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Did our govt commit warcrimes?
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04/04/2008 12:31:07
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivie
 
 
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04/04/2008 11:57:29
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>>>>Better read about Operation Condor for more details. I don't expect U.S. citizens to be well-informed about Operation Condor - my son just finished studying "Comprehensive U.S. History" and they didn't mention it with one word.
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>>>Good thing that it didn't.
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>>I don't understand why that should be a good thing. That would be as if a "Comprehensive history of Germany" forgot to mention the Holocaust. Not that the crimes involved were of the same magnitude, I should quickly add, before someone thinks the comparison is ridiculous.
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>Too late. It is happened after, not before.

Let me add - once again, for the sake of completeness - that the "Comprehensive U.S. History" DID mention, more or less objectively, some other stuff where the role of the U.S. or of its government was not exactly ideal.

But I do find the omission of the "Operation Condor", or of the "School of the Americas" which wasn't mentioned either, important omissions.

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I think you said before that you couldn't figure out on what side I was, or something of the sort. Well, I try not to be on any particular side; human rights violations are horrible, no matter who commits them.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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