Imperialist war and intervention in Libya: Crimes of NATO and the paradox of shame...

The Paris Post (Translated from French) ^ | June 29, 2011 | Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)

[2ndDivisionVet]

At a time when the American people to tighten their belts, teachers receive their order of dismissal, the vital statistics of the American people reveals a social security crisis in the making, with the government of the United States threatening to default on its debt, our President and Congress decided that a new war, this time against the Libyan people, is appropriate.

This comes at a time when, according to estimates, the U.S. spends $3 billion per week for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The president and Congress continue to fund the war against Libya, despite the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defence (note: defense minister in the United States) Robert Gates that the United States had no strategic interests in Libya, and despite the fact that the chair of the Senate intelligence admits publicly that the United States do not really know who the "rebels" are really and that the rebels themselves, in agreement with a report in the newspaper the Telegraph of March 25, 2011, elements of Al Qaeda in their ranks.

So while the government apparatus has been used for over 10 years to inform the American public and the global community that Al Qaeda is an enemy of the people and freedom throughout the world, our president decided to alliance Libya with anyone other than the elements of Al Qaeda and other people with the services of U.S. intelligence say that they are ignored.

In addition, the American Admiral Locklear admitted before a member of Congress that one of NATO's missions was to kill Muammar Gaddafi.

In fact, NATO bombs killed Gaddafi's son and three grandchildren, and a U.S. bomb killed her daughter in 1986. The NATO bombs also killed recently, the grandchildren of a friend and affiliate Gaddafi in a targeted assassination attempt.

Targeted assassinations are not the responsibility of a Security Council resolution the United Nations and these procedures are illegal in the United States, against international law, against international humanitarian law and against international human rights. The targeted killings are a crime. We certainly can not ask others to follow the law when we bafouons so blatantly.

When I was recently in Libya, I witnessed the NATO bombing on civilians: the bombs and missiles NATO crashed into residential areas, schools touched, exploded near a hospital, destroyed in part civilian infrastructure of communication and very few failed to kill students at the University Al Fateh. When civilians are targeted in times of war or combat activities "low intensity" [1], crimes are committed.

Practices of NATO in Libya are exactly the same as those of Israel in Gaza fishermen were killed while going about their business, a naval blockade had left weapons for the rebel allies in NATO, but stops the food, fuel and medicines from entering areas that are not under NATO control.

The direct result of this is that the entire population suffers. Collectively punish a people when Israel's illegal practices against the people of Gaza and this is also illegal when the NATO practice.

NATO and hyperbolic media reports have led to a hatred that the Libyans are trying to erase. About 50% of the Libyan people like me ( Editor's note: Cynthia McKinney is a former member of the African-American Democrats and U.S. Congress has for years been a voice of protest and dissent of the American people to its elite). Libyans with darker skin and black were targeted, harassed, tortured and killed.

The Libyan people have the right to self-determination. They have the right to a "resource nationalism". They have the right to live in peace. They have the right to determine their own future and do not need to exercise their rights under the shock and awe campaign launched by NATO's bombs and missiles.

The U.S. corporate media and the U.S. government continues to methodically hide the public that they support the rebels have violated Libyan continue to rape, mutilate and murder brutally black Africans in Libya. These rebels are not who they claim to be, they are as racist murderers with impunity and are completely supported by the U.S. government and its media to the boot.

[2ndDivisionVet]

So they actually take her seriously overseas?

[oldleft]

The Libyan people have the right to self-determination. They have the right to a "resource nationalism".

Wow, what an idiot. These two concepts are by definition mutually exclusive.

[Emperor Palpatine]

The French also think Jerry Lewis was the greatest genius in the history of comedy.......

[SunkenCiv]

Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney is back at it.

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

[TheOldLady]

Cynthia McKinney is an ignorant, illiterate racist.

I couldn’t get three paragraphs into her screed without wanting to correct her errors, which immediately takes my mind away from the scrambled ramblings of her brain and toward attempting to perfect the form of her mindless twaddle.

At that point, I quit.

[cardinal4]

Please tell me that congress creatures lose their diplomatic passports after the leave congress..