Hiroshima, Mon Amour

[Toby109]

http://www.counterpunch.org/chuckman02122005.html

The most profound reason for rejecting favorable judgment of Bush's policy comes from a brief thought-experiment. Iraqi losses have been convincingly measured at a hundred thousand dead. Hundreds of thousands more were maimed or wounded. Millions were reduced to no means of earning a living. The total loss and devastation are comparable to America's dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and likely exceed it.

Those who say Bush was right are telling us that it was a sound decision to drop an atomic bomb just to change the government of Iraq, a government that was no longer a threat to anyone outside its borders.

[whistle]

1. But you are forgetting all that oil....Hiroshima had no oil...Iraq does

...and now the oil belongs to the U.S.

[DireStrike]

2. Depleted uranium - the gift that keeps on killing

I guess we'll find out exactly how much damage we've caused - but only in a couple of decades when nobody cares.