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
Iraqi worker leans against a pickup truck loaded with the bodies of their colleagues killed by suspected insurgents in Iskandariyah, Iraq, Wednesday Oct. 19 2005. About nine militants barged into a building materials factory lined up all the workers, forced six Shiite ones to identify themselves, then shot them in front of the other workers said police Lt. Colonel Khalil Mohammed. (AP Photo / Ali Maamori)
Will I be scared when I die?
Possibly not. The endorphins your brain pumps into your body to heighten your resistance to pain may also affect your mood, even if you know that you are badly hurt. This may be why some corpses are found with surprised or peaceful expressions on their faces.from What Every Person Should Know About War
by Chris Hedges
Chapter 8, Dying
Pages 101-102
The Stare’s Nest by My Window
by W. B. Yeats
The bees build in the crevices
Of loosening masonry, and there
The mother birds bring grubs and flies.
My wall is loosening; honey-bees,
Come build in the empty house of the stare.
We are closed in, and the key is turned
On our uncertainty; somewhere
A man is killed, or a house burned.
Yet no clear fact to be discerned:
Come build in the empty house of the stare.
A barricade of stone or of wood;
Some fourteen days of civil war:
Last night they trundled down the road
That dead young soldier in his blood:
Come build in the empty house of the stare.
We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart’s grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love; O honey-bees,
Come build in the empty house of the stare.
– – –
view the pbs newshour silent honor roll (with thanks to jimstaro at booman.)
support veterans for peace
support the Iraqi people
support the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)
support CARE
support the victims of torture
remember the fallen
support Gold Star Families for Peace
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
witness every day
Copy the image into your own comment (you can leave it on my server), and/or rate this one – not for mojo, but to leave a small mark after taking this moment.
Light A Candle For
Peace, Tolerance and Understanding
More Bad News for Bush
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3913
By Larry C. Johnson
The CIA field commander for the agency’s Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, has finally got approval to publish his book, which will hit the streets on December 27, 2005. The CIA has sat on the book for more than a year and tried to stop its publication. Although the book is not intended as a criticism of President Bush, it will land another body blow to the beleaguered Bush Presidency. Bernsten’s key point in the book is his testimonty that he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. According to NEWSWEEK, “Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora–intelligence operatives had tracked him–and could have been caught. He was there.”
Look for General Tommy Franks image as the great commander to be further tarnished. This book will have the unintended effect of reminding all Americans that George Bush did not finish the job of tracking down Bin Laden. Instead, he shifted key military and intelligence resources and started a war of choice in Iraq. At the current fatality rate more than 2100 Americans will have died in Iraq when this book is available in bookstores. Put on your list for belated Christmas and Hanukkah shopping. Happy Holidays.
Rub, you will surely have a big star for you in heaven.
Thanks and thanks a million +.
If we as a society could, we would simply take you in our arms and hug you. Thanks…
.
PEACE!
###
New Precision MLRS Helps In BattleFor Tal Afar - Guided Multiple Launch Rocket
System (GMLRS) was first test-fired outside of
the U.S. earlier this summer near Tikrit, Iraq.
Tal Afar and U.S. destruction of cities, villages and bridges
near Syrian border in Euphrates river valley ::
Sat Oct 8th, 2005 at 01:17:23 AM PSTSat Oct 1st, 2005 at 05:18:27 AM PSTWed Sep 28th, 2005 at 02:53:24 AM PSTWed Sep 14th, 2005 at 05:58:10 AM PSTA grab from video footage released on Sept. 20, showsweapons which Iraqi police confiscated from two undercover
British soldiers (SAS) after their arrest in Basra, southern Iraq.
Support allegiance to Moqtada Al Sadr spreads to Basra —
UK pressured, Blair links unrest to Iran ::
Sat Sep 24th, 2005 at 01:55:16 PM PSTWed Sep 21st, 2005 at 02:25:47 PM PSTMon Sep 19th, 2005 at 06:56:10 AM PST“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY