Thursday,
March 12, 2020
Warmonger Tom Cotton Openly Threatens China,
Claims Beijing 'Inflicted' Coronavirus on the World
"Tom Cotton is still using this as a way
to build support for a war against China."
commondreams.org/news/2020/03/12/warmonger-tom-cotton-openly-threatens-china-claims-beijing-inflicted-coronavirus
Sen. Tom Cotton
(R-Ark.) speaks to the following a briefing on Wednesday, January 8, 2020.
(Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Hawkish Sen. Tom Cotton
issued a menacing statement on
Thursday vowing that the United States "will hold accountable those who
inflicted" the coronavirus on the world, seeming to suggest that the
Chinese government is behind the pandemic.
"The Wuhan
coronavirus is a grave challenge to our great nation," said Cotton, who announced
he is temporarily closing his Washington, D.C. office as a precautionary
measure. "We are a great people. We rise to every challenge, we vanquish
every foe, and we come through adversity even better than before."
In a tweet, the
Arkansas Republican left no doubt that his statement was directed at China:
Critics slammed Cotton
for exploiting the deadly pandemic to beat the drums of war as the U.S.
struggles to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.
"When all you have
is a hammer and you're also a moron, every problem is a nail and you keep
hitting your own fingers," tweeted Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American
Council.
Others similarly
condemned Cotton's warmongering comments:
Translation:
We have no plan, but rest assured we will emerge a much more vengeful, racist
nation. https://twitter.com/mkady/status/1238098795466051584 …
Tom
Cotton is still using this as a way to build support for a war against China. https://twitter.com/mkady/status/1238098795466051584 …
Cotton's statement
Thursday was not the first time the senator has indulged in conspiracy theories
related to the origins of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than
130,000 people and killed nearly 5,000 worldwide.
In a Feb. 17 appearance
on Fox News, Cotton parroted the unfounded claim that coronavirus may have emerged from a biochemical lab
in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak.
"We don't know
where it originated, and we have to get to the bottom of that," Cotton
said. "We also know that just a few miles away from that food market is
China's only biosafety level 4 super laboratory that researches human
infectious diseases."
Cotton went on to
acknowledge that there is "no evidence" the virus originated in the
Wuhan lab.
https://youtu.be/ytGIkcCh7T8
Richard Ebright, a
professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told the Washington
Post last month that "there's absolutely nothing in the genome
sequence of this virus that indicates the virus was engineered."
"The possibility
this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded," said
Ebright.
Our work is licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to
republish and share widely.
Donations can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD 21218. Ph: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/
"The master class has always declared the wars; the
subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to
gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and
everything to lose--especially their lives." Eugene Victor Debs
No comments:
Post a Comment