Je suis Omar

Really, Dick? ::::::::::::::::::: Americas Terrorist Training Camp 30th October 2001 Whats the difference between Al Qaeda and Fort Benning? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 30th October 2001 If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents, George Bush announced on the day he began bombing Afghanistan, they have become outlaws and murderers themselves. And they will take that lonely path at their own peril. Im glad he said any government, as theres one which, though it has yet to be identified as a sponsor of terrorism, requires his urgent attention. For the past 55 years it has been running a terrorist training camp, whose victims massively outnumber the people killed by the attack on New York, the embassy bombings and the other atrocities laid, rightly or wrongly, at Al-Qaedas door. The camp is called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or WHISC. It is based in Fort Benning, Georgia, and it is funded by Mr Bushs government. Until January this year, WHISC was called the School of the Americas, or SOA. Since 1946 SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers and policemen. Among its graduates are many of the continents most notorious torturers, mass murderers, dictators and state terrorists. As hundreds of pages of documentation compiled by the pressure group SOA Watch shows, Latin America has been ripped apart by its alumni. ... http://www.monbiot.com/2001/10/30/americas-terrorist-training-camp/

Had you heeded Al Qaeda's frequent warnings about US terrorist actions against various and sundry peoples around the globe, many lives could have been saved - many orders of magnitude more than died on September 11 and the vast majority of those, the poor from around the globe who had never done a thing to the US except that they felt they deserved a share in the wealth of their own nations.

http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/migrants.html Harvest of Shame The plight of America's farm workers entered the country's consciousness with a bang in 1960. On Thanksgiving Day, CBS broadcast Edward R. Murrow's documentary HARVEST OF SHAME. The film was a graphic portrait of the terrible labor and living conditions of the very people who helped put the traditional Thanksgiving meal on the table. HARVEST focused on workers in Florida's Palm Beach County, otherwise a wealthy area. Murrow famously quoted one Southern farmer as saying "We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them." The resulting public outcry helped put farmworker conditions on the political agenda. In 1962 Congress enacted the Migrant Health Act, which, among other initiatives, called for the development of health care clinics for farmworkers and their families. Forty years after the original broadcast of HARVEST OF SHAME, journalists in the same area of Florida that Murrow studied, published an extensive update of the situation for migrant workers entitled, "Modern Day Slavery."

Baubles and shiny lights attract a lot of folks.

Odd that you mention facts, Shady. That peace prize really was quite a hilarious event and one does hope that the Nobel committee recognizes their humour. It's like trying to weigh on a scale who is worse, Hitler or Himmler, Bush or Obama. War criminals are war criminals - should the worse of the two be dropped from a higher gallows?

That's terribly, to be generous, naive. Yes, I'm certain everyone hates Nazis simply because of their national socialism.

I beat it daily and yet I just can't understand why that dog keeps attacking me. Out the window goes yet another long held cherished belief - Canadians aren't as ignorant as Americans. "Support for the Conservative government's anti-terror bill has dropped dramatically over the past month, a new poll suggests." Maybe there is a glimmer of hope.

Evidently not. It seems no one wants to acknowledge the elephant that's stomping all over their toes.

My, you couldn't have picked a finer group to emulate. Those are the same open minded folks who gave us gooks, slants and the like. What could one hope to accomplish by quoting war criminals and terrorists?

Shady wrote: He didn't end anything in Iraq as we've recently seen. In fact his reckless complete withdrawal squandered all of the gains that had been made, and his venture in Afghanistan is on-going. Not to mention his new wars, like in Libya, which have been a complete and utter disaster, as well as in Egypt. ---------------------------------------- These euphemisms just have to stop. The US doesn't do "wars"; the USA does War Crimes and capital T Terrorism.