The loss of the 2000th American soldier in Iraq last week was marked, of sorts, in the USA with renewed discussion [debate might be putting it too highly] about how the US got into what is on any view a complete debacle on so many levels. Of course, as the Pentagon has repeatedly pointed out it keeps no record of Iraqi deaths. God only knows how many innocent men, women and children were killed or injured as the Coalition of the Willing unleashed the frighteningly named "Shock and Awe" on Iraq. A sobering perspective of the toll exacted by the Iraq war is found in what appears to be a definitive and carefully researched article on Alternet.
Also of interest on this whole area under discussion is this article which appeared in The Nation - setting out a case for Bush and Cheney to be charged with conspiracy in getting the US into the Iraq war.
One can only wonder whether Bush, Blair and Howard have even the remotest twinge of conscience about what they instigated in Iraq - based on a lie, as they at all times well knew. Perhaps this "story" has a way to go now that some introspection and questioning has started in the USA and that Cheney's "fixer" Lewis Libby has been charged. It is high time that the Fourth Estate in Australia flexes its muscles, such as they are, and starts asking and raising critical questions.
Also of interest on this whole area under discussion is this article which appeared in The Nation - setting out a case for Bush and Cheney to be charged with conspiracy in getting the US into the Iraq war.
One can only wonder whether Bush, Blair and Howard have even the remotest twinge of conscience about what they instigated in Iraq - based on a lie, as they at all times well knew. Perhaps this "story" has a way to go now that some introspection and questioning has started in the USA and that Cheney's "fixer" Lewis Libby has been charged. It is high time that the Fourth Estate in Australia flexes its muscles, such as they are, and starts asking and raising critical questions.
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