2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThere is also a "Special Place in Hell" for Madeleine Albright
Here's why:
What isnt 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 NATOs bombing of Serbia in 1999, so much so that many referred to the operation as Madeleines 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.
Albrights 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/
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)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."
mike_c
(36,281 posts)500,000 dead children. And let's not forget Bill Clinton's bloody hands, either.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Human Rights.
MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)What a cold, despicable thing to say.
She said it was worth it, that a HALF A MILLION CHILDREN WERE MURDERED BY US.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Jenny_92808
(1,342 posts)and it scares me about the republicans saying they will carpet bomb masses of people.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)nichomachus
(12,754 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)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.