[Peace-discuss] How Many Iraqis Did We "Liberate" from Life on Earth?

[C. G. Estabrook]

  And how many Afghans (and Pakistanis) have we killed or maimed from the Carter 
administration's recruitment of Islamic fanatics (in the most expensive CIA 
operation to date) to the Obama administration's assassinations by drone?

More than thirty years of the subvention of murder by US presidents, Republican 
and Democratic alike, must come to an end. It seems that has to begin with the 
rejection of the current administration.

On 8/6/10 2:19 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> By now there have been several attempts to estimate how many Iraqis
> have died as a result of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq
> since March 2003. These estimates all support the conclusion that
> "hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S.
> invasion," a statement that we can now make with very high confidence.
>
> If there is any American who is still willing to publicly claim they
> believe that demands to indefinitely occupy Afghanistan or bomb Iran
> have something to do with human liberation, put for them the following
> simple test. Ask them to say the sentence: "Hundreds of thousands of
> Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S. invasion of their country."
> If a would-be "humanitarian bomber" cannot say this sentence, you can
> safely ignore anything else they have to say.
>