this diary is dedicated to everyone speaking out today on behalf of those who suffer because of war and other disasters
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
image and poem below the fold
An Iraqi boy cries as his wounded father sits in the back of a truck outside a
hospital following a car bomb explosion in central Baghdad. Six Iraqi civilians
were killed and 10 others wounded in the explosion on a public bus in the Iraqi
capital police said.
(AFP/Karim Sahib)
from A Dream Within a Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
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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
Leonard Clark’s blog has been taken down
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