Now This Is Rich

The Iraq War was a war of aggression initiated through intentionally fabricated evidence, as was the Vietnam war. The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg held that waging of a war of aggression is “not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

Even at minimum estimates, hundreds of thousands of people have died in Iraq, and at least three million in Vietnam, due to America’s illegal wars of aggression. These wars included war crimes such as intentional attacks on civilians, the widespread use of torture as evidenced by Abu Ghraib, the use of white phosphorous bombs in Fallujah, and atrocities like Mai Lai. Especially appalling was the highly documented rampage of the 101st Airborne’s Tiger Force in Vietnam that included rape, torture, and murder – and even horrors such as making necklaces out of human ears. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Force

Gaddafi might be a war criminal, but his actions pale in comparison to our own government’s, not only in sheer bestiality, but especially in magnitude. Especially notable is the lack of any effective reaction by American artists to our own crimes. Why are they so silent?