Reply #143: US imperialism is much older than W's wars. Ramsey was ahead of us.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

Check this out folks, because it isn't a defense of Milosevic or Saddam!

>>IT IS AN INDICTMENT OF NATO FOR DOING TO YUGOSLAVIA WHAT BUSH IS DOING TO SADDAM!!<<

Get it? We know the scam of supporting Saddam, weakening him, and then knocking him off by playing White Hat Rescue Jesus, RIGHT?? RIGHT??!!

And we are NOT Saddam supporters, for gawds sake!!

Read this and you will also get a different view of Wesley Clark for his role. Understand that the Geneva Conventions outlaw destroying civilians and civilian infrastructure, especially with depleted uranium weapons, something we all want to see Bush* in the Hague for, right?.

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""With this trial," said International Action Center (IAC) representative Bill Doares from Amsterdam, "Washington and its NATO allies hopes to pin the guilt for the 10 years of civil war in the Balkans on the Yugoslav leader. The goal of these big powers is to shift the blame for the war they fomented onto the victims, the Serbian people and all the other peoples of Yugoslavia."

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"Confused about why the U.S. bombed Yugoslavia? That's because you never heard about the hidden agenda behind the dismemberment of this multiethnic country.

Washington and NATO strategists invoked humanitarian principles to justify their war. But they practiced the divide-and-conquer tactics used by empires since the days of imperial Rome.

Behind the façade of concern for self-determination, they sliced away most of the republics of Yugoslavia, one by one, through economic pressure, political threats and, finally, outright warfare.

This book presents evidence gathered by dozens of nongovernmental hearings in 1999 and 2000 that the NATO countries engaged in a decade-long conspiracy to foment war in Yugoslavia in order to split it up.

Now NATO has military bases all over the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. They are the Roman legions for Western transnational corporations and Big Oil.

In the 40+ essays presented here, leading anti-war activists and analysts from many countries take up The Hague Tribunal, the occupation of Kosovo, media lies, war crimes and the blatant illegality of NATO aggression. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark writes on "Blaming the victim."

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Wars are almost ALWAYS, ALWAYS for economic reasons and Tinoire's citing of the unacceptable treaty NATO offered that demanded 'free-market' economic rape that the IMF, WTO, and White House use to conquer regions seems to be in play here and Ramsey Clark was way ahead of us after seeing it from the inside during the 1960s.

I think Ramsey shows us just what a Trojan Horse Wesley is in the 'Battle of the Clarks.' It took us until recently to realize how much Republican corporateer policy Clinton and other DLC candidates have gotten over on us while we think in terms of Dem or Repub.

We're being played by a good cop/bad cop routine on each side.
Chomsky is right about how long the American power structure has been consistently pschopathic.

It is about power, not ideology. Power protects itself like any other organism in nature. That's why the American government has been genocidal for 200 years, not just all of a sudden!

Read Chomsky's 'Understanding Power' and learn why Ramsey Clark and so many others see the poverty and blood behind the flag every time.

That's a truth even some liberals can't handle.