sharing raed again. just think what he says is important

[seabeyond]

Sunday, April 18, 2004Today, another leader was assassinated, another Sheikh Ahmad Yasin.
Rantisi was a political man, whether we liked him or not…
ArRantisi was another safety value that the Bush and Sharon administrations destroyed.

I am ANGRY!!! VERY ANGRY!!!
I am a secular leftist! But I am angry!!!!
Can you imagine what do other millions of right winged religious people feel????
I can’t even concentrate and know if my words will make any sense!!

The hate and anger of the Arab people today is unbelievable!!!, Palestinians Iraqis Jordanians Egyptians Syrians … the hate against Bush and his administration is huge now… enormous … ENORMOUS!!!!!!
Everyone believes that Bush is giving the green light for Sharon to kill their leaders, and everyone thinks that Iraq, Falluja, Najaf and every other city would face the same Palestinian destiny if they didn’t fight Against the American army now …. They would be put under siege and assassinated one by one by the American helicopters!!!
Everyone thinks that it is better to start fighting from now!!!
Everyone is full of HATE!!!
EVEN ME!!!

When the Iraqi fighter kills more American soldiers now… he has the images of Ahmad Yasin and Ranteesi in his mind
Can you imagine a community that is boiling?! Like a volcano?!

Why?!
Why do we start this war? What do Americans gain when Sharon and his extremist government kill more Palestinians?
Increasing the Arabic hate against America?!
Why?! Why don’t we stop this now???
Murder can not become a policy!! never!!

Fight and kill… more blood and more explosions
More hate between the East and the West

How can anyone distinguish between the bush administration and the American people now?
How can anyone hear my ideas of (anti-bush) not (anti-American)??
How can we stop this bloody cycle of violence if the American people didn’t understand what is happening here and try to stop it?
Would it take another 11/9 to know how people in the Middle East are full of pain? Would it take so many other years and other thousands of Americans and Arabs to die before Americans and Arabs know what is happening?
Isn’t this the time for the American people to take their role in the democratic country they built and let their voice be heard?

Isn’t this the right time to stop the neo-cons who hijacked the American government??

It is the time!!
Please!

It is the time to understand that it is the duty of us… of the people.. to stop our governments.

It is the time to realize that there is no absolute “evil” and absolute “good”
That we must ALL live in peace… that OUR lives are important…
That no lives are cheaper than other lives!!!!

The damage that already happened is hard to fix… but still we must try .. destroying the political structures and killing leaders would make it worse.. I mean .. where is my government that I would stop? I don’t have anyone to negotiate with neither in Iraq or in Palestine … everyone was killed by Bush and Sharon… and every political structure was crushed too… the only voice is the noise of the extremists

It is different for Americans… you have a government that is built on democratic basis, you can do something .. you can make a difference… your job is easier than my job…

It is the responsibility of the American people to stop their administration from killing more people and giving the green light for Saron ... "the man of peace" as Bush called him!!
stop assassinating more leaders … didn't we see what happened after the assasination of Yasin??????
stop Bush!! … don’t make him make Arab and American people hate each other more.

Don’t let Bush build a new generation of extremists

I am losing faith that words can solve anything when Bush and Sharon are ruling the world, and I can feel that explosion that will destroy everything is coming; it will destroy us and destroy you.

The explosion is coming.
The volcano of the Middle East is not going to sleep forever.


Posted by: Raed Jarrar / 2:36 AM
Saturday, April 17, 2004my dear British friend and house mate, Jo Wilding, went to Falluja some days ago.
she has a reall REALLY long post about that on her blog, but it is very interesting.
I think Rumsfeld should read that.
Posted by: Raed Jarrar / 2:10 AM

[BostonTeaParty04]

1. I am ready to kick the neocons out of the white house TODAY!

NINE months before the next inauguration. NINE MONTHS. The world can't afford to wait.

Raed is right... we MUST BE HEARD... and not in some organized protest 4 months ahead of the march date organized by the same old groups (mostly run by ANSWER.. which doesn't attract mainstream americans.....)

11 million spaniards dropped everything and marched in the streets within hours of the train bombings.....

2 million Italians hit the streets for the one year annivesary of the iraq invasion...

America? Where are you???

We should all be in the streets yelling bloody murder... and refuse to leave until we run the thugs out of the white house............

[Political_Junkie]

2. I don't know whether to cry or scream just now.

What the f**k have these people done?

[mike_c]

3. the unholy alliance of Bush and Sharon is sowing the seeds...

...of World War III.

[enough]

4. WE must stop this -- now is our time too.

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How can we stop this bloody cycle of violence if the American people didn’t understand what is happening here and try to stop it?

snip>

HOW?

[madrchsod]

5. you want to know what is really frightning?????

this is the same thing that is being said over at the neo-nazi`s websites across the world. maybe not here in the usa but in europe there will be an increase in the attacks on the jewish community as a result of sharon and bush`s love affair. the extreme right has had it with bush and blair ,i wouldn`t want to be jew or arab in europe,it`s not going to be pretty. what the fuck`n time we live in thanks to sharon and his lover boys....

[i have issues]

7. Link please, My Raed link says he's been on hiatus...

since last saturday...http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
But anyhow... since this seems to be a mourning type thread so far, I'll mourn,and scream and cry and bang my head against the fucking wall,,, at the demise of what was once a pretty O.K. republic...I'm beyond angry. I'm beyond words. This entire nation should be surrounding the Blight House, and dragging these sub- humans out in chains! What the fuck is going on here people??? Arrggghhhh! :grr:..... and could someone please come up with a "head exploding"smiley?

[DrBB]

8. Here's his new link:

http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/

Seems to have moved back in March.

[brokensymmetry]

6. You ask why.

I've been wondering that myself. It occurs to me that the neocons may actually want to provoke WW III - that way, even if they lose the election the war will have gained sufficient momentum that it cannot be stopped.

Take Falluja as one example. The U.S. could have been more brutal and perhaps created the shock and awe Rummy is so fond of. Or the U.S. could have shown greater forbearance and, again perhaps, avoided the creation of such deep anger.

Instead, we seem to have chosen the perfectly wrong spot - not enough to really suppress the people in Falluja, but enough to enrage them.

And the latest events with Ranteesi are the same.

Add to the above that something (who knows what!) is afoot in Saudi Arabia with most Americans being told to leave.

Can * and his whole administration be so profoundly unlucky that they just happen to pick the worst way to do things? Or - is this the way to grab complete control? :tinfoilhat:

[DrBB]

9. Remember Josh Marshall's post a year ago? Chaos

...in Iraq is the neo-con PLAN. The argument, IIRC, had to do with wanting a situation where we "had" to exert control (and establish a permanent military presence), despite our ostensibly democratic intentions. It made a lot of sense to me then. It makes even more now.

Just waiting for that "democratically-minded strongman" Pipes was talking about. His name's Chalabi.

[qanda]

10. That's so sad!

Raed sounds borderline hopeless-- I hope he's okay. I fear for our future if the moderates are feeling this way.