than ever, ran the US and its collaborators out of their country altogether. And
these are the guys who are gonna save the day, if unleashed to do their thing in North America?
The
net impact of all this "counterterrorism" activity upon the combat teams' ability to do what they came to do, of course,
will be nil. "
"On Matters of Proportion and Intent
"As things stand, including the 1993 detonation at the WTC,
"Arab terrorists" have responded to the
massive and sustained American terror bombing of Iraq with a total of
four assaults by explosives inside the US.
That's about 1% of the 50,000 bombs the Pentagon announced were rained on Baghdad alone during the Gulf War (add in Oklahoma City and you'll get something nearer an actual 1%).
They've
managed in the process to kill about 5,000 Americans, or
roughly 1% of the dead Iraqi children (the
percentage is far smaller if you factor in the killing of adult Iraqi civilians, not to mention troops butchered as/after they'd surrendered and/or after the "war-ending" ceasefire had been announced).
In terms undoubtedly more meaningful to the property/profit-minded American mainstream,
they've knocked down a half-dozen buildings – albeit some very well-chosen ones –
as opposed to the "strategic devastation" visited upon the whole of Iraq, and
punched a $100 billion hole in the
earnings outlook of
major corporate shareholders,
as opposed to the U.S. obliteration of Iraq's entire economy."
"The problem is that
vengeance is usually framed in terms of "getting even," a concept which is plainly inapplicable in this instance. As the above data indicate,
it would require another 49,996 detonations killing 495,000 more Americans, for the "terrorists" to "break even" for the bombing of Baghdad/extermination of Iraqi children alone. And that's
to achieve "real number" parity.
To attain an actual proportional parity of damage – the US is about 15 times as large as Iraq in terms of population, even more in terms of territory –
they would, at a minimum, have to blow up about 300,000 more buildings and kill something on the order of 7.5 million people.
Were this the intent of those who've entered the US to wage war against it,
it would remain no less true that America and
Americans were only receiving the bill for what they'd already done. Payback, as they say, can be a real motherfucker (ask the Germans)."
"...
America's abundant supply of major war criminals (
Henry Kissinger comes quickly to mind, as do
Madeline Albright,
Colin Powell,
Bill Clinton and
George the Elder) ..."
'' ...
Nuremberg-style trials in which a
few thousand US military/corporate personnel could be properly adjudicated and punished for their Crimes Against humanity,
and payment of reparations to the array of nations/peoples whose assets the US has plundered over the years, would suffice."
EU-NATO IMPERIALISM ❌ 