[Media-watch] Fw: Falluja letter

David McKnight david at milwr.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Nov 9 12:18:05 GMT 2004


Hi All
below is a letter I have sent to my local press regarding the situation in Falluja. My MP is the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Blair and has fed his constituents the same lies as his Master.

Regards
David
----- Original Message ----- 
From: David McKnight 
To: Flintshire Chronicle 
Cc: Chronicle 
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:11 PM
Subject: letter


The illegal occupying forces of Britain and the US are currently unleashing a bloody and murderous assault on the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi. The first targets in Falluja were hospitals - so the US didn't have to face criticism from Iraqi doctors about civilian casualties. This is sickening. The assault is likely to become a full-on massacre in the coming days. The official reason for the attack on Falluja is that the Jordanian extremist Abu Musab al Zarqawi is based in the city. CIA stooge Iyad Allawi who also happens to be Iraqs US-appointed Prime Minister has said that Fallujans can avoid an all-out attack if they hand over Zarqawi. City elders and civil groups claim that Zarqawi (if such a person actually exists) is not in Falluja. The Americans no longer believe Zarqawi to be in the city yet continue to bomb daily, killing innocent women and children whilst flattening houses, mosques, schools and medical centres. Yet the interim Iraqi president, Ghazi al-Yawar, has rejected the coalition's handling of the crisis: "I completely disagree with those who see a need to decide [Falluja] through military action." He added: "The coalition's handling of this crisis is wrong. It's like someone who fired bullets at his horse's head just because a fly landed on it; the horse died and the fly went away." I would like to ask my elected representative, David Hanson MP - someone who has, thusfar, given his wholehearted support to Mr Blair and Mr Bush - if he agrees with the policy in Falluja. Two weeks ago, the esteemed medical journal, The Lancet, published an extensively peer-reviewed article, in which the authors claimed that at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of the US led invasion and subsequent occupation. Falluja is a city the size of Cardiff - with 300,000 residents. The Liars Corps in Washington and Downing St. inform us that there are only terrorists left in the city. US commanders, however, estimate that upto 50% of the population remain. This means that at least 150,000 civilians are being left without food, water or electricity whilst being terrorised by 500lb bombs, helicopter gunships, tanks and deadly sniper fire. Young British troops are being blown to pieces while our comfortable and well rewarded politicians continue to lie to them, their families and the Iraqi people. How many more innocent lives will it take before cowards like Mr Hanson see the barbaric folly that is this governments policy in Iraq?

Yours sincerely

Mr DJ McKnight




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