ULTIMATE SACRIFICE

Many newspapers, magazines and of course the very patriotic TV networks, give the list of the US soldiers died in Iraq. (No mention of the MORE THAN 100,000 IRAQI CIVILIANS KILLED BY THE US MILITARY FORCES of course!). On The Washington Post on line for example there is a section called "US FATALITIES: Faces of the Fallen. Two interactive guides detail those who made the ultimate sacrifice".

Let's take a quick look at the language used here:
- FATALITIES: the word implies "something established by fate". Was the invasion of Iraq wanted by fate, destiny? Or are there people responsible for this war of aggression and its results?
- ULTIMATE SACRIFICE: the phrase here suggests "something offered in sacrifice". The language is full of nobility and recalls high values… It’s the same language used by Hitler and Mussolini. The same language used by colonial powers. The very same language. This is the language of tyrannies, dictatorial regimes. It smells of fascism and death.

These young men and women didn't even start their lives and were sent to kill other people, people who did nothing to them or to their country. They were sent far away from home, through a brain washing process that involves complicity and unity by all the sides of the establishment. It is not just Mr. War Criminal Bush and his gang of murderers and thugs to be responsible for this tragedy. The whole establishment, the entire ruling class that controls the government, the media and the economy must be held accountable.

As Howard Zinn put it very eloquently, "There is no flag big enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people".