What A Nice Way Of Saying "Genocide" (Part 2)
As we remarked before the expression “ongoing diplomacy” is just a nice way of saying “Genocide.” Courtesy of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit it’s now indisputably “legal” under American “law.”
On Friday 22nd 2008, to nobody’s surprise the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld [follow this link to download the judgement as as PDF] the dismissal [follow this link to download the judgement as as PDF] of the case brought by approximately three million Vietnamese plaintiffs against against Dow Chemical Co, Monsanto Co and nearly 30 other American chemical companies for producing and supplying defoliants, including Agent Orange that US forces used during the Vietnam war.
American warplanes sprayed these highly toxic substances on Vietnamese forests between 1962 and 1971 to destroy Vietnamese sources of food and cover. In other words just as they have done — and continue to do in Irak today, the Americans during the Vietnam war used the starvation of civilians as a weapon.
Long after the last bullet has been fired in a war, unexploded bombs, landmines and toxic chemicals continue to maim and kill civilians. This is particularly true of the Vietnam war. Three decades after US soldiers and diplomats scrambled aboard the last planes out of Saigon in April 1975, the toxins they left behind still poison Vietnam.
Source: Comment is free: Agent of suffering
Do you remember this child? He’s one of the millions who will not get any help or restitution from the people who did this to him, they can hide behind the legal doctrine of sovereign immunity. He won’t get any help or restitution from the people who made a lot of money selling the poison to the people who did this to him.
This is from Reuters on Friday:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal appeals court upheld on Friday the dismissal of a civil lawsuit against major U.S. chemical companies brought by Vietnamese plaintiffs over the use of the defoliant “agent orange” during the Vietnam War
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A U.S. District Court judge in Brooklyn, New York ruled in March 2005 that the plaintiffs failed to show that use of agent orange, a plant killer supplied to the U.S. military in Vietnam, violated a ban on the use of poisonous weapons in war and that the lawsuit did not prove the plaintiffs’ health problems were linked to the chemical.
“Although the herbicide campaign may have been controversial, the record before us supports the conclusion that agent orange was used as a defoliant and not as a poison designed for or targeting human populations,” Judge Roger Miner wrote for the three-judge appeals court panel.
The court also upheld two other agent orange rulings, including one in a case that was brought by veterans and their families who said their health problems did not become apparent until after a 1984 class-action settlement was reached with a group of veterans. In that case, the Second Circuit found that, as government contractors, the chemical companies could be shielded from liability.
Source: Court upholds dismissal of agent orange suit | Reuters
Dioxins:
Dioxins are a class of chemical contaminants that are formed during combustion processes such as waste incineration, forest fires, and backyard trash burning, as well as during some industrial processes such as paper pulp bleaching and herbicide manufacturing. The most toxic chemical in the class is 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin (TCDD). The highest environmental concentrations of dioxin are usually found in soil and sediment, with much lower levels found in air and water
Source: Dioxins
2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin (TCDD)
TCDD is considered to be one of, if not the most toxic man-made substance. It has been shown to cause cancer and disrupt multiple endocrine functions. TCDD is a by-product of several manufacturing processes such as paper production and pesticide formulation. Among its varied effects, TCDD has been shown to cause increased fetal loss and reduced birth weight in animal studies.
Source: Birth Outcomes of Women Exposed to Dioxin in Seveso Italy – DERT
Three decades later America and her surrogates make war on all the peoples of the Middle East in the same evil, and futile way that they made war on the peoples of South East Asia, only the means of delivering death across the generations have changed. Not the calculated barbarity, not the hypocrisy, not the evil, and most certainly not the racism. It’s not just Irak, and it’s not just Lebanon:
What I mean by that is that it’s going to be a cold day in hell before the Lebanese forgive or forget what was done to their children by Israeli troops and Israeli aviators. They’re not going to forgive or forget that the weapons used to slaughter their children and destroy their livelihoods were made in America, paid for by America, and calculatingly used against their children in a war planned for years by Israel, and launched with America’s blessing.
They’re not going to forgive or forget that America blocked all attempts to stop their children being massacred by Israeli troops and Israeli aviators. They’re never ever ever going to forgive or forget what that bloodsoaked slut Condoleeza Rice said about how the agonised deaths of their children were the “birth pangs of the new middle east.” They’re not going to forgive or forget that neither the “light unto the nations” nor the “shining city on the hill” gave a flying fuck about their children. It didn’t matter that a lot of the dead children were Christians all that mattered was that they were Lebanese, that they were Arabs, untermenschen and that it was worth killing them because the political calculation in America and Israel was that killing them would cause their parents to blame and hate their fellow Lebanese.
Source: Gorilla’s Guides (old site): Guest Posting by Declan: “What I Did At The Weekend”
And its not just Gaza:
In any event, in Gaza the Oslo experiment in indirect rule seems to be over. Israel now treats the territory less like an internment camp and more like an animal pen: a space of near total confinement whose wardens are concerned primarily with keeping those inside alive and tame, with some degree of mild concern as to the opinions of neighbors and other outsiders.
Source: Middle East Report Online: Disengagement and the Frontiers of Zionism by Darryl Li
America’s “ongoing diplomacy” is directed at all the peoples of the Middle East, or at least at those of us who aren’t utterly and slavishly obedient to American demands. The war in Irak is part of America’s “ongoing diplomacy,” the “ongoing diplomacy” that is carried out by “Democrat” and “Republican” administrations alike, of saying to us and to everyone who has something that America covets:
We are your new masters, we are intrinsically better and more moral than everyone else simply because we are American. We are the new master race. We know what is good for you. Obey us or we will do this to your children and your home.
No.
Excellent post. There is plenty of onformation to indict the Us and Israel for war crimes and crimes against Humanity. But the law in western societies is pretty much hijacked by the state. We are relying on few consciences.
The parallels between Vietnam and Iraq and the middle east at large are troubling. Whenever confronted with the prospect of military defeat or an absence of a quick victory, Usrael resorts to the punishment of civilians.
I forgot to mention that Israel’s use of cluster bombs in 2006 in Lebanon stems from the same frustration for not winning the war, a frustration thrown in the face of Lebanese children and civilians in the form of a cluster bombs rain.
Thankyou for this and for the first article also, thankyou as well to all the team. I login and read you everyday at first I found the Arabic articles hard to read without my translation dictionary but it is getting easier.
Please keep writing and telling the truth about the American war of conquest all my family and all my class in school read you now and in my sisters school too. We know from our own history how evil colonists are but with Allah’s help they were defeated and ran away and so will your invaders may Allah destroy them.
Merci.
Peace to you Mahathir – you are one of our many Malaysian readers and you have told others of our writing too!
Thank you.
Kuching looks very beautiful from the photos and the Mosque looks stunning. Please pray for us when you are there next.
InshAllah.
Mohammed Ibn Laith.
C’est moi qui devrait vous remerciez mon frère.
How true who would know that better than you who now live in exile from Lebanon and we Irakis who live daily with what the Americans do to our people and our country.
Peace to you my sister like all empires they have built their empire on viciousness and greed and like all empires they have overreached themselves and are being broken on the wheel they themselves have built
— Neither your children nor mine will have to fear them, or that little apartheid look alike settler state they like so much.
Mohammed Ibn Laith.
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