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Title: See What Bush Has 'Accomplished' In Iraq
Source: Pantagraph Publishing
URL Source: http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/ ... /08/opinion/letters/125911.txt
Published: May 8, 2007
Author: Pantagraph Publishing
Post Date: 2007-05-08 11:19:50 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 645
Comments: 61

President Bush says there is still more to accomplish in Iraq so he has vetoed Congress.

Let's review what we have accomplished so far:

Possibly as many as 1 million Iraqi dead, 4 million fled or internally displaced.

Over 2,000 physicians killed, 250 kidnapped and 18,000 fled.

Over 300 academics assassinated and thousands fled.

One hundred journalists and 37 support workers killed; a number higher than any other war on Earth.

The destruction of monuments and archeological sites of the cradle of civilization and of history, in general.

Sectarian strife, militias, introduced with the invasion, between peoples who had lived together for 1,000 years.

Ongoing suicide bombings in a country where they were unheard of.

Rigged elections, the results achieved by threats, bribery, threat of ration card confiscation.

Abu Ghraib's torture, forever the U.S. Army's image in the Middle East.

The disappeared in the thousands.

Destruction of an entire civil society with damage to every institution, costing hundreds of billions of dollars to fix.

Missing Iraqi aid in billions of dollars.

The illegal rewriting of constitutions, both Iraqi and American.

The installation of a quisling government with loyalties largely, to anywhere but Iraq, and an American government with loyalties largely to big business.

Committing Nuremberg's ``supreme crime,'' a war of aggression, based on a pack of lies.

Demands for impeachment increasing by the day.

Destruction of America's and Britain's image for generations to come and the inability of their citizens to feel safe anywhere.

A death toll heading toward 4,000 dead U.S troops - admitted to - and thousands horrifically injured.

A trillion dollar debt.

Near universal loathing of America.

And President Bush wants to continue this war and occupation indefinitely.

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#4. To: Brian S, ALL (#0)

Let's just test the very first claim:

Possibly as many as 1 million Iraqi dead

NONSENSE.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-08   15:01:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: BeAChooser (#4)

NONSENSE.

Are you saying the claim is nonsense, or is that just a reader's digest of what you normally post here: nonsense?

Critter  posted on  2007-05-08   15:14:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Critter, ALL (#7)

Are you saying the claim is nonsense,

I'm saying that there is no physical evidence, whatsoever, to support the claim that a million Iraqis, or anything close to that number, have died since we invaded. It's sheer nonsense derived from highly flawed studies by researchers who were biased against the war to begin with and who revel in that bias. Researchers who employed people to do the leg work in Iraq who they admit HATED Americans and who published their study in a journal whose editors were equally biased (and therefore failed to adequately perform their peer-review responsibilities). It's a claim with no more substance than the claim that bombs brought down the WTC towers and Flight 77 didn't hit the Pentagon. Is that clear enough to understand, Critter? Or are we talking about yet another eyesight problem?

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-08   15:54:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: BeAChooser (#8)

Can you give me a number that denotes what you believe to be the true number of Iraqi fatalities?

Critter  posted on  2007-05-08   16:10:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Critter, ALL (#14)

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http://www.iraqbodycount.org/press/pr15.php

Summary

On every available indicator the year just ended (March 2006 – March 2007) has been by far the worst year for violence against civilians in Iraq since the invasion:

* almost half (44%) of all violent civilian deaths after the initial invasion phase occurred in the just-ended fourth year of the conflict

* mortar attacks that kill civilians have quadrupled in the last year (from 73 to 289)

* massive bomb blasts that kill more than 50 people have nearly doubled in the last year (from 9 to 17)

* fatal suicide bombs, car bombs, and roadside bombing attacks have doubled in the last year (from 712 to 1476)

* one in 160 of Baghdad’s 6.5 million population has been violently killed since the beginning of the war, representing 64% of deaths recorded so far

These are the stark headlines derived from Iraq Body Count’s ongoing compilation and analysis of media reports of civilian casualties in the Iraq conflict, which has documented 65,000 violent deaths to date.

Trends since 2003.

Following the six week “Shock and Awe” invasion phase (March 19 - May 1, 2003), which alone caused the deaths of some 7,400 civilians, the violent death toll has steadily risen year-on-year. There were 6,332 reported civilian deaths in the 10.5 months following the initial invasion in year one, or 20 per day; 11,312 in year two, 55% up on year one’s daily rate; 14,910 in year three (32% up on year two); and a staggering 26,540 in year four (78% up on year three, and averaging 74 per day). Not counting the 7,400 invasion-phase deaths, four times as many people were killed in the last year as in the first. And from the invasion to the present, at least 110,000 civilians have been wounded, 38,000 of them during year four.

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Take that 65,000 number and double or triple it ... and you probably are in the right ball park. The million claim is simply nonsense.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-08   16:30:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: BeAChooser (#15)

You still haven't told us when you are leaving for your trip over there, sweetie pie. The Commander Guy needs another hero like you. HINT: watch the friendly fire.

Sodie Pop  posted on  2007-05-08   18:10:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Sodie Pop (#17)

More appropriate advice today!

robin  posted on  2007-05-08   18:26:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: robin (#18)

Be A Chooser just wants attention. Nobody is that foolish anymore. The only folks that WANT to be in Iraq are those mercenaries drawing 100k a year plus and tax free.

Sodie Pop  posted on  2007-05-08   18:31:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Sodie Pop, robin, ALL (#20)

Tell you way, Sodie Pop ... instead of cheerleading, let's see if you can back up the million death claim.

Because if you can't, why should one believe anything else the article claims?

Sooner or later you folks are going to have to recognize that you can not find the truth on a foundation of lies and misinformation ... nor will you arrive at the proper course of action on such a foundation.

Sooner or later you folks are going to have to recogize that the leaders of the anti-war movement, just like the leaders of the 9/11 truth movement, are not being honest. Ironic consider how much they complain about Bush lying.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-08   18:40:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: BeAChooser (#22)

"Sooner or later you folks are going to have to recogize that the leaders of the anti-war movement, just like the leaders of the 9/11 truth movement, are not being honest. Ironic consider how much they complain about Bush lying."

Sooner or later you will realize that your condescending sidebar sniping at people to try to discredit them and blur the discussion to synically influence lurkers turns them off more then anything else.

Sooner or later you will realize your political motivations to assume a black and white, 'all of the Truth Movement is wrong,' and carping at the peace movement are highly transparent to everyone here.

You are a Bush/Cheney/NeoCon butt kisser, and you support their agenda.

We don't give a rat's ass what you have to say, and you have zero credibility in here in light of this.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-05-08   18:47:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#24. To: Ferret Mike, ALL (#23)

We don't give a rat's ass what you have to say

In other words, the truth doesn't matter. I'll keep that in mind the next time you complain about Bush (or anyone) lying.

And by the way, I've never said that 'all of the Truth Movement is wrong'. What I've said is that the leaders of that movement and many of the more vocal proponents keep using disinformation and outright lies as arguments to support it. And in so doing, are discrediting the good questions that deserve answers. You won't find the truth on such a foundation of misinformation and lies. You are being ill served by the leaders of the movement, who persist in outrageous, unsupportable, and outright false claims. And if you can't recognize that and do something about it ... oh well.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-08 19:02:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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