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Friday, November 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Mumbai, the NYT's revisionism, and lessons not learned

The Times' Editorial Page blames the Bush administration for "blessing" the military coup against Hugo Chavez without mentioning that it did the same. Why does that matter?

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  • Friday, November 28, 2008 08:04 AM

    Lessons not learned? Actions not seen? Conduct given over to a blind and bland evil...

    WashingtonDC likes to dress itself in the finery of words,phrases and platitudes well enough and often. When we invade Iraq and stay on as occupier Americans choose words and paragraphs of noble and self justifying phrases to make what we do/did seem so upright and being done for best of thinking and reasoning.

    But it was not that. It is not this. It is a weaved fabric of lies,misrepresenations and misdirections that were either China or Russia to have stated for and in doing to Iraq what Americans did would have been quickly denounced and mocked.

    Today and then yesterday as well two articles were presented at www.zmag.org at the znet site found there. Both have direct bearing on the convenience of American revisionism as worked on Israels behalf and then too Israels pathetic ongoing claims of being a moral agent when it surely is anything but moral or ethical or justified to claim any such thing.

    Where is the outrage to be found in American political media over Israels ongoing conduct in Gaza? Where is WashingtonDCs outrage? After reading these two articles at Znet I am given reason to thrust them in Barack Obama's face and push them into his hands. How can he condone this? Why would he condone it knowing full well just how rotted WashingtonDC and Israel are in this stench of mutual conduct and cover-over?

    One article was written by Sonja Karkar and is titled 'Gaza'a Death Throes And No One Is Listening' found under the 11/28 entries heading at znet.

    The other article was written by Stephen Lendman and is titled 'Slow Motion Genocide In Occupied Palestine' found under the 11/27 entries heading at znet.

    Both articles plainly underline what GG is describing above regarding conduct that recuses/excuses itself and demonstrates a hollowness of integrity and false claim to validity that was cause proven enough to put Nazi and Imperial Japanese war criminals to death.

    The mockery of WashingtonDC for the words and actions it uses to subvert and divert integrity of reason and purpose while claiming to be the 'agent of good' is surely the same infested moral depravity Israel is alloted by this corrupted WashingtonDC.

    Americans should be ashamed of what is done in our name for the most corrupted and rotted of reasons and desires.

    G.W.Bush and Richard Cheney should be facing some very severe legal uptake on Jan.21,2009. Instead both will walk off into the fraud and lies of false accolades.

    The word pathetic becomes inadequate in description of this state of affairs being so.

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