New Riverbend post

[Book Lover]

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Monday, November 29, 2004

Tired in Baghdad...
The situation in Falloojeh is worse than anyone can possibly describe. It has turned into one of those cities you see in your darkest nightmares- broken streets strewn with corpses, crumbling houses and fallen mosques... The worst part is that for the last couple of weeks we've been hearing about the use of chemical weapons inside Falloojeh by the Americans. Today we heard that the delegation from the Iraqi Ministry of Health isn't being allowed into the city, for some reason.

I don't know about the chemical weapons. It's not that I think the American military is above the use of chemical weapons, it's just that I keep wondering if they'd be crazy enough to do it. I keep having flashbacks of that video they showed on tv, the mosque and all the corpses. There was one brief video that showed the same mosque a day before, strewn with many of the same bodies- but some of them were alive. In that video, there's this old man leaning against the wall and there was blood running out of his eyes- almost like he was crying tears of blood. What 'conventional' weaponry makes the eyes bleed? They say that a morgue in Baghdad has received the corpses of citizens in Falloojeh who have died under seemingly mysterious conditions.


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Elections are a mystery. No one knows if they'll actually take place and it feels like many people don't want to have anything to do with them. They aren't going to be legitimate any way. The only political parties participating in them are the same ones who made up the Governing Council several months ago- Allawi's group, Chalabi's group, SCIRI, Da'awa and some others. Allawi, in spite of all his posturing and posing, has turned himself into a hateful figure after what happened in Falloojeh. As long as he is in a position of power, America will be occupying Iraq. People realize that now. He's Bush's boy. He has proved that time and again and people are tired of waiting for something insightful or original to come from his government.

[Peanut Gallery]

1. Kick

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. This breaks my heart

I always thought America abided by the Geneva Convention, and thought we'd learned to respect other cultures and religions. The election and the invasion and destruction of Falujah has proved me wrong.

[acmavm]

3. The news coming out of Iraq from people like this is the only hope that

we can turn the tide against this evil occupation.

The poor Iraqi people understand the true nature of Allawi, but there's not much they can do about it except what they're doing now. Allawi was an absolute fool to allow Falluja to be bombed out of existence. I have never understood how that man, considering how tenuous his hold on power really is, would be insane and cruel enough to allow those people to be killed like he did. He is truly Saddam, just a new and improved version.

[scarletwoman]

4. It's so excruciating to know about these things and be unable to stop it!

Thank you for posting this, I hadn't been by her blog for awhile.

I will never forget the eloquent entry she wrote after the Abu Ghraib photos came out: "...just go!"

The U.S. government is the world's greatest terrorist organization, this cannot stand!

People toss around the word "revolution" here at DU, but until sufficient numbers of us are willing to bodily surround all the government buildings in D.C. (as the Ukrainians have done in their country's capital), there will be no "revolution".

Will the point ever be reached when enough of us say "Enough" and put our bodies on the line to show we mean it?

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[karlrschneider]

5. Thanks for the heads up...I wonder and worry about Riverbend...

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[Book Lover]

6. Kick

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