Australia's Richard Neville
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Australia's Richard Neville
WILD JUSTICE:
An open letter to President Bush
Dear George,
While not a supporter of you or your catastrophic agenda, I have no wish for you to suffer the same of fate of President John F Kennedy. In the last few days, millions of world citizens have seen the latest tabulation of horror inflicted on Iraq. 655,000 are a lot of corpses, George, far exceeding the rate achieved by Saddam Hussein. Added to this are a massive number of the disfigured, the orphaned and the destitute; the wreckage of infrastructure, the collapse of tertiary education. You have often invoked the “yearning of Iraqis to be free”, but what they want most is to be free of your troops.
Think about it - over 500 Iraqis killed every day, a third of which are directly due to actions by coalition forces. The rest of the violent deaths are a consequence of the occupation. Instead of reacting with compassion to the report in The Lancet, you dismissed it as a “discredited guess”, despite the widely accepted methodology. 655,00 dead! Too much blood, too little oil. It’s beginning to look like genocide, George, which is why thousands of Iraqis are fleeing the country. A White House induced diaspora. How do the new minted exiles feel about you? How can the loss of a homeland be compensated? Saddam today is on trial for his crimes. Tomorrow, the man in the dock could be you. Yet this is unlikely, because your administration has bent the law into providing immunity. The question arises, how will the victims of your policies gain restitution? [MORE »]
Australia's Richard Neville
An open letter to President Bush
Dear George,
While not a supporter of you or your catastrophic agenda, I have no wish for you to suffer the same of fate of President John F Kennedy. In the last few days, millions of world citizens have seen the latest tabulation of horror inflicted on Iraq. 655,000 are a lot of corpses, George, far exceeding the rate achieved by Saddam Hussein. Added to this are a massive number of the disfigured, the orphaned and the destitute; the wreckage of infrastructure, the collapse of tertiary education. You have often invoked the “yearning of Iraqis to be free”, but what they want most is to be free of your troops.
Think about it - over 500 Iraqis killed every day, a third of which are directly due to actions by coalition forces. The rest of the violent deaths are a consequence of the occupation. Instead of reacting with compassion to the report in The Lancet, you dismissed it as a “discredited guess”, despite the widely accepted methodology. 655,00 dead! Too much blood, too little oil. It’s beginning to look like genocide, George, which is why thousands of Iraqis are fleeing the country. A White House induced diaspora. How do the new minted exiles feel about you? How can the loss of a homeland be compensated? Saddam today is on trial for his crimes. Tomorrow, the man in the dock could be you. Yet this is unlikely, because your administration has bent the law into providing immunity. The question arises, how will the victims of your policies gain restitution? [MORE »]
Australia's Richard Neville
