In Iraq today, there are four million refugees. In Iraq today, seventy per cent of the country’s children are not attending school. One million people have died as a result of the Bush regime’s act of butchery.
In Iraq today, one third of the population (24 million) need emergency aid. In Iraq today, most of the attacks do not come from Islamist terrorist groups against the population, but indeed, 85 per cent of attacks are against occupation forces or the invisible army of “collaborators”. These are the 200.000 mercenaries or “private contractors” (in addition to the 170.000 US troops) whose casualties do no count in the statistics. (The private contractors operate with a guarantee of immunity from prosecution).
These attacks number some 150 per day and occasion up to 5.000 victims each month, not the watered-down statistics presented by Washington.
In Iraq today, 70 per cent of the population has no access to drinking water, after the supply was targeted by US military aircraft and after rebuilding contracts were allocated without tender to the clique of corporate elistists gravitating around the Bush regime and keeping it in power at the expense of its hard-working citizens.
In Iraq today, 43% of the population lives in “absolute poverty” (Oxfam), 50% of the population is unemployed, 2 million people live in precarious conditions without access to food aid, 40% of the country’s qualified personnel have left, the country’s thousands of years of cultural heritage lie in ruins, 2.5 million citizens live in refugee camps abroad, half a million of these being children, who remain without any access to education.
In Iraq today, child prostitution (unheard of under the Government of President Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti) is a growing phenomenon, women have lost practically all their freedoms and since 2003, there are 50.000 new prostitutes. Iraq today constitutes the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis, with 40 to 50.000 people fleeing there homes every month.
If this is “kicking ass”, then congratulations, Mr. Bush, on the wise way in which you have invested the hard-earned hundreds of billions of dollars your citizens pay in taxes. Maybe two years after Hurricane Katrina, as much money has been pumped into New Orleans, or could it be that the Hurricane acted as an excuse for the corporate elitists which gravitate around the Bush regime to have taken advantage of the chaos and bought up huge tracts of cheap land for development projects?
Is this freedom and democracy, winning hearts and minds with shock and awe tactics? Or should the guy who claims to “kick ass” have his “ass” kicked?
Source: Workers’ World, based on updated international reports
Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
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