Happy Holidays From Iraq... Dec. 23, 2004....

[leftchick]

I would say Merry Christmas but it appears the asshat* has taken Christ out of Christmas for Iraqi Christians! How ironic, right fundies??




Fourteen year old Munther Kassan is comforted by his mother in Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad Thursday Dec. 23 2004. Kassan was hit by shrapnel in both legs when a police station near his home came under mortar attack Thursday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)



In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, an unidentified soldier is removed from an ambulance by medical personnel during a snow storm at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, Wednesday evening, Dec. 22, 2004. The service member was wounded in an attack on a dining facility in Mosul, Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Melvin G. Tarpley)



A man inspects a hole made by a mortar round in his home in west Baghdad Thursday Dec. 23 2004. One person was injured in this attack. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)



A wounded US soldier is transferred from a C-141 military transport aircraft to an ambulance, at the US airbase of Ramstein. Dozens of US soldiers injured in an attack on a dining tent in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul arrived in Germany and are being transferred to the Landstuhl military hospital.(AFP/DDP/Thomas Lohnes)




People look at a crater left when a natural gas tanker exploded in Mahoumdiya, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Thursday Dec. 23 2004, killing four people and injuring about 50, according to hospital director Dr. Dawoud al-Taei. The tanker, seen in background left, was en route to Baghdad when, according to witnesses, it was hit by a rocket and exploded. (AP Photo/Haidar Fatehi)




An Iraqi girl looks at a figure of Santa Claus in a store selling holiday decorations in Baghdad, December 21, 2004. Iraqi Christians, most from the early Assyrian and Chaldean churches, say they will celebrate this Christmas quietly at home. Few will be showing up to church on Christmas morning, scared that insurgents who have bombed churches, mosques and Muslim religious festivals, will strike again. Photo by Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters

[flygal]

1. I'm sure our "leaders" will be spending this Christmas finding a few

more countries to "liberate". assholes.

[leftchick]

2. Another.... Hooray! Fallujah residents get "home"!

An Iraqi soldier stands at the entrance as Iraqis wait at the city limits to be allowed to enter Fallujah Thursday, Dec. 23 2004, as first of the town's 300,000 residents who fled last month's U.S.-led offensive started returning. People are returning despite reconstruction problems, including the water purification plants which remain out of use, forcing families to depend on mobile tanks. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

[nascarblue]

6. Tell it to this guy...

11 Dec.
“My list is now 32,” says Salam as he arrives at the hotel, “Now 32 of my friends have been killed.”

He still has tears in his eyes, even though he’s being stoic. Another of his friends has been shot and killed. “You know I feel like shit every time I add someone to my list. Sometimes it feels like it is every day,” he says.

Welcome to Iraq. Where the news gets better with each passing day.

Heavy fighting is continuing in Fallujah. While the military claims to be in control of the situation, they are bombing areas of the city again with warplanes.
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http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000158.php#more




Dead Fallujah boy still clutching white flag.

[nascarblue]

7. YOu know whats really sad??

Last April, when the US attacked Fallujah the first time, scientists did some field tests and found that the city was poisoned with 250,000 times more radioactive nulear waste from bombings than was recorded in Nagasaki after the A-bomb. And these people have no choice but to go back to their radioactive wasteland? Sad...

[leftchick]

8. thanks for the posts nascarblue....

I wish we had a real media in this country so meriKans would know of the war crimes committed in their name!

[apple_ridge]

9. Do you have a link to that article?

[G_j]

3. thank you

for putting these together. ...a sobering reminder

[leftchick]

4. it has been a while since I have done one of these threads.....

they never generate much response but I hope the photos stay in peoples minds.

Thank you G j and have a Happy Holiday. (for real!) :)

[G_j]

5. you too!

leftchick...& for real.... :-) :-)