AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

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I am pretty sure I will be able to recommend it to all serious history buffs, most particularly MAC history buffs:

"The Politically Incorrect Guide to ..." - is published by Regnery Publishing

A Million Iraqi Dead?
The U.S. press buries the evidence

By Patrick McElwee

The Iraq War was sold to Americans in part as an intervention that would benefit Iraqis, "liberating" them from the despotic rule of Saddam Hussein. In retrospect, after no weapons of mass destruction were found and the alleged links to Al-Qaeda were debunked, this supposed humanitarian mission became the central justification for the invasion. Today, it is a major pillar of what support remains among the U.S. public for continuing the occupation.

If Americans are to make informed judgments not only about the invasion of Iraq and whether the occupation should continue, but also about future wars our government may wish to start, then we need to have good information about the war's impact on Iraqis.

But the major U.S. press rarely considers a most basic measure of that impact: how many Iraqis have been killed. When they do mention the toll, they consistently ignore or malign two major statistical studies, the first conducted by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and published in the prestigious British medical journal the Lancet (10/11/06), and the other released by the British polling firm Opinion Research Business (9/07). Both indicate that over a million Iraqis have now been killed. Yet an Associated Press poll in February (2/24/07) that asked Americans how many Iraqis have died received a median response of less than 10,000.

The Johns Hopkins study estimated that, as of July 2006, 655,000 Iraqis had been killed, about 600,000 of them violently and at least 30 percent directly by coalition forces. It updated an earlier study (Lancet, 10/29/04) that estimated that 100,000 Iraqis had died during the first year of the war. An extrapolation of the Johns Hopkins estimate of violent deaths done by Just Foreign Policy (9/18/07) currently stands at over 1.1 million.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3321

How many deaths have been caused by the USA government?
by Richa
This article originally published in the July/August 1995 issue of “The FUNdamentalist”, pp6-7.

The USA has been acknowledged as the most powerful nation on Earth since the end of World War II. It has been lauded, to a degree rightly so, as having provided greater life and happiness for many people throughout the world. But there is another side most U.S. Americans don’t hear about so much, and that those with a let’s-always-be-positive, feel-good mentality tend to ignore or deny.
As with other supremely powerful nations in previous times, the USA has used its power to cause tremendous suffering and death. We are generally not taught this in school nor informed about it in the corporate media, though it is abundantly documented. So, i attempt here a rough measure of the totality of suffering for which USA government policies and actions are responsible.

I believe it is impossible to document this suffering totally, even if one limits it to human beings, as i do here; there are too many intangibles: loss of spouses, children, other family members; destruction of homes, means of livelihood, life works; despair, depression, loss of hope; and much more. However, one major component of this suffering, though still difficult to determine, is inherently much easier to measure: the number of deaths.

Such a measure of suffering has been carefully documented and widely used, for instance, to remind people throughout the world what the German Nazis did to European Jews. Evidence exists that USA government-caused suffering since then may, perhaps, be comparable.


http://richa.dod.net/warandpeace/howmanydeaths.htm

Slavery in the USA ended December 6, 1865 when the 13th Amendment was adopted.

Selected Death Tolls for Wars, Massacres and Atrocities Before the 20th Century

In terms of absolute numbers, the lowest possible (and only barely possible at that) death toll we can put on the trans-Atlantic slave trade is 6 million. If we assume the absolute worst, a death toll as high as 60 million is at the very edge of possibility; however, the likeliest number of deaths would fall somewhere from 15 to 20 million.

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstatv.htm#African

I hope some people will open their eyes to the decency of getting to the point where we allow gay and lesbian individuals to be married and have a happy life... I am getting comments from some segments of the society who feel that it's the wrong thing to do and I'm betraying the conservative cause and things that I've stood for in my life. Some of it is quite hostile. But that goes with the territory. On the other hand, I'm hearing from people, including plenty of Republicans, who are very, very grateful. It has been overwhelmingly gratifying to hear from very decent people who are touched by the fact that we're trying to help.

A woman came up to me in our library in our law firm and said, "You and I haven't worked together, but I'm a lesbian. My partner and I have two children." And she burst into tears. I put my arm around her and she put her arms around me. This stands for what we're trying to accomplish here. It's a principle, but it's a principle that deeply touches human beings. If we're successful, we can help the lives of literally millions of people. And what a great service that would be.

Indeed. Maybe one day, the current insanity on the right will moderate to a point where a humane and conservative reform can win out over the fundamentalist psyche. But not until the toxins of Rove and Fox are drained out of the system.

Re: ican711nm (Post 3722146)
ican711nm wrote:
Books, newsletters, and conservative web sites/talk radio/TV are far more reliable sources.

And according to numerous writers, one of the reasons we are in the mess we are currently in is because liberals who believe as Blatham believes are now controlling the agenda.