Why do I say the genocide perpetrated against Iraq is anti-Semitic?
Because it is at least in part targetted at Iraqi Arabs and I believe it is a result of sometimes overt, sometimes latent, even subconscious (anti-Arab) racism.
There were many overt examples of anti-Arab racism in the English and American media at the time of the first Gulf "War", as well as among the US and English military at the time of the first Gulf "War".
Why Iraq? That's the question that I have asked myself for 18 years. Why Iraq?
There have been many terrible regimes across the globe during the last 18 years.
Why have we not bombed their countries, bombed their civilians, starved their people, destroyed their countries?
Why Iraq?
Everyone says it's about oil.
I think that's a load of bollocks to be frank. I have scorn for that view.
They are bombing, starving and destroying Iraq - for oil? Cock!
What precisely has killing loads of people got to do with oil?
Fred Halliday concurs that it has little or nothing to do with oil.
Fred Halliday says it is power politics.
There's a simple and in my view correct answer: racism and anti-Arab anti-Semitism, and Anglo-American insecurity and triumphalism.
Is it a coincidence that the countries attacking this country are the USA and England?
Is it a coincidence that this country is a cradle of civilisation?
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Other reasons have been given for the destruction:
"Another factor to consider is that the destruction of Iraqi civilian life means a much more compliant working class when Iraq's oil returns to the open market.
As Chomsky explains: "So, if the population of Iraq were reduced or marginalized, maybe even reduced to such a level that they are barely functional, then when the time comes to bring Iraqi production back on line, they will be less of an impediment" (quoted in Iraq Under Siege, p.53)."
Source:http://www.worldsocialism.org/articles/iraq_the_continuing_war.php
So the destruction of Iraq is to "soften up" the people?
What is left to be "an impediment"?
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Because it is at least in part targetted at Iraqi Arabs and I believe it is a result of sometimes overt, sometimes latent, even subconscious (anti-Arab) racism.
There were many overt examples of anti-Arab racism in the English and American media at the time of the first Gulf "War", as well as among the US and English military at the time of the first Gulf "War".
Why Iraq? That's the question that I have asked myself for 18 years. Why Iraq?
There have been many terrible regimes across the globe during the last 18 years.
Why have we not bombed their countries, bombed their civilians, starved their people, destroyed their countries?
Why Iraq?
Everyone says it's about oil.
I think that's a load of bollocks to be frank. I have scorn for that view.
They are bombing, starving and destroying Iraq - for oil? Cock!
What precisely has killing loads of people got to do with oil?
Fred Halliday concurs that it has little or nothing to do with oil.
Fred Halliday says it is power politics.
There's a simple and in my view correct answer: racism and anti-Arab anti-Semitism, and Anglo-American insecurity and triumphalism.
Is it a coincidence that the countries attacking this country are the USA and England?
Is it a coincidence that this country is a cradle of civilisation?
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Other reasons have been given for the destruction:
"Another factor to consider is that the destruction of Iraqi civilian life means a much more compliant working class when Iraq's oil returns to the open market.
As Chomsky explains: "So, if the population of Iraq were reduced or marginalized, maybe even reduced to such a level that they are barely functional, then when the time comes to bring Iraqi production back on line, they will be less of an impediment" (quoted in Iraq Under Siege, p.53)."
Source:http://www.worldsocialism.org/articles/iraq_the_continuing_war.php
So the destruction of Iraq is to "soften up" the people?
What is left to be "an impediment"?
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