Death Toll

More than 3400 Iraqis have been killed in July of this year. Only 2752 (by their count) Americans died on Sept 11, 2001. To date somewhere between 40 and 45 thousand Iraqis have died in the American occupation of Iraq.

Iraq today is the US's modern day Vietnam. You'd have to be blind to not have seen this coming. Bush Sr. didn't have the cojones to take Saddam out when he had the chance and now Bush Jr. is bogged down in a war that is based on total lies.

I'm not trying to diminish the efforts of the brave soldiers of both our military and our cousins to the south. Unfortunately, these military people don't realize that they are no different than the so called enemies that they are fighting.

From both sides, this is a war of idealogy. Instead of agreeing to disagree, both sides have chosen to wage open war against each other. This is a macroscopic version of the "war" between Israel and Hezbollah.

The United States seems to think that they hold some sort of moral "high ground" against the Fundamentalist Islamic elements, when in all reality they are operating from the EXACT same mindset. The US has a long history of waging war against anyone holding a different ideolgy than them. It stems from the very roots of their coming into being.

The US foolishly believes that they can bully everyone to accept their worldview, that their way is the "right" way. They can't accept that anyone else might have a different perspective which I find laughable in light of the fact that they are dealing with belief systems that are thousands of years old verses their world view that has evolved over a few hundred years.

Regardless of what "history" may say, Israel has only existed as a country since May 14, 1948. The US support of Israel has done much to inflame the ire of radical Islam and yet they still seem unable to understand why such factions view them with such hatred.

The US continues to pour money and military hardware into Israel, allowing them to bully their Middle-East neighbours. The recent conflict between Hezbollah and Israel speaks volumes of Israel's conduct as a "good neighbour" in the middle-east.

The United States will continue to suffer at the hands of Islamic Fundamentalists and their own pathetic government. So long as the US continues their "War on Terror" the civil rights of the common US citizen will continue to be eroded to the point that the US will be functionally identical to the Islamic states that they have so vehemently opposed.

I don't know if that is the ultimate plan of the US goverment, to use the events of late as an excuse to turn the United States into a police state, but I hope that their delirium doesn't infect our fragile government here north of the border.