“Damned Proud” of Dead Arab Women & Children
March 22nd, 2007
James Bovard
Former US United Nations Ambassador John Bolton told the BBC today that he was “damned proud” of how the U.S. intentionally blocked efforts to achieve a ceasefire last summer when Israel was bombing Beirut and many other locales in Lebanon.
The BBC summarized Bolton’s comments: “A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Former ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the BBC that before any ceasefire Washington wanted Israel to eliminate Hezbollah’s military capability.”
Bolton said it was “perfectly legitimate and good politics” for Israel to seek to crush Hezbollah. The fact that the Israelis used U.S. bombs to wreak death and destruction throughout Lebanon is apparently irrelevant. More than a thousand Lebanese civilians were killed by the Israeli government, with the Bush team cheering on each detonation.
AIPAC, the most powerful lobby in DC, bragged of its role in blocking any ceasefire. (A good critique of AIPAC’s role in the Lebanon carnage is here).
Bolton captures the arrogance and total hypocrisy of the Bush war on terrorism. In a meeting last August, Bolton “implied that because Lebanon harbored Hezbollah, Lebanese lives were forfeit,” according to a UN official who heard Bolton commenting in meetings at the time.
Neither AIPAC nor the Bush team suffered any backlash from Christian fundamentalists as a result of Israeli bombing of Christian villages. Most Lebanese Christians despise and oppose Hezbollah - but they were Lebanese so they apparently deserved to die.
As I wrote in blogs last summer, both Hezbollah and the Israeli government were guilty of mass murder. But the Bush administration’s absolute support (and re-arming) of a government that was intentionally slaughtering civilians is a crime that must not be forgot.
Every single Child killed by the IDF "Go for the Head" Baby murderers is a American enabled crime against humanity. America had better remove the invaders of Palestine soon. This can be done as a voluntary act by israel or it can be enacted on there behalf in default.
Don't Get any of that "FIX" on you. Don't dare blow any wind into the IDF sails if you plan on surviving the coming war for Palestine independence and an end to WARS.
First you take D.C. Then you take New York.
Would that dried up idiot be so smug if he was face to face with a Hezbollah warrior? Or judging from the chicken sh*t way AIPAC and their cronies do things, I don't think he could stand in front of an angry Lebanese woman without messing his pants. I guess the only people that would say stuff like that are people who know they aren't going to be in the line of fire. We need to de-Zionize this country by any means necessary. The quicker, the better, run Bolton and all the 'wicz's out of here, and place them in Israel, where Hezbollah can get them in the crosshairs.