[Marxism] 10,000 dead Somalis - does anyone give a shit?

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        Pirates of the Horn: U.S.  Backs Reign of Crime and Death in Somalia  

Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
     
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
 
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The civilian death count from the  American-backed "regime change" operation 
in Somalia is approaching  10,000, with more than 800 killed in the Terror War 
slaughter since  June.

_The figures_ (http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=136264) ,  
compiled by the Elman Peace and Human Rights Organization in Mogadishu,  are 
almost 
certainly an undercount, given the rampant chaos that has  ravaged the 
country in the wake of the Ethiopian invasion, and the Muslim  practice of 
quick 
burial of the dead. But they are horrific enough,  especially when added to 
another statistic released by the United Nations  last month: 3.7 million 
Somalis 
are now in need of outside aid in order to  survive. This is more than 
one-third of the entire population. 

I have written often of what is happening in  Somalia, and the American 
government's direct role in it, and the total  silence of America's bipartisan 
political establishment about this vast  atrocity. I won't recapitulate the 
horror 
and terror -- and American  complicity -- here at the moment, but links to 
many of these pieces _can be found in this recent  post_ 
(http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1598/1/) .

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A puppet government, installed by foreign  invasion, riddled with crime and 
corruption, alienating and radicalizing  the population: here we see the 
quintessential template of the "War on  Terror," replicated faithfully in Iraq, 
Afghanistan, and Somalia -- and  soon, perhaps, in Pakistan.

Mass  death, mass ruin and immeasurable human suffering: this is what the War 
on  Terror does.  This is what  the War on Terror is all about. It can have 
no other  outcome.  When someone supports the War on Terror -- as Barack Obama, 
John McCain,  Sarah Palin and Joe Biden all do, with eagerness and enthusiasm 
-- this is  what they are embracing. They are dipping their hands in innocent 
 blood. 

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http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1607/135/





I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the  crimes of this guilty land will 
never be purged away but with  blood.



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