In this article the question is asked Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?
A state-of-the-art research study published in October 12, 2006 issue of The Lancet (the most prestigious British medical journal) concluded that -- as of a year ago -- 600,000 Iraqis had died violently due to the war in Iraq. That is, the Iraqi death rate for the first 39 months of the war was just about 15,000 per month.
That wasn't the worst of it, because the death rate was increasing precipitously, and during the first half of 2006 the monthly rate was approximately 30,000 per month, a rate that no doubt has increased further during the ferocious fighting associated with the current American surge.
Remember that is up to October 2005 and almost two more years of increased violence has passed since then.
It is difficult to imagine this amount of bloodshed. If you take all your family, all your friends and work mates, you might come to several hundred people. That would amount to the morning of one day of killing. Can you imagine the horror of that? Can you imagine repeating that again in the afternoon, again in the evening and again in the night? What about every day of every week, year after year.
And why is this being done? Quite simply because the likes of Bush and Cheney have been telling lies for money. And they got Blair to go along with them. The scale of their lies is so great that many people cannot believe that people would stoop that low, so they pretend that it isn't happening. These men have been paid billions of dollars to tell lies to profit other evil men who wish to sell weapons of mass destruction and to steal and / or control oil. What they have accused others of in their lies, they have actually done.
The following pictures represent the typical result of just one typical hour of USA activities in Iraq. And look at what America's young people are turning into! Gloating at the death and suffering that they cause. They will make model citizens when they come home won't they?

For more pictures like this go here and here and here.
I know that this is hard to look at. Imagine how much harder it is to live with or die with. Whoever in the USA does not act now to impeach Bush and Cheney is equally responsible. American's elected them. They were known to be liars and criminals at the last election. Their list of crimes grows daily and they show contempt for the law in many ways.
Both the USA and UK must make certain that they look for better morals from their leaders in future. The Democrat party is no better than the Republicans. Their leaders do not set out to impeach Bush and Cheney for only one reason. That reason is not that they wouldn't be successful. It is that they do not want new leaders now, as they think they can easily win the next election if they do not act.

From time to time I have a rave about something. I write letters to the NZ Listener and the NZ Herald but they never publish them. Does that make me a subversive? Probably not, but it seems to me that people with very dim thoughts get given lots of free air while useful thoughts often get ignored. OK, you can ignore the rest of this now ...
Well, these thoughts are about social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all, even though most people don't pay much attention to them.