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J_J_'s JournalOver One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
Over one million Iraqis have met violent deaths as a result of the 2003 invasion, according to a study conducted by the prestigious British polling group, Opinion Research Business (ORB). These numbers suggest that the invasion and occupation of Iraq rivals the mass killings of the last century—the human toll exceeds the 800,000 to 900,000 believed killed in the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and is approaching the number (1.7 million) who died in Cambodia’s infamous “Killing Fields” during the Khmer Rouge era of the 1970s.
ORB’s research covered fifteen of Iraq’s eighteen provinces. Those not covered include two of Iraq’s more volatile regions—Kerbala and Anbar—and the northern province of Arbil, where local authorities refused them a permit to work. In face-to-face interviews with 2,414 adults, the poll found that more than one in five respondents had had at least one death in their household as a result of the conflict, as opposed to natural cause.
Authors Joshua Holland and Michael Schwartz point out that the dominant narrative on Iraq—that most of the violence against Iraqis is being perpetrated by Iraqis themselves and is not our responsibility—is ill conceived. Interviewers from the Lancet report of October 2006 (Censored 2006, #2) asked Iraqi respondents how their loved ones died. Of deaths for which families were certain of the perpetrator, 56 percent were attributable to US forces or their allies. Schwartz suggests that if a low pro rata share of half the unattributed deaths were caused by US forces, a total of approximately 80 percent of Iraqi deaths are directly US perpetrated.
http://www.projectcensored.org/1-over-one-million-iraqi-deaths-caused-by-us-occupation/
Corporate media creates distraction (from last weekend) to take heat off lies about ISIS/need 4 war
Seriously people, Palin and family are a bunch of drunken idiots...but will this matter in one week?
Because I think all the families, children, innocents that are going to be cluster bombed by the US because we care so much....
would really rather we focus on stopping our violent government from committing another atrocity.
Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be
"Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with judgment, and it seems that I can hear God saying to America, "You're too arrogant! And if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I'll place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God."
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we're free at last!" With this faith, we'll sing it as we're getting ready to sing it now. Men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. And nations will not rise up against nations, neither shall they study war anymore. And I don't know about you, I ain't gonna study war no more.
Martin Luther King, "It's A Dark Day In Our Nation"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16183.htm
Bill Clinton deregulated media so that 3 corporations now own our public airwaves
This is the reason they are controlling the agenda in this country, which is all about distraction, looting and bullshit.
None of this would be possible without the lying warmongering corporate media.
All the lies about 9/11, Iraq...none of it possible with a functioning media.
They would not have repeated the yellowcake Niger lie like they did over and over, even after it was disproven.
Saddam's going to get you with a suitcase nuke!
He's going to send UAV's to the US with mustard gas !
Now people are saying 'well the media scared everyone so we have to bomb Iraq and Syria'
That is so freaking stupid I cannot believe someone would believe that but whatever.
A Democracy cannot exit without a free press.
Every American President in the past quarter century has now gone on television during prime time
to Tell the nation and the world that he has decided to bomb Iraq.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/obama-didnt-say
And they expect us to believe we are so compassionate we want to help Iraqis.
Seriously. they expect us to believe Cheney, and all the neocons who generally HATE everyone in this country...
care so much about Iraq we must go and bomb them again...you know...to help them.
I don't believe that anyone is actually buying this shit, but if they are, it is a tiny minority of morons.
WE have critical mass AGAINST this BULLSHIT!
Now WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO SHUT THIS DOWN?
It's up to us.
The lying corporate media and the lying politicians are never going to admit they are greedy lying sociopaths.
It's up to us.
The same lying fearmongering media is doing the polls telling us we believe them
Just thought I'd mention it.
They might by lying, making up polls to make us think we believe them...
It's called manufactured consent.
I do not believe the American people are this stupid.
Not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women, not merely peace in our time
But PEACE FOR ALL TIME
"I have . . . chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived-yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace.
What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children-not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women, not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. ."
How far we have fallen.
Sure has worked out really well for the Military Industrial Complex that Ike had just warned us was out of control.
"A nation that continues, year after year, to spend more money on military defense than on programs
I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks,or 5 months
We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat.
Now what is the message there? The message is that there are known "knowns." There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.
Sound familiar?
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days....
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it"
Dwight D Eisenhower
We have critical mass.
It is time for 99% of humanity to tell the warmongering 1%ers:
ENOUGH!
They won't stop until we make them stop.
We need to tell them WE'RE MAD AS HELL and WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!
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