this diary is dedicated to all 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 doctor attends to a boy that suffered burns when mortar rounds landed on a market in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Oct. 11 2005. Insurgents determined to wreck Iraq’s constitutional referendum killed nearly 45 people and wounded dozens in a series of attacks Tuesday, including a suicide car bomb that ripped apart a crowded market in a town near the Syrian border, police said.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
O Death
by Ralph Stanley
O, Death O, Death
Won’t you spare me over til another year
Well what is this that I can’t see
With ice cold hands takin’ hold of me
Well I am death, none can excel
I’ll open the door to heaven or hell
Whoa, death someone would pray
Could you wait to call me another day
The children prayed, the preacher preached
Time and mercy is out of your reach
I’ll fix your feet til you cant walk
I’ll lock your jaw til you cant talk
I’ll close your eyes so you can’t see
This very air, come and go with me
I’m death I come to take the soul
Leave the body and leave it cold
To draw up the flesh off of the frame
Dirt and worm both have a claim
O, Death O, Death
Won’t you spare me over til another year
My mother came to my bed
Placed a cold towel upon my head
My head is warm my feet are cold
Death is a-movin upon my soul
Oh, death how you’re treatin’ me
You’ve close my eyes so I can’t see
Well you’re hurtin’ my body
You make me cold
You run my life right outta my soul
Oh death please consider my age
Please don’t take me at this stage
My wealth is all at your command
If you will move your icy hand
Oh the young, the rich or poor
Hunger like me you know
No wealth, no ruin, no silver no gold
Nothing satisfies me but your soul
O, death O, death
Wont you spare me over til another year
Wont you spare me over til another year
Wont you spare me over til another year
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read Today in Iraq
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Fuck those that support this.
Fuck those that say this is noble.
Fuck Bush Inc.
A child is burned! Why hasn’t the world stopped??? Children are hurting, dying and suffering.
Sorry for the “French” but it’s the kid photos that really are hard on this gal.
Thank you Rub!
I agree. Apparently wartime photos of children make me cry automatically.
Note: I am not advocating we bury the Democratic Party. I feel very free to criticize the institution while at the same time holding a minor leadership postition within it, and planning to make it an actual progressive juggernaut in time.
But the next Democrat who is tepid about calling for an end to the war gets a nastygram from me.
Yup I don’t want to destroy the dems, I just want to wake them up. Toothpicks to their eyelids!!! just kidding… Maybe a nasty towell fight to their butts… WAKE UP! Children are dying.
I’ve received a ton of “donation” emails from various Dems and I say that my money has to go to the ACLU and Amnsety Intl because they are spineless and sleeping on the job.
But I must say, Sen Boxer (CA) does a good job of having her staff get back in touch with ya if you write her enough.
How about a long line of the photos of children from Witness to send to our “leaders”.
Ubikkibu, will you at the Oct 22 Kostoberfest? Hope to see you there. (I may have you mixed up with someone else – sorry)
Not planning on Kostoberfest, although it sounds groovy. I hope someday soon I can meet some fellow BMT’ers…maybe at a “We Stopped the War” celebration?
I agree with your perspsective–I pick and choose carefully among political groups. I give to the DNC, but not the DSCC, I give to my county Dem Party and to DFA, but not to the state Party. And I’m always polite, but I always let them know why.