Weâre just now commemorating the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq âĻ worst crime of the century, itâs being commemorated here. The US Navy just commissioned its most recent assault vessel and named it the USS Fallujah in memory of one of the worst atrocities of the US attack.
Fallujah had been âĻ a beautiful city. Marines invaded, destroyed it, killed thousands of people âĻ People are still dying from the weapons that were used with phosphorus, depleted uranium.
Itâs more than atrocious, itâs symbolic.
Look over the past 20 years, see if you can find one sentence anywhere near the mainstream that says that the invasion of Iraq was a crime â it was the worst crime of the 20th century. The worst criticism you can make is it was a âmistakeâ. Itâs been reconfigured, reshaped to be presented â even by liberal commentators â as a failed effort to save the Iraqi people from an evil dictator, which has absolutely nothing to do with why the war began.
Q&A: Noam Chomsky on Palestine, Israel and the state of the world
