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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 12:53 PM
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When Silence Becomes Betrayal: Thousands of Iraqi Children are Dying
Since the U.S. invaded Iraq on 3/20/03 at least 50,000-100,000 civilians have been killed. A great majority of those casualties have been women and children. One of the purposes of the invasion was to “free and liberate” the Iraqi people. The evil reign of Saddam Hussein was proclaimed to have killed thousands of Iraqi civilians.

So if Saddam was evil and killed countless civilians, what of the US and the atrocious record of civilian death since the invasion? Is it just as much murder under US occupation as under Saddam’s regime?

To use the evilness of a past dictator as a valid reason or excuse for ongoing death and injury is wrong and cowardly. To refuse to count the number of civilians killed is even more cowardly and also so arrogant it is a slap in the face of the occupied nation. The Iraqis have been slaughtered and there has been no effort to even count the high toll that has been enacted. That is imperial arrogance at its most refined form.

There seems to be little or no outrage among the American public about
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katmondoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 12:59 PM
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1. I have told people for many years now Bush is no better than Saddam
I have been proven correct.
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 01:02 PM
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2. exactly.At least Saddam was up front with his sociopathic behavior.
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