Have You Had Enough Blood Yet, America?

Lest we forget, 3,000 innocent civilians were killed on 9/11. In the days that followed, the US media, politicians and indeed civilians were baying for bloody vengeance.

We now learn that Iraqi civilian deaths have been conservatively estimated at 100,000. That is more than 33 times the number killed in the World Trade Centres.

The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher than before the war, primarily because of indiscriminate US bombing of civilian areas. Two-thirds of violent deaths in the study were reported in Fallujah, where US forces continue to mass for a "final" massive ground assault.

I have been calling the Falluja assault a massacre for some time now on this blog. It's time the media started acknowledging it for what it is, too.

People of America, it's time to stop the bloodshed. It's time to pull your troops out of Iraq and give the country back to the Iraqis. You have no business there.

Update: It's little wonder British cinema-goers have just voted Bush Film Villian Of The Year for his role in Fahrenheit 911.