Somalia: Another Illegal Bush War

Thanks to Ridwan for bringing my attention to more horrific genocide and senseless slaughter that I haven't paid attention to led behind the scenes by none other than the U.S. empire. King Dick and co-King George have an illegal and genocidal war going on in Somalia.

Here is a quote form a recent article called, "Bush's Rampage In Somalia," by Mike Whitney, gleaned from "Dissident Voice."

"Heavy fighting and artillery fire have reduced large parts of Mogadishu to rubble. More than 700,000 people have been forced to leave the capital with nothing more than what they can carry on their backs. Entire districts have been evacuated and turned into ghost towns. The main hospital has been bombed and is no longer taking patients. Ethiopian snipers are perched atop rooftops across the city. Over 3.5 million people are now huddled in the south in tent cities without sufficient food, clean water or medical supplies. It is the greatest humanitarian crisis in Africa today; a man-made Hell entirely conjured up in Washington.

"Just weeks ago, Amnesty International reported that it had heard many accounts that Ethiopian troops were “slaughtering (Somalis) like goats.” In one case, “a young child’s throat was slit by Ethiopian soldiers in front of the child’s mother.”"

Sounds like the work of the U.S. empire under King Dick and co-King George to me. It is their clear and consistent pattern.

This is from an interview by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now with Abdi Samatar, professor of Global Studies at the University of Minnesota, also quoted in Mike Whitney's article:

"What you have is really terror in the worst sense of the word, a million people have been displaced that the Ethiopians have been denying humanitarian aid, and the United States which seems to just watch and let it happen."

And go figure! Guess why the U.S. (in my opinion) is backing this illegal and genocidal war. OIL!

"The real motives behind the invasion were oil and geopolitics. According to most estimates 30 percent of America’s oil will come from Africa in the next ten years."

The article also states that the illegal occupying forces from Ethopia are close to signing an agreement to allow U.S. oil corporations in to steal all of their resources. Who would have thunk? Seems that the previous government wasn't convinced by the U.S. to sign over their oil.

The U.S. used its U.S. directed UN to sign illegal documents authorizing the illegal invasion. They stated that the ICU, Somalia's government at the time which brought actual peace and stability was linked to...you guessed it...Al Queda. They alleged that these folks who weren't signing over their oil to the king and co-king were terrorists.

If you are sitting on oil right now that you aren't handing over to the king and co-king, expect mass slaughter soon. King Dick and co-King George are again claiming Venezula is a terrorist state. They are trying to get a trade agreement with Columbia set up. I have to wonder if maybe there are military bases that will be created with this agreement. At least I'm sure their will be some wonderful arms deals going on there.

Right now, as gets pointed out in many arenas, the only thing making it to the news coming out of Africa is Mugabe. Mugabe makes a good smoke screen for U.S. illegal behavior all over Africa.

"Oil that is. Black Gold. Texas Tea."