Riverbend on the Lancet Study

after no posts since August 5th this came oct 18th. i was checking everyday or so and worried. it is so disgraceful what is being perpetrated on the Iraqi people in our name. you hardly ever hear any of our leaders, of any party, speak of the lies that got us over there. and it makes me sick to hear our leaders say how they have to stand up for themselves(every stripe of politician says that). like we would let them....after we attack, invade,break and occupy their country for no reason, we have the nerve to suggest they are failing to look out for themselves. shameful!!!!!!!! and who is making all that money off the amazing amounts of munitions in Iraq?? yikes! it's the only thing in Iraq there is no shortage of. when will these monsters who have taken over this country(ours) be stopped?????? they are bullies with weapons and a cash flow(our grandchildren's credit cards) and the blood of more than 3000 Americans and over half a million Iraqis......i guess freedom is on the march......wake up America!!!!! freedom's comin' here too.

all of the population of san juan(15,274), whatcom(183,471), and skagit(113,171) counties and add the cities everett(91,488), tacoma(196,790) and olympia(43,963)for a total of 644,157 = 655,000 killed in iraq

billmon does a good job of expressing our national shame...

............We literally do not know a single Iraqi family that has not seen the
violent death of a first or second-degree relative these last three years.
Abductions, militias, sectarian violence, revenge killings, assassinations,
car-bombs, suicide bombers, American military strikes, Iraqi military raids,
death squads, extremists, armed robberies, executions, detentions, secret
prisons, torture, mysterious weapons – with so many different ways to die,
is the number so far fetched?
There are Iraqi women who have not shed their black mourning robes since 2003 because each time the end of the proper mourning period comes around, some other relative dies and the countdown begins once again.
Let's pretend the 600,000+ number is all wrong and that the minimum
is the correct number: nearly 400,000. Is that better? Prior to the war, the
Bush administration kept claiming that Saddam killed 300,000 Iraqis over 24
years. After this latest report published in The Lancet, 300,000 is looking
quite modest and tame. Congratulations Bush et al. .........

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