Iraq:kill the Dr's, clerics, journalists

[chomskysright]

"Mr Ambassador, I believe that your government and its Iraqi surrogates are waging two wars in Iraq. One war is against the Iraqi people, and it has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives. The other is a war on witnesses."

Naomi Klein: 12.4.04: the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1366348,00.html

[joanski01]

1. Oh my God! I just read the

entire article!

"We don't do body counts," said General Tommy Franks of US Central Command. The question is: what happens to the people who insist on counting the bodies - the doctors who must pronounce their patients dead, the journalists who document these losses, the clerics who denounce them? In Iraq, evidence is mounting that these voices are being systematically silenced through a variety of means, from mass arrests, to raids on hospitals, media bans, and overt and unexplained physical attacks."

Yikes! War criminals, indeed.

[Alisa]

2. I am on the edge of tears

I can barely stand the ugly business my government is up to. I am trying to find ways to protest and fight all this. I have started to connect with local groups. I hope we can at least equal the results in protest numbers that the Canadians have done against Bush and his thugs last week.

This is a profoundly moving editorial - I am grateful for Naomi Klein's intellect and courage and thank you too, chomskysright for finding and posting it here.

[Chicago Democrat]

3. EVERYONE! Read Naomi Klein's critical letter to the US ambassador

WOW

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1366348,00.html

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

4. Are we are we citizens of a country that knows no boundaries?

And the news media claims "moral" issues got chimp re elected?:toast:
Todays American Propaganda machine makes Nazi Germany's look like an 8th grade English class project.
(Yes, that's right I compared something we're doing to the Nazis !)

Why do we have to get these stories exclusively from foreign sources?

I guess we are all complicit by doing nothing to stop it.
Why don't our country's citizens insist that the media bring us the real news?.

What about organizing and using financial leverage to boycott these news organizations that scrub stories?
Money is the only thing that matters to the Media organizations that are backing the current regime.
They are likely gaining billions in profits so the only way to compete with it to get them to somehow lose money by filtering the stories.

But do you think most people even care or are even aware that anything's up?
My Republican brother seems to thing that it's the foreign "murkin bashing" sources that are "twisting" the truth.

Things like "silencing" witnesses must be exposed by American news sources or people like my brother will never believe it.
...guess that's what they're counting on.
:puke:


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[Moderator]

5. This is not

LBN. It is also posted elsewhere on DU.