🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Imno1 wrote:

>   Do you, or anybody believe that . 500,000 Iraqui children were killed by 
> the embargo on Iraq and or that the deaths that did result  were solely due 
> to the US -this in the face of mounting evidence of fraud and corruption 
> reaching into the UN and European corporations and  countries that  were 
> working  with Saddam to make money off the embargo for him and his henchman. 

"Asked by an interviewer on 60 Minutes in 1996 whether the UN's estimate
of child fatalities in Iraq was accurate, U.S. Ambassador to the UN cum
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright confirmed it before a national
television audience." -- Ward Churchill

> Churchill charges that Al-Queda exploded the twin towers to take revenge for 
> these deaths-which fits into Bush's contention that there is a link between 
> Al0-Quaeda terrorism and Iraq..-except that no link has ever been shown. 

In his essay The Ghosts of 9-1-1: Reflections on History, Justice and
Roosting Chickens, Churchill doesn't mention Al Queda.

> Churchill portrays himself as a defender of the American Indian and is 
> outraged at the treatment of native Americans historically and in Central 
> America. 

As we all should be.

> Nowhere in his diatribes I have  seen is there a mention of the 
> hundreds of thousands of native Americans being killer  or robbed of their 
> land recently and even now by corrupt military regimes, large land owners, 
> drug runners in Mexico, Guatemala, Columbia, Bolivia., Brazil.

I haven't read all of his work, so I wouldn't claim he hasn't addressed
such things.

> The only 
> villain in the world now or in the past, according to him, is the US.

Ya think?

> Chuchill clearly thinks of himself as  an outrageous character-

Do you really know what Churchill thinks of himself?

> maybe even drawing inspiration from his neighbor Hunter Thompson who
just died by his  own hand. If so,

What is it?  Clearly?  Or  If so?

<< he ought to get out there and free lance the way Thompson  did instead
of hiding behind the safety of a college lectern and a tenured  position.>>


Perhaps he might not agree that what you think is best for him is indeed
what he wants to do with his life and his career.