Michael Parenti on so-called poor countries


Today’s generals are nothing more than bureaucrats of mass slaughter, working their way up the Pentagon hierarchy, spending a term at the top issuing orders to destroy helpless populations, then retiring to well-paid positions on corporate boards or as ‘consultants’ to the TV networks covering the next American blitzkrieg.

– The bombing of Iraq: A shameful chapter in American history, wsws.org – 19 Dec 1998


There was no war. No combat. There was only a deliberate, systematic genocide of a defenseless population while barely setting foot on Iraqi soil. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1967, “the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government,” he could not have dreamed in his worst nightmare what the U.S. did to Iraq.

Ramsey Clark

Fire and ice: The devastation of Iraq by war and sanctions - 1998
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