Sunday, October 15, 2006

Fixed statistics...

When confronted with the question of how many Iraqi people died as a result of the American invasion and occupation of Iraq, George W. Bush says that the estimates are around 30,000 people.


This is a lie.


Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad have just published a report of a research that based its findings on direct interviews within Iraqi population on a large scale random sampling. 90% are documented proven testimonials.

Their findings are that as many as 650,000 Iraqis have died since the US-led war on Iraq. Over ten times as much as the official claims... Something doesn't smell good.

It's a shame that for the sake of convenience, terminology shifts. When we're talking about Darfur, it is 'Genocide', but when it's Iraq, we have 'war on terror'...

So let's see the score:
Darfur - an estimate of 450,000 dead X Iraq - an estimate of 650,000 dead (in more or less the same timeframe).
Well, the Janjaweed are loosing to Bush... Maybe they should take some lessons, you know, a 10-step-do-it-yourself USA government genoside guidebook...

After so many documentaries about how George W. Bush waged this war only for financial gains for a small group of people heading some of the companies involved in the reconstruction of Iraq, and NONE OF THAT made any difference... Can a government do anything it wants in its term in the USA, and get away with it? It kind of makes you wonder about whether popular resistance is any good at all... 'cause if you're not resisting it, than you're approving it... there is no real exemption...

BTW, In Darfur, the renewed fighting might chase away and shut down the world's largest aid operation...

It's just sad...

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Yuri Haasz said...

yeah... ain't that something...