The U.S. media rightly, but narrowly, condemns the London terror bombings. Most people condemn all forms of non-state and state terrorism. Most also recognize the non-equivalence of terrorism's impact and note that U.S. state terror far exceeds other forms of terror in its destructive and traumatizing capacities and effects as the illegal U.S. war of aggression and war crimes against Iraq amply demonstrate.

Exploding a 5-pound backpack-bomb is horrific. Sending thousands of 2,000-pound U.S. cruise missiles into Baghdad's 5 million people is monstrous. Shoe bombs are nasty, but U.S. cluster bombs and fuel-air bombs that maim, mutilate and slaughter young children are reprehensible.

If killing 55 people in London merits weeks of outraged media coverage, what kind of coverage and outrage does the U.S. killing of thousands of Iraqis merit? The lack of outrage and coverage of the latter reveals an elite cultural depravity and contempt for victims of U.S. terrorism we rarely recognize or confront.

The recent World Tribunal on Iraq (www.worldtribunal.org) correctly designated Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc., as major war criminals for planning and perpetrating an illegal aggressive war and found the U.S. press criminally complicit. The WTI received widespread coverage internationally, but to no surprise, not here.

Integrity and "moral globalization" demand that we rise up and join the "millions of people across the world who refuse to stand by silently while the people of Iraq are being slaughtered, subjugated and humiliated" by U.S. power.

Some mystery remains regarding the minor terrorists who bombed London.

No mystery remains regarding the major terrorists who have bombed (and continue to bomb) Iraq.