U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs documents 73,846 deaths from Iraq Wars as of May 2007
by Paul Johnson
It is indeed, a well known fact that in a so-called free society, the U.S. President George W. Bush administration has banned media organizations from photographing most of the coffins, along with the maimed military personnel returning into the U.S. from Iraq. And, if you think that the U.S. President Bush administration has followed "freedom of the press" in Iraq, you have made a sudden mistake.
Journalists in Iraq, who have not prostituted themselves into disseminating the Bush administration's public relations on the "overall success" of the Iraq War, are being subjected to oppressive persecution.
Journalists have complained of fascist-style harassment.
Is this the action of a U.S. President, who is fighting for democracy, that fundamentally relies on transparency toward supporting a critically informed public?
Mr. Dahmail further documents that, Mr. Allawi is the "U.S.-installed interim Prime Minister, who has had longstanding ties with the British intelligence service MI6 and the CIA." LINK
Investigative Journalist Dahr Jamail, also reports that Allawi's "media commission had sent out an official 'order' for news organisations to "stick to the government line on the U.S.-led offensive in Fallujah, or face legal action." The warning was sent on the letterhead of Mr. Allawi.
The result is that Iraq has become under the Bush administration, a far worse "modern Stalinist" police state, than Iraq had ever been under Saddam Hussein. Over 1 million people in Iraq have been reportedly killed, as the direct result of the Bush regime's pre-emptive War in Iraq. This is in addition to the over 73,000 U.S. military personnel already killed, as documented by U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
Mr. Bush has coordinated an effort to limit the American public's understanding of the current Iraq War, based upon the myth-making presentation of the War. That myth-making" has sought to convince Americans, in part, that the war is taking a far less toll of American lives.
Indeed, it is apparent that the U.S. Bush administration, is anxious to "declare progress" and "victory" in Iraq, so that it can pursue its further military expansionist agenda against Iran. Seymour M. Hersh has sounded alarm bells about the Bush regime's nuclear war ambitions against Iran. LINK
But, "The Bush administration has rejected comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam, which traumatized Americans a generation ago, with a sad procession of military body bags and television footage of grim wartime cruelty," observed China Daily. LINK
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by Paul Johnson
U.S. President George W. Bush
U.S. media organizations like CNN, NBC, FOX and others recently reported that the death total of U.S. combatants in Iraq War had just reached 4,000. The problem is that this data seems to be an intentional distortion. Indeed, official U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs data indicates that the death total from the attrition of Iraq Wars had already reached 73,846, as of May 2007. In comparison Sky News reports that during the Vietnam War, 58,000 soldiers were killed between 1964 and 1973, an average of 26 a day. LINK It is indeed, a well known fact that in a so-called free society, the U.S. President George W. Bush administration has banned media organizations from photographing most of the coffins, along with the maimed military personnel returning into the U.S. from Iraq. And, if you think that the U.S. President Bush administration has followed "freedom of the press" in Iraq, you have made a sudden mistake.
Journalists in Iraq, who have not prostituted themselves into disseminating the Bush administration's public relations on the "overall success" of the Iraq War, are being subjected to oppressive persecution.
Journalists have complained of fascist-style harassment.
Is this the action of a U.S. President, who is fighting for democracy, that fundamentally relies on transparency toward supporting a critically informed public?
U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs data that showed a death of over 73,000 U.S. soldiers from the Iraq War sugegsts that U.S. Department of Defense representation of death toll of about 4,000 is an apparent distortion.
Indeed, award-winning independent Journalist Dahr Jamail reports that "when the United States handed over power to a 'sovereign' Iraqi interim government, [Paul] Bremer [former U.S. administrator in Iraq] simply passed on the authority to Ayad Allawi." LINK Mr. Dahmail further documents that, Mr. Allawi is the "U.S.-installed interim Prime Minister, who has had longstanding ties with the British intelligence service MI6 and the CIA." LINK
Investigative Journalist Dahr Jamail, also reports that Allawi's "media commission had sent out an official 'order' for news organisations to "stick to the government line on the U.S.-led offensive in Fallujah, or face legal action." The warning was sent on the letterhead of Mr. Allawi.
The result is that Iraq has become under the Bush administration, a far worse "modern Stalinist" police state, than Iraq had ever been under Saddam Hussein. Over 1 million people in Iraq have been reportedly killed, as the direct result of the Bush regime's pre-emptive War in Iraq. This is in addition to the over 73,000 U.S. military personnel already killed, as documented by U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
Mr. Bush has coordinated an effort to limit the American public's understanding of the current Iraq War, based upon the myth-making presentation of the War. That myth-making" has sought to convince Americans, in part, that the war is taking a far less toll of American lives.
Indeed, it is apparent that the U.S. Bush administration, is anxious to "declare progress" and "victory" in Iraq, so that it can pursue its further military expansionist agenda against Iran. Seymour M. Hersh has sounded alarm bells about the Bush regime's nuclear war ambitions against Iran. LINK
But, "The Bush administration has rejected comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam, which traumatized Americans a generation ago, with a sad procession of military body bags and television footage of grim wartime cruelty," observed China Daily. LINK
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