MIA: Where Are the Iraqis in the Iraq Scandal?

[DenverDem]

This was previously posted but received scant attention. Once again we all, not just wrong wingers, all are living in denial about the true impact of our war making.

<http://www.nologo.org/newsite/detaild.php?ID=370>

All of the front-runners in the Democratic race borrow the language of pop therapy to discuss the war and the toll it has taken ? not on Iraq (a country so absent from their campaigns it may as well be on another planet) but on Americans. To hear John Kerry, John Edwards and Howard Dean tell it, the invasion was less a war of aggression against a sovereign nation than a civil war within the U.S., a traumatic event that severed Americans from their faith in politicians, from their rightful place in the world, and from their tax dollars.

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John Sloboda, co-founder of Iraq Body Count told me that while the passing of the grim 10,000 mark made the British papers and the BBC, it received ?scandalously little attention in the United States? including from the leading Democratic candidates, even as they hammer Bush on his faulty intelligence. ?If the war was fought on false pretences,? Sloboda says, ?that means that every death caused by the war is a death on false pretences.?

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