Mickey Z

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Monday, February 12, 2007

War: It’s just a pretext away (lessons from Yugoslavia)

Anyone viewing international events with even a shred of objectivity knows that the U.S. government is just a pretext away from bombing Iran. American history is teeming with convenient provocations that create an opening for military intervention. Here’s one instructive example: “We should remember what happened in the village of Racak back in January,” President Bill Clinton told the press on March 19, 1999. “Innocent men, women, and children taken from their homes to a gully, forced to kneel in the dirt, sprayed with gunfire—not because of anything they had done, but because of who they were.”

“Up until the NATO bombings began in March 1999, the conflict in Kosovo had taken 2000 lives altogether from both sides, according to Kosovo Albanian sources,” reports author Michael Parenti. “Yugoslavian sources put the figure at 800. Such casualties reveal a civil war, not genocide.”

Read Yugoslavia article here

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Henry Kissinger sez: “Almost as if according to some natural law, in every century there seems to emerge a country with the power, the will, and the intellectual and moral impetus to shape the entire international system in accordance with its own values ... In the twentieth century, no country has influenced international relations as decisively and at the same time ambivalently as the United States. No society has more firmly insisted on the inadmissibility of intervention in the domestic affairs of other states ... No country has been more reluctant to engage itself abroad”