Five Years Of Operation Iraqi Freedom at The Black Iris of Jordan

Five Years Of Operation Iraqi Freedom

19Mar08

Number of souls that have been freed:

- 82,000 and 89,000 – Iraq Body Count
- 151,000 – Iraqi government & the World Health Organization (Mar.03 – Jun.06)
- 654,865 – British medical journal The Lancet (March 2003 and July 2006)
- 1,189,173 – Opinion Research Business (as of 2008)

Take your pick.

Then read Fisk:

We have dispatched our armies into the land of Islam. We have done so with the sole encouragement of Israel, whose own false intelligence over Iraq has been discreetly forgotten by our masters, while weeping crocodile tears for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died. America’s massive military prestige has been irreparably diminished. And if there are, as I now calculate, 22 times as many Western troops in the Muslim world as there were at the time of the 11th and 12th century Crusades, we must ask what we are doing. Are we there for oil? For democracy? For Israel? For fear of weapons of mass destruction? Or for fear of Islam? [source]

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1 Ali on Mar 19th, 2008 said:

What ever was the number of innocnet lives killed in Iraq, it will never be justified, and the one to be blamed is the Arab and Muslim world for being very quiet about it. The number of protests that I have particpated in, in the USA far exceeds all the number of protests I saw in the Middle East.
2 Bilal - Black Jack on Mar 19th, 2008 said:

“Movies are their only experience of human conflict”. Robert Fisk.

I think this article will probably become one of the best articles ever written about the modern conflict in the middle east.

Thank you for sharing.
3 Alurdunialhurr on Mar 19th, 2008 said:

Here is another artical by Partick CockburnPartick Cockburn: A gross failure that ignored history and ended with a humiliating retreat
4 secratea on Mar 19th, 2008 said:

“It is our presence, our power, our arrogance, our refusal to learn from history and our terror – yes, our terror – of Islam that is leading us into the abyss. And until we learn to leave these Muslim peoples alone, our catastrophe in the Middle East will only become graver.”

yet Bush proudly insists it’s a victory in Iraq!
5 Omar on Mar 20th, 2008 said:

*Sigh*
6 Don Cox on Mar 21st, 2008 said:

“the one to be blamed is the Arab and Muslim world for being very quiet about it.”

Arabs have done almost all the killing in Iraq. What should they say about it?