Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Racquel Darrian Dance Schedule

So there was half the reputation of a lot of people

And so at last even President Bush admits that weapons of mass destruction to Saddam, those which had justified the military intervention in Iraq, never existed.
This singular statement:
"A lot of people had staked their reputation, saying that weapons of mass destruction were a reason to remove Saddam Hussein."
As has been reported, This confession would suggest to rethink the efficacy of a war to solve a serious problem which could be the possession of weapons of mass destruction by a dictator ...
probably meant, however, that the existence of these spectral weapons was somehow guaranteed by "a lot of people" who had staked their reputations!
Ah! And the evidence?
He had said that there was evidence of the existence of these weapons? The satellite photographs of the deposits, and so on?
No, there was no evidence for a long time and now you know.
What is not known who was involved the reputation of chi si diceva convinto della loro esistenza, e ciò è bastato.
E’ bastato per mentire al mondo intero, tanto per cominciare.
E grazie a queste menzogne( ma forse sarebbe più corretto parlare di scuse, alibi inventati ad hoc!) si è trascinato il mondo intero in una guerra che non ha sconfitto il terrorismo ma ha causato,ssecondo quanto pubblicato dal New England Journal of Medicine, 151.000 morti nella popolazione civile ( fino a Giugno 2006!) che salgono a 655.000 considerando anche le cause indirette di morte ( fonte: Studio dell’Università americana John Hopkins, pubblicato dalla rivista britannica The Lancet).
E se nell’attentato dell’ undici settembre sono morte 2973 persone, nella guerra in Iraq, sino al gennaio 2007, sono caduti 2982 militari statunitensi! ( fonte: globalsecutity.org )
Non ci sono invece dati certi sui morti tra i soldati iracheni.
Di sicuro però si sa che:
2,4 milioni di persone sono sfollate dalle proprie abitazioni e altre 2 milioni rifugiate fuori dall’Iraq.
4 milioni di iracheni dipendono da aiuti alimentari.
Soltanto uno su tre bambini iracheni ha accesso ad acqua potabile e uno su quattro è malnutrito.
Dal marzo 2003, 94 operatori umanitari sono stati uccisi, 248 feriti, 24 arrestati e 89 sequestrati.
(fonte: peace reporter)

Cifre impressionanti vero?
Non però per il generale americano Tommy Franks, che said "we do not do body counts" ("we do not count the dead")
Then, perhaps, have at least some use the money invested to cause these deaths:
difficult to get exact figures. According to some studies the U.S. government $ 800 billion will be spent in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan just before Bush goes out of the White House!
Professor Linda J. Bilmes (Harvard University) and Professor Joseph Stglitz (Columbia University) have also calculated that the total cost, namely that including future costs as a direct consequence of the conflict (medical costs for veterans, interest on the debt needed to raise the money, etc.) will be 3,000 billion dollars. Estimate that assumes that after the election of November, U.S. troops begin to return home.

figures are so huge that it's really difficult to perceive the exact amount. Let's imagine, then, that with $ 200 billion (annual cost of the war in Iraq) could eliminate extreme poverty from the world (135 billion).
The rest of the annual budget could be used to eradicate illiteracy from the world, providing money to developing countries and fighting AIDS (22 billion).
Or even that the cost to the health program to cover Hillary Clinton's 47 million Americans who currently have to do without them would be 100 billion. What Obama, less inclusivo, si aggira sui 60 miliardi.
E questo senza voler parlare della catastrofe causata della crisi economica che necessiterebbe di muovere risorse tra i 500 e i 700 miliardi di dollari per essere affrontata con qualche probabilità di successo…

Incredibile, vero?
Eppure questi non sono discorsi nuovi. Erano tra gli argomenti, unitamente a quelli legati all’inutilità della guerra come strumento per risolvere le controversi internazionali, che venivano fatti e a gran voce da coloro che si opponevano all’invasione dell’Iraq.
Non si volle ascoltarli.
Sembrava anzi che il solo mettere in dubbio l’esistenza delle armi di distruzione di massa fosse come dichiarare la propria complicità
with Islamic terrorism ... No one knew then that the most powerful man in the world could not give credit to the reputation of that "lot of people" which had decided to surround himself.
No one knew then that those people had staked their reputations in the world swear that Saddam Hussein was an enemy to be killed at all costs.

When marching

many do not know who the enemy marching at their head.

The voice that commands them

is the voice of the enemy. And who speaks



the enemy is the enemy himself.
(B. Brecht)

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