Kidnappings in Iraq will not intimidate Britain: Hoon

[PfcHammer]

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Kidnappings in Iraq will not intimidate Britain: Hoon

LONDON (AFP) - A wave of kidnappings of foreign civilians in Iraq (news - web sites) is a "disturbing development" but will not deter Britain from staying to help rebuild the country, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said Sunday.

"We have got to work towards the safety and security of those people," he told Sky News.

"We want to ensure they are free. At the same time we will not be intimidated by the extremists, by the fanatics, by the men of violence. It is important that we go on working to rebuild Iraq."

He described the insurgents as supporters of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), foreigners and Al-Qaeda sympathizers.

"We can't afford to allow these extremists, these fanatics to continue to kill, to capture innocent people who are working for the reconstruction of Iraq. We can't simply hand over the country to the very people who are trying to undermine all that Iraqis themselves want."

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[keithyboy]

1. The typical response of the Teutonic and 'Aryan'Anglo saviors of the world

History repeats!!!

‘The “Church closed its eyes” to the prostitution and social injustices carried out by big business and military and political leaders against the people and commended the perpetrators for their “virtuosities.” It excoriated the poor for their vices, but disregarded their virtues. It demanded obedience and obeisance to the higher authorities, while acquiescing and participating in the vices and corruption of the higher authorities. It assiduously accumulated wealth for itself, but counseled poverty and resignation for the people. It remained silent in the face of wanton cruelty and tyranny, but displayed impatience with public disobedience to unjust authorities.”

“”The aboriginal inhabitants were almost completely annihilated, their way of life destroyed, and their land and its wealth appropriated by the
European conquerors. Poor European workers and prisoners of war were condemned to a life of servitude in the new land. The white pioneer small farmers, utilized by the ruling families of Europe and North America to eliminate the Amerindians, were themselves evicted from the land and transformed into proletarians, sharecroppers and a host of social undesirable.”

“Thus, the economic development of Western Europe and the United States was achieved at the expense of the Amerindians, Africans, Asians and poor Europeans. It was realized through genocide, plunder, human enslavement and other forms of exploitation now universally denied, but once justified as features of progress.”

Patrick “Pops” Hylton from his book “The Role of Religion in Caribbean History”