Hillary Clinton threatens Iran with obliteration

By Harry R. Davidson, Ph.D. | Last updated: May 20, 2008 - 4:26:00 PM

America’s same genocidal path

Many outside America have indicated that the scenario proposed by Clinton is simply a pretext for her to assert her willingness to use overwhelming military force-including nuclear weapons-to guarantee U.S. domination of the Middle East.

Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s has pledged to “obliterate” Iran if it attacks Israel. During a May 4 appearance on ABC’s program “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, Senator Clinton repeated her previous statement that she would respond with “massive retaliation” if Iran attacked Israel. She responded with a genocidal threat to obliterate Iran. Such a plan would murder millions of innocent children, women, men, wiping out all traces of an entire population.

Rational and sane people should be shocked that a potential president of the United States would openly make such a diabolical threat. However, there has been no public outcry. Black people should be mindful of this coldly calculated threat against humanity. To obliterate is to “utterly remove from recognition or memory and to remove from existence: destroy utterly all traces, indications, or significance of.” To obliterate is an act of genocide.

In December of 1948, the United Nations defined genocide as “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” Genocide pertains to the killing of members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and/or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Genocide whether committed in times of peace or of war is a crime under international law. Constitutional rulers, public officials or private individuals may be held responsible. Yet, Hillary Clinton speaks openly and heartlessly about genocide.

Many outside America have indicated that the scenario proposed by Clinton is simply a pretext for her to assert her willingness to use overwhelming military force—including nuclear weapons—to guarantee U.S. domination of the Middle East.

Clinton said, “Clearly the Iranians continue to try to throw their weight around in the world. There is no doubt that they will pursue if they can figure out how to obtain a nuclear weapon...They have to know from the beginning that that would be a grave, grave error.”

I feel that Senator Clinton is throwing America’s weight around. Shortly before the Pennsylvania primary, Clinton unveiled a new advertisement depicting Pearl Harbor and Osama Bin Laden, and a quote from Democratic President Harry Truman, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” Her comments should not be taken as mere attempts to strength her candidacy. Truman was the one world leader to have ever ordered the use of a nuclear weapon in a war. On August 6, 1945, America dropped an Atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days later a second on Nagasaki. The two bombs killed 110,000 Japanese and injured another 130,000. By 1950 another 230,000 died from radiation. These are facts, not baseless utterances.

Some folks, suffering from Negromacy, contemptuously mock Rev. Jeremiah Wright because they are embarrassed by his style. “My preacher does not act that way” they proclaim. Rev. Wright’s radical consciousness is not to be mocked. Too many Black warriors gave their militant radical lives for us to be ashamed of who they were and what they did. It was Malcolm X—whom Black people now claim to love—that said “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” Rev. Wright didn’t lie when he said: “We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, the Iroquois, the Comanche, the Arapaho, we took Africans from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism.

Rev. Wright didn’t lie when he said America bombed Grenada and killed innocent civilians, babies and non-military personnel. America bombed the Black civilian community of Panama, with Stealth Bombers, and killed unarmed teenagers and toddlers, pregnant mothers and hard-working fathers. America bombed (Muammar) Gadhafi’s home and killed his child. If you understand America’s history then you might be able to think seriously about AIDS (biological warfare); Crack (chemical warfare) and the savage murdering of young Blacks by the police.

If you understand why Rev. Wright is trying to get you to see that: “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and Black South Africans.” Certainly Rev. Jeremiah Wright is angry. My question is why aren’t we all angry? We should be angry about the disrespect the media and America chooses our leaders with. We allow the media propagandists and their Negro bobbling heads to say what ever they want to say about our leaders.

U.S. and Israeli policies are the same. Israel treats the Palestinians like America treats Blacks. Arab land is confiscated to make way for Jewish immigrants. The physical expulsion of individuals or groups from the state is not subject to review by the civil courts. Palestinian land is annexed to create room for further Jewish settler expansion. America’s record on land seizure is the same. Under the 1830 Removal Act, Indian populations were removed from a number of Southern states. The most notable was the removal of the Cherokees of Georgia. “The Trail of Tears” involved seven thousand U.S. soldiers herding and marching off their Oklahoma property. The removal caused the loss 4,000 lives. During the post-slavery era the Ku Klux Klan forced southern Black landowners off of their land. Shall we reflect on the fact that during World War II America seized a large portion of land from the Japanese Americans?

The governments of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana have confiscated the homes of many Blacks, declaring them unsafe and allowing Whites to rehabilitate them via government grants and guaranteed bank loans. America’s jails and prisons are functional Black concentration camps. Minister Farrakhan has told us: “The Government of the United States of America is planning an assault on the Black community, specifically aimed at our youth. And the conspiracy is so deep and so diabolical that many of you will not even believe that at this very moment that I am talking to you, your lives hang in the balance, whether you are living in Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, or any city in America. Black youth, particularly Black young men, are at risk today, and unknowingly, Brothers, you are playing into the hands of your enemy, and he is using you to set up your destruction and using the fear and the pain of your mothers to call for your destruction.”

Listen to the word of Senator Hillary Clinton. Witness her calm demeanor as she proposes genocide against Iran. Now tell me what America is capable of doing. By definition Black people are already the victims of genocide. If the elite are putting a New World Order in place, are we included?

(Harry R. Davidson is a St. Louis-based psychologist and author.)

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