Ever Wonder What The Iraqis Think About How The U.S. Brought Them Freedom
Here is a post from a blog run by an Iraqi. Bush supporters are always telling me that the media is simply reporting only bad things about Iraq and leaving out the good stuff “we’ve” done, but when I read things like this, I feel more confident in my conviction that the U.S. made a huge mistake and is responsible for every drop of blood spilt.
Yet, even these big numbers are not enough to stimulate the western media poets and the occupation governments’ spokesmen to write about the “tragic death of civilians” and the “value of human lives”. When it comes to our casualties: fake principles and hollow values are more important than the scores of dead bodies. Our casualties are numbers without faces, numbers that can vary some 50,000 plus or minus.
…The Iraqi civilians’ blood is being used as a tool of manipulation by the occupation supporters to discredit the Iraqi resistance as “murderers of women and children”. Most of the mainstream media lectures us for days about Iraqi civilians who were attacked by non-coalition forces.
…The US-led coalition is ethically and legally responsible for all the civilian deaths in Iraq. All of those innocent people wouldn’t have lost rheir lives if the bush adminstration didn’t lie to the world about the WMD.
Dealing with the issue of Iraqi civilian victims goes beyond calculating mere numbers, as usual. Even if the number of people killed directly by the US-led armies doesn’t turn out to be the highest, they’re still responsible for all the violance and the unrest in Iraq under the occupation authorities according to the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Oh, and in contradiction to my U.S.-reported statistics from the other day, Raed claims the number of Iraqis dead is in the tens of thousands…
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