WikiLeaks Video - The Greater Horror

[babsbunny]

http://agonist.org/wikileaks2

There they are, the people who brought you every bit of the action in the WikiLeaks video and all of the other horrors flowing from invasion of Iraq. Madeleine Albright (far right, above), former Clinton Secretary of State, is a good place to start. From 60 Minutes:

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it. --60 Minutes (5/12/96)

An exhaustive study found that 227,000 children under five (table 13) died during the George H.W. Bush - Bill Clinton regime of total sanctions against Iraq from 1990 through 2000.

Albright is distinguished as the most direct spokesmodel for senseless death and suffering that's characterized our engagement with that battered country.

But others carry much greater responsibility. The Bush administration had top secret plans to invade Iraq as early as February 2001. First hand witnesses in the prewar White House were unable to name a point when the decision to invade was made. It was a fait accompli.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Bill and Madeleine had their fingers in the Rwanda genocide too. K&R

And, had handy excuses/rationalizations for that one too.

[BunkerHill24]

2. Thanks for sharing with us.

Here's the poetic sentence that caught my eye: "The most useful questions are the most fundamental. They address the first cause of the war and the means to sustain it."