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Make no mistake: this footage is significant. This is America's Jallianwala Bagh. This is the wholesale firing on unarmed civilians as an everyday activity. T
by david927 17y ago
Make no mistake: this footage is significant. This is America's Jallianwala Bagh. This is the wholesale firing on unarmed civilians as an everyday activity.
To say, "But they were in a war zone," is disingenuous. America made it a war zone. America came there under a false premise and won't leave.
And how can they ever leave? Iraq is above nothing less than an ocean of untapped oil at a time when the Saudi fields are declining. Iraq is an OPEC breaker. And it's that dedicated supply in a time when the world's biggest industry had the price skyrocket in a few years from $20 to around $90. America is one of the only countries that can't survive if oil hits about $120 for any extended period. This isn't about money; this is about survival.
But when you find yourself killing unarmed civilians because they have under their feet an untapped fortune, because they have under their feet what you need to keep your lifestyle, you have to stop and look at yourself in the mirror at what you've become.
Wikileaks didn't mislead us. The U.S. Government mislead us, and worse, we mislead ourselves.