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[A-List] More Ward Churchill... Newsweek Interview



INT: "But how can you possibly compare the victims of 9/11 to that of
a man shipping the gold fillings from murdered Jews?

WC: Those (9/11 victims) who were engaged in the
international-financial operations, which were the motive cause for
U.S. policy â in full knowledge of what effects were on juvenile
populations, sweatshops, and so forthâthat's the anchor there.
Implement policy for profit, to maximize profit, to increase
dividends, blah, blah, blah. Which also, by the way, increases their
commission, establishes their stature, leads to their promotion
trajectory, leads to their quality of life, and in full knowledgeâthey
may suppress itâof the carnage that is induced in this
profit-maximization profile. âBasically, I said you are accountable
for what you do in the world. And â if you are profiting from carnage
â you are the moral and philosophical equivalent of Adolf Eichmann.
You don't like that, change the behavior. That's not who you want to
be, stop acting like that.

INT: So the behavior of every 9/11 victim is a moral equivalency to
Eichmann's support of the Holocaust?

WC: I don't know. Why don't you ask what the moral equivalency would
be of the half-million Iraqi children that died in Iraq from U.S.
sanctions? Those children were reduced to less than no value....

In full: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20001571/site/newsweek/


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