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State of the Union: living in your own private Denial-aho
by Jay Monday, Jan 28 2008, 7:08pm
international / imperialism / commentary

If you haven’t seen a State in denial we recommend re-playing Bush’s last State of the Union address -- is anybody out there? The clueless, “mission accomplished” president of the U.S.Aaaay was greeted with a standing ovation from Congress, unrestrained cheers and acclamations reaching to the rafters but the delusory, obviously strained overkill betrayed the PANIC of (crashing) reality. What has the Bush administration done right, name one Goddamn thing, to put it in the American idiom! Just one positive contribution – give it a shot and taste reality through all the baloney and disaster!

It was obvious from the start; Bush and his neo-cons hadn’t a ‘bouquet of flowers’ or a “mission accomplished” clue to bless themselves with. They bungled their way into the history books as the most incompetent administration America has known. But the joke is really on the American people, no other nation in the world would have tolerated such gross incompetence, violations of human rights and civil liberties from its government – ‘home of the brave, land of the free,’ my arse!

Every Bush venture, misadventure and policy resulted in monumental failure, particularly the orchestrated, illegal invasion, occupation and plunder of Iraq, which history will record as the first civilian holocaust of the 21st century. But not one word of apology for the needless suffering and deaths; no acknowledgment or admission of responsibility whatsoever! Have you any idea how the free world reacts to that obscene denial, with searing hatred, thoughts of retribution and revenge?

What would it take to bring the reality of over one million civilian deaths to the American consciousness – perhaps tit for tat, and eye for an eye – would it really be necessary to brutally murder one million INNOCENT Americans before vacuous, demented American somnambulists were shocked into the real world?

Bush’s bereft speechwriters couldn’t even come up with anything new, same ol’ stale rhetoric of individualism vs cooperation; (now failed) free market capitalism vs regulated successful economies; the terrorist bogeyman and feeble justification for U.S. presence (occupation) in nations where America is clearly not wanted -- hated in fact!

Listening to Bush’s stratospheric logic one would think the Mayflower landed in the Persian Gulf instead of America. Individualism and free market capitalism are precisely the factors that have destroyed the economy and America’s standing in the world.

Be advised uncle, you cannot bully weaker nations, kill millions of innocent people and steal their wealth without suffering consequences. The free world has waited patiently for the LAW to respond to the heinous crimes of America but NOTHING! When law and order fail responsibility falls onto the shoulders of the people. If my blood is boiling over the cruel, inhuman behaviour of Americans, how do you think extremists feel or would react?

All the hysteria and propaganda from the Whitehouse regarding Middle Eastern nations aspiring to process uranium for weapons production is ridiculous. Perhaps Americans should ask their government for details on the amount of weapons grade PLUTONIUM IN CIRCULATION since the break-up of the Soviet Union. How much has already been sold on the black market?

Most terrorist groups do not have the expertise to build a weapon from processed plutonium but a few have ample expertise, resources and motivation to build a highly efficient nuclear weapon.

While you watch TV and remain in denial or indifferent to the suffering you have caused around the globe, a small group of dedicated, highly skilled professionals is planning your future -- and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it!

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More than one million Iraqis dead since 2003 invasion: study
by staff report AFP via reed - AFP Thursday, Jan 31 2008, 7:03pm

31-1-2008

LONDON (AFP) — More than one million Iraqis have died because of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, according to a study published Wednesday.

A fifth of Iraqi households lost at least one family member between March 2003 and August 2007 due to the conflict, said data compiled by London-based Opinion Research Business (ORB) and its research partner in Iraq, the Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS).

The study based its findings on survey work involving the face-to-face questioning of 2,414 Iraqi adults aged 18 or above, and the last complete census in Iraq in 1997, which indicated a total of 4.05 million households.

Respondents were asked how many members of their household, if any, had died as a result of the violence in the country since 2003, and not because of natural causes.

"We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been in the order of 1,033,000," ORB said in a statement.

The margin of error for the survey was 1.7 percent, making the estimated range between 946,000 and 1.12 million fatalities.

The highest rate of deaths throughout the country occurred in Baghdad, where more than 40 percent of households had lost a family member.

According to a July 2007 estimate by the United States, Iraq's population is around 27 million.

The country has been wracked by conflict since the March 2003 invasion which deposed dictator Saddam Hussein, with United Nations estimates putting the number of displaced people from the conflict at more than four million, nearly half of which have fled to neighbouring countries.

A small number of those refugees have begun returning to Iraq -- around 20,000 arrived from Syria in December -- the Iraqi Red Crescent said earlier this month, suggesting an improved security situation.

© 2008 AFP

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