'Trickle Down Viciousness'

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/honderich05162006.html

Trickle Down Viciousness

The Moral Barbarism of Blair and Bush


Between about 40,000 and 100,000 civilian deaths have resulted so far from our war in Iraq and its inevitable aftermath. Blair and Bush justify these deaths. They do so partly by the line of thinking that these deaths were not intended by them or our men. They did not intend to kill innocent people. They would have chosen to avoid it if this had been possible consistently with their goal.

This claim of rightness is moral nonsense. It is worse than that. It is moral viciousness.

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Our leaders have been deficient in moral intelligence. The morality of humanity condemns them absolutely. It places them on a level with bin Laden. It brings them together with Sharon. It joins them to Saddam Hussein. Bush and Blair are greater contributors than they to the Iraq killings.

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This is moral barbarism, moral barbarism that trickles down from the leaders of two democracies. A rich and decent people can have a barbarian government. This is far larger than the fact that our illegal war has course been exactly a terrorist war -- it has had all the features of terrorism itself except for being larger-scale. It has been killing and maiming, for a political and social end, illegal, and prima facie wrong.

We in Britain should not be quiet about our leader who by his clanking repartee has joined us into the killing of the 20,000 or the 90,000 people. We should not go back to political business as usual. Nor should you in America.
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(while you are at counterpunch you might gain insight by also reading: Letter From Haiti - "Jusus Was a Zombie?")

[RethugAssKicker]

1. absolutely.... They are the true terrorists !

Bush and Blair will go down in history (maybe not in American or British texts) as true barbarians, who have started a global nightmare !