ONE OUT OF EVERY FORTY (The Lancet Report)

[givemebackmycountry]

Excellent read via Firedog Lake - it should make your blood boil.


http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/03/28/one-out-of-every-forty/#more-8070


2.5%

Dead.

In four years.

That's one out of every forty Iraqis who were alive at the beginning of this monstrosity.

Putting It In Perspective #1: According to Human Rights Watch, Saddam Hussein, as bad as he was, managed to kill at most 290,000 people during his quarter-century in power — less than half of Bush's four-year death total. Saddam would have had to have ruled another twenty-four years to even come close to matching what George W. Bush has 'achieved' in four years. Can you imagine why the Iraqis might not feel so 'grateful' about being invaded? I sure can.

Putting It In Perspective #2: Imagine that in March 2003, the Chinese, with the help of the rest of the world and a few space aliens, had decided that Bush had to go and so started "Operation American Freedom", invading and bombing the crap out of our land and infrastructure, installing a hideously corrupt puppet government, and setting off sectarian wars and an insurgency that would end up killing nearly eight million Americans in the process over four years. Think that even the biggest Bush-haters might long for the pre-invasion days? So it is that even people who disliked Saddam yearn for a return to days when they could live normal, even peaceful lives in cities that weren't bombed-out ruins.

One out of every forty.

[Botany]

1. according to figures I looked @

2 million have fled Iraq and now 1 million are dead.

Operation Iraqi Freedom .... :cry:

[TheWraith]

3. Actually, closer to 1.3 million refugees and 700,000 dead. NT

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Jeez. That makes me feel better.

[angstlessk]

2. Damn..boosh has made us miss Nixon..I suppose this scenario

is possible?

[Colobo]

4. So our forces have killed more people than Saddam, or...

or are we talking about the overall deaths since the conflict started, including all the killings of Iraqis done by Iraqis themselves?

[FiveGoodMen]

6. Would those Iraqis have killed those other Iraqis if we'd just stayed home?

[AshevilleGuy]

7. I think that Saddam was keeping them from doing that.

Like Marshall Tito was doing in Yugoslavia. This is ALL GWB's fault - how can he live with himself?? Oh, that's right: George and Babs raised him to have absolutely NO conscience, so as to be useful to the wealthy ruling class. What was I thinking?

[Colobo]

10. True, Saddam was like a buffer over there

[Colobo]

9. Of course not; the war is the root cause of all of the problems over there

Still, Iraqis are not helping themselves either.

[femmedem]

12. self-delete.

redundant.

[hootinholler]

8. "installing a hideously corrupt puppet government,"

In place of a hideously corrupt puppet government,

-Hoot

[OneBlueSky]

11. that's a lot of murder counts . . . maybe they can share them . . .

quarter million for Bush . . . quarter million for Cheney . . . quarter million for Rumsfeld . . . etc. . .