"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." - - - William Blum

September 05, 2007

Look at the following portion of an email that I received from MoveOn today (emphasis mine):

....Dear MoveOn member,

I'm John Bruhns and I served in Baghdad as an army sergeant for the first year of the war. Within my first days there, I realized that so much of what I had been told—about weapons of mass destruction, connections to 9/11—was just White House spin to sell the war.

I'm seeing the same thing all over again now. Even with this being the bloodiest summer for US troops in Iraq, even with Iraqi casualties running at twice the pace of last year, and even with 15 of 18 of President Bush's own benchmarks unmet, the White House is at it again. They're telling us that black is white, up is down, and things in Iraq are going just great thanks to the troop "surge."

This month Congress is going to vote on war policy for the next year—and Bush is hoping all this "progress" talk will scare Congress away from voting for withdrawal. We can't let that happen. Almost 4,000 US troops have died. We've spent half a trillion dollars in Iraq. Every day you turn on the news and more people are killed. We need Congress to stand up and fight to bring our troops home this fall....

No offense to our military and their families, but I am sick and tired of hearing only about the number of U.S. troops killed in this war. Every single soldier killed in this preemptive, premeditated debacle by the Bush/Cheney gang is a tragedy. But to totally ignore the one million or more Iraqis who have died as a result of our illegal invasion of this sovereign nation, is immoral and unforgivable. Believe it or not, a U.S. soldier's life is no more (nor less) valuable that any single Iraqi. It's about time we all started complaining to anyone who belittles the value of nationals from any other country besides ours. For every one U.S. soldier killed, there have been 270 Iraqi deaths. So every time we lose one soldier, there are 270 additional grieving, shattered, and forever-altered Iraqi families.

For having caused the unjust death of even ONE Iraqi, Bush should be hanged (as he hanged Saddam) or else given life imprisonment. My only question is, what is the punishment for killing one MILLION?

1 comment:

Seven of Six said...

My only question is, what is the punishment for killing one MILLION?

In America? A profitable book tour!

If only we can get some leaders to try him and install him in the Hague!