A TELETHON FOR FALLUJAH?

[donsu]

http://www.newsdissector.org/weblog/indy_post.cfm?logID=7F13AFB7-666C-404A-B3C64FD0BC5C6BB5

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Its not likely, although the organization CODE PINK raised money for relief for people there and delivered it personally. Here's part of a report we didn't see on CBS:

"During our week-long exchange with Iraqis, we heard allegations of US atrocities that made Abu Graib seem like childish pranks: a woman raped in full view of other prisoners, who is now seeking permission from religious leaders to kill herself; a seven-year-old girl, left momentarily in the car while her father stopped at the market, screaming and clawing at the window while a US tank crushed the vehicle; a mother watching in horror as the troops raided her home in the middle of the night, shot her son in the chest and then stomped on him as he bled to death.

"In Fallujah alone, thousands of civilians were killed in one brutal week. We wept together as we saw gruesome pictures of bodies burned beyond recognition, possibly from the use of napalm, and limbs eaten by dogs because anyone trying to retrieve the dead would be shot. A young Iraqi woman who risked her life taking our humanitarian aid to those too old and infirm to flee was still traumatized by the devastation she witnessed.

Terry Jones asks in the Guardian:"Why are there no fundraisers for the Iraqi dead?"

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"According to the only scientific estimate attempted, Iraqi deaths since the war began number more than 100,000. The tsunami death toll is in the region of 150,000. Yet in the case of Iraq, the media seems reluctant to impress on the public the scale of the carnage.

"I haven't seen many TV reporters standing in the ruins of Fallujah, breathlessly describing how, in 30 years of reporting, they've never seen a human tragedy on this scale. The Pope hasn't appealed for everyone to remember the Iraqi dead in their prayers, and MTV hasn't gone silent in their memory."
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that's what I've been asking: how is it ok for us to murder OVER 100,000 Iraqis and not give a damn?

[Eric J in MN]

1. Some people are uncomfortable with the notion that

George W. Bush and Tony Blair have the blood of 100,000 Iraqis on their hands.

Also, the tsunami victims died at approximately the same time (within days) while the 100,000 Iraqi victims of George W. Bush and Tony Blair are spread out over two years.

[donsu]

2. well gosh, let's not make any americans "uncomfortable"

so it's ok to murder over 100,000 people if you don't do it all at once?