Over HALF A MILLION Dead Iraqis - - "They hate our freedoms..."

[reprehensor]

"They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other." - George Walker Bush

No, I don't think so. I really don't think so. Unless you include the freedom to "bomb them back to the Stone Age".

This past Monday, the BBC reported that the Johns Hopkins study on Iraqi civilian mortalities was given greater credence than Tony Blair let on publicly;

The British government was advised against publicly criticising a report estimating that 655,000 Iraqis had died due to the war, the BBC has learnt.

Iraqi Health Ministry figures put the toll at less than 10% of the total in the survey, published in the Lancet.

But the Ministry of Defence's chief scientific adviser said the survey's methods were "close to best practice" and the study design was "robust".

Another expert agreed the method was "tried and tested".

Of course, we know how George Walker Bush protrayed the study;

President Bush said: "I don't consider it a credible report."

Richard Horton, the editor of the Lancet, (the journal that published the Johns Hopkins study), has been vindicated by this bit of reporting by the BBC, which used the British Freedom of Information Act to access emails originating from officials at the MOD and elsewhere.

Horton laments the direction in which the UK is heading;

This Labour government, which includes Gordon Brown as much as it does Tony Blair, is party to a war crime of monstrous proportions. Yet our political consensus prevents any judicial or civil society response. Britain is paralysed by its own indifference.

At a time when we are celebrating our enlightened abolition of slavery 200 years ago, we are continuing to commit one of the worst international abuses of human rights of the past half-century. It is inexplicable how we allowed this to happen. It is inexplicable why we are not demanding this government's mass resignation.

Two hundred years from now, the Iraq war will be mourned as the moment when Britain violated its delicate democratic constitution and joined the ranks of nations that use extreme pre-emptive killing as a tactic of foreign policy. Some anniversary that will be.

This is the horror of the Bush-Blair nexus. Slaughter on this scale has not been seen since the days of WWII. Now, the nexus of destruction is poised to strike Iran, which also had squat to do with 9/11. I disagree with critics who say that the military will not strike Iran, due to commitments in Iraq, or how thin US forces are spread out. The Navy is in the gulf in force. In conjunction with the USAF, they can deliver a massive blow to Iran that will kill untold numbers of civilians. You think Daisy Cutters are destructive? Wait until they roll out the MOABs.

Some say Bush wouldn't dare... but he has already called that bluff and it's obvious who doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to stop him: a supine Congress that won't even demand that Bush ask for permission to kill more civilians in another Arab country.

Will this someday be read to George Walker Bush and Tony Blair?

The individual defendants are indicted under Article 6 of the Nuremberg Charter.

The charges in the Indictment that the defendants planned and waged aggressive wars are charges of the
utmost gravity. War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent States alone, but affect the whole world.

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

[bluedog]

1. Bush Lies caused this........

this is just one of many....if he ever does get the chance to grow up...is going to hate our guts......
AP - Fri Mar 30, 4:18 AM ET

A wounded boy cries in pain in Imam Ali hospital, in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 30, 2007. The boy was among some 100 people wounded in a twin suicide attack on the predominantly Shiite market Shalal in northern Baghdad’s district of Shaab Thursday night. At least 82 people lost their lives in the attack. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)



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[Mnemosyne]

2. knr! Got to go, but had to

:kick:
:hi:

[maveric]

3. George Bu$h hates our freedoms.

And he'd like nothing better than taking away as many as he can from us.