Gorilla Radio: Just War

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Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca He also serves as a contributing editor at the progressive web news site: http://www.pej.org.


Today is the 61st anniversary of the triumphant Allied invasion Nazi Germany’s Europe. The Second World War is remembered by most as a “just” war. The last “just” war. That supposed justice saw the death of millions and the near total destruction of the cradle of western civilization.

It has been painted in countless Hollywood motion pictures, books, and press reports, lauded in all of its aspects. But, the facts are: No war is just. In 2005, we westerners are again at war. It’s a war again painted, as Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and all the other lousy wars as “just.” For every instance of mobilization of the people to go forth on a murderous campaign, the underlying “truths” are later found to be manufactured. Nowhere else is this more evident than in the disaster that is Iraq today.

Last month, the criminals occupying the White House and congress of the United States of America summoned a British parliamentarian to a Senate committee to answer for his alleged personal enrichment through the United Nation’s ‘Oil for Food program.’ That same program credited with the destruction of upwards of a million souls. What the committee had not counted on was a witness like George Galloway, MP for Bethnel Green and Bow. Today on GR, the testimony to Senator Norm Coleman’s "Oil For Influence: How Saddam Used Oil to Reward Politicians and Terrorist Entities Under the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme" hearings.

And; Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with all that’s good to do in and around Victoria this week. But first, George Galloway tearing a new hole for the yet to be convicted war criminals in Washington, D.C.



Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca He also serves as a contributing editor at the progressive web news site: http://www.pej.org.

You can check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com