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Iraqi Civilian Deaths ... caused by Bush's unprovoked war

 

Robert Fisk: War Over?
(Robert Fisk, ZNet, May 6, 2003)
George Bush has announced the end of the war. But try telling that to the Shias and the Badr Brigade . . . When Iraqi civilians look into the faces of American troops, President Bush famously told the world on Thursday, they see strength and kindness and goodwill. Untrue, Mr Bush. They see occupation. . . . take a closer look at Secretary of Defence Rumsfelds cosy, sinister little speech to US troops in Baghdad a day earlier. . . . It was filled with all the usual myth-making: the many Iraqis who flocked to welcome the Americans on their liberation of Baghdad, the fastest march on a capital in modern military history (which the Israelis achieved in three days in 1982). But the key line was slipped in at the end. The Americans, he said, still had to root out the terrorist networks operating in this country. What? What terrorist networks? And who, one may ask, are behind these mysterious terrorist networks operating in Iraq? I have a pretty good idea. They may not actually exist yet. But Donald Rumsfeld knows (and he has been told by US intelligence) that a growing resistance movement to Americas occupation is gestating in Iraq. . . . Already it is possible to identify some familiar landmarks in the progress of occupation: a series of brutal incidents for which the Americans are never, ever, to blame. Just like the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the killing of civilians is never the fault of the occupiers. The driver and the old man shot and killed by US forces near a checkpoint in Baghdad, and the little girl and the young woman badly wounded whose tragedy Channel 4 witnessed, received no apology from the United States. A family is shot in its car in southern Iraq; cameramen are killed in the Palestine Hotel; 15 Iraqis, including at least one child, are gunned down in Falujah. For the Americans, it is always self-defence. Though, strangely, few if any Americans have been seriously wounded in these incidents. . . . they are not going to take orders from ex-General Jay Garner, whose all-expenses-paid trip to Israel to express his admiration for the Israeli armys restraint in the Palestinian occupied territories is well known in Iraq. And they realise full well that Americas big corporations are preparing to make millions from their broken country. . . . Iraq today resembles not some would-be democracy but rather the tragedy that greeted the British when the German occupation of Greece ended in 1944. . . . Mr Bush says the war is over, or words to that effect. Then Shia resistance begins to bite the Americans in Iraq. Of course, Mr Rumsfeld will have warned of this: it will be characterised as the famous terrorist networks which still have to be fought in Iraq. And Iran and no doubt Syria will be accused of supporting these terrorists. The French did much the same in their 1954-62 war against the FLN in Algeria. Tunisia was to blame. Egypt was to blame. So stand by for part two of the Iraq war, transmogrified into the next stage of the war on terror.

posted by Lorenzo 9:38 PM