Saturday, September 8, 2007

"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace"

Thomas Mann

The way I see it, the wrong asses are getting kicked in Iraq.

According to Congressman McDermott (D-WA), there are 71,000 documented Iraqi civilian casualties. It will take a lawsuit by the ACLU to acquire our military documents on innocent civilians killed and this figure is likely to be much higher. The Iraqi police are corrupt. There are 27,786 wounded US military personnel. Add to that the humanitarian crisis due to a lack of clean water, and the fact that women are tremendous losers in the democratization of Iraq now that Tribal Sharia law trumps the Iraqi constitution. The spin the administration will put on this situation should be enough to make an activist out of anyone. John Edwards has the right message – “No timeline, no funding, no excuses.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/07/dem-congressman-heres-_n_63541.html
http://www.aclu.org/natsec/foia/search.html
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00006081/01/6081.pdf
http://www.equalityiniraq.com/english/2007/OWFI-4YOccupation290307.htm