Newsday.com – AP World News — This is some way to make friends and democratize an area. After this is over (if ever) our net-net death of civilians rate will surpass Sadaam’s. And die-hard Republicans wonder what the fuss is about. This to many, of course, is “liberal” propaganda. Everyone dies eventually anyway.
LONDON — Researchers have estimated that as many as 100,000 more Iraqis — many of them women and children — died since the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq than would have been expected otherwise, based on the death rate before the war.
Writing in the British-based medical journal The Lancet, the American and Iraqi researchers concluded that violence accounted for most of the extra deaths and that airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition were a major factor.
While you’re at it read another Charlie Reese article posted today titled, “A War we Can’t Win.” Reese, a notorious right-wing conservative is now on anti-war sites with his material.
And you probably should also read this book review by Reese.
The Army of World War II, you might say, was the last Army of the republic. It performed great deeds, but there was not much luxury, not even for the generals and admirals. Nobody was paid much. Travel was by military plane, troop train or warship, even for generals, admirals and world leaders.
Not so in today’s imperial Army. According to Chalmers Johnson, an excellent writer, in his new book, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, the Defense Department maintains a fleet of 71 Lear jets, 13 Gulfstream IIIs and 17 Cessna Citation luxury jets. That’s in case any of the brass wish to visit the military’s ski resort in the Bavarian Alps or any of the 234 military golf courses around the world. The secretary of defense, of course, has his own private Boeing 757.
