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‘Democracy Now!’: The Costs of the Iraq WarPosted on Dec 16, 2011
This week’s official end to the Iraq War brought a good deal of back-patting among the leaders responsible for its origin and duration, but “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman delivers a grim reality check in this clip from Friday’s broadcast featuring analysis and commentary from Brown University professor Catherine Lutz. —KA ‘Democracy Now!’: Advertisement New and Improved CommentsIf you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy. |
By John Q, December 19, 2011 at 3:42 pm Link to this comment
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@Calafornia Ray,
Excellent point.
I was kind of shocked at the blood lust average people had about the Iraq War
and how support for the war permeated everything from little league baseball
to electric train sets. Another frightening thing was there was this type of mob
mentality where you couldn’t question the nobility or purpose of getting into
the war in first place.
I was teaching in a public school and was basically ostracized because I
wouldn’t wear red white & blue ribbons or yellow ribbons or whatever. It’s
almost like I was going against Santa Claus or something.
To answer your question I think people had a real blood lust for revenge on
9/11 against Arab people or Muslims and they really didn’t care if there was any
logic to going to war against Iraq.
American people have a short attention span and don’t like complicated
Report thisproblems so by the summer most Americans just stopped paying attention and
really didn’t care anymore.
By blogdog, December 18, 2011 at 12:16 pm Link to this comment
so where will Democracy Now position itself in the aftermath to the break up of Libya?
DN and resident NATO shill Jaun Cole, mercilessly regurgitated NATO’s agitprop leading to
the R2P carte blanch for wholesale bombardment, never once seriously questioning the
authenticity of any Libyan Army so-called massacres of protesters - never reporting in any
significant detail well-armed insurgents attacking a police station and storming an armory in
Benghazi in the first days of the insurgency - virtually always portraying the armed rebellion
as ‘peaceful’ protesters being attacked by the Libyan Army
Democracy Now, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, National Endowment For
Democracy and of course the Arab League and United Nations are all complicit in NATO’s
Rape of Libya
For this, I hold them all in abject contempt; especially Cole and Goodman, so-called
‘progressives’ - and they’re at it again with Syria - tip: examine with great suspicion anything
produced by Al Jazeera
e.g. http://counterpsyops.com/tag/fake-footage/
Al Jazeera prepares fake images of Syria (Just as it did for Libya)
http://counterpsyops.com/2011/10/08/al-jazeera-prepares-fake-images-of-syria-just-as-it-did-for-libya/
Syrian television broadcasted a special program with Thierry Meyssan on October the 6th. The
president of the Voltaire Network shared what he has learned from his experience in Libya.
During the interview, Thierry Meyssan recalled that he had announced on Voltairenet.org the
construction by Al-Jazeera of a studio in Doha (Qatar) reproducing the Green Square and Bab
el-Azizia. The announcement was severely criticized by the mainstream press who saw proof
“of anti-Americanism ”.
Yet from the beginning of the Battle of Tripoli, Al-Jazeera broadcasted images of propaganda
tours in the studio to make it appear that the rebels had entered the city, while it was still
under the NATO bombing . It was to break the morale of Libyans into thinking that all was
lost.Subsequently, the head of the National Transition Council, Abdul Jalil Mustafa, admitted
the facts and presented them as a ruse of war.
On Syrian television, Thierry Meyssan revealed that Al-Jazeera just created sets (copies of) of
Report thisthe Umayyads and the Abbasids squares (Damascus). The channel also intends to reproduce
the central squares of four provincial towns. Qatar provides significant military effort in
Western military action against Syria.
By California Ray, December 18, 2011 at 10:24 am Link to this comment
Is it not true that the Iraq war demonstrated that the U.S. government, news media, and courts were enemies of truth, peace, human rights, and international law?
Report thisThat the U.S. has embraced aggressive war, torture, and detentions without trial?
That the U.S. overfunds its military, and that this is systematic?
Did that immoral and illegal war not prove that the U.S., despite all the advantages enjoyed by its people, is beyond redemption?
Perhaps there is more truth than conservatives realize in their political credo to “starve the beast.”
By California Ray, December 17, 2011 at 6:06 pm Link to this comment
The sad thing about this war is how enthusiastic everybody was about starting it.
Report thisWhich I never understood.
The overwhelming majority of Americans believed: (1) the international weapons inspectors in Iraq were so inadequate that the security and safety of the U.S. necessitated the use of force, and (2) the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 did not violate international law.
What am I missing here? Never made a lot of sense to me.
By berniem, December 17, 2011 at 3:51 pm Link to this comment
Alas, talk is cheap. What must be done is the confiscation of all profiteering acquired by the kleptocracy followed by the redistribution of the illgotten wealth to those most afflicted by our actions. Obama speaks with flowery words about the glowing prospects for Iraq but fails to mention who will repair the devastation. Billions in corporate welfare to our illustrious arms manufacturers to rebuild a military who’s sole purpose it will be to keep their population docile and cowed while our avaricious free market capitalists rob the country blind. Seems to me that Maliki is nothing more than the new Mubarack!
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