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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

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I have received several poignant emails in response to yesterday’s (March 21, 2005) posting "Obliterated Fallujah" .

Here is one exchange:

Subject: Re: Obliterated Fallujah

Hello Imad,
Well done, even though your response wasn't harsh enough.
You should tell such people off using the same language they use.
We know you are right and eventually the Americans will know that they were wrong, albeit, when the damage has already been done.
The problem with the average American is that he is an idiot but does not know it.
Regards
U___

Thank you, U___, for the response.
I have, I believe, mellowed a bit and prefer not to lower my style to that of their 'low level' language, but rather make my point so abundantly clear that it shines: for those able to see, or are looking for a light, or have blinked from the blinding spotlight of the Corporate media’s misinformation.
Blind people are not a concern of mine, for the time being, for I do agree that they are idiots and I would rather not waste my time on them; but a wave does crest and then crashes down.
We have not seen the top of the wave yet.
All the best
Imad

Hello Imad,
Very well put.
But I hope the bloody wave crashes in our lifetime.
Best regards to all the family members
U____

And further to the “Obliterated Fallujah” posting:

"Two years after the US-led war on Iraq, urban life in Iraq's insurgency-ridden Sunni Triangle has been paralyzed due to the hard-core military operations.
Only a small number of some 200,000 citizens that fled Fallujah ahead of a US massive assault have returned to the war-battered city, residing in partially opened neighborhoods and leaving other parts occupied by the American troops.
In thousands of refugee camps outside the town, people are still living off aids and make-shift tents have become children's classrooms.
"Writers depict the hardships of Fallujans and reporters cover our misfortunes, but nobody can feel the pain the kids are suffering except themselves," lamented Suad Mohamed Mustafa, headmistress of the Wathba high school for girls.
"Students are not supposed to miss their lessons despite the tragic events. Thus, we rented tents for them," Mustafa told Xinhuain a shabby tent used as her dean office.
But the children's schooling are accompanied with coldness, darkness and even diseases.
"When it rains, the tents could turn into a mess and diseases spread quickly," said Mustafa, "but no teacher gives a damn despite the hardship."
"I have difficulties in taking lessons with more than 25 students inside a tent originally designed for 10," said 12-year-old Azhar Khalil.
"It's like hell, but what you going to do? To idle away a whole year is no option," said the child.
"I have asthma and the tent would not protect us from cold. I suffocate continuously due to the bad ventilation," complained Nuha Mahmood, who is 14.
She recalled that her classmate Mays Hassan was sitting near the blackboard in the front row one day when a storm came and the falling board hit right on her head. She was transferred to hospital unconscious. .....
Iraq's Fallujah, Samarra in deep waters two years after war March 21, 2005

This site is dedicated to these children studying in Obliterated Fallujah

School in Obliterated Fallujah

Comments:
An email from an American friend:
Imad, as a US citizen, I am deeply ashamed that other US citizens are willfully ignorant. And as a former military GI, I am extremely ashamed of how the military behaves. I can only hope that whatever dieties are seeing this, that they fully punish all evil doers, especially those in Washington, D.C., and those, worldwide, who would spread mischief and evil. Even though I am not religious, I'd be none the less thrilled to be proven completely wrong about a loving and caring diety who intervenes and defeats evil doers and the pain they cause. I am not posting comments on your blog, simply because either I'm preaching to the choir or hitting brick walls with the white supremists who troll your blog. Neither is a productive application of my time, however, thank you for providing an opportunity for the world to see what kind of lunatics (white supremists) live in this fascist country.

 
Let me give you an example of American 'sensitivity'. When I approached a colleague, a fellow American physician, with my outrage over the deaths and injuries of so many innocent Muslim children due to American bombs...he ridiculed me in the following way saying: "If Muslim children die under American bombs, they should blame their parents for not practicing birth control. There is not enough oil and there are too many of them." Americans, you can see, are not stupid or ignorant. None can claim ignorance as an excuse. The invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein, weapons or links to whatever. The fault of the Iraqis and of the Afghans decades earlier was to dare to set up nationalist, anti-colonial regimes and use their natural resources for the development of their own societies. For this, and for Iraq's opposition to the oppression of the Palestinians - the Iraqi people are being made to suffer on a Biblical scale and to disappear as a nation. Their 'country' will be a foot note in imperial history and their institutions will be obliterated. This is the inexorable logic of imperialism, which many educated Americans approve and support--even though they would like it to look pretty on the covers of newsmagazines. What the Nazis were intending to do to the Soviet Union in the 30's and 40's, the Americans are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Soviet people lost over 20 million lives, remember, stopping the Nazis. The 'new Iraqis' and 'new Afghanis' are to be docile tribal subjects with puppet 'traditional' photogenic leaders prepared carefully in the leading universities and 'think-tanks in the US and Britain. It is no point arguing with any Americans - those in power know what they want and do not hesitate to employ all means to achieve it and those with no power find some crude satisfaction in destroying others weaker than themselves even if vicariously, proclaiming to be 'liberators'of 'Saddam's victims' as some of your correspondents claim.
 
Dr Khadduri -

My words cannot begin to touch the suffering your countrymen endure. I look forward to the day when peace and security are restored to your land and it's people, and particularly to it's children, who deserve nothing less. Your heart, I know, is in Iraq. And it must be nearly broken.

Thank you for this blog, and for persisting courageously to speak the truth.
 
Dr. Imad,
Have you been following this Terri Shiavo/feeding tube thing? It is one of those non-news issues that the American media uses to distract from the war in Iraq. Regarding the removal of the lady's feeding tube President Bush said today, "i always like to err on the side of life." I was just wondering what you thought about that statement? It is amazing that concern for the life of this one lady is sweeping our nation - while the death of so many elsewhere do not. It is also funny to me that the people making the biggest deal about keeping this lady alive is the Neo-cons, those very people responsible for so much death and destruction around the world.

Stoned Crow,
You always talk about "seeing the whole picture" yet you refuse to accept the destruction that was wrought on Fallujah and it's residents. (i kind of understand, though, as most of that picture no longer exists)...

What i would love to hear from all the pro-war people is why, since yall cause (democracy) is so noble and just, did you not come to the world communtiy from the beginning and say that yall wanted to make war on a people to create democracy. You can argue that's what yall did but it is not. Yall went in because of wmds and connections to alQaida. Fortunately (for yall), yall threw in democracy "just in case." If democracy is so great and justifies any and every means, then why didn't yall just tell everybody that's why yall were acting? I was anti-war from the beginning ON PRICNICPLE. I am against kiiling others unless absolutely necessary for the survival of myself and my family. Iraq did not come close to meeting that criteria. Why were you so PRO-war in the begginning? It could not have been for democracy because democracy was barely being discussed - and it surely wasn't being discussed as the MAIN REASON we were going into Iraq.
 
The US right wingers speak in their rather desperate defend "battle" about the monsterous crimes Saddam did when US crimes and behaviour in Iraq is discussed. But logically thinking what has, that what Saddam did, to do with that USA is doing now in Iraq ? Nothing at all. Maybe US right wingers think, that US has the right to make crimes in Iraq because Saddam did.

On the other hand I am not so convinced about that Saddam was a much worse dictator than the others on the area. How much of that what we westerns have read about Saddam was invent and planted to the media by CIA, MI5 and Mossad. Well that is a job for historians in coming decades.

It is widely "agreed" that 300.000 people died under Saddam’s rule in jails and uprisings. During two decades this makes about 15,000 per year (naturally that is 15,000 to much). But compared to the tens of thousands Iraqi civilians USA has killed, Saddam was an amateur. Saddam would never even have dreamed to do what happened in Fallujah. It was something so barbaric that we have not seen equal events since WW2.

I do not want to defend Saddam Hussein, but at least he did not pretend to be a great "humanist and democrat". Americans are pretending that, but on the same they are killing Iraqis rather randomly and even do not want to count the price of their inhuman behaviour. The Huns of our time - robbing and raping a nation.
 
Bishop
I did contemplate putting up a posting on the Terri Shiavo fiasco.

However, I decided that it is a slight rippple as far as this site is concerned. This particular issue is just one higher notch in the 'cresting of the wave'.

The best critique I have read on it is the following article, highly recommneded for reading:

"The Schiavo Case and the Islamization of the Republican Party" by Juan Cole, March 22, 2005.

http://www.juancole.com/2005/03/schiavo-case-and-islamization-of.html

 
Dr Khadduri has dedicated this post to the children of Fallujah. With an enquiring mind, wanting to know more, I did a Google search, typing in WAR CHILDREN IRAQ

One of the first sites listed was

http://mindprod.com/iraq.html

In a fairly academic state of mind I went to the site. What I found left me reeling. Visit the site if you want to know more, care about people in suffering, or are a non-believer.
 
Regarding the "culture of life" display in Washington this past weekend, Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American serviceman killed in Iraq, writes:

"So what were the hypocrites in DC doing while much of the country was working for peace...either at rallies, marches, or candlelight vigils? They were conducting an emergency smokescreen session in Congress to draft legislation for one woman: Terry Schiavo. Terry’s story is tragic and her family has suffered unbearable pain for many years with her "persistent vegetative" state. I feel so much compassion for her mother, who has had to watch her daughter slowly waste away. My heart truly breaks for everyone in Terry Schiavo’s family."

"As far as I am concerned, the amazing hypocrites in our Government are not making up for killing thousands of innocent Americans and Iraqis by passing emergency legislation to save one life. Every member of Bush’s executive branch (past and present) and every member of Congress who voted to give George the authority to invade Iraq have innocent blood on their hands. For the next State of the Union address, maybe the hypocrites in Congress should shamefacedly display blood soaked hands, instead of proudly wriggling fingers stained with ink to symbolize sham Iraqi elections. This shameful Congress should go back on vacation and go back to their home districts and look for people who have been devastated by the illegal occupation of Iraq."

http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/032305Sheehan.html
 
For Fallujah and its children:

IRAQI LEGAL CALLS FOR TRYING BUSH, BLAIR
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2005-03/23/article01.shtml
 
All this talk about the GOOD reasons for resisting the invastion; why there's almost nothing about the civilian bombings that happen everyday?? is this NOT an IRAQI issue? I hope there will be a decent and honest response: WHO IS KILLING WHO & WHY???
Salam....
 
"Definitive information out today that Bin Ladin was at Tora Bora and 'eluded' capture. Once more we're treated to confirmation that Bush, Cheney and that paragon of military honor, Tommy Franks, lied. They had him. They let him go. I'm so cynical at this point that I assume that anything coming out of George Bush's mouth is a lie, even the air he exhales."

I'm not even going to bother attributing this quote, which I post just cause I like it!
 
http://pilger.carlton.com/print

John Pilger, 21 March, on "SUPINE JOURNALISTS" -

" . . . they do not represent us. And they do don't speak for us. And they don't speak for humanity. And they don't speak for democracy. And they don't speak for all the moral decencies by which most people live their lives. In fact, they speak for the very opposite.

"I may have first understood this when I reported from repressive Czechoslovakia, with its Stalinist regime, in the 1970s. The dissenters who spoke out in that country seemed so few, yet I wondered why the regime went to such lengths to silence them and attack them and sneer at them, usually via the state press. I put this question to the great protest singer Marta Kubisova, whose thrilling voice sang the anthems of the Prague Spring in 1968. Meeting me in secret, she replied by reading to me the words of one of her most defiant songs, written by a banned Czech group called the Plastic People of the Universe. I have abridged it slightly.

"They are afraid of the old for their memory,

They are afraid of the young for their innocence

They afraid of the graves of their victims in faraway places

They are afraid of history. They are afraid of freedom.

They are afraid of truth. They are afraid of democracy.

So why the hell are we afraid of them? ...for they are afraid of us."
 
A burnt offering:

"Our country is one that safeguards human rights and human dignity. . . . I
live in a transparent country . . . where decisions made by government are
wide-open."
George W. Bush, in Slovakia, February 24, 2005
 
A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Iraq Edition
http://palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=20050318101724671

Excerpt -

"A Newsweek photo gallery, recently posted at MSNBC.com and titled "Suddenly Orphaned", brings to life one of the tragically frequent "incidents" experienced by Iraqi civilians at the hands of occupation troops. A "speeding" car was acting "suspiciously" in the Iraqi town of Tal Afar. The driver was "ordered" to stop, yet "failed" to do so, despite clear "hand signals", and "warning shots".

"The well trained soldiers "had no other choice" but to open fire, killing a mother and father of six. Soldiers quickly "assessed" the situation, dragging six little blood-spattered kids out of the car, forced them to their knees before the US troops, whose feet, were also splattered with the Iraqi civilian blood.
"The tragedy was anything but rare. It just happened that photographer Chris Hondros was there to witness it and to relay it to us. The Newsweek photo gallery however, assured us that the wounded children were carried compassionately to a nearby hospital and that the "army had immediately ordered an investigation," which became the end in itself. "
 
Forward March: LIBERTY, FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m10624
 
"I thought it went reasonably well, like a dental appointment."

http://www.malcomlagauche.com/id1.html
 
It's because of actions like these that the world doesn't know more about the sufferings inflicted by US forces.
Italian journalist presumably deliberately targeted because she "HAD IRREFUTBALE EVIDENCE OF U.S. WAR CRIMES IN THE SIEGE OF FALLUJAH" as well as knowledge of who's really part of the Iraqi resistance and who's masquerading.
 
TSHearn-
What YOU "stand for" is clear. WHERE I stand is as follows:

- I stand WITH the people of the world currently terrorized by foreign invaders.
- I stand WITH those who want to see the murdering blood-thirsty thugs Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Blair tried for crimes against humanity.
- I stand WITH those calling for the occupation of Iraq to cease - forthwith.
- I stand WITH those who believe the invaders should pay war reparations.
- I stand WITH those who love peace and believe the bounties of this earth are for all its inhabitants.
- I stand WITH those who believe war has been tried (over and over and over again) and has been found sorely wanting.
- I stand WITH humanity, not with the barbarians.
- I stand WITH those who love the truth.
- I stand WITH those praying each day that, once again, the sun will shine for Iraq and all its peoples.
 
Dear Bishop, you have stated

"I am against kiiling others unless absolutely necessary for the survival of myself and my family"

I am glad that we do not all take this attitude. In other words you were quite content to let the massacres continue in countries such as Iraq and the Sudan, as long as your own immediates were not harmed. This attitude is woeful to say the least.

The other week I read an enlightening article on a man who has returned to Iraq after spending 12 years in Saddam's torture prisons and 15 years in exile in the West. You will learn a lot from selfless and brave people like him - read this

http://www.cbc.ca/witness/iraq/shia.html

Some people in this world care about others; it is not a matter of 'out of sight, out of mind'
 
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