Dear Editor,
Whenever the casualties of the Iraq war are discussed in the western media, the emphasis is on the U.S. casualties. No mention is usually made of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children who have been killed, brutalized and tortured by the ‘liberators’ from the west.
You seem to follow the same pattern, based on your editorial of 1st April 2008 – and have the same mindset as the western media of the impact of the unjust war initiated by Bush and his republican cohorts – many of whom have benefited enormously from war contracts. When the Iraq war was started, I wondered why George Bush did not invade North Korea who had many more weapons of mass destruction. Then I remembered – North Korea has no oil.
Why should the death of one US soldier be more devastating than the life of an Iraqi – many of whom were civilians. If Venezuela invades Guyana, I do hope that Guyanese will inflict as many casualties as possible on the invaders (Liberators).
Your attitude speaks of Uncle Tomism.
Yours faithfully,
M Y Bacchus
Editor’s note
Dr Bacchus’s letter is a bizarre misreading of the editorial `The war without end’. Two quotes from it should clearly indicate this:
“The decision not to take body counts of the Iraqi dead – even though each milestone of US combat deaths has dominated the headlines – and the largely unstated assumption that whatever mess the occupation leaves behind will be the Iraqis’ problem, and theirs alone, has amplified this impression of America’s indifference.”
“There are no good solutions left in Iraq and until America is willing to wrestle truthfully with the manifold failures of the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld triumvirate, its thinly disguised holding operation will force it to remain fatally embroiled in a conflict that still has no end in sight.”
This newspaper has opposed the war in Iraq from the time of the invasion five years ago.
