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U.S. foreign policy buried in debris from Israeli bombs - by Askia Muhammad
Despite mounting civilian casualties on all sides, the U.S. continues to provide Israel with a green light to destroy Lebanon and the Gaza Strip,” said the Council for the National Interest Foundation in a statement supporting a day of national telephone call-ins to support House Congressional Resolution 450, the measure proposed by Rep. Kucinich. Another group of activists and Washington residents—joined by protestors who have been staging a hunger strike at the White House aimed at immediately bringing home U.S. troops from Iraq—staged a mock funeral at the Israeli embassy. “One, two, three, four: We don’t want your racist war. Five, six, seven, eight: Israel is a terrorist state!” demonstrators chanted near the embassy, carrying coffins draped with black flags. “There are definite links between the fighting in Lebanon and Iraq,” CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin told The Final Call. She is also one of the organizers, who were in the 23rd day of the White House “Troops Home Fast” on the day of the protest at the Israeli embassy.
Meanwhile in Iraq, after famously telling reporters that they "don't do body counts", Pentagon officials now say that they have in fact been keeping a record of civilian casualties in Iraq for one year. And while that number remains classified, independent estimates suggest that at least 50,000 people have died in the country since the 2003 invasion. According to statistics compiled by the Baghdad morgue, the Iraqi Health Ministry and other agencies, as reported recently in the Los Angeles Times, that total is 20,000 higher than the Bush administration had previously estimated. Last year, Mr. Bush asserted that, "30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis." In terms of population size, this would be equivalent to 570,000 U.S. citizens killed in the same period of time, noted a Jun. 25 LA Times article.
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