A man-made tsunami
Why are there no fundraisers for the Iraqi dead?
By Terry Jones, The Guardian
Here we go again. You know, I question my sanity even giving this rag and their assinine dissertations an iota of space on this blog. But I guess it follows the below postings train of thought... that no matter what happens on this planet, it's the fault of Americans.
The latest blather from the socialist publication has Mr. Jones wondering where the fundraisers are for the Iraqis.
According to the only scientific estimate attempted, Iraqi deaths since the war began number more than 100,000. The tsunami death toll is in the region of 150,000. Yet in the case of Iraq, the media seems reluctant to impress on the public the scale of the carnage.
I haven't seen many TV reporters standing in the ruins of Falluja, breathlessly describing how, in 30 years of reporting, they've never seen a human tragedy on this scale. The Pope hasn't appealed for everyone to remember the Iraqi dead in their prayers, and MTV hasn't gone silent in their memory.
Nor are Blair and Bush falling over each other to show they recognise the scale of the disaster in Iraq. On the contrary, they have been doing their best to conceal the numbers killed.
First of all, neither the Commander in Chief nor the military has ever tried to hid, or discount the number of Iraqi deaths. Mr. Jones evidently has him confused with the other guy... you know... the one who lost? Kerry was the one determined to proclaim that US deaths were "90%" of the casualties, totally ignoring the Iraqi contribution to their own future.
Mr. Jones also doesn't choose to recognize the mass graves we've unearthed since liberating the country from Saddam. No... not a single line of mention of those murders at the hands of a despot. Mr. Jones is very selective because those deaths would skew his particular brand of reality.
Secondly, Mr. Jones also hasn't figured out it isn't the US coalition killing the Iraqis, but radical Islam terrorists... under the leadership of a non-Iraqi, I'd like to add.
But still... it's "our fault", according to Mr. Jones. Terrorists kill innocents, but it is America's fault that they do. Evidently his historical perspective doesn't precede 9:11 either.
So, are deaths caused by bombs and gunfire less worthy of our pity than deaths caused by a giant wave? Or are Iraqi lives less worth counting than Indonesian, Thai, Indian and Swedish?
Why aren't our TV companies and newspapers running fundraisers to help Iraqis whose lives have been wrecked by the invasion? Why aren't they screaming with outrage at the man-made tsunami that we have created in the Middle East? It truly is baffling.
Mr. Jones' "man made tsunami" has been pounding the Iraqi shores for decades. But where was he then? By contrast, the American coalition has exposed the true tragedy of Iraqi deaths by a ruling despot and his associate terrorists to the world by our liberation of that country.
Thus, the above criticism would appear considerly less disingenuous had he opted to commence his rant about charity and Iraqi deaths back when Saddam was systematically murdering his population.
Instead, the reporter's neat and deliberate omission of Saddam's terrorist regime, or the present day residue of Ba'athists and foreign fighters daily assaults on innocent Iraqi citizens, screams volumes. It can not be more plain that his pious attitudes come far too late to be honest in their intent. It is, instead, just another less-than-clever way to bash America.
The Iraqis who have died since the US Coalition's presence have done so at the hands of those bent on preventing them from a future of self-rule and democracy. If Mr. Jones is looking for those to apply the term "freedom fighters", then he should look no further than brave Iraqis fighting for their country.
But then Mr. Jones reserves that term for terrorists. And that speaks volumes for his perspectives.
5 comments:
Mata, the more BS i read about the reaction to the tsunami, the more I wonder what was worse,...the actually devastation or the finger pointing and blame assigning by those too impotent to be of any real assistance.
:-(
You can soon add the mudslide in Ventura County, CA to that list of finger pointing, TrekMed. It has already begun... the "why weren't we warned" bit.
It is always beyond me why people must find someone to blame. In the case of California, it is a given that steady rain for days creates two problems EVERY TIME. That being the roads flood and the hills slide. Everyone who's lived there for any amount of time knows this to be true.
Why must people be warned of the obvious risks?
Personally, had that hill been at my back, I would have been eyeing it warily from day two of the rains.
Y'know, Mata,..your point is valid. People should learn from experiences like this. I can tell you that this summer, with all of the hurricanes that lashed the East Coast, we in Philly experienced something that's never happened before: cliffs overlooking the main interstate into the city had major landslides, too. The non-stop rains softened the ground so much, the tress finally gave way and down came everything. On more than one occasion, the road flooded out and people were trapped for hours.
Now, when the spring finally hits, PennDOT plans on shoring up the cliffs and improving the drainage for future incidents. We've figured it out, why hasn't California?
TrekMedic -- "Why hasn't California" figured it out. California is the proverbial "Atlantis". What I mean is that it is very beautiful. And the people allege themselves as "beautiful". Now to reality: There are so many natural disasters which hit the HUMONGOUS state of CA, where to begin? Then, there's the never-ending brawl between enviro-activists and builders. What's it all about? Money. The big money goes into those things which will bring big dollars to someone. For example, a town was evacuated recently -- apparently a leak in the dam on the hill above them. For one, security freak me, would never buy near a dam. However, those not in CA have teased me mercilessly in past over buying a home in an earthquake addled area, at any rate. Californian's live on the "edge". I think they like their dramas. It's a very fast lifestyle.
It would be like asking New Yorkers -- why don't they deal with their crime situation. Or San Francisco to deal with their out of control STD situation. It ain't gonna happen. Why? There's big bucks involved in keeping these "dramas" alive. I used to think differently about all this; but I don't any more.
Mata? In re the article -- 800,000 Rwandans were murdered due benign neglect (if not encouragement) by the UN and Bill Clinton. These two wouldn't even declare a "war against humanity" was going on. In the case of Iraq? Warning was given. And yes, the numbers of dead is staggering. However, higher numbers than these occur in abortion EACH and EVERY year via the Feminist Tsunami.
And dare we "utter"?
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