Oct 28, 2004

This is W.'s "Culture of Life"

Numbers out today: the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has resulted in the deaths of at least 100,000 Iraqis. "Most individuals killed by coalition forces were women and children," according to researches at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and the Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. And as a consequence of the U.S. war against the people of Iraq, infant mortality rose from 29 deaths per 1,000 live births before the war to 57 deaths per 1,000 afterward.

"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," said Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in a report published online by The Lancet medical journal.

"The use of air power in areas with lots of civilians appears to be killing a lot of women and children," Roberts told Reuters.

This isn't going to stop just because we elect John Kerry.

Bush and Kerry have both pledged to continue this violent occupation & to "win" in Iraq. The people of Iraq are desperately trying to regain their sovereignty and right to determine their own futures without outside intervention.

There are lots of anti-war actions coming up -- culminating in a mass action along the route of the Inaugural parade on January 20 in Washington, DC. 

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