American political analyst and activist Bill Dores criticized former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice said Sunday that Americans are now safer because the United States invaded Afghanistan and Iraq after the 9/11 attacks.
Rice served as U.S. Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009 and as National Security Advisor from 2001 to 2005. She also said she was concerned that the U.S. withdrew its troops 20 years after implementing a policy of death and destruction in Afghanistan, where the U.S. lost what she called "eyes and ears."
Dolce, a writer and longtime anti-war activist, said in a news televised interview on Tuesday: "I want to know who Rice said. ”
"On September 5, nearly 8 million American workers lost their jobs, they don't have any means of survival, are they safer because the U.S. government spent $6.4 trillion bombing and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan," he asked. ”。
He added: "In most states, the moratorium on evictions, foreclosures and utility closures is ending. Tens of millions of people have been affected. Are they safer? Will the Pentagon's war machine protect their homeland? ”
"What about the people who lost their homes in Hurricane Ada? Some have seen their loved ones drown. They can use some 'defense' money. ”
"When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, the Louisiana National Guard was not there to help, it had been deployed to Iraq, nearly 2,000 people had drowned in the floodwaters, and members of the Guard had returned to find their homes destroyed," he said. ”
"Cuba and Venezuela have shown a willingness to help, and nearly 2,000 Cuban doctors and nurses are ready to board the plane, but the Bush administration has refused to allow them entry," he said. ”
"That winter, when fuel prices soared, Venezuela provided free heating oil to poor communities in the United States, and the sanctions imposed by the United States prevented this, which is why the U.S. military state has made the American people 'safer,'" he said. ”
What happened to the trillions of dollars spent on the "war on terror"?
"U.S. troops and contractors have left Afghanistan, but the defense budget has not been cut a penny and will increase to $752 billion next year, not counting CIA funds, nuclear weapons, a steady stream of weapons flowing to the Palestinian Israeli occupation regime and interest on all those funds," the analyst said. ”
"The trillions of dollars spent on the 'war on terror' didn't go out into the sea, they're still here, in the bank vaults of corporate war profiteers," he explains. ”
"The war on terror is not just a massacre of innocent people all over the world, it's a huge robbery of the working class and oppressed people in the United States, and the military-industrial enterprises are not even the biggest profiteers," the activist said. ”
"Condoleezza Rice was George Bush's national security adviser at the time of the 9/11 attacks," he said. Prior to that, she was a board member of Chevron, the second largest oil monopoly in the United States. ”
"The U.S. invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, coupled with sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, saved Chevron and other U.S. oil giants from financial disaster, giving them the most lucrative years ever." Today, Chevron is plundering gas from occupied Palestinian waters under the protection of the Israeli occupying regime. ”
"Endless wars have made Wall Street bankers richer and ordinary Americans poorer"
"What is the 'war on terror,' it's a desperate attempt to regain the world energy monopoly that American companies enjoyed after World War II, not because the United States needs oil, but because American companies need profits," he said. ”
"It didn't start on 9/11/21. From 1991 to 2001, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, most of them children, were killed by U.S. bombs and sanctions. A few months before Iraqi troops entered Kuwait, the U.S. plan for iraq was on Bush's desk, and the plan to invade Afghanistan was on his son's desk. ”
"The endless war may make Wall Street bankers and CEOs richer, but it doesn't make the average person here safer, it just makes us poorer, and we need to end the military financial state and end the war on Wall Street."
Rice said in an interview Sunday that the United States is safer than it was before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The Sept. 11 terrorist attack was a series of attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage.