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Hearts and Minds
The self-deception is becoming so ludicrous that we tend not to get angry anymore.
Some idiotic (allegedly independent) estimates put the number of civilian deaths at 16,000 – a number which was mentioned even in the reputable Washington Post. But the mere mentioning of this number without questioning it is unethical – 16,000 is simple too big a damn lie. One needs to look no further than the official coalition casualities which stands at 1,434 today. And how many out-dated Viagra one has to consume in order to believe that the number of civilian deaths is only marginally 10 times higher than the official coalition casualities? 100 times maybe.
Even with the few instances that came to light (most notably Sites and now Home), we hear some people still trying to give legitimacy to these killings by calling them mercy killing. Self-deception is fine if it is only to avoid saying sorry but you do not need to be a bastard to do it.
We should know how precise the ‘precision fire’ is because it did, in more than one occasion, accidentally bombed and killed their own men.
Not unlike the Japanese killings in Nanking where over 300,000 civilians were killed, the horrific episode was skated over in Japanese textbooks and some right-wing Japanese even called it “one of the biggest lies in the century’ despite ample documentated evidence.
Baghdad may not be Nanking yet though it is getting there fast. We all know that War is cruel and has no mercy and if they want to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people by putting one bullet to their hearts and one bullet to their minds, do it. But please do it as an American and not an idiot American.
Posted on December 12, 2004 03:51 PM
Categories: The Intelligent
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