blessed britons

I went to see Kifah Taha, who had been so badly beaten by British troops ... that he had terrible wounds in the groin. He told me how the soldiers would call their Iraqi prisoners by the names of football stars - Beckham was one name they used - before kicking them around the detention headquarters in Basra. There were stories of Iraqi prisoners being forced to kneel on sharp stones, of being kicked and punched in the groin, the kidneys, the back, shoulders, forced to sit with their heads down lavatory holes.

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The free trade agreements, in effect, make unlawful all statutes and regulations that restrict private capital in any way. Carried to full realization, this means the end of whatever imperfect democratic protections the populace has been able to muster after generations of struggle in the realm of public policy. Under the free trade agreements any and all public services can be ruled out of existence because they cause “lost market opportunities” for private capital. So too public hospitals can be charged with taking away markets from private hospitals; and public water supply systems, public schools, public libraries, public housing and public transportation are guilty of depriving their private counterparts of market opportunities...

— Michael Parenti

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Submitted by antarchi on August 16, 2007 - 16:35.

NATO's Jaap de Hoop Scheffer quietly blandly pointed out, "Each innocent civilian victim is one too many. Unfortunately it happens."...This callousness is reminiscent of U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's response to Lesley Stahl on the half million children dead as a result of U.S. led sanctions against Iraq, "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price we think the price is worth it."
Neither Hoop Scheffer nor Albright say that they intend to wipe out the Afghan or Iraqi people, but both recognize that vast numbers of people are killed because of their policies. If they knew that their policy would result in death of this scale, then did they not "intend" to kill so many people, regardless of their motivations? They are not motivated to kill, but they surely intended to kill the thousands or hundreds of thousands?

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unfortunately it happens