Våld i Irak

Juan Cole, professor i historia vid University of Michigan, har noterat ett besvärande faktum för USA, vilket han skriver om på sin hemsida:

"[The ministry officials] estimate about 8,000 [dead Iraqi civilians] in the past 10 months, or 800 per month. This number appears not to include persons killed by US military action. Even if the figure of 300,000 for the number of civilian victims of the Baath regime [of Saddam Hussein] is not an exaggeration, that would be over 37 years, or 8,000 per year. That is, American Iraq is presiding over a civilian death rate greater than the highest estimates per month per capita for that of the Baath regime."

Irak är som bekant ett suveränt land, där de amerikanska trupperna bara hjälper till att bygga upp demokratin. (Tack Ali Esbati)


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