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In reply to the discussion: Should Syria not be punished for using chemical weapons because Russia and China don't care.... [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Yes, what the US did in Iraq was genocide. Murdered hundreds of thousands of people for imperial gain. Made millions of refugees, of whom the largest share fled to Syria.
I'm well aware of the current definition of the term and it is deficient, a long-ago compromise so that the great powers would even accept it as a crime under international law. It allows you to define away the crime by legalism. Fine.
The US committed mass murder in a war of unprovoked aggression. The present government just filed a motion to give immunity to the perpetrators of this war! It has also escalated the "global war on terror" under new names in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and is about to do so in Syria.
This country has a permanent government of the military-industrial complex with rotating administrations that inevitably serve the war machine.
Chummy!
And you actually say it's fine since the Iraqi population is rising?
Yeah, what's the big deal, start wars around the planet, kill millions, poison countries with agent orange and depleted uranium, poison their water... to call it genocide you have to meet a definition written by the empire.
And then presume to sit in judgement as the world policeman and executioner!