Saturday, May 12, 2007

655,000 One war criminal down, one more to go. WashingtonPost: "A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred." But even if WE didn't lie or cheat we are still responsible. USAToday: "The 2006 elections was the first time the political and moral aspect of the Iraq debacle was joined. In the next election, that connection will be even more pivotal. If there is no collective grief about what has happened in Iraq, and no collective determination to change course, if the hollow drumbeat for victory and continuing war wins out over withdrawal, then that, at the very least, will define what and who we have become, as a nation, as a people, and as individuals." But when Democrats and war criminal George W. Bush make a secret deal, it still smells rotten. CommonDreams: "'I believe ... that this war is lost,' said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Obviously he's right (and overdue). Amend that: he was right. Within 24 hours Democrats were backpedaling, stampeded by the usual onslaught of scorn and pseudo-patriotic outrage from Fox-fed GOP dead-enders." Some terrorists are considered good terrorists. And that creates a situation of lawlessness and arbitrariness. Of course George W. Bush and Tony Blair see themselves as 'good terrorists'. Well, a terrorist is a terrorist, simply said: a mass murderer. And then there is the other side of the coin. The paranoia about a Canadian coin. TruthDig: "The war in Iraq is as immoral a conflict as the United States has ever been involved in. Past wars were fought in a day and age where information was not readily available on the totality of issues surrounding a given conflict. One could excuse citizens if they were not equipped with the knowledge and information necessary to empower them to speak out against bad policy. Not so today. For someone today to proclaim ignorance as an excuse for inactivity is as morally and intellectually weak an argument as can be imagined. The truth about those who claim they simply 'didn't know' lies in their own lack of commitment to a strong America, one founded on principles and values worth fighting for, and one where every American is committed to the defense of the same. Ignorance is bad citizenship. In this day and age, bad citizenship carries ramifications beyond the environs of our local communities. Given America's dominant role in the world, bad American citizenship has a way of manifesting itself globally." CommonDreams: "Members of Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), including several Gold Star Mothers who are members of MFSO's chapter Gold Star Families Speak Out, will protest outside President Bush's commencement speech at Saint Vincent's College today. Military Families Speak Out is an organization of almost 3,500 military families opposed to the war in Iraq; its chapter Gold Star Families Speak Out includes over 100 families whose loved ones died as a result of the war in Iraq." 11:05:32 AM

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