In These Times

"But the men of the 442 and the 131,000 U.S. and 24,000 Coalition soldiers serving in Iraq deserve more. They deserve a ban on Depleted Uranium." It's always fascinating anew, in sort of a sickening way, how aggressors have a knack to cast themselves as victims of their own aggression. The US-forces, the US-media and John & Jane Public do not form an exception. Back in the 1960s & 1970s, they all bitterly lamented the US-victims of the Vietnam war, hardly anybody mentioned the manifold worse suffering of the victimised Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians - both directly through US-bombs and chemical …

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