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She survived, thrived and became a monster just like the monsters she fled. Millions of innocent iraqis and others who suffered directly or indirectly because o
by qiskit 5y ago
She survived, thrived and became a monster just like the monsters she fled. Millions of innocent iraqis and others who suffered directly or indirectly because of her probably wished she had not survived. A war criminal died, but I doubt the media will take that angle.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 5y agoWhat war are you talking about? Albright and the Democratic Party were not in power in either 1991 or 2002, the two invasions in Iraq. Albright stopped a life genocide in the balkans with a few weeks of air strikes. That was a war so unavoidable, Germany reversed 60 years of pacifism and felt obliged to participate. The region, today, is prosperous and peaceful. It’s really the best possible example the concept of humanitarian intervention could have, apart from WW2.
- qiskit 5y ago> What war are you talking about? Albright and the Democratic Party were not in power in either 1991 or 2002, the two invasions in Iraq. They were in power when they sanctioned and starved millions of innocent iraqis after the war. You know the "silent war". Hundreds of thousands of iraqi children starved to death - something she said was worth it. Not someone people should be defending but everyone has their supporters I guess.
- reducesuffering 5y agoIraqi propaganda to try and end the sanctions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5717930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5717930/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/04/saddam-hussein-said-sanctions-killed-500000-children-that-was-a-spectacular-lie/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/04... She got asked a loaded question for a soundbite. She wrote, "I had fallen into a trap and said something I did not mean." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright#Sanctions_against_Iraq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright#Sanctions_a...
- IAmEveryone 5y agoA "silent war" is to a war as a silent rock opera is to Bohemian Rapsody: something entirely different, even if you try to change the definition of words. War crimes need a war, and crimes. Albright didn't commit any crimes, and you can't even name a war.
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- def_true_false 5y agoYeah, never mind the dictator who used chemical weapons against the population of Iraq on multiple occasions. Never mind the invasion of Kuwait, either, the monster in this story was clearly Albright. /s
- qiskit 5y ago> Yeah, never mind the dictator who used chemical weapons against the population of Iraq on multiple occasions. Who was allied with said dictator and provided the chemical weapons to use on iraqis and others? I wonder. Which is more evil. Being an evil dictator or giving the evil dictator chemical weapons? > Never mind the invasion of Kuwait, either, the monster in this story was clearly Albright. /s I don't remember anyone praising saddam. And there is nothing preventing both saddam and albright from being monsters. Saddam and Albright are both monsters. If there is a hell, I'd imagine they are both there right now. Wouldn't you agree?
- def_true_false 5y agoSure, we could call everyone who does something bad a monster. The world is not binary though, everyone is not either a perfect hero or a villain. Unless your point is that Saddam and Albright were equally bad it makes little sense to call them both monsters.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoOh yeah, and all the weapons of mass destruction iraq had, and all the babies iraqi soldiers killed, right?
- def_true_false 5y agoYeah, one thing being fake surely means all the other stuff is also fake. /s Edit: Here, with sources and all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_weapons_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_weapons_program