Renato Redentor Constantino

The following article was originally published as “Remembrance of Decembers Past” in the Philippines newspaper TODAY. It is the beginning of the last month of 2003 – the year America invaded and occupied Iraq. Welcome, December, month of solace and tribulation. You remind us of many things. The great Janis Joplin made her final appearance…

On his arrival in Manila, October 18, President George Bush compared the American invasion of Iraq to the U.S. seizure of the Philippines from Spain in 1898. During that war, Filipino and U.S. soldiers “liberated the Philippines from colonial rule,” said Bush. He failed to mention that, after the Spanish surrender, the U.S. waged a…