Scores killed in Iraq air bombings. Sick...while our own people suffer

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we inflict yet more terror and suffering in Iraq.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/26914D3F-489D-449B-9D66-4F1E59ECB34C.htm

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1. We killed 47 people to get one al Qaeda member

kinda like killing 100K Iraqis to get Saddam. Big wide-ass brush.

[EuroObserver]

2. Letter from Basra:

Please excuse the (perhaps) opportunism. My deepest sympathies for all affected by Katrina (as my other posts elsewhere will attest). I have been following these events since Sunday, while Katrina was still in the Gulf. Feel deeep shock. But look. With reference to Iraq:

How much catastrophe do the people of Iraq have to suffer? Is any empathy / sympathy possible?

Look.

Some 800 instantaneously dead in a crowd stampede today.

Look: a letter received from Basrah, addressed to the British people (in the context of 7/7:

http://www.albasrah.net/ar_articles_2005/0705/eman_080705.htm

(and plenty more opinion at that site).

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Have you heard the name of the little girl Hannan Salih Matrud? Or of the boy Ahmad Jabir Karim? Or Sa‘id Shabram?

Yes, our dead have names too. They have faces and stories and memories. There was a time when they were among us, laughing and playing. They had dreams, just as you have. They had a tomorrow awaiting them. But today they sleep among us with no tomorrow on which to wake.

We don’t hate the British people or other peoples of the world. This war was imposed upon us, but we are now fighting it in defense of ourselves. Because we want to live in our homeland – the free land of Iraq – and to live as we want to live, not as your government or the American government wish.

Let the families of those killed know that the responsibility for the Thursday morning London bombings lies with Tony Blair and his policies. Stop your war against our people! Stop the daily killing that your troops commit! End your occupation of our homeland!

شبكة البصرة

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