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The Dangers of Revisionism: Tom Friedman tries to hide his "very big stick"

Re-writing the history of the Iraq War threatens to suppress the vital lessons that should be learned from it.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Sunday, November 30, 2008 07:19 AM

    The target of American bombs in Yugoslavia was ...

    It hardly matters which innocent women and children were the targets of our death-machine. It hardly matters that there were Europeans calling for us to commit war crimes.

    It does matter that we attacked in some other part of the world against a nation or people who had done us no harm and did not even have the ability to do us harm.

    That precedent helps the next elected emperor with his plans to kill innocents for his "place in history". And it did help the next one -- Bush II.

    After all, we only honor presidents who went to war and killed masses of people.

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