Another Bombed Hospital, Another day in the Empire.
By Joe Clifford
Imagine the horror, tears, lament, and rage, if a hospital was bombed by terrorists in an American city killing doctors, children, and patients, some who were burned to death in their beds because they were unable to move?...
US...bombed a hospital staffed by Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz Afghanistan, a city of 300,000. Yup, we did that, bombed a hospital. Then claimed we didn’t, then claimed there were Taliban fighters in the hospital, then claimed it was “collateral damage”, then claimed it was “a mistake”, but, not to worry, the US military will investigate the incident.
Allowing the US military to “investigate” the hospital bombing by the US military, is as stupid as allowing the police to investigate a deadly shooting by one of their own.
Was this an accident? Hardly; the hospital had given their exact GPS co-ordinates to all the warring factions on numerous occasions, so the US knew full well they were bombing a hospital. Not only did we bomb it, but continued to do so for one half hour after we knew it was a hospital.
So why was this done? Because that is what we do; we bomb hospitals! Is this the first? Hardly! We have bombed many hospitals in many different countries. This is not the first hospital to be bombed in Afghanistan, and we have repeatedly bombed hospitals in Iraq including a children’s hospital in western Iraq, and a maternity hospital.
Is it legal to bomb a hospital? Of course not; Article 18 of the Geneva Convention protects hospitals, but the rules of war are not for us, they are for countries like Russia or China or any other country we don’t like. We are the best in the world, we are the Empire, we are above all law; we are the law!...
Corporate media failed to point out that Obama lectured Russia against killing innocents in Syria, and days later bombed a hospital, but not a whisper of the deadly irony by corporate media...
We have no moral compass, we justify everything, and anything, no matter how horrific, is shrugged off as though the only lives that count are American lives. We torture, we illegally attack nations for no reason, we bomb hospitals, we destroy nations, we bomb wedding parties, we have secret assassination programs, we have killed thousands by our illegal bombings, yet anything done to us requires the sacrifice of millions, regardless of who did what to us.
The Empire can do no wrong for it is above the law; the Empire is the law! Might makes right!
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| Why Is the U.S. Refusing An Independent Investigation If Its Hospital Airstrike Was An “Accident”? By Glenn Greenwald “This was just not an attack on our hospital. It was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated.” Why Bombing a Hospital Is a War Crime By Robert C. Koehler "...There are no words for how terrible it was. In the Intensive Care Unit six patients were burning in their beds.” Continue A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities By Jon Schwarz The U.S. has repeatedly attacked civilian facilities in the past but the targets have generally not been affiliated with a European, Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization such as MSF ('Doctors Without Borders'). Continue |
By F. William Engdahl
...Going through the official Obama text it’s difficult to find even one sentence where he speaks honestly. It’s an example not of grey propaganda but black. I cite several of the most egregious instances...
There is a Russian joke currently making the rounds in Moscow. Russia’s Putin arrives back in the Kremlin after his September New York meeting with President Obama on Syria and other topics. A trusted aide asks how the talk with Obama went. Putin tells his aide that, in a bid to lower the temperature and calm the nerves before turning to grave topics like the wars in Syria and Ukraine, the Russian president proposed they first sit down to a game of chess. Putin tells his aide what it’s like playing chess with Obama. “It’s like playing with a pigeon. First it knocks over all the pieces, then it shits on the board and finally struts around like it won.”
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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