October 11, 2006



IMPEACH BUSH




IMPEACH CHENEY


BUSH AS GRIM REAPER

Since George W. Bush likes to play dress up, maybe he should don clothes fitting to his personality. He should wear a black robe and carry a sickle and assume the classic pose of the Grim Reaper. According to a new study, Bush may be responsible for the deaths of 654,000 Iraqis since launching his unnecessary war to find non-existent weapons of mass destruction. An earlier study placed the number at 100,000 Iraqis. Bush claims that the number is 30,000. Even if that number were true, which seems unlikely, that would be ten times the number killed in the attacks on 9/11. This article by Jonathan Bor is at www.commondreams.org:

In an update of a two-year-old survey that sparked wide disagreement, Johns Hopkins researchers now estimate that more than a half-million Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion and its bloody aftermath.

Reporting this week in the online edition of The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, the researchers estimated that 654,000 more Iraqis died of various causes after the invasion than would have died in a comparable period before.

The scientists attributed 600,000 of those deaths to acts of violence.

Gunshots emerged as the leading cause of death, accounting for 56 percent of the total. Airstrikes, car bombs and other explosions each accounted for 13 percent to 14 percent. Almost 60 percent of the deaths were among males 15 to 44.

"In this conflict, like all other recent conflicts, it's the population that bears the consequences," said Dr. Gilbert Burnham, lead author and co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.