The US’s Systematic Elimination of Iraqi Intellectuals/Professionals to Create a Gutted “Outpost for Empire”

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23342.htm James Petras doesn’t mince words in the concluding paragraphs of his chilling article entitled “The Destruction of a Civilization”: "The US imperial conquest of Iraq is built on the destruction of a modern secular republic. The cultural desert that remains (a Biblical ‘howling wilderness’ soaked in the blood of Iraq’s precious scholars) is controlled by mega-swindlers, mercenary thugs posing as ‘Iraqi officers’, tribal and ethnic cultural illiterates and medieval religious figures. They operate under the guidance and direction of West Point graduates holding ‘blue-prints for empire’, formulated by graduates of Princeton, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale and Chicago, eager to serve the interests of American and European multi-national corporations." "This is called ‘combined and uneven development’: The marriage of fundamentalist mullahs with Ivy League Zionists at the service of the US."
tags: james petras, iraq war, rumsfeld, powell
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  1. #1    When Poland was invaded in 1939, Soviets took our intellectuals to Katyn. Germans took them to Auschwitz, Grossrosen, Majdanek and others.

    Where do Americans take their brainy detainees to eliminate them? Or do they do it right where they catch them?

    Shame on this nation.
    written by Malgoska since 15 days 12 hours 47 minutesMalgoska
  2. #2    so sad.. but this is actually "Old news" "Architect of the Iraq war" paul wolfowitz ALLOWED the LOOTING of 5,000+ years of Iraqi cultural exhibits & heritage sites in the aftermath of the US invasion of Baghdad. This was vastly more destruction than the Taliban blowing up the Buddha statues in Afghanistan - even as US troops made sure to guard the Iraqi oil ministry.
    wolfowitz (cheney, and bush) should be made to answer for war crimes charges, but as the article points out, they are backed up by the entire Ivy League establishment - which is to say the Goddamn-Sachs, Rothschilds, and entire worldwide diaspora behind them. America's "best & brightest" are working damn hard to make an honest man of the "Austrian corporal."
    written by veracity since 15 days 9 hours 50 minutesveracity
  3. #3    #2 - I object to that last in the strongest possible way. It is racist.
    written by AlicedeTocqueville since 15 days 2 hours 52 minutesAlicedeTocqueville
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