Friendly Fire: Americans Caught in a Bush-Backed Circle of Slaughter

Chris Floyd
U.S. and British Navies Join Evacuation Efforts (NYT) Excerpt: A five-ship United States naval group and a British flotilla steamed toward Lebanon today to help in a large and hastily organized evacuation — and perhaps to send an implicit message — as thousands of foreign nationals continued to flee the violence by helicopter, passenger ships and chartered ferries, or by bus or car to Syria. …And many Americans said they were distressed to learn they would have to pay their own evacuation costs. (...) Well, here's something you don't see everyday: a nation evacuating its citizens so they won't be killed by their close and faithful ally. Is this not a tacit admission that Israel is carrying out indiscrminate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure – i.e., committing state terrorism? ...But we have certainly arrived at yet another surreal moment in the Bush Imperium: American taxpayers are paying millions of dollars to fuel a war machine that is menacing the lives of thousands of, er, American taxpayers – who are having to pay to be rescued from the war machine they are already funding with their taxes...

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