Showing posts with label iraq war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iraq war. Show all posts

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Another reason Iraq was wrong

Wiki leaks has been at it again. From the BBC::

The documents also suggest "hundreds" of civilians were killed at US military checkpoints after the invasion in 2003.
And the files show the US kept records of civilian deaths, despite previously denying it. The death toll was put at 109,000, of whom 66,081 were civilians.

Another Hiroshima in terms of innocent deaths.

Also mentioned was detailed information on tourcher which US authorities knew about and did nothing::

 US army field logs published by Wikileaks describe the apparent torture of Iraqi detainees by the Iraqi authorities, sometimes using electrocution, electric drills and in some cases even executing detainees, says the BBC's Adam Brookes, who has examined some of the files.
The US military knew of the abuses, the documents suggest, but reports were sent up the chain of command marked "no further investigation"
Horrific.

I wouldn't be able to sleep if I was George Bush or Tony Blair on such a flimsy excuse of going to war.

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Alexander the great and Iraq

Alexander the Great

Currently reading Alexander the Great. One of the things that interested me,  was how especially earlier in his campaigns, was how he would change administration of a conquered nation. Simply he would remove the head of the nation, and get the rest of the administration to swear allegiance to him. Not really changing the mechanisms of how government is run.
I can't help contrast the invasion of Iraq where the US lead forces sacked everyone including the army, police; the place went into chaos.

History is important...