PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: The Iraqi Genocide

[yurbud]

Why has not the Turkish parliament given tit for tat and passed a resolution condemning the Iraqi Genocide?

As a result of Bush's invasion of Iraq, more than one million Iraqis have died, and several millions are displaced persons. The Iraqi death toll and the millions of uprooted Iraqis match the Armenian deaths and deportations. If one is a genocide, so is the other.

It is true that most of the Iraqi deaths have resulted from Iraqis killing one another. But it was Bush's destruction of the secular Iraqi state that unleashed the sectarian strife.

Moreover, American troops in Iraq have killed more civilians than insurgents. The US military in Iraq has fallen for every bit of disinformation fed to it by Al Qaeda personnel posing as "informants" and by Sunnis setting up Shi'ites and Shi'ites setting up Sunnis. As a result, American bombs and missiles have blown up weddings, funerals, kids playing soccer, and people shopping in bazaars and sleeping in their homes.

FULL TEXT:
http://counterpunch.com/roberts10162007.html

[bdamomma]

1. Iraqis are being ethically cleansed, will the US deny that they

committed genocide on Iraqis, when those Iraqi survivors come forward and tell their horror stories?

[yurbud]

2. I have wondered why Turks didn't clear their throat and mention Native Americans

We made the Turks look like Boy Scouts and it was over a far longer period.