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A Question for Hillary

Aug 08 2007

A Question for Hillary

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By Rosemarie Jackowski

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A Question for Hillary

What is the one burning question that no one is willing to ask Hillary - the one taboo subject that none dare approach? It is the one question that even Republicans will not ask. Of course, we should not expect an answer from Hillary, but that is beside the point. Often there is more truth in the question than the answer.

The question:

Why did you stand by in silence while President Clinton rained down bombs on Iraq during the whole of his administration. In addition to the relentless bombing, Clinton enforced the so-called sanctions, which many considered to be an illegal blockade.

The result was 500,000 dead Iraqi children. When asked about this by Leslie Stahl, Madeleine Albright said that the death of the children was worth it. Why were you silent, Hillary? Is your silence an unspoken approval of this policy of death during the Clinton Administration?

One can only speculate on how Hillary might answer the question about the 500,000 dead children.

Some possible Hillary answers:

"I did not think anyone would notice the 500,000 dead children."
"Damn that Leslie Stahl."
"We planned to blame everything on Saddam."
"Please don't ask me to say, 'I'm sorry'."
"I know how to stand by my man."
"So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? Oops, that comment has already been spoken by another first lady."
"I was too busy baking cookies."
"Please ask me about my marriage. That is an easier topic."

Republicans will not question Hillary about the deaths of the children. Republicans are hell-bent on killing more Iraqis, Iranians, Afghans, etc. Of course Democrats have a vested interest in burying their colorful past. They continue to pretend to be an opposition party but the public is slowly awakening - too slowly to make any difference.

The question should be asked, not only of Hillary, but also of every other candidate. There's not an innocent one in the bunch. Anyone, who is seeking votes now, should have a record of having taken a stand against the Sanctions while the children were still alive. Rhetoric now will not bring the dead children back to life. Give us no campaign promises about the future. Show us what you did to save those innocent kids. If you did nothing then, you do not deserve the support of voters now.

Most of us want to vote for "none of the above". We need a candidate who has a proven record of having been in opposition to policies, which have resulted in the deaths of many here and in other countries. There are just a few who would fit that bill. The problem is, they are not allowed to participate in the presidential debates. The Democrats and Republicans will not allow it and the media never gives equal coverage to Alternative Party candidates.

The electoral process will not be fair until it is open to all. Forget the voting machine fiasco - it is important - but the issue of allowing all views to be heard is of a higher priority. My vote will go to the silenced candidate in the corner. The one whose voice is not heard. The guy who is ready to take on both, the Democratic and the Republican parties. He will be my write-in candidate. There is a special satisfaction when writing-in a candidate - a feeling of freedom. Everyone should try it.

Voting for any Democrat or Republican will not change things. The charade will go on. The games will continue. The Democrats and Republicans have turned over control to the corporations. Does it really matter who gets to live in the White House after the next election? No. The CEOs of the pharmaceutical companies and the weapons manufacturers have already won what really matters. They have the power. They get to decide who lives and who dies. You can't get much more powerful than that.

Democrats and Republicans created the problem. They are not qualified to fix it. Only a candidate who is not controlled by either major party stands a chance at making any headway in real reform.

All of the media hype about elections and voting is just an illusion to give the masses the appearance of democracy. It is like watching a boxing match in which you hope that both contenders wind up on the mat.

About the next election, only one thing is for sure. No matter which candidate wins, we will all lose - again.

Rosemarie Jackowski is an advocacy journalist living in the USA. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for her participation in a peaceful protest of the war. The conviction was appealed and overturned in the State Supreme Court. The government then announced plans to retry the case. Finally, after years of legal proceedings, all charges were dropped. She can be reached at: dissent[at]sover.net Articles by Rosemarie Jackowski at MWC News http://mwcnews.net/rosemarie-jackowski

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Comments (19)

1. 09-08-2007 16:52

I can't think of any question that I would want to ask Hillary, her Gal. Pals over the years has made that part of her life quite obvious, I saw her answer the questions of the Rose Law Firm, I don't remember, I can't recall Etc. on and on. She will stand before us in a speech and tell us lies for no reason, why she was named Hillary, how she did baby sitting for the illegals while she was in school, where Chelsea was on 911 - if that piece of now rich trash was a republican it would now be in Prison, and should be.

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Maud

2. 09-08-2007 20:17

Thanks Maud

Maud...Thank you for your comment. It seems to me that nothing that happened at the Rose Law firm or the other things that you mention can compare in importance to the 500,000 children who died as a result of USA policies. Maybe that is the problem. Too many in the USA are so involved in partisan politics that they fail to see how much damage is done around the world by the United States. I say in my article that the question about the 500,000 dead children should be asked of ALL candidates - Democrats and Republicans.

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dissent@sover.netNOSPAM! ">rosemarie jackowski

3. 14-08-2007 02:40

Thanks Maud

Thanks Rosemarie for your article on a big question. I can only feel reform with the two party system the only possible chance to stop the genocide for oil and fascism that has taken control of our country. Impeachment will only replace with more of the same. On other blogs I only try as best I can to stop buying into either party adn donate to a 3rd party of thier choice. I can only hope this would serve to fix or hopefully at worst hinder furthering the cause of the complexity of the fascist hold on America. Issues being so diverse and with AP and major media behind the take over only a simplified plan with focus could make a differance. Seems attacking individuals and individual problems only weakens the movement, because of so many issues. Trying to take out Bush, Cheny, Pelosi, war efforts, on and on, and the media trys to fake the public out with scapegoating, and minimal exposure, seldom pointing out the real underlieing driving force, of course this would mean exposing themselfs, and their friends in the elite classes, the list is lengthy, not necessarilly a corporation but the major stock holder is the real culprit. Amazing how many people think, despite the last three elections, the solution is with in one of the two parties. As they turn to the parties extreme to look for hope, and they will see, as again what happened with Dean the party will nominate who will serve the Banks and Corporations best and speak with forked tongue elequently enough to sedate the public. Even at the end of the primaries it is hard for a 3rd party to gain momentum. Change is in the air, and it seems to me for it to take place hard questions need to be continually adressed.

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sjcolorwing@hotmail.comNOSPAM! ">SCJ

4. 14-08-2007 04:36

Thanks Maud

Yes Rosemarie,
I agree with your statement |Often there is more truth in the question than the answer.|
Also in logic, 0 has as much power as 1, and I have found zero response speaks huge volumes.
If you look at three countries, the US, the UK, and Australia,
they all have this pseudo democracy, Tweedledee and Tweedledum parties = zero choice. and yes one cannot solve a problem if one is part of the problem, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, are a part of the problem.
Mike

http://mozilla

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mike keenor

5. 14-08-2007 17:50

sjcolorwing and Mike

sjcolorwing...you make important points. Scapegoating individuals such as Bush only weakens the movement because it enforces the fallacy that the fault lies within individuals. It is the system that needs to be changed. Capitalism is the problem. Right now the focus is on Rove. His resignation won't make any difference at all.

Mike...Thanks for your comment. Yes, sometimes zero has more power than 1.

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dissent@sover.netNOSPAM! ">rosemarie jackowski

6. 14-08-2007 23:17

1.7 million Iraqi infant deaths

Excellent article Rosemarie. The harsh reality is that Hilary is of the SAME ilk as war crimes- and child-killing-complicit Condoleezza Rice (Wicde Witch of the West, Dr Death; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories total 0.5 million and 1.9 million, respectively - see "The Cost of War" on MWC News at the link below) and Madeleine "the price was worth it" Albright.

I have just published a huge book called "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950" (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007; distributed to major scholars and libraries around the world: for details see top of the link provided below). The 1990-2007 under-5 year old infant deaths in Iraq now (as of March 2007) total 1.7 million (90% avoidable and due to a combination of Sanctions and post-invasion violation of the Geneva Convention by the Occupying Coalition).

Some choice for Democrats and Americans in general - prospective war criminal "Bomber" Obama (who wants to bomb America's nuclear-armed ally Pakistan) and Hilary Clinton, complicit in the 1 million under-5 infant deaths in Iraq during Sanctions (1990-2003).

Iraq and its neighbour Syrai hasd similar "infant deaths per 1,000 births" in 1990 (about 50) but Sanctions rapidly increased that to over 100 and thence to the present-day 125 in Occupied Iraq - as compared to 16 now in Syria. A huge and UNFORGIVABLE crime in which Hilary Clinton and her jovial husband are intimately complicit.

Unfortunately you are dead right in your final observation, Rosemarie - with "dead" being the operative word: "About the next election, only one thing is for sure. No matter which candidate wins, we will all lose - again."

Thous shalt not kill Children - or indeed ANYONE.

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/

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gpolya@optusnet.com.auNOSPAM! ">Dr Gideon Polya

7. 14-08-2007 23:21

Dr Rice, Wicked Witch of the West

Post #7 - that should read Dr Condoleezza Rice (Wicked Witch of the West, Dr Death). My typing goes askew whenever I type anything about WOMEN complicit in the mass murder of CHILDREN like Madeleine Albright, Hilary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice.

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/

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gpolya@optusnet.com.auNOSPAM! ">Dr Gideon Polya

8. 15-08-2007 03:58

Paper thin

Reading all this, takes me back to an argument I had with a man whose
politics were somewhere right of Genghis Khan, he was against any form of welfare, unions, any form of protection for workers and society in general etc, etc..
I said to him what is your reason for thinking this, he said, "we are too civilized now to need all that". I picked up a piece of paper holding it between my finger and thumb, saying, "this is how thick oure veiner of civilization is".
During this dialog a quiet Vietnamese ex boat asylum seeker was watching all this, said nothing but just nodded when I said that, I have no idea what had been through, but I know it was not good.

Mike

http://mozilla

Registered

mike keenor

9. 15-08-2007 13:00

Dr Polya and Mike

Dr Polya and Mike...Thanks for commenting. I believe that it is hopeless. The voters in the usa have been brainwashed for a very long time. The schools teach an inaccurate view of history so that by the time a student graduates from high school, he believes that the usa has never done anything wrong. We are taught that the rest of the world is evil and "they want to kill us for our freedoms". The propagandizing in the schools is so extreme that I have come to the conclusion that nothing will improve until we shut down the school system and replace it with one that is not owned and operated by the government. My liberal and Socialistic friends disagree with me but they offer no better solution.

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dissent@sover.netNOSPAM! ">rosemarie jackowski

10. 15-08-2007 13:05

Dr Polya

Congratulations on the publication of your book. It is needed in usa schools and I will do everything I can to get it in as many schools as possible.

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dissent@sover.netNOSPAM! ">rosemarie jackowski

11. 15-08-2007 15:31

Dr Polya

There seems to be a rule:-
Best epitomized by Mahatma Gandhi. He was walking along with a friend in India, during the time of the British Raj, and a couple swaggering British officers came towards them, and forced he and his friend to step out of their way into the gutter. Gandhi made a comment along these lines; \\\"do these men realize all empires without exception have fallen\\\".
Maybe Empire USA will last forever.
What a shock for the deluded citizens of the US, when she falls. Is this jealousy? How can that be? We are all part of the empire, she falls we all fall.
The problem is, you get rid of one lousy bunch only to get another. ...the British, the US... I suppose I am being cynical.

Mike

http://mozilla

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1ibis2@excite.comNOSPAM! ">mike

12. 15-08-2007 22:52

Mike

Mike...I think I agree with what you say. The problem is not only the government, but also the international corporations. Capitalism is the big monster.
No, you are not being cynical. You are being realistic. If everyone could see what you and I see, we could change things. It would not even take a bloody revolution. All it would take would be for a majority of the people to do nothing - just stay home and wait for the collapse of the money systems, which would happen fairly quickly. An international boycott of all consumer goods could change everything.

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dissent@sover.netNOSPAM! ">rosemarie jackowski

13. 16-08-2007 01:06

Truth, Policy & information terrorism

Rosemarie & Mike - thinking the best of politicians as disinterested public representatives acting for the public good with an inevitable bias toward their own consitituents (i.e. suspending horrible reality for the purposes of argument), one can still argue that the Truth and Policy can be DE-COUPLED.

I argued this recently in a long meeting with a very decent Federal politician who clearly understood what I was saying. We recognize that "political realities" (polls, the ignorant prejudices of the voters brainwashed by the Murdoch and other Bush-ite media, voter fear and greed etc) determine what is (acceptable) "policy".

It takes real leadership (e.g. a JFK or FDR) to transcend this pig-sty political reality and fly with humane ideas.

However, I argued to the National Parliament Representative , while recognizing the political realities, the Mainstream media brainwashing, the lobbies, consensus, vested interests etc that prevent humane Policy (e.g. stopping the killing of 1 infant every minute in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan) - it should STILL be possible to actually tell the Truth (e.g. that the passive killing of 1 infant every minute in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan is happening every minute of every day, week, year - as anyone can readily confirm by simply Googling "UNICEF" and going to Country info statistics).

There should be zero tolerance for lying by omission and as well as lying by commission in public life - it is dangerous denial that acutely threatens humanity and in current parlance "information terrorism".

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/

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gpolya@optusnet.com.auNOSPAM! ">Dr Gideon Polya

14. 16-08-2007 20:50

Dr Gideon

Dr Polya...Thank you for your comments and all of the work that you do on behalf of the children. The usa calls the dead children "collateral damage".
I agree with all that you say, except I am not so sure that JFK and FDR were really humane. Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States has a lot of information on the contrary.

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dissent@sover.netNOSPAM! ">rosemarie jackowski

15. 16-11-2007 23:40

500,000 dead? Stop with the lies!

Your 500,000 number is a complete lie. Either print your source or admit to being a fraud.

http://www.tinapham.com/

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spamme@aol.comNOSPAM! ">Tina Pham

16. 17-11-2007 05:02

500,000 - US mass murder

Re post #15 and "Your 500,000 number is a complete lie. Either print your source or admit to being a fraud" - what is the SOURCE for these false assertions in post#15? Infants unfortunately die, and the poster must surely have some factual basis for saying that my estimate is false.

Consult the UN Population Division (see: UN Population Divsion and do the math and you will find that the UPDATED estimates for post-invasion under-5 infant deaths in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan now (November 2007) total 0.6 million and 2.2 million, respectively.

By way of approximate corroboration, UNICEF (see: link estimates 122,000 under-5 infant deaths annually in Occupied Iraq (population 27 million) and 370,000 annually in Occupied Afghanistan (population 26 million). By way of comparison there are 2,000 infant deaths annually in Occupier country Racist White Australia (population 21 million).

For Occupied Iraq, 122,000 infant deaths /year x 4.7 years = 573,000 infant deaths = 0.6 million infant deaths.

For Afghanistan 370,000 infant deaths/year
573,000 infants deaths/year x 6.1 years = 2,257,000 infant deaths = 2.3 million infant deaths.

The Nazis murdered 1.5 million Jewish children in WW2 - anyone denying that faces 10 years in prison in Austria and lengthy imprisonment elsewhere in Western Europe.

Genocide denied yields genocide repeated. Holocaust denied, yields holocaust repeated. As advocated by British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, Bush and Blair must be arraigned before the international Criminal Court for their complcity in the mass murder of innocent humanity.

Thou shalt not kill - and thou shalt not kill CHILDREN.

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/

Registered

Gideon Polya

17. 17-11-2007 18:18

More lies...

Neither of the links above say anything about the number of infant/child casualties during the Clinton administration. Interestingly enough however, the UNICEF link states that the infant mortality rate in Iraq has been dropping for the past three years. Also, who knew Israel had the lowest infant mortality rate for Arabs. compared to all other Arab countries in the middle east?

Anyhow, Rosemarie Jackowski is well known for simply making up numbers (like she clearly did above). There is a reason why no serious people take her seriously.

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ijf66766@gmail.comNOSPAM! ">Dave

18. 17-11-2007 20:34

1.8 million Iraqi infant deaths

"More lies" in #17 is a falsehood - and not just a falsehood but an offensive, unsubstantiated, ignorant falsehood that if made about the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis in WW2 would earn the purveyer 10 years in an Austrian prison.

Using the authoritative sources linked in #16 (the UN population Division and UNICEF) one can estimate that 1.2 million under-5 year old Iraqi infants died under Sanctions 1990-2003 and that a further 0.6 million have died post-invasion in the period March 2003-November 2007 (for further detailed discussion see "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950" via the link provided below).

Hilary Clinton supported Sanctions, they were in full flight during her husband's 1993-2001 administrations and she voted for the Iraq War.

Just about the best the world can realistically hope for in 2008 is that this WOMAN who is complicit in the deaths of 1.8 million Iraqi infants will be the next US President rather than some salivating, war-mongering Racist Religious Right Republican (R4) Bush-ite.

What sort of WOMEN are complicit in the deaths of huge numbers of CHILDREN? Bill Clinton's Racist Zionist S of S was asked a related question by Lesley Stahl - when asked by Stahl with regards to effect of sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?", Albright replied: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it."

Mass murderer Bill Clinton presided over Sanctions against Iraq from 1993-2001 and his direct "share" of the 1.2 million Iraqi infant deaths under Sanctions (1990-2003) was accordingly about 0.8 million - but of course he and wife supported both Sanctions, the Invasion and the Occupation.

Those who KNOWINGLY ignore, deny, minimize, obfuscate, excuse, promote, advocate or are otherwise complicit in the mass murder of children have crossed the line between decent humanity (that includes people such as Rosemarie Jackowski who courageously STAND UP FOR THE INNOCENTS ) and proto-Nazi barbarism.

Indeed people denying the Jewish Holocaust (6 million victims including 1.5 million Jewish children) face 10 years in prison in Austria and lengthy imprisonment elsewhere in Western Europe.

What sort of WOMEN are the WOMEN VOTERS of America who will vote in huge numbers for a WOMAN complicit in the mass murder of about 1.8 million infants?

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/

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gpolya@optusnet.com.auNOSPAM! ">Dr Gideon Polya

19. 19-11-2007 18:21

1.8 million Iraqi infant deaths

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ijf66766@gmail.comNOSPAM! ">Jason

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