A Must read... 'What I Heard about Iraq" by Eliot Weinberger

[sinkingfeeling]

If there was ever one article that summarizes all of the bullsh** we've been told by this administration about Iraq, this one's it! There is nothing new that most of us are unaware of, but it made my blood 'boil' and also brought tears to my eyes. Wish we could just use it as an indictment of Bush&Co in the World Court.

http://truthout.org/docs_2005/020105I.shtml

[Rapcw]

1. wow great article

i only skimmed through it so far but i have bookmarked it so I will read the whole thing eventually

[riverwalker]

2. wow

speechless

[bluedog]

3. Great Article

must read for everyone!

[porkrind]

4. Read it yesterday. Excellent. Must read!

[EST]

5. If I were a religious man,

I would pray that god reward monsters who masquerade as men with the very worst of punishments imaginable. I am not.

[Cocoa]

6. Rice called 9/11 an "opportunity?"

she said the same thing about the tsunami. What a freak.

[never cry wolf]

7. Read it this morning, outstanding!

I couldn't take my eyes off of it, I read every line. I was going to post it if no one else had.

[goddess40]

8. outstanding

If the whole world would read it, but then it's only those that voted for * that don't get it, yet. Sadly some never will, just like those that deny the holocaust.

[Ironpost]

9. You would think we have enough evidience

to impeach him and send him to the world court.

[dogindia]

10. true casualty figure was approximately 25,000.?

I heard that 100,000 Iraqi civilians were dead. I heard that there was now an average of 150 attacks on US troops a day. I heard that in Baghdad 700 people were being killed every month in 'non-war-related' criminal activities. I heard that 1400 American soldiers had been killed and that the true casualty figure was approximately 25,000.

[dogindia]

11. modelled on the death squads in El Salvador in the 1980s

I heard that the Pentagon was now exploring what it when John called the 'Salvador option', modelled on the death squads in El Salvador in the 1980s, Negroponte was ambassador to Honduras and when Elliott Abrams, now White House adviser on the Middle East, called the massacre at El Mozote nothing but Communist propaganda. Under the plan, the US would advise, train and support paramilitaries in assassination and kidnapping, including secret raids across the Syrian border. In the vice presidential debate, I heard the vice president say: Twenty years ago we had a similar situation in El Salvador. We had a guerrilla insurgency that controlled roughly a third of the country . . . And today El Salvador is a whale of a lot better.