Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was "worth it" wins Medal of Freedom
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A short video promoting the claim that Madeleine Albright said the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children from sanctions were 'worth it', timed to her receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It reuses a 1996 Sixty Minutes interview clip.
Cited in political threads as an example of US sanctions harming civilians and of officials being honored regardless.
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There are countless examples of efforts trying to hide information from the public and of promotion of FUD against other people. Macron vows to tighten media control because 'fake news threatens democracy' (2018-01-04). link SIX MILLION JEWS 1915-1938. link ON CONTACT: CRUCIFYING JULIAN ASSANGE (2018-11-24) time 798. link Assange Exposes Democrat Fascists, Torturers & Warmongers (2019-04-15). link Glorification of US war criminals by US politicians. link link link link ▶ this video Hague Tribunal Exonerates Slobodan Milosevic Again (2017-12-17). link How U.K. Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It (2018-02-17). link Quote 1: The Belgacom breach sparked outrage in Europe’s political institutions and made global headlines. But Belgium’s effort to identify the spies responsible and hold them accountable faced roadblocks at almost every turn. Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, refused to assist. Prosecutors overseeing the case feared triggering a major diplomatic dispute and were reluctant to pursue it aggressively. Meanwhile, British spies tried to destroy the evidence. Quote 2: “We wanted to show that as a small country, we would not be bullied,” said a source close to the investigation. “But we were fighting against two big cyberarmies from the U.K. and the U.S. We knew we could never win this.”
True. << The idea that one can be trusted over the other is utterly naive, >> At least the modern China is not known for war crimes (with hundreds of thousands of dead people) and destruction of countries. Example of war crimes: Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was "worth it" wins Medal of Freedom (2012-05-02). ▶ this video U.S. Has Spent Six Trillion Dollars on Wars That Killed Half a Million People Since 9/11, Report Says (2018-11-14). link Quote: Overall, researchers estimated that "between 480,000 and 507,000 people have been killed in the United States’ post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan." This toll "does not include the more than 500,000 deaths from the war in Syria, raging since 2011" when a West-backed rebel and jihadi uprising challenged the government, an ally of Russia and Iran. Example of cyber crime: How U.K. Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It (2018-02-17). link Quote 1: The Belgacom breach sparked outrage in Europe’s political institutions and made global headlines. But Belgium’s effort to identify the spies responsible and hold them accountable faced roadblocks at almost every turn. Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, refused to assist. Prosecutors overseeing the case feared triggering a major diplomatic dispute and were reluctant to pursue it aggressively. Meanwhile, British spies tried to destroy the evidence. Quote 2: “We wanted to show that as a small country, we would not be bullied,” said a
There are no good checks and balances in the USA. In the USA, evil is promoted openly and without shame. Proofs: link link Hillary & Bernie Blow Smoke Up McCain's A After Death (2018-08-27). link Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was "worth it" wins Medal of Freedom (2012-05-02). ▶ this video Assange Exposes Democrat Fascists, Torturers & Warmongers (2019-04-15). link Democrats Praise War Criminal Mattis (2019-01-19). link Mike Pompeo reveals true motto of CIA: 'We lied, we cheated, we stole' (2019-04-21), time 222. link
The NYT is part of the Western propaganda machine. Why do you think that US citzens and EU citizens do not know about deadly sanctions as economic warfare? Why do you think this post is downvoted despite linking verifiable facts? Hedges: Journalism Should Be About Truth, Not Career - Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself (2/7) link No volunteers: EU countries bow to US pressure over alternative payment channel for Iran link Who’s the boss? SWIFT defies EU, caving in to US pressure to cut off Iranian banks link Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was "worth it" wins Medal of Freedom ▶ this video
In our western democracies, especially the USA, not only messages are deleted but persons are. Either by lies or by harassment or by prison or by murder or by wars against entire countries and their population. Notable examples: - Julian Assange. - Russia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, ... America Has Been at War 93% of the Time – 222 out of 239 Years – Since 1776 link When was the last war promoted by Russia or China where hundreds of thousands of people died ? Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was "worth it" wins Medal of Freedom ▶ this video And do not forget corruption of information by corporations and secrets services like the FBI and CIA. Whistleblower Exposes Facebook Censorship Techniques - Mindblowing: link SHOCKER: FBI Admits Sabotaging Progressive Politicians As Policy! link Macron vows to tighten media control because 'fake news threatens democracy' link Food libel laws link
Maybe the most shocking example of bad UN sanctions pushed by the US: Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was "worth it" wins Medal of Freedom ▶ this video Canada wants trade with the US more than trade with Iran and thus bows to the US. As do EU nations. Examples: link Quote: The Belgium-based financial messaging service added: “This step, while regrettable, has been taken in the interest of the stability and integrity of the wider global financial system.” SWIFT’s decision further undermines EU efforts to maintain trade with Iran and save an international deal with Tehran to curtail its nuclear program, after President Donald Trump pulled the US out in May. Being cut off from SWIFT makes it difficult for Iran to get paid for exports and to pay for imports. link Quote: Earlier this week, European Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova pledged to find an effective solution, saying that technical work on creating the mechanism to allow EU trade with Iran continued. “We Europeans cannot accept that a foreign power, not even our closest friend and ally, takes decisions over our legitimate trade with another country,” she told the European Parliament in Strasbourg, stressing that the bloc would not be cowed by probable US penalties.
Kosovo war. Iraq war. Libya war. Regime change in Ukraine. Syria war. Economic sanctions killing hundreds of thousands. ▶ this video link link link link link link link link link link
Being responsible for killing many kids over a long period of time is near the top of my list of despicable. If it's not near the top of yours then I agree we don't have any basis for a discussion. Edit: Obama isn't the only one who thinks it's ok to kill kids in pursuit of their goals. Remeber when Madeleine Albright said it was worth the price of the death of 500,000 children to get Saddam? [1]. Obama is right up there with her. [1] ▶ this video
du-de viggity, somebody else (yread) here posted, but outside of this thread, don't ask why, that Hoover dam also had to be grouted after it was finished: link and that that lasted 12 years. Now imagine that there wasn't peace at that time but that people couldn't even get enough food and medicine, and that at the time this should have been finished some 500,000 kids died, like in Iraq: ▶ this video There was an attempt by Iraqis to somehow fix this (building the second dam) but as said, there were worse things happening. I still believe that learning about everything that happened around the dam is more illuminating than the comparison with the Hoover.