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Team Australia: from bad fashion to bad politics : Comments
By Binoy Kampmark, published 1/9/2014Like any term drawn out of some faux nationalism (can there be any other?), it divides on the pretext of uniting.
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I don't condemn the US in every instance...I am condemning them in the instance of the Iraqi invasion of 2003 - so you can get off your "socialism" bandwagon now.
You claimed the US invaded Iraq in an act of altruism to rid them of a dictator and to gift them democracy.
In doing so, they massively destroyed infrastructure and created a power vacuum which has plagued that beleaguered nation ever since.
I'm saying that the US went in to assure themselves control and assured future access to resources.
The Bush Govt financed that exercise by funnelling money to the 1% by taking it from the taxpayer dollars of the 99%. The "massive" cost of that invasion was blown out because the funding bottom line was hidden from the public.
My point being that it wasn't "altruism".