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Sheffield 100th Military Death Vigil

C | 02.02.2006 11:31 | Anti-militarism | Sheffield

There was a vigil outside Sheffield Town Hall on 1st Feb to mark death of the 100th British soldier killed in Iraq.




Other protests around the country included:

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2006/02/332767.html

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/westcountry/2006/02/332784.html

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2006/02/332785.html

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/02/332792.html

More info on the numbers slaughtered to prop up the petro dollar and the "New World Order":

Civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq:

Min: 28287
Max: 31891

 http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

U.S. and Coalition/Casualties:

There have been 2,444 coalition deaths, 2,242 Americans, one Australian, 100 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, two Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 26 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of February 1, 2006, according to a CNN count.

 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

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Those that fight for Blair, and those that fight against

03.02.2006 02:11

When a vigil turns into 'holocaust denial'. The dead murdered as a consequence of Blair's invasion number in excess of 300,000, and with the latest estimates for 'civilian' (a nasty racist word used to denegrate those that defend an attacked nation) dead alone exceeding 250,000, I begin to suspect that the total is MASSIVELY in excess.

We should not be suprised at those that would claim to be against the war, but provide Blair's own propaganda figures for the number of those slaughtered. But then, if people accepted the true figure of dead in Iraq, it becomes all too obvious that Blair is planning to exterminate MILLIONS in Iran, and those that have arranged and worded the recent vigils on behalf of Blair certainly don't want people thinking along those lines.

Look carefully at these MANY MANY vigil reports, and note the language they use. Is Blair a murderer? Was the attack an AGGRESSIVE WAR? Are those that attempted to defend Iraq turned into sub-humans, and excluded from memorial? Did you see the words 'war crime'? Was the smallest number possible used to describe the Iraqi dead? Even for those of you that are foolish enough to think that a useful purpose is served by making heroes of AGGRESSIVE WAR soldiers, was the language of the reports weak or strong?

Blair's covert agents WILL NOT hurt their master. Pushed, they will find EVERY EXCUSE UNDER THE SUN why the best strategy for an anti-war movement is to be weak and ineffective. They take positions of leadership to run the movement into the ground, or better, to persuade it to engage in activities that positively benefit Blair, and his war aims.

twilight


don't use body count

03.02.2006 09:47

Iraq Body Count is seriously flawed in its methodology as it relies on western media accounts to confirm deaths. For this reason it is certainly a massive underestimate of casualties as we know how imbedded reporting, etc has skewed that coverage. If you don't believe me, just check which figures Bush & Blair use - IBC's, the lowest figures.

For a more serious account quote the Roberts report from the Lancet, estimating casualties at around 100,000. This is a peer-reviewed paper and is by an author who's previous count of the victims of the Congolese civil war has been praised.

media watcher