ONE TRUE FACT

Can somebody tell me if “sectarian violence” is the new politically correct term for genocide? Perhaps this term is more polite and it helps us to separate ourselves from the massacres that are taking place in and around the city of Baghdad. I can’t help but notice the thousands of bodies that are turning up in the months since Iraq’s democratic elections. Body after body, victim after victim, person after person; all of these individuals are being murdered one by one. Perhaps it is easier for us to label these massacres as sectarian violence, rather than list the names of each human being that is being taken by these acts of hate. I recall how the world ignored the genocide that took place in Rwanda where nearly a million people were slaughtered during the Hutus Vs Tutsi disaster. I see the world reacting the same way to this same script, different cast, that features Iraq and the Sunnis Vs Shiites massacre. While the Bush administration fuzzes over the language that defies this Iraqi Genocide, more and more people are dying. The Bush administration is clearly failing in it’s objectives for Iraq; they are failing our troops; they are failing the Iraqi people and worst of all they are unable to cope with the issues of genocide. They stand around debating the definitions of words so they choose to close their eyes and embrace the lackluster term of sectarian violence rather than to face up to the fact that violent death and genocide is embracing so many human lives. Genocide is Genocide and that is one true fact!