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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJeremy Scahil:How Clinton's humanitarian bombing to "save" Shiites killed Shiite civilians
In Iraq at the time, I reported how Clinton's humanitarian bombing to "save" Shiites killed Shiite civilians
https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/708005560231321603
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Jeremy Scahil:How Clinton's humanitarian bombing to "save" Shiites killed Shiite civilians (Original Post)
kgnu_fan
Mar 2016
OP
I got banned from the BOG back in 2013 for pointing out the absurdity of that phrase
Scootaloo
Mar 2016
#4
merrily
(45,251 posts)1. "Humanitarian bombing." I'll take oxymorons for $1,000, Alex.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)4. I got banned from the BOG back in 2013 for pointing out the absurdity of that phrase
TheBlackAdder
(28,230 posts)8. ...and I'll take Anal Bum Cover for $7,000
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)2. This is the deceit at the heart of all our "humanitarian interventions"
You kill far more than you avenge or protect.
kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)3. It is ALL for $$$$$, military industrial complext sucks up our tax money
leaving nothing for our welfare, education, medical programs, infrastructure.... politicians are blinded by $$$$
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)5. Most the time yes
Occasionally we think we're doing it for right reason, but this Sting line kind of sums it up:
... I never saw no miracle of science
that didn't go from a blessing to a curse
I never saw no military solution
that didn't always end up as something worse...
kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)6. I know.... people want an easy way out and violence seems to be attractive as a solution
WillyT
(72,631 posts)7. K & R !!!
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)9. What he wrote.
:large
kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)10. crying
Mufaddal
(1,021 posts)11. As a Shīʿa who has lived in Iraq
I can't rec this enough.