posted June 16, 2006 05:59 PM
You'd Better Shut-Up!By Paul Craig Roberts
6-11-6
Faced with mounting civilian carnage....both from war crimes committed by demoralized and broken US troops....
.....and from the raging civil war unleashed by Bush's ill-fated illegal invasion of Iraq.......
......the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee has decided to waste another $50 billion to continue the lost war for five more months!
Our elected "representatives" are so in thrall to the powerful military-industrial complex that no amount of American shame, pariah status and military defeat can shut off the flow of taxpayers' funds to the merchants of death.
Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing hard-pressed US taxpayers $300,000,000 per day!
These wars are lost.
Yet, imbecilic members of Congress are in the process of funding the war for another year.
Multiply $300 million by 365 days and you get $109,500,000,000.
These are not the full costs. The huge figure does not include the destroyed equipment, destroyed lives, and long-term care of the maimed and disabled.
Gentle reader....are you getting enough vicarious pleasure from the slaughter of Iraqi women and children to justify this price tag?
Is murdering "ragheads" THAT important to you?
If so, you are one sick person..........just like every member of the Bush administration.
US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have killed far more civilians than they have resistance fighters.
Bush administration spokespersons are crowing that they have killed Musab al-Zarqawi in an air strike. But al-Zarqawi was an al Qaeda leader, not a member of the Iraqi resistance.
Al-Zarqawi's death will have no affect on the outcome in Iraq.
Far more important is the news that civil war in Baghdad alone claimed 1,400 deaths last month.
Perhaps even more important is the news that the Taliban's resurgence has forced the Bush administration to launch more than 750 air strikes in Afghanistan in May.
That is 25 air strikes per day!
It is a foregone conclusion that most of the casualties are women and children.
America is drowning in the shame of war crimes.
One monstrous slaughter of civilians after another, each denied and covered up until brought to light by photos and eye witnesses.
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continued next post.....