Quote from OPTIONAL777:
How do we know that those children weren't killed by Saddam's own troops?
damn right. it pisses me off how countries with an axe to grind against 'imperialist America' ignore the brutal facts. right or wrong, where America stands is a separate issue from the real brutality and cruelty being wielded on innocents- but it's not about the innocents for those who hate the U.S., it's about scoring political points. better to spit in Uncle Sam's eye than to show any genuine concern for the truly oppressed, lest it be misinterpreted as softness towards Bush or the Great Satan.
Has the foreign media pointed out that Saddam's sabotaged Basra's power and water plants before the war even began, endangering hundreds of thousands of (starving) civilians with no access to clean water?
Have the foreign media pointed out how the fedayeem are mowing down civilians in an effort to quell their uprising?
Have the foreign media pointed out that saddam's loyalists are dressing up as american and british soldiers so they can summarily execute any iraqis who surrender or come to them for aid?
In the past few days, I'd wager that civilian Iraqi deaths at the hands of pro-saddam forces have outnumbered accidental civilian casualties by at least ten to one, or maybe even a hundred to one. By war's end it may be a thousand to one.
And this, of course, is not to mention the regular torture and brutality that went on long before we showed up. Mutter a word of dissent against the regime, and you would soon find your mother or sister begging for mercy after being raped within an inch of her life. And this is the supposed peace that the protesters would have upheld? Starvation, death, rape and murder in a nightmare police state? It is for sustaining this that Le Figaro (a french paper) calls Chirac "the white knight of peace, the champion of all the oppressed earth?" Talk about hypocrisy. It's enough to make me puke.
