Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:57:58 -0400 From: MD <[email protected]> A major study by the UN and Iraqi officials found that life in Iraq has decayed significantly since foreign forces invaded, following a general trend seen in most sectors since the imposition of a global embargo in 1990.
*Estimates are that about 100,000 Iraqi citizens died as a result of Saddam's brutality--over a 25 year period. That works out to about 11 per day. Now, even if you are gullible enough to believe Bush's figures, about 60,000 Iraqis have died at the hands of Bush's colonial invasion force. That's in 5 years, about 33 per day!* Mario observes: The assertions above are substantially false. Between the Iraqis killed in the wars Saddam waged against Iran and the skeletons of his massacred political adversaries found in mass graves after he was removed, the number is closer to one million and exceeds one million if one includes Iranians and Kuwaitis. Prior to Saddam's removal in 2003, the entire UN passed 17 resolutions demanding an accounting of his WMDs, which his delusional supporters now claim he did not have. These resolutions included crippling sanctions which France, China and Russia were helping Saddam subvert, as well as no-fly zones patrolled by Americans and Brits to prevent Saddam from attacking his own people by air with chemical WMDs as he had done in Halabja. There was no colonial invasion force in 2003 as the removal of Saddam Hussein was authorized by UN Resolution 1441, and Iraq is not a colony but a free and sovereign republic, which invited the coalition forces to stay and help them stabilize their nascent democracy against its enemies, aided and abetted by the entire left wing worldwide. Anyone who makes claims of a colonial force simply has no idea what has happened in Iraq since 2003. The Saddam Hussein regime was removed in a few weeks in April - May 2003 with very little loss of life. Most Iraqi civilians killed thereafter were killed by Al Qaeda and Shia and Sunni sectarian radicals, aided and abetted by Iran and Syria, while the nascent Iraqi government and the US-led coalition forces worked to stop the killing of innocent civilians. MD wrote: I have taken the advise of a prominent contributer and googled, yahoo'd etc for this info and have selected what suits me. Mario responds: Googling only exposes one to reams of information. Thereafter it takes some intelligence, knowledge of history, and context and perspective to come to some intelligent conclusions about what happened in some given situation, none of which we find was used above. This is certainly why this essay is filled with one-sided poppycock.
