Iraqis' right to life no longer protected -Annan

[political_invader]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The right to life of civilians in Iraq has fallen victim to a combination of terrorism, violent crime and military excesses, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan reported on Thursday.

More than 80 percent of the 1,100 bodies brought in to Baghdad's Forensic Institute during the month of July bore evidence of violent death, "far in excess of the averages in previous months," Annan told the Security Council in a progress report on the world body's operations in Iraq.

"These figures are indicative of a steadily deteriorating trend and provide an important indicator of the absence of protection of the right to life which prevails at this time in Iraq," his report said.

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The Iraqi security forces, which often lack training on how to treat persons and property, also use force to excess and conduct mass arrests "often without attention to due process."

to read full article : http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050915/wl_nm/iraq_un_violence_dc

Can someone please tell me again why we have troops in Iraq? Seems we are there pretending to assist in establishing a real form of government while the majority of are troops are being used as prison guards.
So why isn't there more training available to the Iraq police?

We have now lost over 2000 american men and women in a completely unjust war.
Please keep fighting to assist me in getting our troops home. Keep writing to any and everyone, don't give up the fight.

[Amonester]

1. Nominated.

How frustrating it is to see such a "fabricated with outright LIES" endless GENOCIDE, and not being able to stop it at all.

We're all in Shock And Awe about this Criminal Dominionist War For Oil Robbers nightmare!

STOP BUSH

[KoKo]

2. Kick....

[yurbud]

3. training cops & troops is NOT a reason to stay

Everybody acts like these people lived in trees or caves and we have to teach them how to be civilized.

They had cops before we got there, and generally when we train troops, that's bad news for any civilians in the country--ask El Salvador, or any place else in Latin America.

training is the lamest of the lame excuses.

Most people would rather have their own imperfect police and military than an occupation army shooting them and calling in airstrikes every other Tuesday.