The Legacy of the Iraqi War Hawks

William Hughes, thepeoplesvoice.org

...As of today’s date, according to a new Johns Hopkins study, around 654,000 Iraqis have been killed in the war. When a spokesman for the Multi-National Forces in Iraq was asked to comment on the shocking report, he said: "It’s really a government of Iraq issue." (3) Iraq, a nation of 26 million souls, no longer officially exists! It is now ripe for a cruel partition, with seizure of its enormous oil resources the number one objective of the cunning predators. With respect to the endemic carnage in Iraq, try this one on for comparison purposes: Recently, a demented milk-truck driver ran amuck in Nickel Mines, PA, an Amish community set in pastoral Lancaster County and executed five innocent children. Americans were duly shocked, as they should have been. It was front page news for weeks. Yet, every day, there are multiple Nickel Mines-like slaughters going on in Iraq. Most people in this country hardly notice them, nor do they wish to acknowledge that it was their government that unlawfully launched the Iraqi War which created these blood stained killing fields. If reported at all, these ghastly murders are presented as sound bites on the TV screen, that news readers, like Katie Couric, will be sure not to mention in any kind of critical context or with any meaningful analysis. To do so would point the finger of moral culpability for these evils deeds back at the hawkish wirepullers in Washington, D.C...

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