[Peace-discuss] Re: RE: Darfur (and Gaza)

[Tom Mackaman]

Gaza, yes.  And to say nothing of Iraq, a war crime of world-historical proportions that has been carried out directly by the US government in the name of all of us.  A crime, moreover, that very likely surpasses both in absolute and relative loss of life what has taken place in Darfur.  Using the exact same statistical methods as have been deployed to determine loss of life in Darfur, Johns-Hopkins scientists have determined that 650,000 Iraqis have been killed.  This report was produced by the leading medical research university in the world and was published in the world's most respected medical journal, The Lancet.  Our illustrious president then dismissed the findings, and the obedient media dropped it.  There has been, on the other hand, a constant drum beat in the media regarding Darfur.  I think that it behooves us to ask ourselves why this is the case.
   
  It is an indictment of American liberalism that publications such as the NY Times can, without a hint of shame, champion military intervention in Sudan when they themselves bear such a high degree of responsibility for a crime of greater proportion in Iraq.  
   
  As for the local and campus Darfur activists, they need to answer some hard questions.  Let me ask:  Where is the campus "die-in" for Iraq?  Wither the "million postcards" for Iraq?  And I repeat, whatever one thinks of the relative magnitudes of the crimes, the one in Iraq is being carried out in your name.  
   
  I highly recommend the following article from the World Socialist Web Site:  UN report documents huge October death toll in Iraq http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/iraq-n24.shtml
   
  Tom Mackaman
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Putting aside the feelings and intentions of those such as Mr. Edwards--I'm sure he's sincere--the mobilization surrounding Darfur is at best 
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