This ia a basic math calculation. What does it mean when we apply these simple skills to the current war in Iraq and Lebanon and Afghanistan?
When we kill massive amounds of innocent children we get the "1+1" part (extrapolated out a few hundred thousand times so far). As a direct result of that, we will have wailing and crying and suffering among the living, which is the "=2" part. Lots of =2 people out there for every dead baby.
When we have a lot of crying, wailing suffering people, that is the "2+2" part, (again, extrapolated out to include all of those who care for dead innocents in the "1+1" part.
After that, we will get rebellion among the disenfranchised, destitute, angry, vengeful rebellios ones, which brings us to "=4".
Let me try to say this another way...
1+1 is below, extrapolated to hundreds of thousands of innocent (so far)
Dead innocent children. Not pretty for anyone with a human soul. Certainly not a chance to say "mission accomplished" or "bring 'em on" or "war on terror" or "Iraqi freedom" or "pre-emtive strike" or "hunting for WMDs". I don't know, maybe I'm extreeme but it seems only logical to assume: If a war costs one child's life, it isn't worth fighting. Any child anywhere in the world. And we have hundreds of thousands already dead, directly resulting from US munitions and millions more ingesting depleted uranium made in the USA in the form of du munitions for export as shells of all sizes and shapes by the thousands of tons... real WMDs, not fantasies... and being used right now ongoingly... The biggest crime against humanity since Hitler and, I believe, far bigger a crime than Hitler's just based upon the 4.5 billion year half-life. Annualize the deaths on those numbers!
=2, is below, and 2+2 extrapolated to millions of crying and wailing (so far)
These are caring Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters, Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Cousins, Distant Relatives, Friends, Neighbors who cry out in the name of the God they worship and in the name of humanity that is hard wired into all of our conscioiusness - Why? Why did they do this to us?
=4 is below, extrapolated to the mis-named "insurgency", both seen and unseen, present and rising new "insurgents" yet to come.
And this is not al-CIA-duh. These are former vegetable salesmen, taxi drivers, farmers, goat herders, newly homeless people who rise up against an occupational force after losing their children, so many children... hundreds of thousands of children, and mothers, elderly fathers, homes, and means of living. This is a truly dedicated soldier that isn't afraid to die...
... but he probably won't come to America and plant a dirty bomb. Only our own governmment would have the best means, the most opportunity and the most to gain from such an act.
Some recent stories from both Lebanon and Iraq may help Americans to understand basic math of human crimes. 1+1=2 and 2+2=4, you lose!
Morally, militarily, economically, and anyway you calculate those numbers, American Citizen, you lose because you failed to stand against this war and this black op, false flag, pre-emptive resource war.
Support your troops, bring them home alive.
-Tate Ulsaker
Some relevant and recent stories attached below...
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Every time I think that things can't get worse, they do
Zena el-Khalil writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 1 August 2006
There is a black dust that is filling the air. We are breathing it in ... constantly. It has settled on my clothes, in my kitchen -- it is everywhere. We are guessing it is from the Jiye power station that was bombed. It is still on fire. It is the power station from which the oil spill originated from.Today I had my first experience at queuing for gas. The shortages have arrived. So many gas stations have shut down. The few that are left have long queues. I waited for 40 minutes, and when my turn came, I was give $10 worth only. I only have a few minutes left before the electricity gets cut. we are running on generator now and they usually turn it off at midnight. [MORE]
Four-year-old Qana survivor's night between the dead
Hanady Salman writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 31 July 2006
Three of my colleagues went to Tyre today. I will spare you the details of what they saw and wrote. There's only one thing that I need to share with you. Saada went to Jabal Amel hospital where she found a four year old boy, Hassan Chalhoub, who had spent the previous night in the morgue between the dead. He had been sleeping next to his sister, six-year-old Zeinab, in the shelter in Qana. There with him were his mom and his dad, who's confined to a wheelchair. Many of the people of Qana are survivors of the 1996 massacre, when 110 people were killed and more than 100 were injured when by Israeli raids on civilians who had sought shelter in a nearby UN base. Thus, many of the people of Qana have special needs. [MORE]
They Have No Wine
Patrick McGreevy writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006
We visited Qana six weeks ago. To get there from Beirut, you pass through Tyre and then head southeast. The village clusters about a hilltop less than eight miles from Lebanon's southern border, and about thirty miles from Nazareth. There is a scholarly debate about whether this was the site of the Wedding at Cana, where Jesus is said to have performed his first miracle, creating wine from water. The Roman historian Eusebius and St. Jerome both believed this was the place. There is no doubt that Qana was an early Christian site. For those schooled in Hollywood movies and religious picture books, this is a Biblical-looking landscape that exceeds all expectations. [MORE]
A loyal Beirut heart
Cathy Sultan writing from the United States, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006
My love affair with Lebanon began when I left America in 1969 to settle in Beirut with my Lebanese husband, Michel, and our two small children, Naim and Nayla. In Beirut, I found my place to grow. My commitment to stay there through the first eight years of the civil war was a consequence of that deep love affair. I had married into a family that was loving and accepting. It was exciting to wake up every day as a foreigner embraced by a Lebanese family. This is the kind of love which develops a loyal Beirut heart, one which never dissolves. When war began in 1975 I chose for practical reasons to stay and fight. When I say 'fight' I mean fight in a way a housewife does. [MORE]
We have lost our faith
Mayssoun Sukarieh writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006
I have been feeling numb for a while; the overwhelming news in the past few days has focused on the displaced, the searing stories of people who fled in fear and left all their possessions behind. Calls on TV stations and on the radio of people who lost their loved ones ... Stories of their anxiety about homes they left behind ... Scenes of people murdered on the roads as they fled ... And stories of the destruction they saw on those roads. I get confused: Am I seeing and hearing the stories of Palestinians who fled their homes in fear in 1948? No: I am in Beirut, it is 2006, and these are the stories of the Lebanese who have been rendered refugees, but by the same perpetrators of the 1948 displacement: the State of Israel. [MORE]
A night at the symphony in Damascus
Leila Buck writing from Damascus, Syria, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006
Salaam a'laykum - peace be upon you. The greeting used by Arabs and Muslims all over the world - and for the people of Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq, a poignant reminder that peace is a precious thing. Seeing the images of massacre at Qana today I don't know where to begin - or how to stop crying. I feel I can only convey fragments - perhaps because my heart is breaking. I'm trying hard not to seem melodramatic, because I know how it is there - you read this in the midst of a long, exhausting, busy day and too many of these and it's too much to bear, it feels so far away. [MORE]
The recurring scenario of death at Qana
Beshara Doumani writing from Nablus, occupied Palestine, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006
It is mid-morning here in Nablus and the sound of bullets are ripping through the air from somewhere very close by. Sirens are wailing in the distance. Yesterday, around midnight, special Israeli forces assassinated two activists near the old city of Nablus. The scattered volleys and the sound signatures of different caliber bullets are tell-tale signs of a funeral procession. But what I see in front of me on the television screen is much more disturbing. Videos of little boys and girls, all dead, being pulled out from under the rubble of a building. It is much too painful to look for more than a few seconds at a time. [MORE]
"And still, it continues ...": Lebanese bloggers react to massacre at Qana
various writing from Lebanon, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006
"The families will grieve. The children will grow up without their mothers. The memorial at Qana, already displaying the coffins of 106 civilian deaths, will swell by at least 55 more, at least 20 of them children’s sized. And the atrocities, tacitly and repeatedly permitted, will continue. " Today in the Lebanese village of Qana, over 54 civilians, including at least 34 children, were killed in Israel's most deadly strike on Lebanon since it began bombarding the country 19 days ago. The attack echoes Israel's strike on the same village 10 years ago, when 100 civilians taking shelter in a UN base there. Here is a collection of posts made on Lebanese blogs in reaction to the massacre. [MORE]
Emergency in Sulaymaniyah
Cathy Breen, Electronic Iraq (30 May 2006)
When I stepped off the airplane in Sulymania in northern Iraq my eyes filled with tears. Back in Iraq after so long, and yet it is not the Iraq that I know. The Iraq that I know is exploding with violence and death, with fear and uncertainty. Here we were for the first time in Kurdistan. What might this trip hold for us?
Enduring Memories
Kathy Kelly, Electronic Iraq (27 May 2006)
"Anfal." It means, "to take everything." In 1988, Saddam Hussein ordered the Anfal operation against thousands of defenseless Kurdish villages in northern Iraq. According to a 1993 Human Rights Watch report, tens of thousands of people were killed and at least 2,000 villages were destroyed.
The Eve of Departure
Kathy Kelly, Electronic Iraq (20 May 2006)
Yesterday, I eagerly awaited a visit from a friend who had just arrived from Iraq.
We greeted each other warmly and marveled over having managed to stay in touch with each other through ten years, this in spite of distance, siege, warfare, occupation and his recent, acute need to maintain a low profile. Then he showed me his passport. Success! In it was a stamp allowing him to travel for six months to another land. "Tomorrow, we go!" he said, his usual upbeat and cheerful derring-do apparently intact.
Imagining Survival
Kathy Kelly, Electronic Iraq (12 May 2006)
I've been studying Arabic in Amman, Jordan for five weeks. When I stumble over a word that I can't recognize, I often turn to young friends who work at the front desk of the small hotel where we stay. One night, after struggling with a difficult sentence, I headed downstairs. A minute of instant charades revealed that the sentence was about pigs at a trough. "Oh!" I laughed, "Like my country!" "Yes, yes!" they chorused. It was a good-natured exchange, typical of the gaiety and laughter that marks years of friendship with these young men.
Uncertainty...
Riverbend, Baghdad Burning (30 March 2006)
"I sat late last night switching between Iraqi channels. It's a late-night tradition for me when there's electricity- to see what the Iraqi channels are showing. I was reading the little scrolling news headlines on the bottom...Suddenly, one of them caught my attention and I sat up straight on the sofa, wondering if I had read it correctly. The line said: 'The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in that area.'" Award-winning Iraqi Blogger Riverbend writes about death and uncertaintly in this chilling post.
Three Years
Riverbend, Baghdad Burning (19 March 2006)
"I'm sitting here trying to think what makes this year, 2006, so much worse than 2005 or 2004. It's not the outward differences- things such as electricity, water, dilapidated buildings, broken streets and ugly concrete security walls. Those things are disturbing, but they are fixable. Iraqis have proved again and again that countries can be rebuilt. No - it's not the obvious that fills us with foreboding." Iraqi blogger Riverbend reflects on Iraq after three years of occupation and war.
"Do not do what you hate," Excerpts from Tom Fox's Iraq Blog (Part 2)
Editors, Electronic Iraq (12 March 2006)
Intermittently during his time in Iraq, Christian Peacemaker Teams volunteer Tom Fox posted to a blog he titled "Waiting in the Light." In the wake of his murder after nearly three months as a hostage, Electronic Iraq presents excerpts from Fox's blog so that his decision to go to Iraq and the convictions that kept him there can be better understood. In part two Fox writes about meeting with contractors and a U.S. colonel, escorts a group of Palestinian Iraqis to Syria where they hope to obtain refugee status, and grapples with the challenges of doing good work and staying sane in the face of suffering. 
Chasing oil and coming home to another massacre
Zena el-Khalil writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006
I had a really bad headache all day ... we were driving on the coastal road, stopped every few minutes to document. The smell was so strong. When I got home, I blew my nose and the tissue was all black. I made sure to take a really good shower. We were going to send out the press release, pics and video today, but we got even worse news ... There had been a massacre in Qana early this morning. History repeats itself. The Israelis dropped a bomb on a building that was sheltering refugees. The news at this point is that 55 were killed. It was only a few years ago that the Israelis did the same thing, except last time, it was a UN building that they hit and over 100 people were killed. [MORE]
Patrick McGreevy writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 29 July 2006
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