October 14, 2001
QATAR- “U.S. WORST TERRORIST EVER”
“The truth is: The U.S. is the worst terrorist ever in the whole of history. The American military machine alone has killed 8 million human beings. Now it wants to recruit Arab and Muslim soldiers in its crusade against Arabs and Muslims. It wants to convince us into feeling sympathy for it, and to fight new wars to annihilate some of our peoples in revenge for the death of 6,000 of its citizens and residents in the bombings in New York and Washington.
If the U.S. wants to solve the Palestinian problem, it can order Israel to withdraw immediately- something it has never done, and will never do.”
Quoted from the LA TIMES of 10-14-2001 that reported on stories taken from the leading papers in their respective countries in the near east and India and Pakistan. All condemned the U.S. attacks on Afghanistan. Russia stated it will not participate in the war.
1. Actions taken by uniformed soldiers, open and obviously pursuant to the orders of elected civilian military leaders are NOT terrorist acts. The hallmark of terrorism it soldiers do not wear uniforms, do not openly conduct military actions, and deny relationship to any recognized government.
2. Who are the 8 million supposedly killed by the US military machine? Lets see, 100,000 killed in the Gulf War. Maybe 3 million in Viet Nam, but that was during a conflict in which the other side was killing innocent people too. . . so I'm not sure that really counts.
3. Even if it is 8 million, that's small change compared to some of the other nations of the world. How many did Germany kill in the 30's and 40's? How about the USSR? How about in Cambodia? How about Turkey? China? Japan in China?
4. Who cares what Qatar says anyway. They're a bunch of goons who consider the idea of human rights to be giving a thief a dirty rag to wash the stump left of his hand after they cut it off.
This guy mentions military actions being carried out by "elected leaders" not being terrorist attacks!
First, Bush was NOT ELECTED -he was SELECTED in a political coup pulled with the help of his brother in Florida and his dad's buddies in the "Supreme" Court. As for U.S. military actions "not being terrorist"-go look the word up in the dictionary. Finally, if you start at the beginning of U.S. history and include AmeriKKKa's HOLOCAUST against Indigenous people, slavery and everything else up to now, 8 million people killed by U.S. TERRORIST ATTACKS actually is a GROSS UNDERESTIMATE!!!!!
Who the fuck cares what Americans think of the situation. They are only a tiny minority of world opinion. They have the military might to force their opinion down many throats but this only inspires their many enemies. In the end it may all be brought down with a box cutter and a little powder in an envelope.
the united states would not exist without the ceaseless barrage of terrorist violence it has released on people all over the world since even before its formal beginning as a "nation." while americans cower in fear of powdered envelopes, i wonder how many of them remember the precedent of cunning biological terrorism their ancestors perpetrated by shipping smallpox-infested blankets to indigenous populations in order to make way for the land of the "free" and the home of the "brave." this is just one example in a long string that continues through today, both in the u.s. and around the world.
and just because a terrorist is camouflaged in, well, camouflage, and draped in a flag & nationalist rhetoric, or in the armani suit of a corporate ceo, makes him no less a terrorist when people are exploited and killed as a result of his actions & greed.