Post by whatever on May 17, 2005 8:59:38 GMT -5
On top of everything I've posted here, you could use this too
dahrjamailiraq.com/index.php
The following is from an American independent journalist who went to Iraqi to find out about the conduct of the war. He reveals what he learns via his blog site� �Dahr Jamail�s Iraq Dispatches� here It speaks eloquently for itself, and at the end asks a simple question. It has been copied and pasted, and the original typos remain as they were written.
A �Welcome Parade� of Blood and Seething Anger
As if to add insult to injury, with over 400 Iraqis killed in violence during the first two weeks of the newly sworn in Iraqi �government,� US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice made a surprise one day visit to the newest US colony.
After visiting northern Iraq which has been spared the brunt of the ongoing violence, Rice traveled to the heavily entrenched �green zone� in central Baghdad where the U.S. �embassy� is located. She addressed a crowd in the former Republican Palace, the perfect setting for her symbolic visit to Iraq where more and more Iraqis are referring to the devastating occupation which has beset their country as their new �bloodocracy.�
�We are so grateful that there are Americans willing to sacrifice so the Middle East will be whole, and free and democratic and at peace,� she announced before she returned to northern Iraq in her huge contingent of military helicopters to the mountain stronghold of Kurdish Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani before exiting the war ravaged nation.
Rather than a welcoming parade with ticker-tape and rose petals for the US Secretary of State who was one of the architects of the invasion, 34 corpses of men shot, beheaded or with their throats slit were discovered across Iraq today.
Other aspects of her warm welcome included drive-by shootings in Baghdad which claimed the lives of a senior Industry Ministry official, his driver and a prominent Shia cleric as well as a dual-bomb attack in Baquba which narrowly missed taking the life of the governor of Diyala province (but took the lives of four others in his convoy). A second bomb was delivered five minutes after the first by a man running on foot towards the convoy who then detonated an explosives belt.
When ambulances arrived medical workers found body parts strewn about in pools of blood and shattered glass as they attended to 37 wounded Iraqis.
Not only are the vast majority of Iraqis in Iraq vehemently opposed to the ongoing occupation, but in Amman those I met at the �Between the Two Rivers Trucking Company� today were just as angry about the occupation.
Inside the large office of the general director of the company, drivers from Baghdad, Baquba, Sadr City, Fallujah, Ramadi and Basra, Sunni and Shia alike, crowd about glasses of hot tea to take turns venting their frustrations amidst my questions.
Prior to the invasion they used to make 4-5 trips between Amman and Baghdad per month. Now they make one trip per month, primarily due to the fact that prior to crossing the border into Jordan they are forced to wait in a line several kilometers long�for 18 days. This is due to, what they believe, unnecessary harassment by Jordanian border authorities.
They sleep in the cabs of their trucks as the line inches closer to the border, and when a driver from Basra tells me that if they leave their trucks at night they are shot at by American soldiers, I glace across the room to find all of the men nodding in agreement.
None of them are content with the situation.
�All of our problems are due to the Americans,� says Ahmed, a driver who has been trying to get supplies into Ramadi, �The soldiers have surrounded the city for so long, there is one entry way in and all of the people of the city are suffering. The Americans brought all of these problems with them.�
taken from another blog, marchenheim.blogspot.com/
But really, those that don't have a problem with the war at this point never cared about the horrors of war in the first place, and won't care what happens, and won't care what you say about it, no matter what happens, as long as it doesn't happen to themselves. That's just all there is to it. It's war. One must win. Even if one wages it oneself. That's the mentality.
dahrjamailiraq.com/index.php
The following is from an American independent journalist who went to Iraqi to find out about the conduct of the war. He reveals what he learns via his blog site� �Dahr Jamail�s Iraq Dispatches� here It speaks eloquently for itself, and at the end asks a simple question. It has been copied and pasted, and the original typos remain as they were written.
A �Welcome Parade� of Blood and Seething Anger
As if to add insult to injury, with over 400 Iraqis killed in violence during the first two weeks of the newly sworn in Iraqi �government,� US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice made a surprise one day visit to the newest US colony.
After visiting northern Iraq which has been spared the brunt of the ongoing violence, Rice traveled to the heavily entrenched �green zone� in central Baghdad where the U.S. �embassy� is located. She addressed a crowd in the former Republican Palace, the perfect setting for her symbolic visit to Iraq where more and more Iraqis are referring to the devastating occupation which has beset their country as their new �bloodocracy.�
�We are so grateful that there are Americans willing to sacrifice so the Middle East will be whole, and free and democratic and at peace,� she announced before she returned to northern Iraq in her huge contingent of military helicopters to the mountain stronghold of Kurdish Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani before exiting the war ravaged nation.
Rather than a welcoming parade with ticker-tape and rose petals for the US Secretary of State who was one of the architects of the invasion, 34 corpses of men shot, beheaded or with their throats slit were discovered across Iraq today.
Other aspects of her warm welcome included drive-by shootings in Baghdad which claimed the lives of a senior Industry Ministry official, his driver and a prominent Shia cleric as well as a dual-bomb attack in Baquba which narrowly missed taking the life of the governor of Diyala province (but took the lives of four others in his convoy). A second bomb was delivered five minutes after the first by a man running on foot towards the convoy who then detonated an explosives belt.
When ambulances arrived medical workers found body parts strewn about in pools of blood and shattered glass as they attended to 37 wounded Iraqis.
Not only are the vast majority of Iraqis in Iraq vehemently opposed to the ongoing occupation, but in Amman those I met at the �Between the Two Rivers Trucking Company� today were just as angry about the occupation.
Inside the large office of the general director of the company, drivers from Baghdad, Baquba, Sadr City, Fallujah, Ramadi and Basra, Sunni and Shia alike, crowd about glasses of hot tea to take turns venting their frustrations amidst my questions.
Prior to the invasion they used to make 4-5 trips between Amman and Baghdad per month. Now they make one trip per month, primarily due to the fact that prior to crossing the border into Jordan they are forced to wait in a line several kilometers long�for 18 days. This is due to, what they believe, unnecessary harassment by Jordanian border authorities.
They sleep in the cabs of their trucks as the line inches closer to the border, and when a driver from Basra tells me that if they leave their trucks at night they are shot at by American soldiers, I glace across the room to find all of the men nodding in agreement.
None of them are content with the situation.
�All of our problems are due to the Americans,� says Ahmed, a driver who has been trying to get supplies into Ramadi, �The soldiers have surrounded the city for so long, there is one entry way in and all of the people of the city are suffering. The Americans brought all of these problems with them.�
taken from another blog, marchenheim.blogspot.com/
But really, those that don't have a problem with the war at this point never cared about the horrors of war in the first place, and won't care what happens, and won't care what you say about it, no matter what happens, as long as it doesn't happen to themselves. That's just all there is to it. It's war. One must win. Even if one wages it oneself. That's the mentality.
...when he's around
