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RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 09:10 PM Feb 2016

There is also a "Special Place in Hell" for Madeleine Albright

Here's why:

What isn’t making headlines is the irony of someone who was responsible for the deaths of 2,000 civilians, including 88 children, pretending to have any moral judgement whatsoever.

Albright was one of the leading proponents of NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999, so much so that many referred to the operation as “Madeleine’s War.”

Years before George Bush declared war on terror without the approval of Congress, Albright and her Clinton administration allies were using phrases like “war on terror” and “humanitarian intervention” to justify bombing Serbia. It was “the first time that NATO used military force without the approval of the UN Security Council and against a sovereign nation that did not pose a real threat to any member of the alliance.”

Albright’s airstrikes destroyed more than 300 schools, libraries, and over 20 hospitals.

“Why? Why civilians?” lamented airstrike survivor Dragan Ciric. “It still torments me. If the first rocket was a mistake, what were the next three for?”



More at the link: http://usuncut.com/politics/special-place-in-hell-madeleine-albright/

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There is also a "Special Place in Hell" for Madeleine Albright (Original Post) RoccoR5955 Feb 2016 OP
And Downwinder Feb 2016 #1
^^^THIS^^^ mike_c Feb 2016 #3
and FLOTUS portfolios were Health and Downwinder Feb 2016 #12
She is vile MissDeeds Feb 2016 #4
Here: PonyUp Feb 2016 #5
WOW! Jenny_92808 Feb 2016 #7
Yea, she was pretty awful (nt) bigwillq Feb 2016 #2
People like her who have had power or people who will have power are a nightmare... Jenny_92808 Feb 2016 #6
NOOOOOO...if I'm going I don't want her there. Punkingal Feb 2016 #8
Sorry. Her being there is what makes it hell n/t nichomachus Feb 2016 #9
The brokers of war care not about the innocent. n/t Avalux Feb 2016 #10
Yes, She Was Such A Jewel!!! ChiciB1 Feb 2016 #11

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)
1. And
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 09:21 PM
Feb 2016

On May 12, 1996, Albright defended UN sanctions against Iraq on a 60 Minutes segment in which Lesley Stahl asked her "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" and Albright replied "we think the price is worth it."

 

Jenny_92808

(1,342 posts)
6. People like her who have had power or people who will have power are a nightmare...
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 10:02 PM
Feb 2016

and it scares me about the republicans saying they will carpet bomb masses of people.

ChiciB1

(15,435 posts)
11. Yes, She Was Such A Jewel!!!
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 11:38 PM
Feb 2016

Make Peace Not War Died & THEY decided it sounded better as MAKE WAR NOT PEACE! We keep starting wars EVERYWHERE!

ENOUGH, our tax money has done enough damage! OOPS, was going to say something about money & blood, thought it better that I didn't.

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