Madeleine Albright - The deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it for Iraq's non existent WMD's

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Critical calhoun137 · 2013-05 · on “U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records”

What? If you didn't sound so serious I would think your comment is meant to be a parody. > Very little of this is actually true, at least with regards to what the U.S. does internally. The majority of the OP's comment is not about domestic US politics, it's about support of dictatorships abroad. I'm guessing you are not very familiar with the history of Latin america, you should read up on that before making comments like this again. By the way, the US backed ex-president of Guatemala was just found guilty of genocide[1], Hillary Clinton said Egypt's dictator Mubarak was a "friend of her family", and the US strongly backs the regime in Saudi Arabia which is one of the most repressive in the

Critical jacobr · 2018-06 · on “Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital”

Regarding Civilization or savagery, which is this: Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright calmly asserting that U.S. policy objectives were worth the sacrifice of half a million Iraqi children: [this video]

Critical prolikewh0a · 2018-10 · on “US Lawmakers Urge Canada to Snub China's Huawei in Telecoms”

>BTW, slavery STILL exists in many of those parts of the world. We know it still exists and one example is at the fault of the USA there is now open slave trade in Libya [1]. We also still have legal slavery in our prison system as a law. 500,000 dead in Iraq due to illegal wars, laughed at and claimed as 'good' [2]. Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Korea, Libya, the list doesn't end! The world would likely be a much better place if the USA didn't have it's fingers in everything, everywhere, nearly every country, killing people in mass , all around the world for decades [3][4]. The first chapter, the preface even, of Noam Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent' goes into extraordinary d

Critical stevenjohns · 2019-06 · on “An Open Letter to Google and Apple: Stop Hindering Iranian Entrepreneurs”

Pray tell: how did starving Iraqis to the point where 500,000 children under the age of five alone die from malnutrition[0] punish the Iraqi government? All it did was convert the secular military dictatorship into an extremist religious dictatorship and the effects of this punishment are still being felt today around the entire world[1]. [0] [this video] [1] [LINK]

Critical propagandist · 2020-08 · on “China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs”

1. America declared the war on false grounds, like most wars since WW2 2. It makes 0 difference morally whether you’re targeting domestic or foreign civilians 3. America starves civilian populations outside formal states of war. [this video] . This is the visible tip of the iceberg

Critical pessimizer · 2021-07 · on “A reporter’s fight to expose Epstein’s crimes, and earn a living”

It's a very difficult story to report on because 1) the people who own your institution may be involved on some level, 2) all legitimate sources of novel material information will have been destroyed, 3) interviews are worthless because everybody who we know about who would have anything interesting to say are also both implicated and endangered, and there are so many kooks claiming to know things that it would be impossible to sort them out of the people who we don't know about. It's bizarre that we even think that this story would have an outcome. A number of the completely arbitrary people we shower laurels on under crony capitalism like to have sex with runaway/endangered teenagers under

Critical American12143 · 2021-12 · on “Hidden Pentagon records reveal patterns of failure in deadly airstrikes”

The body counts are not even comparable. In Iraq, ALONE, the U.S. is estimated to have killed 1M+ civilians, between the sanctions it pushed before the 2003 war and the war itself. Here is Madeline Albright saying killing 500k+ kids in Iraq via sanctions was "worth the price" (despite the fact that those sanctions achieved nothing in terms of real political goals): [this video] Edit: but you can flag my comments if that makes you feel better

Critical American12143 · 2021-12 · on “Hidden Pentagon records reveal patterns of failure in deadly airstrikes”

Okay...and? I said that neither China nor Russia are good actors (when I said invasions, I meant active ones, but I get your point), however, the U.S. is worse. -The Russian invasion of both Ukraine and Georgia, summed together, had a civilian deathtoll of 4000+ -If we throw in the first/second Chechen war as well, we get a TOTAL civilian deathtoll of ~70k+ The U.S. killed 500k+ CHILDREN (not even accounting for adult civilians) with its Iraq sanctions (before the invasion), this is just ONE country of the MANY countries the U.S. has been a participant in destabilizing in the last two decades (and we're not even talking about Korea/Vietnam/supplying Saddam with chemical weapons/Gulf War/Sout