I ... know it's been a long time ago, ... but bear with me.
One of Hitler's claims to fame is that he killed SIX MILLION Jews. (That's like, ... if you were to walk up and down the streets of Toronto and shake hands with everybody you met, ... TWICE that amount of human beings. Toddlers with their whole lives ahead of them .... "NOT!" Grandparents ready to enjoy their golden years, ... young men and women on the make ... middle-aged Jews trying to make sense of it all. All of them snapped up and destroyed by a dog's breakfast of delusions and half-truths and sexual insecurities called "Nazism."
Let's forget for a second about all the Poles and Gypsies and mental patients that Hitler killed (heck, everybody else has) and look at that six million number that makes him so bad.
Because the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton, enforced the "United Nations" sanctions against Iraq (together with his "poodle" Tony Blair) that killed ONE MILLION IRAQIS with half or that ONE MILLION (FIVE-HUNDRED THOUSAND) being children under six. What does that mean? Imagine that every person in Hamilton, Ontario was a cute little grade-1 or younger and that you walked up to each and every household and smiled at all of them. Now imagine that all of them, plus 250,000 more, died from starvation or disease.
There's Bill Clinton for you.
And the reason that Paul Martin, Jean Chretien, and stephen harper and other assorted scum don't appear in this little post is because they're bit-players in the horror that is the capitalist world system.
But think about how we've normalized monstrosity so that a decent, intelligent guy like Al Franken will sing the praises of a monster like Clinton and work so that maybe one day he could make the "tough decisions" that kills another 100,000 kids somewhere.
And what kind of system is it that Clinton did what he did? Don't get me wrong. Hitler was a sexually insecure nutcase. Clinton isn't Hitler. He hardly even knew he was killing those one-million Iraqis. Then again, they haven't found Hitler's fingerprints on the "final solution" either. He was pretty busy. Just like Churchill was fighting World War II. How could Churchill have been expected to notice one-million Indians dying of starvation in the middle of a war?
I don't know. Call me crazy. But I'm one of those people who thinks that a million lives snuffed out MEANS SOMETHING, whether they be Jews, or Indians, or Iraqis, or what have you.
But our culture normalizes Clinton so that even "pwogwessives" think he's okay. There are plenty of arguments that it wasn't really his fault that the stuff needed to combat easily-treatable diseases or to make sure that drinking water was safe (which he prevented from entering Iraq and the denial of which forced UN chiefs to resign in protest) caused those deaths.
Of course, if you're so inclined, you can dredge up human scum who will tell you that Hitler's Holocaust against the Jews never happened either.
That is, if you're so inclined ....
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The sanctions on Iraq were a crime against humanity and weren't imposed to control Sadaam, but to effect regime change. the end game was to have in place a regime that was friendly to the western oil interests.
No matter how evil or benign a regime once they attempt to take control of their nation's resources our governments will brand them as terrorists and a danger to democracy. They will stop at nothing to achieve thire goals even if millions of innocents have to die. After all they are merely surplus life units that are not needed to service the elites.
Kev,
They're monsters, no question. But Hitler, Stalin, ... most mass-murderers operated within a dictatorship.
Here, in a nominal democracy, Clinton is not regarded as a mass-murderer, but as a friend to the average American and an international humanitarian.
thwap, Clinton gets a pass because he is our monster, to condemn him is to condemn ourselves and far too many of us are unwilling or even perhaps incapable of doing so.
Plus lets not forget that he was fighting for democracy and our freedom from tyranny. Of course when the west brings democracy and freedom to a people it is necessary to kill off a few hundred thousand of them. After all it is a small price to pay for freedom.
Since Clinton liked to go big he decided to bring an uber democracy to Iraq by killing more than a million and then came along that great freedom fighter GWB, who said anything you can do I can do better
As for the humanitarian part if his partners in crime the Bush cabal can be considered humanitarians then the word has lost all meaning.
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