Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Who needs nuclear bombs? Iraqi civilian death toll races past Hiroshima and Nagasaki

800,000 to 1.3 Million Dead Iraqi Civillians, 1-2 Million Widows and 5 Million Orphans
LA Times
JustForeignPolicy
Wikipedia
AlterNet

“Then as the crowning savagery of war, we as Americans wiped out hundreds of thousands of civilian population with the atom bomb in Japan, few if any of the ordinary civilians being any more responsible for the war than were we and perhaps no more aiding Japan in the war than we were aiding America. Military men are now saying that the atom bomb was a mistake. It was more than that: it was a world tragedy.…And the worst of the atomic bomb tragedy is not that not only did the people of the United States not rise up in protest against this savagery, not only did it not shock us to read of this wholesale destruction of men, women and children, and cripples, but that it actually drew from the nation at large approval of this fiendish butchery.” (J. Reuben Clark, October 1946.)

What would he have said today?


In other news, in a minor accounting error, American troop deaths exceed the 4-5000 now reported up to 6 times the amount, topping 30,000. If a soldier is transported away from a combat zone and dies in or on the way to a hospital, the Pentagon is not counting it as a combat related death.
LewRockwell.com
GlobalSecurity.org
GlobalSecurity.org Graphs