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April 12, 2005
Well... At Least We Don't Use Curse Words
1. During the Kurdish uprisings in Iraq in 1991, the Kurds seized some tapes of Iraqi government meetings. On one of the tapes, Ali Hassan al-Majid (ie, "Chemical Ali") gleefully discussed his use of chemical weapons against the Kurds. Then he famously said:
"Who is going to say anything? The international community? Fuck them! The international community and those who listen to them!"
2. A recent AP story reported the releaseâ€â€over the objections of the Bush administrationâ€â€of transcripts of tribunals at Guantanamo Bay. The president of one of the tribunals is recorded saying:
"I don't care about international law. I don't want to hear the words 'international law' again. We are not concerned with international law."
3. I have a headache.
(AP story via Charles Kinbote.)
Posted at April 12, 2005 05:06 AM | TrackBackI wonder how uninterested we will be in international law when we are the ones being detained illigally by our government. Our way of life is already under attach by the corporate/government oligarchy and -- wake up people -- they are winning. Follow the dots: default on the SS Trust Fund Bonds to steal the money for our approaching world dictatorship, defund public schools to increase ignorance and passivity, crash Medicare/Medicaid to enforce privetization, and remember that the first Bush Secretary of the Treasury told us all this quite plainly when he said, "we want to make the government so small you could drown it in a bathtub." With leaders like this, we don't need to worry about al Quada.
Oh, and didn't Cheney tell one of our senate leaders to "go F*** yourself."
You are right. I think I have a headache too.
Posted by: Silverbird at April 12, 2005 07:58 AMClinton/Biden 2008! They'll turn back the tide.
Posted by: Harry at April 12, 2005 09:57 AMHm. You're assuming that the words "international law" aren't themselves curse words. And yet, I suspect that when John Bolton's wife says to him, "Talk dirty to me, Johnny," well, I don't wish to aggravate your headache.
Posted by: Aaron at April 12, 2005 10:11 AMAs a FEMINIST, I support Clinton/Albright 2008. Because they're worth it!
Posted by: mk at April 12, 2005 11:02 AMWe're Americans...we don't need no stinkin' international law...!!
(typed with tongue firmly planted in cheek....)
Posted by: jillian at April 12, 2005 04:03 PMThe idea that we're reduced to Biden... that's enough for weeks of migraines.
Posted by: Matthew Sullivan at April 12, 2005 05:57 PMAs a FEMINIST, I support Clinton/Albright 2008. Because they're worth it!
Posted by mk at April 12, 2005 11:02 AM
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Was this the same Albright who said the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was "worth it"?
Or are you talking about another one?
