2ND IRAQ WAR KILLED 1 MILLION IRAQI SOULS

(This is a letter-to-the-editor I just submitted to The Ashland Daily Tidings, a small Oregon newspaper that runs all letters-to-the-editor; I write them often.)

"The Lancet," one of the oldest most established medical journals in the world, conducted a massive, peer-reviewed study to determine the number of Iraqis who died as a result of the last U.S. invasion. They couldn't fix a number for the top possibility, but were sure that(conservatively) no fewer than 654, 965 more Iraqis died than would have under Saddam Hussein's alleged regime of terror. On August 2007, another solid British organization with extensive experience researching in Iraq supplied the top number: 1.2 million, saying that no fewer than one MILLION Iraqis perished. These are the authentic numbers; there's no legitimate controversy.

For the mainstream U.S.A., there hasn't been much of an illegitimate controversy either; These numbers have been off the T.V., out of Newsweek, out of Obama's audacious and hopeful speeches. Whenever the truth slipped through, educated people didn't know just how credible the sources were: didn't want to believe a MILLION.

If our military killed a 1,000,000 Arabs while most voters hailed the invasion without troubling to know the public info that Al Qaeda was not then linked to Iraq, they might have had to consider perspectives like mine.

An aspiring political leader, I've long written that absolute democracy is not a good form of government: that scholars and other worthies need more influence, that there's nothing wrong with tribal and "elitist" rule in Africa, The Middle East, etc., that the best leaders for Afghanistan don't wear fur-hats or have campaign managers.