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Re: Baghdad Burning
Posted by parhad (Guest) - Saturday, April 24 2004, 15:03:20 (CEST)
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Tiglath wrote:
>Baghdad Burning
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>Riverbend
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>The following is a blog written by a 25-year-old Iraqi girl living in Baghdad where the Western press insists that all is well with democracy there. She uses the name "Riverbend" for her blog.

...yes but is she Christian?
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>... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend...
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>Baghdad, April 9, 2004
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>Today, the day the Iraqi Puppets hail "National Day", will mark the day of the "Falloojeh Massacre"… Bremer has called for a truce and ceasefire in Falloojeh very recently and claimed that the bombing will stop, but the bombing continues as I write this. Over 300 are dead in Falloojeh and they have taken to burying the dead in the town football field because they aren't allowed near the cemetery. The bodies are decomposing in the heat and the people are struggling to bury them as quickly as they arrive. The football field that once supported running, youthful feet and cheering fans has turned into a mass grave holding men, women and children.

..it`s an old American trick the Nazis taught them and they passed on to the Israelis...kill the children fast and furious, their mothers too, then call a cease-fire cause you have to re-load anyway and you don`t to stress your boys out..boys who grew up on Rambo movies and stabbed grown dummies in basic training, boys who weren`t told they`d be killing the families of their enemy soldiers. Then you come across as the one wanting to "stop the madness"..when you initiated it in the first place and it was exactly what you wanted.
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>The people in Falloojeh have been trying to get the women and children out of the town for the last 48 hours but all the roads out of the city are closed by the Americans and refugees are being shot at and bombed on a regular basis… we're watching the television and crying. The hospital is overflowing with victims… those who have lost arms and legs… those who have lost loved ones. There isn't enough medicine or bandages… what are the Americans doing?! This is collective punishment … is this the solution to the chaos we're living in? Is this the 'hearts and minds' part of the campaign?

...it was all bull...except for the acceptable policy which speeled out even more clearly than Hitler did in Mein Kampf just what was to follow...when it`s okay to starve children to death..and no one protests...you got your basic go-ahead. Of course it`s collective punishment...punishment for what the Shah did years ago...punishment for all the "rogues" who for whatever reason said "no more"...no more taking orders at the point of a gun...and the American army ALWAYS went for the children in the village.
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>A convoy carrying food, medication, blood and doctors left for Falloojeh yesterday, hoping to get in and help the people in there. Some people from our neighborhood were gathering bags of flour and rice to take into the town. E. and I rummaged the house from top to bottom and came up with a big sack of flour, a couple of smaller bags of rice, a few kilos of assorted dry lentil, chickpeas, etc. We were really hoping the trucks could get through to help out in the city. Unfortunately, I just spoke with an Iraqi doctor who told me that the whole convoy was denied entry... it seems that now they are trying to get the women and children out or at least the very sick and wounded.

...I could have told them it would be..all the way from here.
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>The south isn't much better… the casualties are rising and there's looting and chaos. There's an almost palpable anger in Baghdad. The faces are grim and sad all at once and there's a feeling of helplessness that can't be described in words. It's like being held under water and struggling for the unattainable surface- seeing all this destruction and devastation.

...do you syuppose a few are "desperate" enough to strap bombs to their bodies...so Bush can show Americans that Iraqis have just as little regard for innocent people...that they have that same "extremism gene" the Palestinians have? Who`s the extremist? Who`s the Terrorist?
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>Firdaws Square, the place where the statue was brought down, is off-limits because the Americans fear angry mobs and demonstrations… but it doesn't matter because people are sticking to their homes. The kids haven't been to school for several days now and even the universities are empty. The situation in Baghdad feels very unstable and the men in the neighborhood are talking of a neighborhood watch again- just like the early days of occupation.

...yes but they`ll drink Coca Cola. There`s only one way to bring down the machine...don`t buy...don`t give it the money it needs to build the missles it will send against you.
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>Where are the useless Governing Council?

...why do you ask? They are doing what they`re supposed to be doing..everyone is, including the children who are dying..the council is off somewhere being useless..that`s their job. They`ll be trotted out when enough have been killed and Bush can be certain a generation of "terrorists" has just been made..then the council will call on the United States to help the sudden inexplicaple surge in terrosist outsider bombings which take innocent lives...you must know the drill by now.

Why isn't anyone condemning the killings in the south and in Falloojeh?! Why aren't they sitting down that fool Bremer and telling him that this is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong??? If one of them were half a man or even half a human, they would threaten to resign their posts if there isn't an immediate ceasefire… the people are enraged. This latest situation proves that they aren't Iraqi - they aren't here for the welfare of the Iraqi people.

...it isn`t wrong wrong wrong..it`s right, very right. Who actually believed the Americans were coming to save anyone? Who believes in their democracy? Who believes in their Liberating anyone? The people are supposed to be enraged..and what`s a cease-fire do? It`s just insult to injury. A ceasefire is just a strategic move...that`s all. When you`re torturing someone you also take breaks now and then...you don`t want the victim dead..just broken.
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>The American and European news stations don't show the dying Iraqis… they don't show the women and children bandaged and bleeding - the mother looking for some sign of her son in the middle of a puddle of blood and dismembered arms and legs… they don't show you the hospitals overflowing with the dead and dying because they don't want to hurt American feelings… but people *should* see it. You should see the price of your war and occupation - it's unfair that the Americans are fighting a war thousands of kilometers from home. They get their dead in neat, tidy caskets draped with a flag and we have to gather and scrape our dead off of the floors and hope the American shrapnel and bullets left enough to make a definite identification…

...they didn`t show the hospital wards with emaciated children..they wouldn`t let anyone hear their screams either. Stop refering to it as "media"...it`s censorship...it`s a blanket fog..it`s made-up stries posing as news. Get used to it, Americans have..it`s ever so much prettier than real news and more effective too..people in America are forevere "winning"...they see victory "just around the corner". Same thing happned during Vietnam only a serious mistake was made when the news played up the demonstrations as well...that showed another side to the story and it confused and bothered Americans..since then the laws were quietly changed so that the corporations who deal in death could buy up ALL the news outlets...and why would they hurt their own bottom lines by showing the competition? I mean the other side?
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>One year later, and Bush has achieved what he wanted- this day will go down in history and in the memory of all Iraqis as one of the bloodiest days ever...

...so what? Let it. But they`ll seek closure too..they`ll want to get on with Life too...they`ll buy their Cokes and their Levis too and the Madonna CDs and anything else American. America has this power because it knows how to co-opt people`s souls...with soft drinks.
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>- posted by river @ 4:32 P



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