Zinn: Nobil USA on Afghanistan is like Columbine, Cho and Postal Workers
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: Zinn: Nobil USA on Afghanistan is like Columbine, Cho and
Postal Workers
Date: Oct 11, 2009 8:37 AM
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Half the reason we don't walk away
from these three failed oil wars ("Terror,"
Iraq, and Afghaniscam) is because we
can't admit we're losers. We're making
everyone else go down with us, just like
the Columbine, et al, Losers' Society.
"WAAAAAaaah, Everybody hates us! *We'll*
SHOW EM!!"
The world is long past time where the
Nobels mean anything. Think about it:
Who stopped the wars? Who prosecuted
the 9/11 stunt for oil?
http://www.actionlyme.org/070426.htm
The Israelis get away with whatever crimes
they want, here and in their own, um,
territory or general region.
The peace prizes ought to be Truth prizes
given the rarity of Truth's occurrence
in the MSM Monologues, @950PennsylvaniAve,
and in the self-alleged "courts."
[If there is twitless country that
doesn't speak English please forward
that information...]
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/10-3
Published on Saturday, October 10, 2009 by The Guardian/UK
War and Peace Prizes
by Howard Zinn
I was dismayed when I heard Barack Obama was given the Nobel peace
prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on two wars
would be given a peace prize. Until I recalled that Woodrow Wilson,
Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry Kissinger had all received Nobel peace
prizes. The Nobel committee is famous for its superficial estimates,
won over by rhetoric and by empty gestures, and ignoring blatant
violations of world peace.
Yes, Wilson gets credit for the League of Nations – that ineffectual
body which did nothing to prevent war. But he had bombarded the
Mexican coast, sent troops to occupy Haiti and the Dominican Republic
and brought the US into the slaughterhouse of Europe in the first
World War, surely among stupid and deadly wars at the top of the list.
Sure, Theodore Roosevelt brokered a peace between Japan and Russia.
But he was a lover of war, who participated in the US conquest of
Cuba, pretending to liberate it from Spain while fastening US chains
on that tiny island. And as president he presided over the bloody war
to subjugate the Filipinos, even congratulating a US general who had
just massacred 600 helpless villagers in the Phillipines. The
Committee did not give the Nobel prize to Mark Twain, who denounced
Roosevelt and criticised the war, nor to William James, leader of the
anti-imperialist league.
Oh yes, the committee saw fit to give a peace prize to Henry
Kissinger, because he signed the final peace agreement ending the war
in Vietnam, of which he had been one of the architects. Kissinger, who
obsequiously went along with Nixon's expansion of the war, with the
bombing of peasant villages in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Kissinger,
who matches the definition of a war criminal very accurately, is given
a peace prize!
People should be given a peace prize not on the basis of promises they
have made – as with Obama, an eloquent maker of promises – but on the
basis of actual accomplishments towards ending war, and Obama has
continued deadly, inhuman military action in Iraq, Afghanistan and
Pakistan.
The Nobel peace committee should retire, and turn over its huge funds
to some international peace organization which is not awed by stardom
and rhetoric, and which has some understanding of history.
© 2009 Guardian News and Media Limited
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