Giuliani, Ground Zero and the new Gott Mit Uns movement (Genocide Against Muslims Is Acceptable)

[kpete]

Bob Fitrakis

Giuliani, Ground Zero and the new Gott Mit Uns movement
September 13, 2010

After the first 3½ years of the Iraq War, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reported that 654,965 Iraqis as a direct result of the U.S. invasion. The Hopkins study correctly used a "but for…" analysis, a common U.S. legal analysis. That is, had the U.S. not invaded Iraq, dismantled their police and army, and shocked and awed their people and infrastructure with massive bombings, how many more people would be alive today based on the expected death rates in the country. The U.S. military only likes to count the casualties we directly kill, not the ones who die as result of the ill-planned and haphazard invasion and occupation.

The vast majority of people killed in Iraq were Islamic. We can see from these two examples alone that the U.S. government is responsible for the deaths of more than a million Muslims. This is a holocaust against a Muslin country that was not a threat to the United States, had no weapons of mass destruction and, indeed, could not fly over two-thirds of its sovereign territory due to U.S. military presence.

The government of the United States, both the Clinton and W Bush administrations, has far more Muslim blood on its hands than the small U.S.-trained Islamic terrorist group al Qaeda has American blood on their hands. But, the key point is that terrorism is terrorism, and crimes against humanity are crimes against humanity whether done by the Bush administration or by bin Laden.

As long as the U.S. government continues to deny that its last president George W. Bush is a war criminal who should have been hung along with Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity, we will proceed along a path that leads to endless war against Islamic people. This new crusade, that is blasphemy against Jesus, the Prince of Peace, will be embraced by opportunists like Giuliani. Giuliani's rhetoric about Ground Zero signals that facts don't matter, only blind nationalism, and that genocide against Muslims is acceptable. Gott Mit Uns.

more:
http://freepress.org/columns/display/3/2010/1849

[wtmusic]

1. The greater tragedy of 9/11

is that it was used as an effective tool in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens. Good to be reminded of that, about this time of year.

[el_bryanto]

2. The Term Genocide doesn't seem accurate in this context

As tragic and foolish as the invasion of Iraq was, the goal wasn't to kill Muslims or Iraqis.

Bryant