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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

GOP Hits Shameless New Extremes to Protect Interests of Wealthy at the Expense of Everyone Else


From Iraq to OWS, Republicans are going to increasingly absurd measures to protect the wealthy.
November 15, 2011

According to the most reliable counts, the United States’ invasion and occupation of Iraq has killed 100,000 Iraqi civilians, 650,000 Iraqi civilians
or more than 1 million Iraqi civilians. In other words, we’ve vaporized the equivalent of Billings, Mont. (pop. 104,170), Memphis, Tenn. (pop. 646,889) or San Jose, Calif. (pop. 945,942).

Horrifying as these statistics are, imagine how much more disgusted you would be if a foreign power actually did vaporize those cities, and then followed up that annihilation by having its leading politicians and pundits demand that Americans pay reparations for the privilege of experiencing such devastation.READ MORE

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