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

 

Welcome to Iraq, Mr President
(Robert Fisk, The New Zealand Herald, 4 June 2003)
Iraqis, it now seems certain, are to be blessed this week with a visit from their Liberator-in-Chief, George Bush jnr. . . . And we all know what the American President would like to do when he arrives: to be filmed inspecting Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, the purported reason for the Anglo-American invasion illegally launched against Iraq. . . . The problem, of course, is that there don't appear to be any. . . . this is what Bush should do if he wants to understand the crisis that now confronts the nation he was so keen to "liberate". . . . First, join a petrol queue. Bush will help to push his limousine to the back of the 5km line by the Hussein bridge - many motorists run dry before they reach the queue - and here he will wait ... and wait and wait. Eight hours if he's lucky, maybe 12. Maybe 24. . . . Then Bush can visit the 158 Iraqi government ministry buildings that should be the infrastructure of the new US-backed government which he has sworn to establish. . . . He will see, of course, that every one of the 158 buildings was looted and then burned after the Americans occupied Baghdad. . . . Bush will discover that nationalist and religious sentiment - rather than Iranian "terrorism" or "interference" - demands an American departure. . . . Of course, Bush will visit the town of Faluja, where American Marines gunned down 18 Sunni Muslim demonstrators last month and where two gunmen this week shot dead two US soldiers and wounded another 11 before being killed. . . . Finally, he will drop in for a little tourism at the Baghdad Archeological Museum, so comprehensively looted after the Americans entered Baghdad in April. . . . He will see smashed statues, heaps of Sumerian vases broken into pieces and photographs of the 4000-year-old masterpieces stolen from the museum in the course of just a few hours. . . . But will Bush mention the "oil" word? Much more to the point, dare he mention the weapons of mass destruction, which even the Iraqis no longer believe exist?

posted by LoZo 7:26 PM