U.S. law professor : Iraq war is "Pure Evil"

[Clara T]

U.S. law professor : Iraq war is "Pure Evil"

By Mohamed Elmasry

01/11/06 "ICH" -- -- President George W. Bush continues to staunchly defend his war against Iraq, in which more than 2,000 Americans and more than 30,000 Iraqis have been killed -- with fatality numbers on both sides still going nowhere but up.

Iraq has become nothing less than a very expensive made-in-America killing field, in which every death -- whether Iraqi, American, or Coalition -- has cost U.S. taxpayers more than 2 million dollars. That's 2 million, per person, totaling 200 billion dollars so far.

Moreover, during 34 months of occupation, the U.S. has not built even one more university, school, hospital, bridge, factory, or road. Nor have any massive scholarship programs been established at American universities to help educate deserving Iraqi students in engineering, medicine, business, and other vital infrastructural professions. In the meantime, there is no public accounting to explain where billions of Iraqi oil dollars have been spent, and on whom.

Wars, death, destruction, human misery and loss of personal security are all misfortunes that people of good faith try to avoid or lesson among their fellow humans -- but when these misfortunes become pure evil, it is more often than not in the context of planned aggression, such as the American campaign against Iraq.
For an excellent account of how this aggression came into being, the people who made it possible, and why, I strongly recommend you read Francis A. Boyle's book "Destroying World Order: U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After September 11." <1> This expertly-written book even includes a guide to impeaching George W. Bush! In fact, Boyle's book and his testimony against GWB are extraordinary; this is because Boyle comes with credentials unmatched by any of his critics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11536.htm

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. "Not one university, school, hospital, etc."

How incredibly shameful.

I asked a friend, recently (who, like me suffers bouts of insomnia), "How the hell do they (the Neocons) sleep at night??" She just shrugged, "Guess they believe their own lies, by now . . ."

All in all . . . I wish I was an orange cat.

[pocket]

4. some GI at work claims he built a school over there

he's a Seabee

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. Is that school still standing?

or has it been bombed to rubble again? Are there American soldiers being bunkered there? Are there children going to school there, or are their parents too afraid to send them?

Ask him, and let us know.

Jebus! I used to be a very optimistic person, now I'm so jaded.

Cue Aerosmith

[applegrove]

2. Read "Assasin's Gate". The author does mention some Iraqi's

bewilderedness at all the trauma & calamity & continuous wrong decisions. "Was it purposely allowed to happen? And if so why?" ... Just an innocent question from an Iraqi wondering.

I fell on the floor.

[Clara T]

3. BTW

Boyle went to U. of Chicago and knows firsthand of these Straussian cretins.

[applegrove]

5. Sounds interesting. Packer does a pretty good description of them

too.

Assassin's Gate was excellent. Read like a novel. But more importantly he did a great 3/4 job of sizing up everyone in the book. All the groups involved were well represented. We just have to go the other 1/4.

Everyone should read it.

Amazing! Truly amazing.

I just finished it and I will immediately read it again.

[applegrove]

6. You truly do need to wonder - what with neocon love of social engineering

if a peaceful regime change was the furthest thing on their minds. As if - until everyone in the middle east goes through their own WWII - and learns to get over war by living it as the Europeans finally did - if a regime change is considered unsuccessful.

I still cannot quite figure out the cluster**** that are the neos. And the GOP. But I know - they would be as "pragmatic" as that.

[Clara T]

7. I don't even think the neocon's even know

much is off the seat of their think tank pants and as long as mayhem and cruelty are involved it's good to them. Oh yes, complete control and military madness. Oh and snagging all the resources and hiding in bunkers while the world explodes.

Yeah they are truly psychos.

Kissinger and Haig sure wrote some wicked stuff on depopulation.

[applegrove]

9. They weren't neocons. They were realists. But yeah - it is scary sometimes

when you see "under the hood" of some people & groups. 99% of the time. Not. But all it takes is a few.

I really think the neos are utopians. I mean Wolfowitz. Just that Utopians tend to attract culture of personality types to their movements.