Looking from the side at atrocities


John Pilger likens the reaction of ordinary people in the UK, Australia and the US to what is going in Iraq to what "good Germans" did in the 1930s and 1940s. They "looking from the side" and pretended not to see what was happening. But those at the top know exactly what is going on and do not look from the side. They look full on. A passage:
"Last October, the Lancet published research by Johns Hopkins University in the US and al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad which calculated that 655,000 Iraqis had died as a direct result of the Anglo-American invasion. Downing Street officials derided the study as “flawed.” They were lying. They knew that the chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defense, Sir Roy Anderson, had backed the survey, describing its methods as “robust” and “close to best practice,” and other government officials had secretly approved the “tried and tested way of measuring mortality in conflict zones.” The figure for Iraqi deaths is now estimated at close to a million – carnage equivalent to that caused by the Anglo-American economic siege of Iraq in the 1990s, which produced the deaths of half a million infants under the age of five, verified by Unicef. That, too, was dismissed contemptuously by Blair."

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Posted: Wed - April 18, 2007 at 03:37 PM        

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