Victims of History

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Victims of History

By: Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."- George Santayana

01/05/06 "Information Clearing House" -- --- Regrettably, the most immoral among us remember the past, observe the criminal implications and repeat it. In 1939, six years after the Madrid Conference, Hitler met with his military chiefs and delivered a speech that today some are determined to emulate:

“It was knowingly and lightheartedly that Genghis Khan sent thousands of women and children to their deaths. History sees in him only the founder of a state. The aim of war is not to reach definite lines but to annihilate the enemy physically. It is by this means that we shall obtain the living space that we need. Who today speaks of the massacre of the Armenians?”
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Our trance is deliberate, for we are the executioners – the rope that hung Saddam and massacred hundreds of thousands was our ignorance, fear, and complacency. We never questioned the morality of the sanctions, nor their effectiveness. Not a single tear was shed for the Iraqi children that died as a result of the sanctions. The old and the sick were not our concern as long as they weakened the tyrant, so we thought. But their skeletons were the pillars of his palaces, our ignorance profound, our consciousness dormant, we ravaged and buried a whole nation.

Congress was cowered into violating international law based on lies. Only 6 congressional members read the NIE (national intelligent estimate) on which a decision was made to go to war. Over 450 members elected to represent the American people neglected their duty. Emboldened, the cabal of neo-cons bribed and intimidated the United Nations to sanction Iran. After all, it was next on the ‘A clean Break’ and on the wish list. On our part, abandoning morality, salivating at the thought of taking more lives so as to empower the malignant tumor of destruction and death, we clung to our weapons – And so I say we are the Angels of Death who kill with our complacency, ignorance and fear.

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If there should be a future left to those looking back at this decade, they will remember genocide at so many fronts – But it is safe to venture and guess that they would find it extraordinary that we were able to sit in our sitting rooms and without lifting a finger, enabled the death of millions of people across the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16070.htm

Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich has lived and studied in Iran, the UK, France, Australia and the US. She obtained her Bachelors Degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and she is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Middle East Studies concentrating in Political Science. She has done extensive research on US foreign policy towards Iran and Iran’s nuclear program.