{"id":97,"date":"2003-09-05T16:21:13","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T23:21:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-09-05T16:21:13","modified_gmt":"2003-09-05T23:21:13","slug":"iraq-or-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/05\/iraq-or-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq – or Kosovo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Floyd of the Moscow Times<\/i> had a column last week <\/a> about the occupation forces’ use of Saddam’s secret police to govern the “new” Iraq.
\nFloyd’s style is so cutting edge, I would hardly be surprised if Imperial officials actually bled after reading this stuff.
\nConsider this phrase, used to describe the US alliance with the Iraqi secret police:
\n“monstrous copulation of rapacious conquerors with bloodthirsty scum.”
\nConjures images of NATO’s alliance with the KLA, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

The article, titled “Die Laughing”, does invoke the images of Kosovo, however unwittingly:<\/p>\n

– wary reporters and Raj officials displayed the usual hilarious delicacy in coming up with reality-fogging prose to protect the tender sensibilities of the American people, who must never be told what their betters are really getting up to.<\/p>\n

(Sounds like the coverage of Kosovo occupation all right, with brutal murders of defenseless non-Albanians described as “ethnic conflict,” terrorist bombings as “incidents” and a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing and destruction of churches and monasteries as “revenge attacks.”) <\/i><\/p>\n

– You certainly don\u2019t employ professional murderers and rapists if you are genuinely interested in building a \u201cdecent, open, democratic society,\u201d as the Bushists claim in their imperial PR.<\/p>\n

(We hear about that sort of stuff in Kosovo all the time, yet the ‘government’ is full of KLA thugs – OK, so they’re not ‘professionals’ but what’s the difference? – and let’s not forget the infamous ‘Kosovo Protection Corps’…) <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Floyd of the Moscow Times had a column last week about the occupation forces’ use of Saddam’s secret police to govern the “new” Iraq. Floyd’s style is so cutting edge, I would hardly be surprised if Imperial officials actually bled after reading this stuff. Consider this phrase, used to describe the US alliance with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}