Unembedded in Iraq....

[Applan]

....reading this made me so mad, what have we done?

By Charles Shaw, Newtopia. Posted December 4, 2004.

Here is the full article: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20669/

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Entire families living on the street. 70% unemployment with no hope of this changing. Chaotic, clogged streets of Baghdad and 5 mile long petrol lines in this oil rich country.

Engineers and doctors, unemployed, driving their cars as a taxi to try to feed their families.

The seething anger in the eyes of people on the streets as US patrols rumble past.

Iraqis now cheering when another US patrol or base is attacked. Dancing on the burning US military hardware.

Dead and maimed US soldiers. The wounded screaming and writhing in agony. Their shattered families.

Children deformed by Depleted Uranium exposure lying in shattered hospitals, suffering from lack of treatment, or even pain medications.

Dead, rotting bodies in the streets of Fallujah of women and children being eaten by dogs and cats because the military did not allow relief teams into the city for nearly two weeks.

[hangloose]

1. This is an example of a real news piece on the war that we so

rarely see with mainstream media and a commentary that we never hear but for the internet. Take away what you will from the Iraqi people but do not deceive yourself into believing that their hostile reactions to an external occupying force would be any different than you would see back here in the good old USA.

The nature of our effort has so obviously changed that even the most die-hard supporter of this misadventure would have to admit we are no longer liberators we are but oppressors.

As the article states:
Remember the Arab proverb; "Me against my brother. Me and my brother against my cousin. Me, my brother and cousin against the stranger."

We need to admit this was a colossal mistake and find a way to exit. The alternative is the wholesale destruction of an Arab society and the loss of America's moral imperative on the world stage.

[rainbow4321]

2. This sums it up.....

[LibertyorDeath]

3. Thank you for this excellent article & Welcome to DU

Kick for the Truth :kick: :kick: :kick:

[LibertyorDeath]

4. Kick for a must read

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Unembedded in Iraq

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20669

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. And all this because we allowed bu$hco to steal two elections!

:grr: Four more years. :mad: :grr: :puke: