No Shame for U.S. 2003 Invasion of Iraq? The Meaning of This
Germany
was ashamed of having invaded Poland under a false pretext, etc.; but
the U.S. is not ashamed of having secretly overthrown Iran’s democracy
in 1953 and of having installed dictatorship there; nor of having
invaded Iraq and created Iraq’s civil war in 2003, etc. (there are many
such examples).
was ashamed of having invaded Poland under a false pretext, etc.; but
the U.S. is not ashamed of having secretly overthrown Iran’s democracy
in 1953 and of having installed dictatorship there; nor of having
invaded Iraq and created Iraq’s civil war in 2003, etc. (there are many
such examples).
America’s
failure to prosecute George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for the invasion of
Iraq is the most stunning evasion of basic democratic accountability,
and raises the question of whether all that’s necessary in order to be a
‘democratic’ dictator in the United States is to lie enough
to fool enough people long enough, so as to be able to make it to one’s
grave with no criminal record, even if one has, in fact, raped the
country that one had led, not to mention destroyed the lives of victims
of that country, such victims as the citizens of Iraq.
failure to prosecute George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for the invasion of
Iraq is the most stunning evasion of basic democratic accountability,
and raises the question of whether all that’s necessary in order to be a
‘democratic’ dictator in the United States is to lie enough
to fool enough people long enough, so as to be able to make it to one’s
grave with no criminal record, even if one has, in fact, raped the
country that one had led, not to mention destroyed the lives of victims
of that country, such victims as the citizens of Iraq.
