US Child killing, War, Ellsberg, Art, Ki

Bob Boldt\'s movie Kindertotenlied - Song about the Death of Children - is profoundly moving and illustrates the power of inspired imagery, visual Art, to transcend cold statistics.  
 
I have been bearing witness to the continuing horror of the Bush War on Terror that is in actuality a War on Asian Women and Children - Asian Women and Children constitute most of the victims.  
 
Thus the excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) total 22 million in post-1950 US Asian Wars (see \"Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950\" via the link below) and 8 million in the Bush I plus Bush II Asian Wars (see:  
United State Terorism. 8 million deaths & media holocaust denial).  
 
Consult UNICEF (see: UNICEF and you will quickly discover that 122,000 under-5 year old infants die each year in US-occupied Iraq and 370,000 annually in US-occupied Afghansitan - do the math for 4.6 years of US war in Iraq and 6 years of US war in Afghanistan and the total infant deaths = 0.56 million + 2.22 million = 2.78 million infant deaths, 90% avoidable and due to egregious US war crimes.(By way of comparison the Nazis murdered 1.5 million Jewish children in WW2). 
 
Yet the statistics are ignored by the world - they are lied to by media and politicians, they are ashamed or simply just don\'t care or don\'t want to know.  
 
Dr Daniel Ellsberg in his recent great interview on MWC News (see: Daniel Ellsberg explained this holocaust ignoring in terms of an intrinsic lack of sympathy for foreigners: \"But the reason that does not get more prominence is a very sad one, and I think it is sad not only about America but, I have to say, about our species. That reason is that the public at large--both in Vietnam and now--does not seem to feel a great deal of concern about deaths of foreigners, even if their country is strongly implicated in those deaths. If they feel any concern at all, it is certainly not anywhere near their concern for the deaths of their own people.  
 
I must say I am not aware of any countries in history or now for which that is not true. I have not seen it in my reading of history: a great concern about the death of so-called enemies or even of innocent people.\" 
 
However images, and especially inspired images or collections of images - visual Art - can transcend this gap in responsiveness.  
 
Remember the photograph of the naked, burnt Vietnamese girl fleeing the napalm holocaust - a photograph credited with shortening the Indo-China war (13 million excess deaths). Likewise see other inspired photographs that exposed gross civil society and war-time abuses of humanity in the book \"My Brother\'s Keeper\" (reviewed recently on MWC News: link. 
 
Hopefully Bob Boldt\'s deeply moving 3 minute movie Kindertotenlied will have a big impact and help stop the carnage of the Bush Wars and its much-feared, adumbrated extension to remote, peaceful Iran.

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