alt.war.iraq

Over 12,000 murdered by Western occupiers every month.
That is at least 4 - 8 times (!) the number of deaths from suicide
bombings, murders, sectarian killings, etc.

Day in day out, over 12,000/month x 12 = over 144,000 per year.
Not counting all the other dead, from epidemics, destroyed hospitals,
contaminated water, lack of electricity, etc. During the 1991-2003
sanctions an estimated 50,000 children died - per month! Now
in this horrible killing war, that number is probably much higher.
Dont' say you have no proof: This data is never investigated,
never reported on because the illegal occupier does not
want any news on their own mass murder. So we hear about
suicide bombings and occasional air strikes and rounding up
of 'insurgents', never an overview of all the killing by the
occpiers. We know and understand why.

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/
http://www.oct27.org/

Today's US helicopter attacks on densely populated urban areas killed
scores of
Iraqi civilians and resistance fighters, and also destroyed numerous
buildings.

"The U.S. operation was the latest in a series that have produced
significant death tolls, including civilians, as American forces
increasingly take the fight to Sunni insurgents, al-Qaida militants
and Shiite militiamen.

The intensity and frequency of American attacks and raids have grown
since the arrival of the last of 30,000 additional soldiers on June
15."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071022/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_071017233852;...
All to win more hearts and minds of course, in a lost neo-colonial
bombing war.

1. Oct. 19 airpower summary: Airmen continue to strike enemy
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123072702
92 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today,
not counting the numerous helicopter attacks

2. A remarkable article about bombing non-Christian people
to smithereens in their own countries:
DEATH from ABOVE

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG12Ak01.html
>From Dresden and Tokyo to Hanoi and now Iraq's Baquba

and Afghanistan's tribal villages, the US military has been
"HOOKED ON AIRPOWER".

That addiction will only grow stronger as US ground troops
gradually withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, increasingly
leaving civilians to continue to take the heat.
- by Tom Engelhardt (Jul 11, '07)
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3. A FALLACY that BOMBS - literally
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG12Ak06.html
US and Israeli reliance on air power to fight urban guerilla warfare
has unintended consequences. Dead civilians, decimated homes, schools
and hospitals strengthen and unify opponents and portend
an ominous future for US geopolitical goals.
By Khody Akhavi (Jul 11, '07)
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4. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/29/opinion/edinderfurth.php
Losing the 'other war' in Afghanistan?
By Karl F. Inderfurth
Published: May 29, 2007
WASHINGTON:
Controversy rages over the war in Iraq, but what about the so-called
other war in Afghanistan, for which there is immoral bipartisan
support in the United States and in the international community?
Is there a danger of losing in Afghanistan? The answer is yes.
My question: A 'danger'? What silliness:

It is not a 'danger', it already is a fact:
This colonial war was lost a long time ago. As it was never about
winning the hearts and minds, but always about oil and gas and
pipelines and new military bases and access to Central Asia's
resources, i.e. about geo-political power and pure greed.

It is just a matter of time and the Western colonial invaders can no
longer sustain the slow but permanent and persistent bleeding in
money and casualties and will be forced to leave.

First, however, I'm sure they will kill many tens of thousands more.
We have seen immoral bombing wars and millions of dead before:
In Vietnam, another ill-conceived, immoral and illegal colonial
bombing war on darker skinned non-Christians in their own country.
3 - 4 million perished in the American orgy of colonial violence
in Asia. And a new horrible and racist orgy of violence by western
nations is happening again,
now in two countries in Asia simultaneously.

There is no question whatsoever who or what the real
'axis of evil' is here: Rich Western nations bombing poor
people to smithereens in their own countries in Asia.

And we certainly know why.

UTTER CONTEMPT and TOTAL CONDEMNATION

Michael McKinley - USA