BLAMING AMERICA MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY
Walter Duranty is the NYTimes columnist remembered for the Pulitzer prize he won covering up Stalin's crimes. At least Duranty didn't blame America for the famines in Russia. What prize should be awarded to the wordsmith intellectuals and journalists who used Duranty as a role model--then went a huge step beyond him? They not only covered up Saddam's crimes but blamed them on the United States! Now that the facts are out, those accomplices of Saddam are changing the subject to the brutality of the American occupation.
Andrew Bolt, in the Australian Herald Sun, (see below) has not forgotten what they wrote and said:
"...The American insistence that sanctions against Iraq be continued has led, by reliable accounts, to the slow death of at least 500,000 children," purred the ABC's Phillip Adams.
"It is estimated that half a million children have died as a result of the sanctions," declared ABC's Foreign Correspondent.
Even at the start of the war in Iraq, correspondents such as A Current Affair's Jane Hansen made their pilgrimages to Baghdad's children's hospital to show us the dying that was, they implied, at least in part caused by our sanctions.
And intellectuals here -- too eager as always to believe the worst of us -- believed this, too. The sanctions caused "the deaths of children on a scale far exceeding that caused by any military weapon in history," wrote Malcolm Fraser in a letter co-signed by Chris Sidoti and Peter Garrett -- people happy to think we're so evil that we also stole Aboriginal children, keep refugees in "concentration camps" and rape Mother Earth.
And the prominent Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, a regular ABC guest, not only claimed perhaps "a million" Iraqi children were dying from our "madness", but said "mass funerals for babies -- 70 in one cortege on the last count -- made their way through Baghdad".
Read the full article, including the truth, here: Andrew Bolt
