Some shocking new findings have been exposed showing that the mainstream media is showing a misleading portrait of civilian casualties in Iraq. According to a study done by Iraq Body Count, 37% of civilians killed were by Americans, 36% were by criminal elements, and only 9% were by the insurgents.
Yet the only people we hear about doing the killing are the insurgents, or "terrorists." Yes, what the foreign suicide bombers are doing is wrong. But in fact, the only groups we are hearing about are the insurgents and foreign fighters.
And many of the crimes committed against civilians have been committed against women by government-backed thugs trying to impose their own version of Islamic Law. Their version of justice involves harassing, stalking, raping, and murdering women who will not wear the veil in accordance with their version of Islamic Law.
I thought one of the prime reasons we went to Afghanistan was because of the Taliban’s rampant control of women there. That is typical doublethink from the administration — they complain about human rights abuses when it suits them and discard their complaints when it suits them.
So, the next time the Bush administration tries to promote the meme that Iraq is a democracy, the question to ask is, why should we trust what they say? Bush said he would uphold the honor and dignity of the White House; he refuses to fire Karl Rove for his treason against the country. He said Iraq was trying to buy Uranium from Niger; debunked by Joe Wilson. He actively conspired with Tony Blair to fix the facts around the case for war in Iraq.
And when people like Khalid speak out against the outrages backed by the Bush administration, the Iraqi government carts them off and throws them in jail. Freedom is slavery and slavery is freedom in George Bush’s universe.
You may still sign the petition to free Khalid here.
