Burying The Lancet Report
Byrnzie
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This article is very interesting for anyone concerned with what is actually happening in Iraq, as opposed to what the western media would like us to believe is happening in Iraq...
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2006/davies0206.html
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2006/davies0206.html
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in 48% of violent deaths the victim was a child... median age 8...
fucking sick
<typical con talking point in cold, soulless tone> 'what can ya do? war is hell'
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
30,000 to 275,000 children under the age of 15 since the beginning of the war?
that should make the toughest arm-chair hawk question the application of war under any circumstances?
it is true... i am so fucking sick of arm-chair hawks... i guess sending others to die and beating their chest while young men and women die for lies makes them feel like a man (or woman)...
they were like...futuristic terrorists
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
i wouldnt be suprised if some wacko actually used, or uses, that menatlity to justify it
you also have to realize to them 30,000 to 275,000 iraqi children aren't equal to 30,000 to 275,000 american children.
i wonder how many of our children we'd accept dying over here?
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
2,500 so far...
That's nothing compared to the estimated half a million children who died as a direct result of the U.S imposed sanctions on Iraq between 1991 and 2002. It's all completely fucking sick. Still, why would Blair and Bush care? I mean, they've got God on their side, right?
that is right...
It just demonstrates what an incredible job the media are doing in managing to pull the wool over our eyes by directing our attention away from the crimes being committed by the occupying forces, and diverting our attention instead on sectarian violence and suicide bombings.
and i believe that you are right again...
but, let me ask this...is it the incredible job the media is doing...or is it the incredible ignorance of the people... or an incredible combination?
Well, that's a difficult one. I reckon the pendulum swings more to the power of the media though. I believe that if the public in both the U.K and the U.S where made aware of just the above article on it's own then we would see a major seismic shift in opinion and action take place. During the Vietnam war the coverage was a lot less restricted than it is now. Journalists are afraid to travel outside of the green zone in Iraq now and simply rely on the 'authorities' for their information. There are apparently some brave Iraqi reporters who are risking their lives over there to report what's happening, although as far as I'm aware, even these journalists are restricted to reporting nothing but sectarian violence and yet are being censored to a large degree. Where are the Tim Page's and James Cameron's of this world when we need them? Robert Fisk is about the only reporter I know of at the moment who is really telling it the way it is.