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...In a bipartisan Congressional briefing hosted by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) and Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) the authors of the Lancet Study, which found that as many as 650,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed during the war, will present their full findings to Congress.


Les Roberts, co-author of the Lancet Report, at the Congressional briefing chaired by Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul, today, in rotation broadcast on C-SPAN, said that what's missing, what should be there but isn't, is contrition.
Specifically contrition, in the attitude of those who seek withdrawal from Iraq, toward the Iraqi people.
He didn't say this specifically but it's clear there's something psychopathic in just leaving, even in just talking about leaving, as though that's all it will take.
What do you say to them as you're leaving?
All this noise about the Iraqis "stepping up to the plate" is a diversion, a way of sounding in charge, a way of pretending there's something more important, some aspect of governance or control that's primary, when there isn't.
The only way forward now that doesn't demand sincere articulated contrition is outright aggression, a stripping away of the hypocrisy of "democracy" and "liberation" as motive and getting right down to the real blood and guts of total domination - intentionally destroying Iraq doesn't call for remorse. Every other possibility does.