Whilst I can understand the political reasons for linking WW2 with the ‘war on terror’ I am not sure of its wisdom. George Bush must recognise that to compare a war that has become part of our folklaw as the ‘good war’ with one that is currently still underway and is far from universally welcomed is unlikely to win over many waverers. Maybe history will judge this war more kindly than our media does currently, but only time will tell.
Meanwhile, there are hard facts to deal with “More than 800 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq, the vast majority since the end of major combat. An estimated 10,000 Iraqi civilians and thousands more Iraqi military have died.”
The UK press today also allege today that in Iraq ‘the US military had been involved in a systemic attempt to conceal the deaths of prisoners in custody. The military routinely declined to perform postmortem examinations on Iraqi prisoners, provided incomplete or misleading death certificates, and deliberately failed to inform the prisoners’ families’
A mortary worker claimed “Under Saddam we got 16 corpses a month. Now we get 40 or 50 a day”
I may be wrong, but I dont think that the Allies behaved like that in World War 2.
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