What is Happening Is An Absolute Slaughter Every Night of Iraqi People

[DuctapeFatwa]

In Iraq there are thousands of incidents of violence that never get reported; attacks on Americans that cost civilian lives are not even recorded by the occupation authority press officers unless they involve loss of life among "coalition forces". Go to the mortuaries of Iraq's cities and it's clear that a slaughter occurs each night. Occupation powers insist that journalists obtain clearance to visit hospitals - it can take a week to get the right papers, if at all, so goodbye to statistics - but the figures coming from senior doctors tell their own story.

“In Baghdad, up to 70 corpses - of Iraqis killed by gunfire - are brought to the mortuaries each day. In Najaf, for example, the cemetery authorities record the arrival of the bodies of up to 20 victims of violence a day. Some of the dead were killed in family feuds, in looting, or revenge killings. Others have been gunned down by US troops at checkpoints or in the increasingly vicious "raids" carried out by American forces in the suburbs of Baghdad and the Sunni cities to the north.”

“If you count the Najaf dead as typical of just two or three other major cities, and if you add on the daily Baghdad death toll and multiply by seven, almost 1,000 Iraqi civilians are being killed every week - and that may well be a conservative figure.”

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/1757243

[KeepItReal]

1. They don't want to report American *WOUNDED*...much less Iraqi deaths

<sarcasm on> The "Liberal Media" are on top these stories! Heads are gonna roll! <sarcasm off>

"Thank you for applauding their belief that we are in fact...retarded" - Jon Stewart

[aquart]

2. Aw, the Iraqis just don't appreciate freedom.

And most of us are unwilling to face the sheer numbers of people who would have to die for PNAC ambitions to be realized.

Thousands are dying now? Millions will be dead if Bushco isn't stopped. Millions. There's no other way to do what they want to do.

[maggrwaggr]

3. hm, how many per week was Saddam accused of killing?

Out of the frying pan, into the fire, for the Iraqi people

[RealityDose]

4. You can't blame Iraqis fighting with each other on us

We probably injure or kill 10 - 100 Iraqis a day is my guess and yes it goes totally unreported unless the press is right there. They aren't hanging around the checkpoints waiting for Iraqis to die. Like the time the power went out and the soldiers started blindly shooting around killing 6 Iraqis.

[Paschall]

5. Wrong

As the occupying power we have a legal (and moral) obligation to ensure the safety and well-being of the civilian population. That means providing normal police services.

Furthermore, it's quite obvious we've unleashed long pent-up antagonisms between Iraq's three major ethnic groups (Shia, Sunni, Kurd).

Why do you think we're getting reports from Iraqi Christians who say they "miss" Saddam? He, at least, managed to guarantee they were protected and could worship in peace.

[PurityOfEssence]

6. everything that happens in that country is our fault

We cobbled together excuses for our conquest, and barged on in; we are responsible for everything that happens there. Suck though dictatorships usually do, they also provide a lack of violent crime in the civilian population.

This war didn't have to happen. It is precisely and unequivocally our fault.

[dArKeR]

7. We should be emailing this story to our media and asking for confirmation

or denial!


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