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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:48 PM
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Riverbend:How do I feel? To hell with Zarqawi-They have 50 Zarqawis in Gov
Baghdad Burning
... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend...

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Zarqawi...

So 'Zarqawi' is finally dead. It was an interesting piece of news that greeted us yesterday morning (or was it the day before? I've lost track of time…). I didn't bother with the pictures and film they showed of him because I, personally, have been saturated with images of broken, bleeding bodies.

The reactions have been different. There's a general consensus amongst family and friends that he won't be missed, whoever he is. There is also doubt- who was he really? Did he even exist? Was he truly the huge terror the Americans made him out to be? When did he actually die? People swear he was dead back in 2003… The timing is extremely suspicious: just when people were getting really fed up with the useless Iraqi government, Zarqawi is killed and Maliki is hailed the victorious leader of the occupied world! (And no- Iraqis aren't celebrating in the streets- worries over electricity, water, death squads, tests, corpses and extremists in high places prevail right now.)

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How do I feel? To hell with Zarqawi (or Zayrkawi as Bush calls him). He was an American creation- he came along with them- they don't need him anymore, apparently. His influence was greatly exaggerated but he was the justification for every single family they killed through military strikes and troops. It was WMD at first, then it was Saddam, then it was Zarqawi. Who will it be now? Who will be the new excuse for killing and detaining Iraqis? Or is it that an excuse is no longer needed- they have freedom to do what they want. The slaughter in Haditha months ago proved that. "They don't need him anymore," our elderly neighbor waved the news away like he was shooing flies, "They have fifty Zarqawis in government."

So now that Zarqawi is dead, and because according to Bush and our Iraqi puppets he was behind so much of Iraq's misery- things should get better, right? The car bombs should lessen, the ethnic cleansing will come to a halt, military strikes and sieges will die down… That's what we were promised, wasn't it? That sounds good to me. Now- who do they have to kill to stop the Ministry of Interior death squads, and trigger-happy foreign troops?

more at:
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#114988627694074375
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Thickasabrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 07:59 PM
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1. Great post....I never tire of reading riverbend's thoughts.
really wish the NYT or Washington Post would include occasional references to blogs from Iraq. You would think there would be more of a demand from the public for comments and thoughts from the people who are most affected by this war.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 08:20 PM
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2. Unforgivable, what we've done to her life, her country.
I can't even grasp the enormity of the karmic debt.

And then I think, hurricanes are coming.
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