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hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago
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Actually we do need a major change in what is taught in our schools and a lessening of the state propaganda from the corporate media. For example, americans should be told that Cheney, Rumsfedl and Wolofiwtz helped kill their first million people during the Ford Adminstration - at the same time they were trying to give a full nuclear cycle, including plutonium, to Iran.
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Time to end the slogan chanting and face reality.
Crimes Against Humanity From Ford to Saddam
If we do not limit our analysis of Ford to his role as a U.S. "statesman," and instead examine his behavior through an internationalist lens similar to that employed to judge Saddam Hussein and concerned with crimes against humanity, we find that Ford, too, was responsible for mass murder-in East Timor. The responsibility goes further than Ford's now-well-known giving to Indonesia the proverbial green light to invade. What the green light metaphor obscures is just how decisive Ford's authorization was, and how his complicity with Indonesia's crimes continued throughout his brief White House occupancy....
http://www.counterpunch.org/nevins01062007.html
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