Saturday, March 31, 2007

Bush is a WMD

I can't agree more with that sign! If you don't, just take a look at the Iraq Body Count, and mind you, those are reported deaths. The Lancet statistical findings are much more shocking:
Three misattributed clusters were excluded from the final analysis; data from 1849 households that contained 12 801 individuals in 47 clusters was gathered. 1474 births and 629 deaths were reported during the observation period. Pre-invasion mortality rates were 5·5 per 1000 people per year (95% CI 4·3–7·1), compared with 13·3 per 1000 people per year (10·9–16·1) in the 40 months post-invasion. We estimate that as of July, 2006, there have been 654 965 (392 979–942 636) excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2·5% of the population in the study area. Of post-invasion deaths, 601 027 (426 369–793 663) were due to violence, the most common cause being gunfire.

The first full sentence comes out of the movie Flags of Our Fathers is: "Every Jackass thinks he knows what a war is, especially those who've never been in one." This one certainly does not know what a war is. But from watching the two Clint Eastwood movies, the Flags and the Letters from Iwo Jima, the first thing a war does is destructing humanity. A solider does not just kill enemies, he (or she, nowadays) destructs him/herself in that process as well. That is true even for today's American soldiers in Iraq who have the ability to kill from miles and miles away. The ones who raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered her whole family were not killed by terrorists. They are destructed by the war itself. War brings out the worst of man. Soldiers are just human sacrifice for those politicians who use wars for their own agenda. Bush is just the latest example of such politician.