Holding Bush Accountable For Over 40,000 Dead

[taquinas101]

The Bush Administration, of course, disclaims any responsibility for the nearly 3,000 killed on 9/11.

There is also:
- Over 1,800 killed by hurricane Katrina due in part to FEMA's incompetence.
- Over 2,500 members of the United States armed forces in the Iraq war.
- Over 40,000 Iraqi civilians killed.

Thus, under Bush's watch, we have suffered the preventable and violent deaths of over 7,000 Americans, and even if you give him the benefit of the doubt on 9/11 as a push, that still only lowers the number to over 4,000.

Mission Accomplished, indeed.

[kentjay]

1. getting close to the stalin regime

with bodies floating in the river,i suppose we will start seeing that happen here soon.

[neoblues]

2. Never satisfied with success...

American must've "needed" a challenge; we got this Bush appointed leader and with the confluence of the Republican's clever conquest of all branches of government, the forces of incompetence, madness and corruption were empowered to begin the systematic destruction of both our government and our future. Thus, instead of prosperity, success and a bright future, we get our "desired" challenge... which, in the end, will be to pick up the pieces and rebuild from a state of ruin (if we start today, that would be a fair description--if we're honest about just how bad things really are (though we haven't yet felt the consequences)) or worse.

We face hard times in the not-so-distant future, as we reap the rewards of the seeds we've sown. If there is a silver lining to every adversity, I would guess that ours is that one is never as alive as when facing great challenge and there should be a real opportunity to rebuild our nation stronger and better than it was before. After all, all nations and civilizations inevitably face periods of growth and decline which come in cycles. Our decline was avoidable and comes, perhaps, ahead of schedule, but since there is no way to undo the recent past, the timing, well, it is, what it is.

That is, thanks to the current occupant of the White House (and those behind him), about the best thing we can say (tongue lodged firmly in cheek) of our future is: never a dull moment ( even when that represents a desirable situation). In some ways, though, hard times for mankind was all but destined--the natural result of our species' success. Six and a half billion people, many equipped with modern consumptive technologies but limited to the world's existing resources and biological carrying capacity was always going to face a serious backlash. Conflict between peoples for resources, given human nature, are unavoidable. Natural consequences such as the incredibly rapid rate of species extinctions consequent with increasing difficulty merely producing enough food and water, and even more ominous problems such as global warming (which is set to spiral out of control as the greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere increase exponentially due to the release of methane from beneath vast stretches of permafrost) were likewise inevitable. That we should have to face such times politically, economically, strategically and socially handicapped--that was not inevitable. "Was not", as mentioned before, is irrelevant now, as it is already the case. We face challenges of epic proportion, so whatever unspoken, unconscious 'desire' it was that demanded that we create one (this implies no conscious intention; merely negligence, apathy and stupidity--perhaps born of having had it so easy for so long) has surely been satisfied.

[FloridaPat]

3. The number of Iraqi civilians killed is closer to 250,000.

When the tsnuami hit SE Asia and that many people died in one day, my friend were just stunned and the death rate. When I pointed out that that many died have been killed by US bombings and shootings in Iraq, they had nothing to say.