Press Action

Monday, March 08, 2004

Press Action Hero of the Week: MIKE WHITNEY

Mike Whitney understands who is responsible for the ongoing violence in Iraq and he’s willing to finger the culprits: the U.S. government.

Many of us see what’s happening in Iraq and interpret U.S. actions there as morally wrong. But most of us are miserable failures at articulating the plain truth about the U.S. government’s culpability.

Mike Whitney does not have this problem. Here’s how he analyzes the bombings in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq in a March 3, 2004 article in CounterPunch:

"No one really cares to hear the new litany of excuses from the bunglers in the White House. The unavoidable fact is that there was no terrorism in Iraq prior to the invasion, which means that the US presence is the principle source of this new phenomenon and they must deal with it; period."

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