From Afghanistan to Iraq: The Racism of “Liberation”
Posted by Sonali Kolhatkar
Presentation for “Life After Capitalism” Conference at the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Published on Znet (www.zmag.org).
On August 29th 2002 in Little Rock, Arkansas, George W Bush said: “We liberated Afghanistan from the clutches of a barbaric regime… We’re liberators, not conquerers here in America”(1).
Addressing U.S. troops this January in Fort Hood, Texas, Bush said, “Should Saddam seal his fate by refusing to disarm, by ignoring the opinion of the world, you’ll be fighting, not to conquer anybody, but …
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