Sorry, we lied

I missed this when it came out (the truth does not get much airing in the Australian press). Looks like the rightwing lie that Saddam's regime killed hundreds of thousands is untrue. Blair has admitted he lied when he repeatedly claimed there were 400 000 bodies in Iraqi mass graves.

Now, 5000 is a lot of dead guys, and I'm not lessening the horror of the loss to their families and communities, but I simply ask, how many have we done in since the conflict began?

Looks like at least 11 000.

And they've truly fucked the place up. Saddam might have been a bad guy, but he at least kept the place peaceable.

Still, who says Yanks can't do irony? W is putting himself forward as the peace president.

A couple of weeks ago, he claimed he was "defending the peace, protecting the peace and extending the peace -- for nearly three years".

Well, dude, my definition of "extending peace" does not include bombing the shit out of Arabs who pose no threat to you. This kind of thinking would have had Hitler awarded the Nobel prize for his work in extending peace in central Europe (which was certainly reasonable peaceful for a couple of years in the 40s until those naughty Russians liberated it -- mostly because the Germans had shot all the opposition).

These people are not bringing peace. They are bringing war. They are bringing death and lots of it. Their apologists are getting more desperate as their lies are uncovered.

It's time to stop. I agree with Oliver Miles. It's time to get our boys out of there. We've done enough harm. We're starting to look like the Romans as described by Calgacus:

"Brigands of the world, they have exhausted the land by their indiscriminate plunder and now they ransack the sea. The wealth of an enemy excites their cupidity, his poverty their lust of power. East and West have failed to glut their maw. They are unique in being as violently tempted to attack the poor as the wealthy. Robbery, butchery, rapine, with false names they call Empire; and they make a wilderness and call it peace."

posted by Dr Zen @ 7:23 pm