this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war
with special love and honor for Cindy Sheehan and the residents of Camp Casey
image: The uncle (L) and father of Reuters journalist, Waleed Khaled, cry over his body at Baghdad’s Yarmouk hospital after he was shot dead in the Iraqi capital’s Al Ghazalea district August 28, 2005. Khaleed, a Reuters Television soundman, was shot dead in Baghdad on Sunday and a cameraman with him was wounded and then detained by U.S. soldiers. Iraqi police said they had been shot by U.S. forces. A U.S. military spokesman said the incident was being investigated.
REUTERS/Ali Jasim
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
image and poem below the fold
from 11. Coffee & Dolls
by April Bernard
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been looking
for a narrative in which suffering makes sense.
I mean, the high wail of the woman holding her dead child,
the wail that filled the street. I mean the sudden
fatal blooms on golden skin. I mean the crack deaths,
I mean the ice-cream truck that cruised the alphabets
and sold crack to the same deedle-dee-dee tune as fudgsicles.
I mean the raw scabs of the beaten mastiff, and many other
things.
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support the Iraqi people
support the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)
support CARE
support the victims of torture
support the fallen
support the troops
support the troops and the Iraqi people
read This is what John Kerry did today, the diary by lawnorder that prompted this series
read Riverbend’s Bagdhad Burning
read Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
read Today in Iraq
read this soldier’s blog
witness every day
if my child was “liberated” from me.
We feel so angry at this death… those around the world and near Iraq stand in judgement of us.
on FSTV yesterday they had to the mock court on World Tribune charging the US with war crimes. We were found guilty.
One lady asked if they could punish the Americans as well as citizens for the sins of their government. Because that is what America has done to them.
I can no longer hold my tongue, it’s is so unPC, but when I see footage of Mark 77 fire bombs (what we call our napalm) and the torture and accounts of raping and forcing prisoners to rape young boys… our government and this regime is guilty as hell and should be linked with the evil of Hitler and Nazis.
Somewhere in a secret cell in a secret location is a child in a room and has been there for 2 years.
That is not humane. Humans don’t do that to each other.
to each other, and worse.
I hear you Janet, I do. But until we glorify and reward the good an noble in our species as much as we do the awful and the unforgivable, we will not evolve on inch further.
at a show of his in San Francisco that Americans can’t fathom mass death. We can understand that killing one is bad. Killing ten makes you a serial killer and a CELEBRITY to boot but killing hundresds of thounsdans.. we shut off. We ignore it.
It’s not that we shun it or hate it – we just turn it off because we can’t grasp it at all.
Sadly, Americans know more about Brad Pitt’s marriage and have more opinions about THAT than they do about Iraqi people being under more terror from us than they had from Saddam.
Mission… Ignored.
(((thanks Brin)))) Patriot House 🙂
“One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin
There is, unfortunately, little empathy in this country for the death and depredation that befalls others.
A “christian” nation indeed.<sarcasm>
Peace