"Not On My Watch"

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Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Why is it that the phrases - "not on my watch" or "never again" are the most hot air any politician can breath?

Let's take a look at what is happening on George W. Bush's watch -- now although it's veracity could be called into question, American and Iraqi health officials estimate that some 655,000 Iraqis have died since Hussein got the boot. If that's true, it only half of that number is true, then we're looking at something akin to... akin to... Darfur! Where at least 250,000 Sudanese have been slaughtered.

Curiously that puts a potential death toll -- for stoppable, avoidable violence, upwards of 1 million people. Kind of reminds me of the wholesale genocide in Rwanda about a decade ago.

I'll tell you something though, what's the deal with reform? I've spoken earlier about the need for a Reformation in Islam, much like what we saw in Christianity and Hebrew teachings. Now here's something I learned recently about even the calls for reform -- in an Islamic state/society those calls are a crime punishable by death. And believe you me, there would be NO shortage of so-called protectors of the faith brandishing Black & Decker drills and other hardware tools to dismember who ever was speaking out. I guess it has to do with the fact that Muhammed told muthafuckas that what he was doing was the final correction -- ain't nothing else is need.

I link this to what's going on in Sudan and Iraq, because they are both Islamic societies (at the ruling party in Sudan is) and they're causing problems globally... can we all wish for the day when religious violence based on some crap from the so-called Holy Land is only read out in out-of-print history books?