Americans are doing to Iraq what British did to India

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/666056.cms

General Dyer in Iraq
SWAMINOMICS/SWAMINATHAN S ANKLESARIA AIYAR
< SUNDAY, MAY 09, 2004 10:58:49 AM >

Imperial Western projects to bring civilisation to the East through a White Man's Burden have a typical unplanned side-effect. The would-be civilisers find that the Easterners resist forced civilisation, and inflict heavy casualties. The civilisers retaliate, and some of them find it expedient to use mass killing, torture and brutality to win the war of civilisation.

This was demonstrated by the British Empire in India, the French Empire in Algeria, and is now being demonstrated by the American quasi-empire in Iraq. While photos of torture and sexual assault of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison are shocking, they should surprise none but the naive.

After the 1857 mutiny, British “hanging groups'' scoured the countryside stringing up any Indians they could find. Civilisers in London thought that regrettable but understandable...

Here's more about the India massacre in 1919:

..."Unrest in India erupted into open violence. In April 1919, under order of General Dyer, troops opened fire on a crowd at Amritsar, killing 379 unarmed civilians and wounding over a thousand. The Commander-in-Chief in India recommended that Dyer should be ordered to retire, and the matter came before the Army Council for review. The Council accepted the recommendation, as did the Cabinet...

more at: http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/churchill/amritsar.htm