Peace activist, Dr Dahlia Wasfi delivers a fervent and forthright speech regarding the West’s ongoing imperial and illegal invasions of the Middle East, that is more relevant today, than it ever has been.
…The so called ‘war on terror’ is a cover for our military aggression to gain control of the resources of Western Asia. This is sending the poor of this country to kill the poor of those Muslim countries. This is trading blood for oil. This is genocide and to most of the world, we are the terrorists.
In these times, remaining silent on our responsibility to the world and it’s future is criminal and in light of our complicity in the supreme crimes against humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan and ongoing violations of the UN Charter and international law, how dare any American criticise the actions of legitimate resistance to illegal occupation…
…Our soldiers don’t sacrifice for ‘duty’, ‘honour’, ‘country’, they sacrifice for Kellogg, Brown and Root. They don’t fight for America, they fight for their lives and their buddies beside them because we put them in a war zone. They’re not defending our ‘freedoms’, they’re laying the foundation for 14 permanent military bases to defend the freedoms of ExxonMobil and British Petroleum. They’re not establishing ‘democracy’, they’re establishing the basis for an economic occupation to continue after the military occupation has ended…