With Odds of 100 to 1, America Should Remember, The Whole World is Watching

This is one of those things where, if you really are concerned about living in a safer America, you need to consider how the story is playing in the foreign press:

"Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children, an abstract of the report published on the website of the medical journal Lancet said."



"A study designed and conducted by two American universities and a Baghdad institution estimates that a staggering 100,000 may have died in the 18-months since the United States invaded Iraq."



"The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher than in the period before the war, the researchers reported."



"Number of American troops killed in Iraq as of October 28: around 1,100. Number of Iraqis estimated killed: more than 100,000."



"Neither the invading US forces nor the Iraqi interim government have tallied deaths caused by the invading forces."

The whole world is watching.



Now, let's say that each of the 100,000 killed left behind a grieving family member or two. Assuming they weren't subsequently killed themselves that would be almost many new enemies of the United States as there are tons of high explosives missing from Al Qaqaa.



Just think, an aggrieved father, out of work since the Americans invaded his country, destroyed the Iraqi economy, and brought in U.S. contractors to take whatever jobs might be left. No electricity, no prospects for the future, and nothing to loose now that his family has been killed.



In fact, he's got nothing left in this world, except a ton of high explosives that his neighbor looted after the George W. Bush invaded his country.



And the Whole World is Watching.



In other news:

"It is crucial for the American president to be consistent. I have learned the American president must base decisions on principle - core convictions on which he should never waver," George W. Bush told a group of some 5,000 people in Toledo.



Later that day, also in Toledo, John F. Kerry exhorted a crowd of 80,000 supporters, "Can you imagine President Kennedy, in the wake of the Bay of Pigs, standing up and telling the American people that he couldn't think of a single mistake he'd made? That he would do everything again exactly the same way? Mr. President, John Kennedy was a leader who knew how to take responsibility for his actions. Mr. Bush, it's time for you to take responsibility for yours. Our troops in Iraq are doing a heroic job. The problem is, our commander in chief isn't doing his."

AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING US.



Times of India - 100:1 is the Iraqi-US death ratio