Despite the propaganda coming out of the White House, there is no rosy picture in Iraq. A country with a suicide bomber every week or so is not a normalizing country, never will be. Bush's war is a failure. The surge is a failure. The strategic objectives are failures. The neoconservative agenda is a failure. They deserve nothing more than a war crimes trial at the Hague.
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Monday 18 August: 11 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill cleric, Zafaraniya.
Anbar
Ramadi: suicide car bomber kills 5 policemen at checkpoint.
Basra
Abul Khasib: 2 killed in drive-by shooting.
Salahuddin
Tuz: gunmen kill Sahwa leader.
Arbil
Makhmour: US forces shoot dead father and son in their car.
Sunday 17 August: 20 dead
Baghdad: suicide bomber kills 15, Adhamiya; 1 body found.
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill 1.
Arbil
Suran: 14-year-old is shot dead by Iraqi police during demonstration.
Ninewa
Mosul: 1 policeman and 1 preacher die in drive-by shootings.
Saturday 16 August: 7 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 6, Shaab.
Anbar
Falluja: roadside bomb kills policeman.
Friday 15 August: 11 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb targets pilgrims in bus, kills 1.
Diyala
Albu Silbi: bomb kills Sahwa member.
Salahuddin
Balad: car bomb kills 9.
Thursday 14 August: 39 dead
Baghdad: roadside bombs kill 4; man killed by US fire during raid; 1 body found.
There figures do not include wounded and those with adverse health effects, malnutrition and other ailments.
The 4000+ US soilders killed is a drop in the bucket compared to Iraqi Citizens killed, and it is easy to imagine this number surmounting 1 MILLION people (the population of a fair sized city) being whiped out by the US invasion if not greater by the Civil war that will continue with or without the US presence.
While not quite the 5 Million Jews killed during the holocaust.. even 1/10th the holocaust should be seen as a grave injustice against humanity.
I think that 700,000 number is highly inflated. Check out...
I was just going to post that link, seems like it's accounting all direct and indirect people that died or may have died as a consequence of war. Anyway, currently death toll is about 90 000, which is not that small a number either. I'm sure it feels great for the Iraqis to be "liberated".
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Aug-21-2008 19:47
Capitalizt
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: USA
Aug-21-2008 19:49
Kinezi
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: May 2008
Location: Location
So we have not reached the holocaust mark yet.. have patience guys.
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Aug-21-2008 19:51
Fir3start3r
Armin Acolyte
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
I've seen more deaths in your typical American city...
meh.
They need to read more...
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Aug-21-2008 21:34
hardcore trancer
Mystic Mind
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Toronto,Canada
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Originally posted by Kinezi
So we have not reached the holocaust mark yet.. have patience guys.
No worries you ll be in Iraq for at least a hundred years according to this guy:
