Bad American

AFP From Information Clearing House

(or other news the American nets will never tell you because it might make you feel bad about our government and its brave troops)

31/01/08 - — LONDON (AFP) — More than one million Iraqis have died because of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, according to a study published Wednesday.

The highest rate of deaths throughout the country occurred in Baghdad, where more than 40 percent of households had lost a family member.

Spin it any way you want to, if we hadn’t launched an illegal and immoral war of aggression against Iraq, 98 percent of these people would probably be alive today.

Now ask the average American if they give a damn about Iraqi lives.

History will indeed judge us - at the least the history not written by Americans for American school kids.

Of course, Hillary Clinton loves the slaughter and Barack Obama cares too much about what Tel Aviv and AIPAC think to do much but sit there and stew:

“When Bush proclaimed, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, some may deny the surge is working, but among terrorists there is no doubt,’ Clinton sprang to her feet in applause but Obama remained firmly seated. The president’s line divided most of the Democratic audience, with nearly half standing to applaud and the other half sitting in stony silence.”

So here the lines are clearly drawn. In the presence of Power, a candidate who spun and twisted her own rapidly shifting position on the Iraq war is suddenly struck with an attack of wordless honesty: applauding the mythical “surge” and the war she’ll inherit and prosecute to the fullest, while her challenger sits on his hands and stares into futurity.

Ah, but she still had the presence of mind to calculate her responses somewhat, even as the truth serum worked its way through her system:

“In one instance Clinton appeared to gauge Obama’s response before showing her own. When Bush warned the Iranian government that ‘America will confront those who threaten our troops, we will stand by our allies, and we will defend our vital interests in the Persian Gulf,’ Obama jumped up to applaud. Clinton leaned across Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), seated to her left, to look in Obama’s direction before slowly standing.”

A kumbaya moment for the Democrats, as they all stood and saluted the main plank in the War Party’s platform: the centrality of our newly conquered Middle Eastern possessions. If Obama wins, his “New Frontier” will be a new frontier of empire, and he’s cool with that. So are his followers, or the great mass of them: they’ll follow him into battle in yet another overseas crusade to make the world safe for America’s hubris. As he enunciates platitudes as if they were profundities, his fans swoon. They’ll fall for practically anything he says, as long as he says it as if he were John F. Kennedy channeling Martin Luther King. Once in office, President Obama will be declaring that we’ll “pay any price, bear any burden” faster than you can say “we shall overcome.”

Thanks Justin Raimondo so saying it so eloquently.

Hubris and empire have a steep price and right now it’s the Iraqis who are paying the price.