Things just continue to improve in Iraq, as roving gunmen in Baghdad kill 42+ unarmed Iraqis solely for being Sunnis.
Ummm, sounds like a civil war, doesn't it.
How are things going in Iraq? Horrible. More Iraqi civilians were killed in Baghdad during the first three months of 2006 than at any time since the US took out Hussein.
And they aren't being killed cleanly either, many being found hogtied and shot execution-style.
Hundreds a month are tortured and killed in Iraq. Who's doing it? Many Iraqis think it's via government-sponsored death squads.
The Iraq people are not better off without Hussein. It's hard to believe, but it's objectively true.
Primer on how to actually figure out how many civilians the US has killed during the War on Iraq.
How many? 120,000 in direct violence, 200,000 if you include increases in disease and accidents.
The No Child Left Behind Act requires high schools to pass on student information to military recuiters. Independently, the Pentagon is creating a vast database of potential cannon fodder.
Here's a place for information about both these programs and things you can do to combat them.
Rumors of Iraqi govenmental death squads turn out to be true after all.
Nice comparison of quotes from Dubya played against the reality that the Republicans have forced on the US, Iraq, and the entire world.
John Pace, former director of the human rights office at the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, says that human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad as they were under Hussein.
The only difference is Hussein targeted dissidents while the current abusers target everyone.
Current estimates for Iraqi civilians killed as part of the War on Iraq is 150,000, based on "conservative assumptions" in a study done by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
But that's without counting Falluja. Add those deaths in brings the total to 250,000.
The article also has pie charts showing the shift in causes of death away from normal types of death and towards those caused by violence.
An estimated 100,000 Iraqi civilians died from the first 14 months of the War on Iraq. Was that estimate accurate? Yep.
Essay on how Dubya's sole hold on the American people is the belief that he's fighting terrorism and how horribly he's actually botched that job.
Yes, we're going to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people by shooting up their abodes and kidnapping them in the dead of night for secret interrogations.
Especially if they're reporting about American and British abuses.
Just another piece of evidence that US forces aren't any better than Saddam and his troops were.
The US used chemical weapons against the Iraqis a year ago. Is this really a surprise?
Tracks "Civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq." These are deaths confirmed by two or more news sources following specific incidents. In other words, the numbers you see here aren't guesses. They aren't estimates. These are real people. They're dead now. We killed them. And, despite lies from the President, they never did a damn thing to us.
The Iraqi government has admitted that its own security forces have engaged in the same sorts of torture common under Saddam Hussein. Is anyone surprised by this? Especially after the good example given by US.
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