after three years: 3,000 equals 655,000?
Study: War blamed for 655,000 Iraqi deaths
- President Bush says he does not consider report credible
- Study says 2.5 percent of population killed since war; death toll rising each year
- The authors said their method of sampling the population is a "standard tool of epidemiology and is used by the U.S. government and many other agencies."
When can our country say "we're sorry" to the Iraqi people? How many Iraqis want our kind of democracy when barely 50% of our population voted in the last presidential elections? How many Iraqis want a government like ours that support torture? How many Iraqis now ask, "why don't you invade North Korea now that they have a nuclear weapon?"
Three years ago, I sent this e-mail to my friends the week we were about to invade Iraq. I lost respect as a US citizen because of this e-mail.
From: Joseph Laurino
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 12:07 PM
To:
Hello Friends,
I wanted to let you know that my party has been cancelled.
The continuing events in the Middle East have proven to be something that I can't let go of and escape from. This war based on the ignorance of each side's points of view, the craving for revenge and
I can't put a price on a life lost in the World Trade Center and on a life taken by this war funded by my tax dollars.
If terrorism didn't affect us economically, I don't believe we would have acted this way. If we were all really into helping each other in this magnitude, the war on poverty would have been over a long time ago.
For a different perspective, please read the following web sites:
http://www.thehungersite.com/
http://www.datadata.org/
http://money.cnn.com/
Thanks,
Joseph
Now it is your turn
I ask how come was I not swayed by the need of revenge by most Americans? Did I love the 9/11 victims less? Or did I think that by attacking Iraq we were not solving the right problem? I have spent countless nights thinking about all of this and now it is your turn!
Take care,
-Joseph