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Iraqi civilian deaths concern me whether they are killed by Baarthist supporters or the American army.
At the moment, stories are coming out concerning prisoners of war beaten to death and tortured by British soliders... is THIS the war we went to fight?
What interests me is that the attack on the WTC is presented as one of the most outrageous atrocities ever committed, whereas when far more people in Iraq are killed by American bombs in Iraq, it is somehow seen as an accident, as "collateral damage", some unfortunate but unavoidable side effect of having to remove Saddam Hussain (which we had to do o course, since he could have struck Canterbury or Hemmel Hempstead with chemical weapons at 45 minutes notice... oh, except he couldnt actually, because the Iraqi chemical weapons programme turned out to be pathetic and unable to be used even in combat)
There were a lot of ways Saddam Hussain could have been removed - the best would have been to have given military support to his opponents in Iraq in 1992. America didnt, they left them high and dry and allowed Hussain to massacre them and consolidate his power... then followed the sanctions, which coupled with the corruption of the Baarth regime, caused probably a million deaths in Iraq. Both the Iraqi regime and the West share the blame equally for these deaths.
And now Iraqi's are being killed every day, by civil war and by the occupation forces... I wonder, how many more Iraqi's need to die for people to consider this an equal atrocity to the attack on the WTC attack. It then would be a simple equation, we would know how MUCH more important a westerners life is than an Iraqi's life.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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