A New Revelation From David Miliband
Posted September 27th, 2007 by Davide Simonetti
After more than four years of war in Iraq with 170 British soldiers killed, 3,800 American casualties and up to 1.2 million Iraqi deaths, David Miliband tells us that there was "never a military solution" to Iraq.
Now he tells us!
Does anyone remember
Does anyone remember this...
"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3056626.stm
About all he had to say
About all he had to say about Iraq was that it caused division. There was no attempt to admit and analyse "mistakes".
There must be some very big taboos at work if all you can say about turning Iraq into a failed state and training ground for terrorists is that the issue caused divisions.
Yes, that boy always was a
Yes, that boy always was a little slow on the uptake. Still it's nice that he's caught up with the rest of us.
There never was 'a military
There never was 'a military solution' we all know that, but they are well on the way to achieving the FINAL SOLUTION that 'H' invented, as a method of pacifying a people who do not fit the grade.
Dear old Greenspan has
Dear old Greenspan has already spilled the beans on PNACs agenda on Iraq and it's not pretty. What I think we are seeing is the rodents in downing street trying to calculate minimum safe distance from the shit storm that must follow.
My dear chap - of course
My dear chap - of course there's a military solution to Iraq! - that's the one where the Iraqi resistance wins by simply outlasting the occupieers!
You should get together and
You should get together and send him a fruit basket welcoming him to the Reality Based Community (tm).
"and up to 1.2 million Iraqi
"and up to 1.2 million Iraqi deaths"
The true count of Iraqi deaths is over 3 million...
"According to the humanitarian reports, the ongoing embargo imposed in 1990, coupled with the destruction caused by the 1991 Gulf war, has in turn directly caused the following"
"As of March 2003 (just prior to the war), between 1.7 and 2 million Iraqi civilians have died due to malnutrition and disease, about 700,000 of them are children. Health Ministry documents under-5 and over-50 deaths due to disease and/or malnutrition at 1.7 million. If over-5 and under-50 age sectors are added, which is well over 500,000 deaths, that makes the total number of deaths over 2 million. Estimates of deaths due to the 2003 war range from 10,000 to 100,000."
http://www.ilaam.net/War/ IraqEmb...raqEmbargo.html
"More Than One Million Iraqi Deaths Since US Invasion"...
http://www.countercurrents.org/ m...artin150907.htm
send him a fruit basket
Blair's too busy to be sent to Mr. Milipede, isn't he?
As far as I've seen the new Foreign Secretary's comments it boils down to:
a) the decision to invade was right
b) the military option was wrong
Quite how he reconciles that only he knows...
"The true count of Iraqi
"The true count of Iraqi deaths is over 3 million..."
...which, when added to (just) the 3-4 million killed in South-East Asia in that regrettable police action a while back, totals 6-7 million.
What a coincidence. Just about the same as the Holocaust. But of course the Americans killed all those people unintentionally - they were collateral damage.
So that's all right then.
It's a sign of how decadent
It's a sign of how decadent we have become that anyone in their right mind can conceivably excuse this massacre as a mistake.
But all these minor crimes of accidentally massacring a million civilians are subsumed into the March 18, 2003 event, by the famous Nurnberg judgement:
"To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole. "
Funny how that event keeps being lost down the memory hole.