Misssion Accomplished.'

Felicity Arbuthnot.

Four years ago today the (alleged) Draft Dodger in Chief, landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and declared: ' mission accomplished' in Iraq. Forty eight blood soaked months later, what exactly has been accomplished? * Possibly as many as one million Iraqi dead, four million fled or displaced internally. The largest exodus since the establisment of the State of Israel in 1948. * The erasing of the history, monuments, archeological sites of the Cradle of Civilisation. * The kidnapping and lynching of the President and members of the legitimate government. * The slaughter of the President's sons and grandson. * One hundred journalists and thirty seven support workers killed. A figure in order of magnitude higher than any war zone on earth (shoot the messengers of thisillegal disaster?) It seemed to be policy from day one, literally. * Over three hundred academics assasinated and thousands fled. The education of the next generation snatched from Iraq's youth, in the country that brought near every academic subject to the world...

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Happy Mission Accomplished Day

By the by, Aljazeera International today quoted Iraqi death figures based on Johns Hopkins Lancet Report - 750,000.

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