Bury the Dead

 

  

To:       US Consular General, Montréal

From: The Dead

                                                                                                September 15th, 2005

Dear Consular General,

We are writing to you today because we need you to answer some questions for us. We will be at the front entrance of the US Consulate as of noon on Monday September 19th, awaiting you to come out to address our concerns.

US General Tommy Franks, speaking on the war in Iraq, claimed: “We don’t do body counts.” The US administration in collusion with corporate media have consistently tried to cover-up the true and total horrors of the Iraqi invasion, even going as far as to ban film coverage of troops coming home in coffins. Why is the US Government so reluctant to tally up the dead? The deaths, after all, were brought on by this unmitigated disaster – a greedy and imperialistic invasion for oil cloaked as a mission against Weapons of Mass Destruction, which never existed. I suspect that their reason for trying to keep things hushed up is this:

  • There a minimum of 24712 dead Iraqi civilians.
  • There are 1897 dead US troops
  • There are 294 dead foreign contactors, many of them American
  • There are 96 dead troops from the UK
  • There are 101 troops killed from other “coalition” countries
  • There are 47 dead journalists
  • There are many, many more dead who have not been accounted for
  • There are also 14265 wounded US soldiers, many of them disfigured
  • The minimum total deaths resulting from this invasion is 27147 people
  • The real number of deaths is likely to be significantly higher.

We find it unfortunate that the US government is refusing to add up the deaths caused by their imperialist invasion. We would like to see some accountability, responsibility and some explanation. Please answer the following question for us:

WHY WERE OVER 30,000 PEOPLE KILLED FOR OIL?

I am sure you will understand that the dead cannot rest in peace until explanations are made as to why we lost our lives, lives that should have been long and productive. Please come out of your office and explain yourself. We will be waiting in front of the Consulate to hear from you.

Sincerely,

The Dead

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