Madeleine Albright, Mass Murder, and the Medal of Freedom

John Glaser, May 01, 2012

Former Secretary of State under President Clinton Madeleine Albright will be awarded “the highest honor” that America bestows upon civilians — the Presidential Medal of Freedom. No, really. The woman who expressed unapologetic approval of the murder of 500,000 children will be decorated with an award denoting something to do with human freedom.

See here and here for more on the Iraq sanctions of the 1990s.



35 Responses to “Madeleine Albright, Mass Murder, and the Medal of Freedom”

  1. Peter Panizzutti
    May 1st, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    she's a war criminal. What she really deserves is to be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity. Her war crimes would be exposed for all the world to see ( except here in the US where the corporate media would make sure that Americans would remain in the dark). Medal of Freedom? What a farce to present it to her!

  2. Avik Das
    May 1st, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    A mass murderer is being awarded medal of honor – seems to be a mockery of democracy!

  3. skulz fontaine
    May 1st, 2012 at 8:29 pm

    Madeleine Albright. Right and of course. Amerika's "Medal of Freedom" is a sad trinket that holds as much value as a brass ring snagged from an old school merry-go-round. Albright's years of carrying her war crimes has taken one helluva toll on the old bag.
    Burn baby, burn. In hell obviously.

  4. antiwar7
    May 1st, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    Yet again we're shown how corrupt is the establishment.

  5. Orville H. Larson
    May 1st, 2012 at 9:57 pm

    Madeleine Albright, that war criminal hag, ought to rot in hell, along with the rest of her governmental partners in crime. The U.S. Government is infested with warmongers, hacks, statists, and other vermin.

    Regarding Albright, check this out:
    http://zpub.com/un/un-ma.html

  6. loubelleadams4
    May 1st, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    Everyone who will see this will be having their own opinion and reaction about this concern. But whatever it is, it is important that there will be justice and equality when it comes to decisions. this one

  7. Orville H. Larson
    May 1st, 2012 at 10:21 pm

    Well, the Medal of Freedom is usually awarded to presidential sycophants/ass-kissers, statists, government hacks, celebrities, and the like. From this perspective, the award to Albright makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

  8. Robert Christensen
    May 2nd, 2012 at 3:25 am

    Find her and give her the award she deserves.slow death.

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  10. Ger925
    May 2nd, 2012 at 5:50 am

    I am so sick of what we've become. And people will go right out and vote for more of it.

    This woman is despicable.

  11. ninja turtle
    May 2nd, 2012 at 7:01 am

    Who is the US to claim the moral high ground in it's dealings with China. US makes waves over a handful of human rights activists but kills hundreds of thousands from Korea, Vietnam and the greater Middle East. The world is ruled by one despot, the President of the US.

  12. Allison Feldsham
    May 2nd, 2012 at 9:14 am

    Hopefully she will follow the path of Holbrooke and what's left of her heart explodes like a zit on a teenager's face.

  13. MoT
    May 2nd, 2012 at 9:42 am

    More like the "Medal of Mendacity".

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  16. lukman nulhakiem
    May 2nd, 2012 at 5:44 pm

    People should open their eyes on what happened in Iraq. This is absolutely unfair for most people.

  17. amalek
    May 3rd, 2012 at 12:33 am

    I heard she "discovered" she was a xew recently.

  18. JohnT
    May 3rd, 2012 at 1:49 am

    On the same vein as a certain Nobel Peace prize recipient who lives in DC.

  19. hammersmith46
    May 3rd, 2012 at 7:02 am

    you do wonder what kind of person she is. i mean, if she had any humanity, any shame, buried inside herself, she would just quietly fade into the woodwork. but she doesn't and she doesn't.

  20. Guy
    May 3rd, 2012 at 7:52 am

    What is this some kind of jihadist sight? listen to you blood thirsty militants! It is really incredible that a bunch of people on a sight called "antiwar.com" are so militantly violent, it boggles the mind. The echo chamber makes you less informed, more radical, and less rational. It sickness me.

  21. masmanz
    May 3rd, 2012 at 10:52 am

    So only the jihadists should be disgusted by the 500,000 deaths? Your echo chambers just keep up the drumbeat of war, war, and more wars.

  22. Old Rebel
    May 3rd, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    One man's war criminal is another man's effective bureaucrat.

  23. David Hamilton Engr
    May 3rd, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    I can't believe Clinton allowed Bush I's punishment of the people of Iraq to degenerate into a sustained mass epidemic as told here. He knew better. He could have gotten their purification systems back into the country. But genocide is easy….when the state absolves the conscience.

    Your answers to why Muslims hate us are right here: military planners calmly admitting to successfully bringing famine and plague upon the innocent; Madeleine dismissing it all in 1996; all blamed on that old ally Saddam, that cruel kind of propped up dictator that America likes until he. ..gasp!… invades a little too deeply into Kuwait. When did Bin Laden declare "war" on the U.S.? 1996?

  24. redwood
    May 3rd, 2012 at 6:54 pm

    Madeleine Albrightbart and Ehud Barack Obomba should be forced to rot in the ICC. Albrightbart does not deserve the Medal of Freedom and Obomba does not deserve the Peace Prize. That would be like giving the Peace Prize to George Warmonger Bush and Tony Blair Witch Project.

  25. Jahbulon
    May 3rd, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    Are u kidding me? A medal of what? Seriously, in my head she was already in prison for war crimes!!!
    This looks more like a Nobel Peace Prize awarded to OSSAMA BL, H Kissinger, Frederic De Klerk, etc…

  26. Oswaldwasalefty
    May 3rd, 2012 at 11:03 pm

    Obama should nominate her for a Nobel War Prize.

  27. Tom Mauel
    May 4th, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    You can read the main stream corporate press any time if you want to feel good about praising imperial war mongers. If you have the courage to find the hard truth keep reading Anti War.

  28. Nathan
    May 5th, 2012 at 7:49 am

    These people give one another peace prizes, medals and what they’ve got, but it’s a game restricted to the group. They cannot fool the world and change the public opinion which sees them as war criminals and mass murderers.

  29. Jahbulon
    May 5th, 2012 at 9:42 am

    Sheep mentality and human greed leads nations to their downfall. Democracy is mere illusionism that allows underground casts to put puppets in power and then use them to scam the masses if they behave like sheep instead turning into wolves to unmask the governing mafia.

  30. Carl
    May 5th, 2012 at 9:57 pm

    I regret I cannot view this important event. We're having a seance to inform Josef Mengele that he's won this year's Albert Schweitzer Award.

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  33. Tom Blancato
    May 29th, 2012 at 11:08 pm

    There really should be a memorial to the Iraq sanctions victims.

  34. karenK
    August 2nd, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    my mom and her friends are passing around a book written by this woman as if you is admirable. How they brainwash the idiots that live in America..i have no idea how they did it. But they did!

  35. silver prices
    October 17th, 2012 at 10:19 pm

    This is disgusting. The murdering of innocent is tragic. We need to put these people away who are all for murder.