Thursday, September 23, 2004
Text of Alawi's address to Congress
Prime Minister Alawi of Iraq gave a speech to Congress. Kerry called it "putting the best face on" a bad situation.
After Rathergate, I am not certain where to turn for accurate information on Iraq. There are Blogs with information completely different from what I hear on the news.
Here's a sample thought. Alawi says there were one million Iraqi's murdered by Hussein's gang. That's about 50,000 per year. The estimates I've seen of Iraqi deaths since the US invaded are between 10,000 and 30,000 (the higher estimates include everyone, the terrorists as well as the "women and children".) So taking the higher estimate, have we killed 30,000, or have we SAVED 20,000? And even if the numbers were closer, are the victims of the war more or less likely to be innocent than the women and children murdered as political opponents of Hussein?
After Rathergate, I am not certain where to turn for accurate information on Iraq. There are Blogs with information completely different from what I hear on the news.
Here's a sample thought. Alawi says there were one million Iraqi's murdered by Hussein's gang. That's about 50,000 per year. The estimates I've seen of Iraqi deaths since the US invaded are between 10,000 and 30,000 (the higher estimates include everyone, the terrorists as well as the "women and children".) So taking the higher estimate, have we killed 30,000, or have we SAVED 20,000? And even if the numbers were closer, are the victims of the war more or less likely to be innocent than the women and children murdered as political opponents of Hussein?
# posted by Unknown @ 2:55 PM 
